Random news article

Just reading through the daily mail website to catch up on the celebrity gossip and I stumbled across this little article...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2197174/First-World-War-ammunition-frozen-time-nearly-century-glacier-melts.html

The article talk about how WW1 ammunition has been found after a glacier melted in Italy. The bullets were spread over 100 squared metres of the glacier. The ammunition was both Austrio-Hungarian and Italian.

Thought this article was something interesting and different and it highlights how glaciers are continually changing. It is also a mini-ish case study which could be weaved into some learning. The idea of finding a newspaper article about glaciers which is not typically academic could be used as a homework piece as it is more fun and interesting, yet it also taps into the idea of continual change on planet earth. Students could feedback on the article from a different perspective e.g. write the article with the glacier at the fore-front and the main stories used as a the sub-story to see how they can link it to previous learning.