Also if you find the post for January 30th 2008 (look in the archives or click on the ‘volcano’ categories tag) there is an alternative case study sheet and a video you can watch.
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.
OK kids, your task is to produce a report entitled: ‘Coastal processes and human activity on the Holderness coast’. Your report needs to explain the processes at work along this stretch of coastline (erosion, transportation and deposition), and the impacts they are having on humans. You then need to find examples of how humans are attempting to stop or manage the effects of these processes. You need to carefull explain these. You also need to include any relevant images/maps – make sure you label them. I suggest that you produce your report as either a word or power point document.
These links should get you started, but there are plenty more resources if you ‘goggle’ Holderness. Hopefully they will all work and not be blocked out by the filter – if so, Google, the BBC (try the news archive) and wikipedia will have enough info to keep you going…
Make sure that you have completed the case study sheet on the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens by next wednesday. The sheet is available to download below for those of you who have lost it…
Odaiba Island in Tokyo Bay is an example of reclaiming land. Land reclamation is a Japanese solution to their overcrowded cities, as we saw in the video. For your HW you need to take on the role of a Japanese city planner. Download the information sheet below and use this link, Odaiba, as resources to produce a poster encouraging people to move out of the mainland city onto a reclaimed island like Odaiba. Your poster needs to outline the advantages and attractions of living there, and the disadvantages and problems of living in the old city. This HW should be handed in: 4th Feb – 9a6, 5th Feb – 9a5, 6th Feb – 9b1.
