The fishing mystery! and why I love the BBC

I love the BBC, I really do. This week I have watched programmes on surviving an ice age, freedom in South Africa, social problems in Urban Areas (well 5mins accidently of Eastenders) and my favourite Toughest Place to be - a fisherman in Sierra Leone. I was not so impressed with the Cornish Fisherman sent out to experience fishing in Sierra Leone as I was with the Refuge Operater from the week before but.. the story was a good one. The film is still available on the iplayer and I would recommend it if you have not seen. Further more tonights edition promises to cover the many problems associated with the living and working in the Andes ( one for those doing the OCR extreme environments), useful for me as I have adapted the OCR scheme of work for my first years.

I liked the story, and with some familes still fishing on Islay, have borrowed it to create a mystery. I am still working on the assessment - there are local questions around fish farms which the students here are very aware of and I might use that as a starting point for students creating their own mystery, or a short documentary (depending on how much energy I have in the week we do it!!)

There are some videos that you could use with your students. I will probably use them after the mystery, they repeat basic information at the beginning so you might want to explore skipping part of the second one.