Monday, October 19, 2009

Mass Movement

Some quite interesting news articles on the impact of earth movement are enabling year 10 to finish off Weathering as a topic before half term, and because they have all worked so hard since the start of September this might even mean that there will be no homework for the half term break....... well maybe!



Essential viewing for understanding the awesome power of moving earth.



The 2006 Southern Leyte Landslides are an excellent case study and we have also looked at the two BBC newspaper articles in the lesson relating some of the information covered to deforestation in Tropical areas and the potentially catastrophic effects. Mud wipes out Phillipines village a photo story and What caused the Phillipines landslide?