Your Life on Earth - cool interactive from the BBC

Your life on earth

Enter your details and this cool interactive will show you some of the things that have happened in your life time.

Enjoy!

BBC Earth Story Right Here

and while I am here this is pretty cool too:
World Population and Me

The Depth of the Problem of MH370

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-depth-of-the-problem/931/

Click on the link, this article has a wonderful infographic about just how difficult it is to try and find the black box (Australian invention) of MH370.

They say time is running out, but what about how long it took them to find the Titanic or the Air France aeroplane? They will keep on looking, but will they find this one?

Which governments do you think should continue to look for the wreckage of MH370 and why?

Units of Measurement:

feet and metres 

from google.com

PSI - pounds per square inch
Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pounds_per_square_inch

pings
http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/black-box8.htm
How Stuff Works is a great site.

For Tenzin and others who love the oceans and seas

From I Love Charts, yes that is a site that I do enjoy

We Are Happy - AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE TO PHARRELL WILLIAMS

This came across my social media world today:

"AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE TO PHARRELL WILLIAMS, WE ARE FROM L.A. - CLÉMENT DUROU & PIERRE DUPAQUIER, FOR THEIR WORLDWIDE CONTAGIOUS HAPPINESS..."

We Are Happy Map of Videos - a map is a graph - enjoy!

Here's the one we looked at

Zombies and Relationships - will they last?

In MYP5 we are looking at the mathematical modelling of a Zombie Apocalypse and my sister, Michelle Griffin, posted this in facebook today

Charting 20 Years of Pop-Culture Witches, Zombies, and Vampires from Vulture (a very good read indeed)




And she also posted this very cool statistical study on relationships and predicting their outcomes (stay together or ...).

"It’s not in the stars after all. Instead, it seems, the shape of a person’s social network is a powerful signal that can identify one’s spouse or romantic partner — and even if a relationship is likely to break up"

Here is the fascinating article about it from the New York Times

Cameron Marlow/FacebookA graphical representation of one person’s network neighborhood on Facebook.

Who are you (mathematically speaking)?

Your task is to create an infographic about yourself. Before you get started take a look at some examples and ask yourself:

What do I know?

What do I want to know?

Below you will find three examples of infographics created by students. 

Following the student examples are some infographics from the 

In ManageBac is your task and some more links for you to explore.

Student Infographic #1 - what do you know about this person now?

Student Infographic #3 - what do you know about this person now?

Student Infographic #3 - what do you know about this person now?

http://up.wallwisher.net/20130813/4284c23c4da6a983c578fa4391dd1f62.jpeg

http://www.joelertola.com/grfx/index.html

When Sea Levels Attack - from Information is Beautiful

http://sandiegosurfingschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/biggest-waves-1024x576.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/884e2abac0ec848fa6491bf7227ba642/tumblr_mn4gj6Yzeu1s6bw99o1_1280.jpg