All Schoolzone reviews are written by UK teachers In the eye of the storm is an audio disc that will play on CD-players and computers. It is also a CD-ROM of digital images, video and text for use in schools. This disk provides Key Stages 3-4 geography pupils with a study of the effects of cyclones on an island in the Bay of Bengal. It also looks at other threats to the livelihoods of the people living on the island and focuses on their involvement in development projects. The radio broadcast can be used as an introduction to the effect of cyclones on the people of the island.
Pupils can record information on the worksheet.
A glossy black and white version of the worksheet is supplied. This is large and would lend itself best to one per group . It can be printed out smaller but it then is virtually unusable. The suggested activities in the teacher s folder are all good variations on a theme and focus on the presentation of information in a variety of different ways. They all challenge the pupils to make constructive use of the resource and would require a good deal of pupils own input rather than simply copying chunks of text and pasting into a document.