Rich Allaway has created another mini-site, this time comparing the flooding events at Boscastle and Lynmouth. Targetted at KS3 and also AS level, the resource makes great use of technologies such as Live Local, Google Earth and a new Site Pal character, “Walter Falls”
Rich has included a long and varied collection of resources, as well as pupil and teacher notes. Excellent effort!
Thanks to a recent post at SLN, I’ve discovered Maplecroft Maps. This is a remarkable site that serves up attractive, interactive maps on a variety of environmental, social, economic and polictical themes.
Close analysis of the data is encouraged; one can overlay maps in order to discern relationships between data sets, and a hotspot icon draws attention to critical information.
The maps examine the response of business and government to the various issues, and icons describe cases of particularly good, or by contrast, poor examples of corporate responsibility.
The site will appeal across the KS3/4 geography curriculum, particularly for more able students with an inquisitive nature, and should be indispensible to A level students looking for material on sustainable development.
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