Apologises for the lack of posting, it seems that my connection is slow due to an upgrade that is taking place on the line. 
The first lesson this week we finished off our global warming classification exercise. At the start of the lesson, I introduced the images from the new Friends of the Earth (FOE) campaign (via Houtlust) and we discussed what point was trying to be made. To finish up, one person had to destroy the vehicle from the Car Crush by FOE (via Alan), before you could leave!
Remember homework has been set this week. For Monday, using your notes, you need to produce a presentation about the potential positive and negative impacts of Global Warming.
The lesson this afternoon was a bit of a mixed bag, we started off by briefing recapping on the potential positive and negative impacts of Global Warming. We also used this video to illustrate the fate of fauna in the Northern Hemisphere!
We then rounded up the Extreme Environments topic by completing a thinking skills FUGIS classification exercise, based on a number of statements related to the topic. Some excellent thinking based around these! 
And then it was done! We should have had a mini top ten of our favourite moments.
We then started to look at our new topic, ‘My Place’. First we discussed scale in Geography, I hope I illustrated this well with Google Earth, Geographers can classify ’space’ at various scales. We then started to consider the notion of what makes a place, at its most simple, space with people, from this we started to define the notion of local. Our basic understanding, is that this is our immediate area, one that we feel most familiar.We also had a little interesting debate about whether our identity was bound with Nottingham or Derbyshire.
Remember local will mean different things to different people, we’ll explore this later. To finish with, we started to explore the concept of our wider links with the world, despite our limited geographical territory; as represented through our daily actions, consumption and relationships. We constructed a diagram, based on a bullseye, showing our links with scales from local to global. Which reminds me, I must do my example…
Some interesting talking points already….
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