Year 8

Check out Ameer's redesigned year 8 page here (rough version at present, which will look very professional when Ameer sorts out the mess that Mr B created!)

 

Fieldtrips

2006 - Images - day 1

2006 - Videos - day 1

2006 - Images & Videos - day 2

2005 - Images

 

Links to websites

Weather & Climate Ecosystems - Rainforests Global warming Rivers & Coasts

Weather in Llanharan

BBC weather

Satellite images

Extreme weather

Met Office

How the weather works

UK weather web cams

World weather web cams

BBQ watch!

Sim Cyclone

Hurricane simulation

Hurricane Katrina - links

Hurricane causes - BBC

Microclimate research -(needs Google Earth to view this) & with buildings!

Microclimate research locations - Google Maps

Interactive world climate graphs

 

Rainforest movie

Background info

Facts about the Amazon rainforest

Rainforest Concern

The Rainforest Alliance

Causes of rainforest
destruction

Deforestation movie

Reducing deforestation - Brazil

Rainforest worksheet

Impacts of global warming on TRF - BBC

8U rainforest enquiry

 

Revision quizzes (by Rob Chambers)

 

Pupil work

Starter - from Futurama (uTube)

What is global warming? (BBC)

Background info

Is it happening already? - impact on N.Atlantic Drift

Causes, effects and solutions

Mapping effects of sea level rise

Global warming quiz

What if we changed our ways? (from U.S.)

Pupil revision work

Arguments against human caused global warming (google video)

 

BBC schools site

How rivers transport material

How valleys form

Pupil animations - V shaped valley

How waterfalls form

Niagara falls

Niagara falls webcam

 

Niagara falls presentation (by Gareth Rodgers)

Waterfalls video presentation (groupwork)

Meanders

meander - image animation

Flood plains

Journey along a river

Ogmore river - videos

Flood risk pencoed

Boscastle and Lynmouth flood (by Richard allaway)

Yorkshire flood 2005

Erosion of headland - animation (first attempt!)

sequencing activity - needs Inspiration software

Mind map Mind map Mind map  

Key words

Connectives

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