Odd One Out~ Hazardous environments

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Bid Rent Model: creative ideas

Some suggestions from Ian Murray:
I found that I could breathe a bit more life into this by building up the diagram on the board through discussion with the class. You could try having them in groups for whichever land uses you want to include and then through guided Q/A get them to talk through their preferred location- where would they pay most to be. All the time you ensure that the theoretical attractions on a central location are stressed. You could perhaps act as 'auctioneer' revealing the land prices at appropriate places on the graph at appropriate moments. I wonder if they could be given a sum of money to spend and then realise that their choices are limited because other land uses have more money etc.
It's good to extend the graph to create a Burgess model at the end, then of course, consider the real world and the role of centrifugal as well as centripetal forces in the city.
'Is urban geography simply a spatial analysis of capitalism?'"
and:
In one of the old Oxford Geography books there was a simple outline map of a town centre. I can't remember if I made this up or if it was in the book. I gave out each child a card for example dept store £1 million, women's clothes £200,000, Charity shop £2000 and so on so they had one each and the ones with cheap ones had a couple of cards. They wrote down in advance which number plot(s) they wanted and why, we did an auction which I remember as damn hard work cos they got so excited and time consuming, and wrote down the price and land use for each. They could keep buying until money ran out - so dept store could buy a row of plots together. Then debrief, choropleth, map write up. They loved it but this was a long time ago! This would be Yr 8 or 9.
The idea could be developed with plots for sale over a whole city using a map with blank spaces.
Another idea would be to get actual commercial land values from an estate agent and pic up some leaflets to see how the commerial property actually operates.

Animation for Weather & Climate topic

A useful site for A2/IB atmospheric processes. If you have a iwb, plenty of opportunities for discussion: http://geography.uoregon.edu/envchange/clim_animations/

AS Weather starter

Try looking at proverbs with an A level group to get them thinking about weather processes and if they might be true.
Use trhis site for explanations:http://www.wxdude.com/proverb.html

Teaching AS/A2 Level

Some words of advice from "hre99"- a regular contributor to the SLN forum:
"Lots of 'accelerated learning' techniques work really well with A-level classes - and often better than in the lower school. Good, fun starters and plenaries are just as important for these lessons. Variety is the key but so is making sure the students have all the skills and information they need to tackle the exam questions for each topic. Some lessons may need to be more 'formal' - but even 'chalk and talk' is much more interesting these days with the use of PowerPoint. If you want students to make notes from discussions make sure you tell them and show them how to do this. Other lessons can be more challenging - difficult sorting tasks, mysteries, problem solving, mini-enquiries, preparing for presentations etc. To make sure content is covered sometimes I just give out handouts, but it’s more important to make the students responsible for their own learning so I get them to write up the content using a variety of sources at home. Notemaking in lessons is a waste of the lesson - its something the students can take care of in private study - though they will need guidance at first."

Microclimate Most Likely to..

A worksheet on the above:
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Drainage Basins and their Management

Some great AS/A2 resources developed by Rich Allaway on his site. Cheers Rich!
The lesson is on the Bradshaw Model. It has a PowerPoint presentation and a worksheet which includes some essay question practice.

You can find the lesson here:

http://www.geographyalltheway.com/ib_geogr...dshaw_model.htm

Weather Depression thinking activities

A big thanks goes to Matthew Mason (aka MatMacMas) for sharing these resources:

For the weather in a depression mystery you need to have done a memory map on the weather changes associated with the passage of a depression, and then you can launch the mystery. You need to change the parent's name to that of a student you get on with. The premise behind the mystery is that Mrs Borgerson's washing machine has broken down and she is going away on holiday. The washing machine gets mended but the tumble dryer is knackered so she puts her washing out on the line to dry. But she is unfortunate enough to put her washing out as a depression is passing and has to keep bringing it in because of the rain.
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Earthquake prediction

A Word file containing recommended weblinks. Useful for A2.
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Water on the Land (AQA A)

Thanks to Dan Mace for these excellent ideas :

For homework I asked the students to write a mix of crossword and cryptic crossword clues for all those key terms in the hydrological cycle. When they came back the next day, they had to write a story of the passage of a raindrop, in pairs, using those terms. Having talked through the 5 key factors (climate, vegetation, soil, bedrock, human activity) they had to swap their stories, and write 'What if' statements throughout - e.g. what if the vegetation was oak trees instead of grass, then… OR what if the rain fell in a city environment instead of a field etc etc.
Finally - 'Making Animals' - if they could redesign South Africa to avoid the problem of overland flow etc, how would they do that - i.e. the ideal river catchment. This provided the context of the lesson - the problems faced by South Africa/Lesotho.

Request!

Please could you send me any AS/A2/Higher/IB resources (worksheets, PowerPoints) or ideas you are willing to share. This blog can only work if we share - so far no one has sent anything to me but there have been 71 downloads of the resources I have made available. Please give as well as take.
Thanks
Paul

Plea for resources/ideas!

Please could you send me any AS/A2/Higher/IB resources (worksheets, PowerPoints) or ideas you are willing to share. This blog can only work if we share - so far no one has sent anything to me but there have been 71 downloads of the resources I have made available. Please give as well as take.
Thanks
Paul

Psammosere case study

An excellent Studland sand dune PowerPoint courtesy of "fkhan", a member of the SLN forum:
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Creative idea for Hjulstrom Curve

Thanks to Alan Parkinson:
SINK OR SWIM exercise.
Provide a particle size and a velocity, and the answer they need to shout out within 10 seconds is "SINK!" or "SWIM!"

Cartograms matching activity

Thanks to "edge" of SLN Forum fame for this idea. As she says "This is a really useful set of cartograms showing the world map distorted to represent various issues e.g. world popualtion, child mortality etc. Well worth a look. Initial ideas are to use the maps with A level groups to provoke discussion, perhaps as a matching exercise with the various maps and their titles muddled."
I've put together the resources in Word. Can be downloaded at:
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AS Weather & Climate taboo cards

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Odd One Out - Plate Tectonics

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Interesting blog

Check out Val Vannet's Scottish Higher blog. Some interesting ideas for post-16 geog.
http://www.highergeogblog.blogspot.com/

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Most Likely To...

Here is my 1st contribution: a "Most likely to..." on flood hydrographs.
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