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The Day After Tomorrow review

Apr 22nd, 2012

Great opportunity to make pupils aware of climate change with a fun activity!

Reviewer: Lilian Buuron

Science

Sep 4th, 2010

This was very topical for our 'Environment Day' at school.
My Yr 8's enjoyed watching a clip from the movie, but the activity itself was quite short and some of my lower-ability children found it a little confusing.

Reviewer: Simone Lively

Year 10 Btec

Jan 17th, 2010

Pupils really enjoyed this as it had enough structure so they understoood what to do but an enough flexiability to created a lively debate

Reviewer: Andrew McLellan

Global warming

Oct 13th, 2008

I used this to help teach the aspect of global warming and climate change with my year 10 class. It got them to consider and debate scientific points of views which was very interesting.

Reviewer: Melissa Baines

Biology

Jul 1st, 2008

I used this in the AQA B1b section on Sustainability last year. It really tied in with the festival that they had all heard about, the pictures were good and they really understood WHY piles of rubbish and sewage was a problem that needs to be dealt with.

Reviewer: Lyndsey Montgomery

ks4 physics

Jun 25th, 2008

Ok, a good link between the screen and science. promoted good debate on the scale of time included in global changes of this type. succesful cartoon activity completed.

Reviewer: chris mason

The Day After Tomorrow review

Jun 12th, 2008

This was a really good activity. I did it with my year 9's after watching the movie. It was great. The pupils had to use their knowledge and understand to complete the task.

Reviewer: Imelda Mc Kenna

chemistry

Mar 28th, 2008

thank you for the wonderful input and suggested activities. i can surely use it for the school Earth day celebration.

Reviewer: aminah mansor

Day After Tomorrow - A winner!

Jan 27th, 2007

Used both day after tomorrow resources in a 1 h lesson with a all girls top set Year 9. They loved it! Constraints of time would make me do it differently next time and I intend to try it with a middle set in the future. A great resource. Thank you.

Reviewer: Michele Morris

Day after to tomorrow

May 9th, 2006

The students all got invovled in discussing their ideas, and even the most beligerent were arguing their case at the end. A great activity to finish the module with!

Reviewer: Steven Diamond

day after tomorrow

May 8th, 2006

Used this to teach a lesson on interview about environment and pollution. It went down well, the starter had the students hooked.
I then adapted the sheets to do a card sort on the 3 main areas for the manifesto, with extra cards added for extension work.
The lesson went so well I got the job! Thanks for the inspiration.

Reviewer: Michelle Brockbank

The day after tomorrow

Jan 24th, 2006

Used this witha middle ability ,difficult yr9. it kept even the most dificult on task and was of great interest to the boys. watching the film made them think they were getting away without working, but stopping and discussing as we went was very fruitful.

Reviewer: lesley long

The day after tomorrow 06/07/05

Jul 6th, 2005

the pupils found it very interesting, which generated a lot of discussions and opinions. showing the clip of the movie at the start really motivated them and all worked enthusisatically. this was an excellent resource to use at this time of the year to keep the pupils interested.

Reviewer: Fairuz afreen

The day after tomorrow

Jun 18th, 2005

My Y9s found this a very interesing activity to do. We watched parts of the film the day after tomorrow which they enjoyed. Then I used this upd8 activity as a bridging activity between the media and Scientific issues. They were able to make the links between the science seen in a film and the issues of climate change and the possible future consequences. They had not considered the issues seen in the the film in this way before.

I also showed them the images from the Mark Lynas website which have been taken from his amazing book "High Tide: News from a Warming World". They made comparisons between the film and the book and discussed the differences.

The sequencing activity challenged them to think about cause and effect.

Thanks!

Richard Waller, Comberton Village College, Cambridge

Reviewer: Richard Waller

day after tomorrow

Feb 25th, 2005

Pupils found this lesson very interesting - i played the 'streamed' movie clip from the website as pupils enetered the room -caused a lot of discussion
the activity was well recieved and pupils eagerly cut and stuck the correct statements to make a cartoon strip. the link to the offical website was also an excellent resource. the music, the images all superb.

Reviewer: paula phillips