UK in 100 Seconds

We showed this video to Year 11 yesterday, and it provoked a great response.

We started with the trailer and the description of the film.
Dan had been to visit us in school last year, so we were pleased that he was in the film.

The UK in 100 Seconds - Behind the scenes from Friends of the Earth on Vimeo.

We then gave out an updated version of the CEH Land Use cover map. The Hodder textbook that we had was a 2007 version of the map as that was the most up to date at the time.

The 2 maps can be compared.

Students were asked to guess what percentage of the UK would be greater than 1% and then feature on the film (we had a copy of the data at the end to give them once the film was shown)

Finally, we shared the link to the ESRI map which accompanies the film, (seen above) and then showed the main event: the film with Ben Zephaniah narration...

The UK in 100 seconds from Friends of the Earth on Vimeo.

Clean Air

Pleased to have been selected to be part of this nationwide survey of air quality.

Our @foeeurope Clean Air tubes have been taken down and are ready to be returned to the lab - looking forward to seeing the results pic.twitter.com/RWGqa9XvlJ

— KingsElyGeographers (@KingsElyGeog) July 4, 2018

Friends of the Earth Clean Air Pack

Ordered a Clean Air Schools pack which is being made available by Friends of the Earth to a small number of UK schools.

It arrived last week, and along with some stickers and lesson ideas, there were two special tubes which need to be installed in a location for 2 weeks and then sent back for analysis and to get the results. They come with special bar codes to add in the locations where they were placed.

I installed the tubes in two places on the school site: one close to the road that passes the school, and one in a quieter location in the Old Palace gardens. They are attached to trees about 7 feet up.
Can you spot one in the picture below?


Next week they will be taken down and returned to Friends of the Earth, and I'll share the outcomes here.
Always good to be involved in citizen science projects and help students see that we involve ourselves as widely as possible in interesting external projects.