Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Creative Geography.

Hi
Still planning and researching our topics for next term, and while doing so I found a FAB site. It talks about making games for geography - but the bit that interested me were the 3D models. Here's a link to one:
http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/just_good_ideas.htm
You have to scroll down to the bottom until you reach creating a river basin.
We looked at rivers last year and this would have fitted in perfectly.
This year I'm hoping to study various countries so could include this project then. Maybe when we look at China or Ancient Egypt would be a good one especially as the river Nile played such an important role.
Anyway it got me thinking and I'm hoping to try and make something similar but for our volcano topic.
I want to do a case study on a major volcano - I was thinking MT Pinatubo,MT ST Helens or the Roman MT Versuvious. (Chloe loves the Romans.)
I think MT Pinatubo would be a good one, simple because we could do a before and after model. Anyway looks like the paper maiche is coming out again. So watch this space....

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