Showing posts with label David Attenborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Attenborough. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 September 2022

Frozen Planet II

Perfect to accompany our Antarctica unit in Year 8.

A second series of the BBC's Frozen Planet will start on Sunday on BBC1 at 8pm, narrated as always by David Attenborough (subject to schedule change)

It is 11 years since the first series, although I thought it might have been longer. 

Our frozen planet has become a thawing planet in those 11 years, with worrying changes to the landscape, ice masses and sea ice coverage during that time.

This is the fastest changing region of the Earth as a result of climate change, even through around one fifth of the planet is covered in snow or ice.

The first episode opens in Antarctica.

We are likely to see South Georgia at some point I am sure.

The Education Pack that Mr. P wrote for the South Georgia Heritage Trust with Val Vannet is available to view from the link here.

As always with these series, there will be a free poster to order produced in association with the Open University, and experts such as Professor Mark Brandon have been involved in developing the series.

Here's the trailer:

Sunday, 21 April 2019

Climate Change - the Facts

David Attenborough narrated an important documentary on BBC earlier this week.
I was away and missed it, but caught up on my return.



It is available to watch for a month after the date it was first shown, as usual on iPlayer, but it would be great if it could be made available indefinitely, as many programmes are on iPlayer already. Perhaps us Geographers should politely lobby the BBC and suggest this.

Half of consumers are apparently willing to pay more to help reduce plastic waste, for example. There are plenty of recent stories.

Leo Hickman posted an image of a piece by Jeremy Clarkson in 'The Sun', which would be useful as a counterpoint to this programme, describing his thoughts on being told what to do. I grabbed it and made it into a word document.
Here's the basics from the programme:


Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Discuss