09.09.09 or 10:10

I remember being in school for 07.07.07
Can't remember much about 08.08.08, but it would have been in the school holidays.

Later this week we have 09.09.09

The date is being seen as auspicious by a number of organisations, who are using this as the date when they are launching products. Quite a few films are opening on that date. The remastered Beatles catalogue will be available on that date too, and also in a Guitar Hero style game.

You might have thoughts on doing a "special" NINE NINE NINE theme in your geography lessons on that day (or this week if you don't have many timetabled that day)

NINE lends itself to the classic 'Question of Sport' pictureboard style activity with 9 options...

  • Find some "geographical nines..."
  • Latitude and longitude 9 degrees, minutes and seconds - where do you end up, N, S, E and W ?
  • The ninth largest, richest, most populous etc. country...
And this has now gone one better with the 10:10 campaign, which is related to carbon reduction...

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