Eclectic Technology

Check out this new site from BBC that allows you to see how the world has changed since you were born.

Learn how many times your heart has beaten.

Learn how far you have traveled through space.

Find out what species has been discovered in your lifetime and how much the sea level has raised.

This would be a great site to have students explore and then write about the changes they think are most important, or have them create an infographic that shares changes. Or you might use it to explore how fast the world is changing for a classroom discussion.

Thanks to Richard Byrne for sharing this website. This film provides a look at climate change over the last 800,000 years in 2.5 minutes! The movie has graphs, images and narration and there is a text version that you may access that provides information on the sources. If your class is looking into climate change this is a great resource to use.