Showing posts with label Energy Issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy Issues. Show all posts
Chasing Ice
This week Year 12 Geography students visited The University of Northampton to attend a special screening of the award winning film 'Chasing Ice'. Chasing Ice is the story of environmental photographer James Balog and his team who headed to the Arctic to capture images to help tell the story of climate change.
The film features some extraordinary footage of glaciers including a calving event in Greenland that lasted for 75 minutes. See the clip from the film below in which the glacier retreats a full mile across a calving face three miles wide.
The Geopolitics of Energy
Trip to the Suffolk Coast
On Monday 23rd September a group of GCSE and AS Geography students visited the Suffolk coast. While in Suffolk we visited Dunwich and toured the nuclear power station at Sizewell.
We visited Dunwich first, a village largely lost to the sea after many years of coastal retreat. The students learnt a little about the history of Dunwich and how much of the village has now been lost to the sea. At its peak Dunwich was home to around 4000 people compared to only 50 today. After lunch on Dunwich beach we headed to Sizewell.
At Sizewell beach the students first learnt about how the process of long-shore drift moves sediment along the Suffolk coast. After discussing the physical processes, orienting maps, and the discovery of some giant caterpillars by Mrs Staerck, we headed to the power station.
We visited Dunwich first, a village largely lost to the sea after many years of coastal retreat. The students learnt a little about the history of Dunwich and how much of the village has now been lost to the sea. At its peak Dunwich was home to around 4000 people compared to only 50 today. After lunch on Dunwich beach we headed to Sizewell.
At Sizewell beach the students first learnt about how the process of long-shore drift moves sediment along the Suffolk coast. After discussing the physical processes, orienting maps, and the discovery of some giant caterpillars by Mrs Staerck, we headed to the power station.
Volcanoes and Data Centres
In this week's BBC Click they visited Iceland to look at how the country is moving towards being 100% dependent on renewable energy. This is a useful case study for Year 12 students studying the Energy Issues topic.The Magic Washing Machine
In this video Hans Rosling shows us the far reaching impact of the humble washing machine!
James Lovelock
If you are in Year 11 and researching James Lovelock for this week's homework, be sure to check out this page containing video clips and related links on the Geography site.
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