The BBC has a very good interactive map about the effects of climate change on the planet. It gives you case studies of places and other factors including coasts, industry, food, health and water. It would make an excellent revision aid for GCSE.
If you want to get ahead with the flooding assessment, I have added links to the Year 7 page (see tab at top of this page) to the instructions, level criteria and assessment sheets. We WILL GO THROUGH THIS IN CLASS, but if you feel confident enough to get started yourselves then please do.
Sorry for the delay in getting this working kids. By your lesson next week (28th – 2nd) you need to have researched both the Mozambique floods of 2000 (you may also like to find something out about more recent floods there) and one example of flooding in the UK (try to make it the last 10 years). You have written both these HW’s into your diaries, so there is no real excuse for not doing them.
For the UK flood sort your research into information about:
causes of the flood
effects of the flood (on people and places)
responses to the flood (what was done about the flood and who did it) – you might find it helps to think of this as short term and long term responses.
Your HW is to find some information about flooding in Mozambique – the flood we have been looking at in class happened in 2000, but there have been others since. Investigate this further and produce a page of information and pictures showing what you have found out. Try to find any personal experiences or eyewitness accounts if you can. The link to the BBC below might get you started…
The death toll has now moved into the 1000's in the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr. The category 4 storm devastated the extremely low lying southern coast of Bangladesh - home to over 5 million people - on the night of 15th November. The news report below outlines the main impacts of this storm on the people of Bangladesh. More detail can be found on the BBC news web pages.
