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Had an email from Dan E at ActionAid about a forthcoming event.

With possibly the most important decision ever to be made by humanity at Copenhagen this December, ActionAid has teamed up with Queen Mary University to create Teach climate action! This teachers’ event is purposefully timed after KS4 and KS5 exams but ahead of the autumn term.

11:00 – 16:00, 19 June 2009
Queen Mary, University London, Mile End
Tickets £10

Buy a ticket now

Take part in Teach climate action! to:

• act on climate change issues in school
• hear from experts about the fight against climate change
• consider the moral implications of (not) teaching climate action
• discover the new stories and case studies for your classroom
• explore ways to teach climate change across the global dimension
• develop ideas for your teaching
• pick up a free PowerDown toolkit
• meet and create links with like minded teachers and academics

A wide range of speakers have confirmed they are speaking and the list is growing. Confirmed speakers include:

• Yasmin Mcdonnell, Emergencies and Conflict Team, ActionAid on Copenhagen, climatic hazards and responding to climate change
• Professor Susan Buckingham, Director of Centre for Human Geography and Environmental Issues, Brunel University on the gendered nature of climate change and how mitigation and adaptation strategies need to be socially and environmentally just
• Lizzie Gillett, Producer, The Age of Stupid on communicating and acting on climate change
• Dr Victoria Johnson, New Economics Foundation on climate change and interdependence
• Professor David Lambert, Geographical Association and the Institute of Education, London on the moral implications of teaching climate action
• Dr Robbie Sutton, Department of Psychology, University of Kent on the psychological obstacles to the fight against climate change and the prospects for overcoming them
• Dan Box, Journalist and winner of the RGS/IBG and BBC Journey of a Lifetime Award on his trip to the Carteret Islands in the Pacific to meet the world’s first official climate refugee

8.30 p.m.on the 28th of March?

Wanting an easier day tomorrow, so just putting some finishing touches to resources for next week.

I’ve uploaded some resources to do with multiculturalism in Britain, under cultural geography, think I might update some of the case studies near the time of delivery. Also added a content generator match-up of the main cultural sub-divisions.

I’m also about to finish looking at Antarctica with Year 10, I’m be focusing on climate change, we do this in depth at Year 9, so have produced a Question of Sport type refresher as a starter.

When reading the excellent blog of Joe Dale I was reminded about the drag and drop macro that can be used in PowerPoint, as a result I’ve produced a noughts and crosses game for weather and climate, not really noughts but circles, because they interfere with the hyper linking; but I’m sure it will be highly adaptable. Please read the instructions under the notes on the first slide.

Just liked this, I have a picture of this man in my kitchen, I assume that’s normal.

Hat-tip – Osocio

Just liked this, I have a picture of this man in my kitchen, I assume that’s normal.

Hat-tip – Osocio

I looked at this whilst wandering about Waterstones, it’s a book of stickers, posters, postcards, and other treats which can be used to conduct your own awareness campaign, the retail price is fifteen pounds, so I dropped it… but lovely Amazon are selling it for half-price, which means it’s ordered. Slight irony though, I imagine the book’s carbon footprint will be that little bit larger now. 

Perhaps one for Santa? Oh, I’ve just realised I’m now encouraging consumerism.

I looked at this whilst wandering about Waterstones, it’s a book of stickers, posters, postcards, and other treats which can be used to conduct your own awareness campaign, the retail price is fifteen pounds, so I dropped it… but lovely Amazon are selling it for half-price, which means it’s ordered. Slight irony though, I imagine the book’s carbon footprint will be that little bit larger now. 

and then get a grip…

Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo.

and then get a grip…

Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo.

Some thing to cheer you, hat-tip Alan.

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