Geo Image Library - Image of the month archive 2002

If you have a contender for image of the month, please send your image for inclusion here to Kate Russell . It must be your own copyright of a web image we can link to.

December 2002 Smoking in a rainforest! What is a world challenge expedition like? 

Just thought SLN geographers might be interested in seeing what we got up to in Honduras with World Challenge this summer.  Some fantastic photos and cloud forest! Go to www.ajhs84.manufree.net  If anyone is interested ASKELDING@aol.com 
Andy Skelding, Maryhill High School, Kidsgrove

November 2002 - The world's speediest glacier!

This is the world’s most active glacier, which moves at around 25 metres a day, shedding icebergs along a 10 km. wide front, producing a daily total of around 20 million tons of ice! That’s an awful lot to put in the champagne! 
Click to see more of Greenland, and I am told it is called Greenland because the Vikings of Iceland, didn't want any more settlers so it encouraged them to go on! 
Thanks to Viv Smith, from St. Leonard’s Primary School, Stafford

October 2002 - A mystery boulder!

Matt Amison St. Margaret Ward School, Stoke-on-Trent wrote: 'On a visit to the Atlas Mountains in April 2000 I took this photo of a boulder in the village of Imlil. Imlil lies next to the Mizane River which suffers from periodic flash floods. The boulder in the photo was deposited in Imlil in a late 19th Century flood. The most recent serious flood made news in 1995 and the following web page has some useful information http://diziet.scenario.co.uk/tictoc/Phase3/Resource/water.html 

September 2002

How do you link a dirty hand with diversification? Andy Houseley's photograph of a welsh farmer is used as a stimulus to get year 8 pupils into farming life in Wales.  More of his slides can be downloaded from our site

July 2002 This poignant picture was taken by Tony Escritt at Amman airport

Click on this thumbnail to see the full image (which is much clearer!)

June 2002 

Carly Goodwin from Holden Lane High School in Stoke was inspired by Adam Nicholls talk, including the use of "mental maps" to explore the issues of migration, that she created a very good  PowerPoint presentation as a stimulus for a piece of creative writing. Please download it here.  book as usual by phone on 01785 277932 or email as above.

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