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The Earth from the Air project has been recognised as a successful visual resource to communicate and engage over many subjects using amazing aerial photography supported by interesting facts and figures relating to the world today. Everything from climate change issues, developing countries, social responsibility and awareness.

Example of subjects covered: Art and Design, Economics, English, Geography, History, Languages, Mathematics, Religious Education, Science.

These images have also been used to educate and enhance the Sustainable Schools area of Teachernet website, by using the photographs and information to encourage navigation around the site. It has been designed to support schools on their journey to sustainability, introducing the principles of sustainable development and offering guidance on how to embed these principles into the heart of school life.

We offer the following resources:

Teaching cards (A5), a pack of all 26 available, each of which has a full colour image with information printed on the reverse.

Prints are currently available in sizes 60 x80 cm. These are normally priced at £15.

To download a PDF detailing the Teachers Cards please Click Here

To see the current Print range and books please visit our online shop.

For more information about sustainable schools please visit the Teachernet.gov.ukwebsite.

SAMPLE CARD

PERITO MORENO GLACIER, Santa Cruz, Argentina (S 50°27' W 73°10').

Created in 1937, Los Glaciares National Park is located in southern Patagonia, near the border of Chile. This protected zone, declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1981, contains 13 glaciers that originated from the continental glacial covering of Patagonia, the largest in the world after Antarctica and Greenland. With a frontal width of 2.5 miles (4 km) and a height of 147 feet (60 m), Perito Moreno extends for 32 miles (52 km) and moves along one of the arms of Lake Argentino, dragging rock debris torn from the banks in its wake, which erodes and shapes the landscape. Every three or four years, at the confluence of the two arms of the lake, the glacier interrupts the water’s flow. The growing pressure of the water against the ice barrier ends up breaking it, producing an explosion that can be heard from several miles away. Glaciers and ice caps make up 9 percent of the earth’s land surface. Global warming could melt the ice, raising the level of the oceans by 3 to 35 inches (9 to 88 cm) before the end of the century and drowning the fertile shore areas.

Today, the atmosphere has the capacity to absorb only one third of the CO² that we produce each year.

‘There is no doubt that the images could be used as the starting point for exciting activities which cover a range of subjects including science, geography and citizenship.’
Bill Graham, Head of Education, Farming and Countryside Education.

To find out more contact Wecommunic8.