Earlier this week, in our GA staff meeting, we were watching the Toowoomba Flooding video on YouTube...
This has now been viewed almost 3 million times...
This would make a useful video to show in the classroom as it has a high impact value. There is an obvious growing sense of astonishment at the power of the water, nervous laughter, and no swearing... The benefits of having a high vantage point are obvious. The sad underlying story, of course, is that many cars that were washed away (not necessarily the ones on the video clip) could have held people who are now missing. The clip has echoes of Boscastle.
The following morning, we put together some resources for the Australian floods, which included this video.
There were also links to a range of other useful online sources of information.
The resources have now gone live on the GA website, and you can visit by CLICKING THE LINK
It's worth pointing out that there are other FLOODING resources on the GA website, and also that there are several other parts of the world which are currently undergoing major flooding, which has in some cases resulted in many more fatalities, but which is not getting quite the same media attention back here in the UK.
And finally, when I went to pick up today's Independent: which has a large image on the front page and several pages of features inside, I noticed this banner ad for the local paper...
Which reminds us that local news will always look for a local 'angle'...
Visit Will Tuft's blog for more from an English geography teacher living down under...
This has now been viewed almost 3 million times...
This would make a useful video to show in the classroom as it has a high impact value. There is an obvious growing sense of astonishment at the power of the water, nervous laughter, and no swearing... The benefits of having a high vantage point are obvious. The sad underlying story, of course, is that many cars that were washed away (not necessarily the ones on the video clip) could have held people who are now missing. The clip has echoes of Boscastle.
The following morning, we put together some resources for the Australian floods, which included this video.
There were also links to a range of other useful online sources of information.
The resources have now gone live on the GA website, and you can visit by CLICKING THE LINK
It's worth pointing out that there are other FLOODING resources on the GA website, and also that there are several other parts of the world which are currently undergoing major flooding, which has in some cases resulted in many more fatalities, but which is not getting quite the same media attention back here in the UK.
And finally, when I went to pick up today's Independent: which has a large image on the front page and several pages of features inside, I noticed this banner ad for the local paper...
Visit Will Tuft's blog for more from an English geography teacher living down under...
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