Noel Jenkins @ Court Fields

The poster website you require is here

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Dress your person using this website

download the worksheet

You have to write a comment about the weather in the speech bubble, and dress the person appropriately. Add labels to describe your designs. The catwalk show is on Friday!

If you’ve tried to use Google Earth to find your house in Wellington and been disappointed, have another look now!

Yay!

Other exciting news is that thanks to a generous donation by 3d connexion, we have a class set of Space Navigators to fly around in Google Earth. Come along to D3 and have a go!

We’ll be using them in lessons, but don’t forget the Artwork Earth competition as well.

This competition is open to everyone from Year 7 to 9. All you have to do is find a special place on the Earth, capture a picture and add a suitable caption. The idea is to visualize the Earth as a pice of art. Here’s an example:

There will be prizes for the best ones. I’m looking for originality, creativity, inspiration and a good choice of words to accompany the image. I’ll publish the best ones as well. To get going, do the following:

How to:

1. Start Google Earth, or use this site: NASA Our Earth as Art
2. Browse around until you find a spectacular place.
3. Make a screenshot. (Cntrl + Print Screen)
4. Crop the image if necessary.
5. Upload the image to the Flickr Motivator tool.
6. Add a suitable title and (optional) caption.
7. Download the finished image to your computer.
8. Email it to me at: NJenkins@educ.somerset.gov.uk
   

Some helpful resources:
Download Artwork Earth Google Earth placemarks (you need Google Earth)

See these places on a Google Map

The original teaching idea comes from this web site.
Can you do better than this?

I’m not sure I could. However there will be a prize for the best entry.

Closing date for entries to be emailed to me: 5th July

Year 8 local enquiry We have started our Personal Geographies project. The wiki is here:

Dress your person using this website

download the worksheet 

You have to write a comment about the weather in the speech bubble, and dress the person appropriately. Add labels to describe your designs. The catwalk show is on Friday!

Here’s a link to the images of the recent stormy weather.

Check the local weather by visiting the BBC weather site. You could check the information on the weather map with the observations you’re currently making for homework.

I really like the BBC mini-site called Painting the Weather.

copyright Ashmolean Museum

Some of the pictures have audio guides. If you’re interested in art (and geography) you should have a look!

Are you a cloud lover? If so, this is the club for you!