Bomb Sight

Our current topic is World War 2 and it is an area the children in Year 6 are really motivated by and are keen to research further. They are at their best when they the able to make connections between where thy live and the events of the war. There was a reverent silence and some poignant questions during a recent talk from a local resident who described his experiences as an evacuees. Our visitor described how during the Blitz many bombs landed on London and some even landed near to our school. Thanks to Bomb Sight we can now look these up and begin to question why some parts of London seemed to have suffered more than others.

Alongside the site, I have noticed the start-up creators of this concept have also been building an augmented reality app too. Currently this is only on Android, but let us hope it comes to IOS too.

Create a hyperlink within your history planning now ready for next term.

Related articles

• Bomb Sight: Mapping the WW2 Bombs that Fell on London (infosthetics.com)
• Bomb Sight Map Pinpoints Each of the 50,000 Bombs That Fell On London During The Blitz (fastcompany.com)
• Bomb Sight Map Of The Blitz Unveils Scale Of London’s Darkest Hours (huffingtonpost.co.uk)

Foam Fighters and AR Nostalgia

This is not very educational.
I have just been trying out Foam Fighters an augmented reality style app / toy for IPad and iPhone/ IPod.
I have enjoyed piloting my plane through difficult skies and avoiding attack. Apps like these that need something physical attached to the device are slowly increasing. I do hope we see more inventive and imaginative applications for this augmented reality style technology when it comes to tablets and IOS.

Playing this game tonight took me back a few years to the excitement we had in my early days of 2SIMPLE, when chief genius Max would emerge from his tool shed like office with another chunk of code. He shows his forays into augmented reality in his video appearance at Teachmeet East London below.