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.

UK in 21st Century - Global Conflicts

Where is Conflict taking place now?

There are some useful GIS resources in this presentation

UK in 21st Century Conflict by GeoBlogs on Scribd

The sheet links to the GCSE book by Parkinson et al published by Hodder

Somalia Conflict by GeoBlogs on Scribd

UK in 21st Century