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Atlantic Rising live from South America!

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Just spent part of a Year 9 lesson chatting via live via Skype to the Atlantic Rising team.

Lynn, Will and Tim providing an entertaining and informative talk and responded to a number of questions.

I was really impressed by their enthusiasm and the class was left buzzing from the encounter – and went on to explore the Atlantic Rising project further.

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Worth having a look at include:

  • Photo Gallery – stunning images that would be great to use a starters. Also check out the videos (wish there ere more of these!). Again, these are a great resource to use in geography lessons, and tell more of the human story behind the adventure.
  • Schools section – the team are engaging the school community which is great to see from a project. I especially  love the message in a bottle resources.

My next mission is to get a group down to the sea front in order to take part in the photographic competition.  The video below outlines the Atlantic Rising story so far and has details of the competition.

My Coastal Life from Atlantic Rising on Vimeo.

So – many thanks to the team – and I hope that we can get involved in your journey again soon. 

For schools who would like to get involved, I strongly recommend getting in touch with the team via their website.

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  1. Unknown27 June 2010 at 03:24

    There will be more videos coming.....lots of them in fact...they just take a long time to edit and put together....and there are only three of us. When we get back to the UK, we will have several months to put everything together and then there will be videos galore on the site!

    Will

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