UPD8

Excellent resource. Has worked for my bottom and high ability year 9's. Keep them coming upd8!

Reviewer: K B

ok this resource helped me deliver a lesson on global warming and was mostly very good.

Reviewer: chris walters

excellent activity

Reviewer: KAREN LEWIS

It was really good. Used this with year 8s. Generated lots of dialogue

Reviewer: carolyn long

Good Stuff!

Reviewer: Chi Onyirioha

you tube video link no longer works

Reviewer: paula addison-pettit

Some excellent resources, well laid out and explained in the main.

I would like to make a quick comment about some of the language used on the pdf activity page 2 sheet. Use of the word 'trapped' can often lead to severe misconceptions; the I.R. is absorbed by the CO2 leading to heat being dissipated to the surrounding particles in the atmosphere, this elevates the temperature.

Furthermore, mention is made of the "atmosphere absorbing the I.R." - this is slightly misleading as it is the gases which are able to absorb I.R. at these frequencies which are absorbing the I.R. not ALL gases in the environment.

Reviewer: Donna Boultby

The power point was very good and gave the students plenty to discuss. Good as a starter or plenary.

Reviewer: Caroline Haupt

This activity worked brill with my year 9 set. It took about half an hour to do and they were all actively engaged! Definitely helped get the main points across!

Reviewer: Hannah Roome

Excellent site. Very helpful, particularly for group work activities.I use the site on a regular basis.
Mohammed Nawaz
Leon School and Sports College
Bletchley

Reviewer: mohammed nawaz

Tried this with Year 10 group, who are usually not the easiest to motivate, but they actually got quite into it! I had 1 hour to do the activity which was enough but you have to keep the students going a bit.

One minor criticism, the cards for the campaigns don't match up back-to-back if you print double sided.

Reviewer: Catharine Breeze

The video that you need is
Eric Prydz vs Floyd - Proper Education.

Reviewer: Gemma Young

The You Tube video doesnt work because apparently the video has been deleted from the site - could someone please say what the video actually was and then maybe people can find it elsewhere?

Reviewer: Karen Baker

sadly could not run you tube video due to draconian rerstrictions on network! it's been noted and minuted but no-one's budging yet

Reviewer: Jennifer Mayer

I used this activity with 12-13 year olds (Year 8 Australia) as part of a unit of work on Energy Efficiency. The students were given free reign to come up with their campaign working in groups of 4 (by coincidence a parliamentary election was happening here at the same time). Students used imovies (we are a technology school), powerpoints, songs, sketches, pamphlets and posters to get their messages across. The students were highly motivated, competition was fierce and the products were fun with good science content.
These activities are in a great format and easy to adapt and use. Thanks!

Reviewer: Brenda Winning

I am experimenting with this activity in a third grade English language conversation class on science topics in a state high school in Italy(student ages 16 years). The colourful comic strip format is highly motivating and my students enjoyed memorizing the parts in "role play" activities. The topic also motivated debate on climate change and what can be done to stop it.

Lucy Huggins. English language Conversation teacher. Italy
BSc in Microbiology (Kent 1973)

Reviewer: Lucy Huggins

A great little activity

I had my middle Y10 working in groups. I had originally intended that each group tackle two campaigns each but having been sidetracked by "how come big heavy icebergs float?" (isn't density such a difficult idea?) they only had time to discuss one campaign each.

They thoroughly enjoyed the discussion and the voting at the end was fun. The consensus was that we should all cut our car use, as a split site school staff change sites by car on a regular basis, but it gave me a warm smug glow as a cyclist!

Our school doen't block youtube so that added to my street cred!

Reviewer: Stephen Brian

Youtube is blocked by my school, but luckily I was able to download it. Video was great for stimulation and discussion with a low ability group that normally dislikes those sorts of activities.

Reviewer: Lisa Pierce

Really good, used it with a very bright class who all got very involved and enthusiastic. Also had the same problems showing youtube but managed to work around it. Thanks, a great activity.

Reviewer: Hannah Proctor

Idea worked well, BUT our school bans YouTube from being displayed in School. You need to download the .FLV file locally and play it from a laptop -- now at least I have a permanent copy...

Enjoyed the activity.

Reviewer: Glen Gilchrist