Common Agricultural Policy homework

All you have to do is top create an account at Pixton.com and follow this link to my comic . Then you can edit remix and extend it. Top prize for the best one.

Send me an email with the link once you’ve published your comic.

Farm game – year 10 homework

The website is www.classtools.net

The game needs to compare Yew Tree Farm (Hill sheep) and Lynford House farm (arable)

Either download the template using the blue disc icon, or save the URL in a word document. If you want you can email me your work and I’ll stick it up on this page. NJenkins@educ.somerset.gov.uk

Here’s a video that explains more about saving your game

Link to my farm game

Happiness survey

Click here for the global map of showing the Happy Planet Index

Here is a map of World Happiness Why do the two maps differ so much?

Click here for the Happiness Survey This is the homework for this week.

Vesuvius news stories

Massive magma layer feeds Vesuvius reports the BBC in 2001

“We will pay you to leave” 2003

Vesuvius risks underestimated 2006

Vesuvius escape plan underestimated 2007
 

So why stay?

Yew Tree Farm

Year 10 you can download the homework task here

This is the location of Yew Tree Farm

New BBC weather forecast site – Year 8

The BBC weather forecast site is changing. Click the image below to visit it. Have a look at the current page, and then click the Weather Beta button on the top left.

Your homework is to comment on the redesign. For example:

• Do you find it easy to use? (e.g. try looking up Taunton on both versions)

• Is there enough information?

• Is the new design attractive and well designed?

Post a comment below with your views. Use your first name and the first letter of your surname to identify yourself – so that I can see who’s done the homework (and who will be doing it in Opportunities Club!)

Your comments will be seen by other teachers and the BBC, so write clearly and politely. I’ll delete any comments written in txt.

BBC weather

Images of urban zones

Here’s the kind of outcome I’m after today Year 10

You need Flickr.com (don’t forget to used the advanced search to look for Creative Commons pictures) and Big Huge Labs (the Motivator tool) Again, don’t forget to add a credit to the image before saving it.

Please email me your finished posters.

Year 11 – Google -up your GCSE project

Here’s an article to encourage you to make more use of Google Earth / Maps in your GCSE project. Think about using Google Earth / Maps to:

1. Identify features using placemarks, paths and polygons
2. Estimate distance and area
3. Describe topography using contours and 3D images
4. Add photos to a map
5. Create graphs within Google Earth

You can download the Horner Water tour here.

Pop Clocks year 9

I used the worldometers site at the start of the lesson:

This is the OnePerson One Pixel website if you want to have another look.

Weather Project Catwalk – year 8

Dress your person using this website 

Look carefully at the information in the climate graphs and use them to dress and accessorise your people appropriately.

You have to write a comment about the weather in the speech bubble.

 Add labels to describe your designs. The catwalk show is next week!

download the worksheet