Real time population counter

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/population/
View any countries birth and death rate rise and fall in real time. The deaths come with a brief description like "Adult, 30 - 49 years old (Male)" and it tells you if the birth was a boy or girl.
Interesting!!. But its not entirely accurate...

For example, check out Japan where the number of births is exactly the same as the number of deaths since January 1, 2005. Talk about an organized society!

The figures presented are based on information from the U.S. Census Bureau. Data was collected for the population births and deaths, for the most recent year available. The numbers presented are not real figures, but merely estimates. The notes are also simulated, but are properly dispersed according to the percentages found.

Economic and Environmental damage caused by 2004 Asian Tsunami

Notes found here (Tsunami December 2004 folder):
http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.html

Kashmir earthquake PowerPoint

Created by Charles Howard, a Y13 student of mine.
http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.html
Click on Kashmir earthquake folder

AS Weather and Climate links

Manchester Metropolitan University
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/kingworc/departments/geography/nottingham/atmosphere/pages/indexpage.html
University of Illinois

Types of Mass Movement Most Likely to....

http://www.4shared.com/dir/1325773/a2e72133/flows_slides__falls.html

Teaching case studies

Using a chain activity (like dominoes) a case study can be made into a series of questions and answers. Give each student one question and one answer. Start with a question and the person with the answer reads it out and then they read out their questions.

Useful resources for Population topic

The Population Reference Bureau has a plethora of articles, resources and lesson plans.
Click here!

Fancy becoming a vegetarian?

Butcher's shop, 40km north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Movie quiz on river systems

Thanks to Dan Mace for this creative quiz. The photo shows my IGCSE class taking a break from their river study in Chiang rai, north of Thailand. Find in D_Maces's folder.

Antarctic Schools Pack: A-level EdExcel Geography syllabus based resource

The Antarctic Schools Pack is the first educational resource on Antarctica to have been produced especially for students in the post-16 age range. BAS scientists and technical experts wrote the pack with the assistance of an educational consultant. The Commissioner for the British Antarctic Territory, John White, and the BAS Director, Professor Chris Rapley, launched the Pack at a North London comprehensive school in April 1999.
The Pack contains information on climate change, the ozone hole, Antarctic ecosystems, tourism, environmental issues and other topical subjects. The Pack is focused on the A-level EdExcel Geography syllabus with fifteen topics, each with worksheets and appropriate resources. In addition a 56-page Teachers Notes provides model answers to the tasks set in the worksheets.
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/Resources/schoolzone/resources/SchoolsPack/index.html

Physical Geog Animations, Interactive Exercises

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/howell/goodies/

GIS Blog

Check out Justin Cure's GIS blog:
http://gis-geoblog.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html

Geography is about making connections

Something I've dredged from the SLN archives. Could be used for AS/A Level.
Thanks to Imogen Smith for initiating the idea:
Why not develop a geographical version of when you link two totally random objects together geographically, with the aim of getting pupils to think hard to make linkages and to be able to justify these links eg.
cow dung - cake
The sun - asthma
Feather - plastic bag
Lightbulbs - water

Link them together...!
These could be text, pictures or objects. Pupils could develop this by linking a 3rd item to the two.
An interesting HWK could be to get them to come up with their own two objects. Appeal to their sadistic nature-challenge the teacher to link their objects together!
Here is a possible answer to the above:
Cattle produce cow dung, which is the waste product of grass, which also helps them to produce milk. Milk is bottled and distributed across the country in shops/on door steps where people/factories use as an ingredient in many different types of cake.

You could also use pairs of the same word, with one marked head, and one marked tail, and you could to connect to a super'loop card' exercise, and connect the lot together geographically.
eg.
Light - oil lamp - wick in oil - stored in a - cup.
cup - is a basic consumer tool - at the opposite end of the scale to - cars.
cars - produce greenhous gases - need to sequester carbon - afforestation - wood
wood - afforestastion - increased wealth/reduced erosion - better agriculture- food.
food - surplus leads to - urbanisation with potential for -education using-books.
books - used in education - increases knowledge in - development of agriculture - health.
etc...

Christaller

If he's still being taught somewhere?!? Noel Jenkins had a student who went to the Netherlands to work on Christaller for his Geography project. Here's the piece of work (scroll down the page). Cheers Noel.
http://www.geography.ndo.co.uk/research.htm#research2

Reilly's gravity model

For a succinct explanation of Reilly's gravity model, try http://geography.about.com/cs/citiesurbangeo/a/aa041403a.htm.

ICT work on River Channels and Processes

http://vcourseware.sonoma.edu/VirtualRiver/
Red River in the US is a good case study with real time data http://www.rrbdin.org/about.html
What was the Institute of hydrology:
http://www.nwl.ac.uk/ih/
There is a school liaison officer contact.
This is another lead:
http://www.floodplains.org/

Coasts - Odd One Out

Thanks goes to Jo Wraige (geojo) for this resource - enjoy!

http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.html

Periglaciation starter and coasts PowerPoint

Rob Chambers, a veteran and stalwart of the SLN forum, has kindly offered up these resources. Rob currently teaches at St Ivo School and has recently been on holiday in Kenya - lucky bloke!
Rob's resources can be downloaded at:

http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.html

Look for R_Chambers folder.

A2 Periglaciation links

Links courtesy of Rob Chambers:

Animation of Ice Wedges http://www.wiley.com/college/strahler/0471480533/animations/ch15_animations/animation2.html

Permafrost and Periglaciation

http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/ema_uk_he_holden_physgeo_1/0,10461,2018627-,00.html

Ice Wedge Polygons and Pingos

http://arctic.fws.gov/permcycl.htm

Frost Action and Frost Heave

http://www.pavement.com/Concrete_Pavement/Technical/Fundamentals/Frost.asp

Stone Circles Explained http://www.ucsc.edu/currents/02-03/01-20/patterns.html

Pingo – Canadian Encyclopaedia http://tceplus.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006300

Thermokarst – Climate Warning as Siberia melts (New Scientist Article) http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725124.500

Frost Heaving – Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_heaving

Permafrost – Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permafrost

How rapidly is permafrost changing and what are the impacts of these changes? http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_romanovsky.html

Melting Russian permafrost could accelerate global warming http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/EnvironmentNewsService/2006/09/07/1800717?ba=a&bi=17&bp=13

Permafrost: A building problem for Alaska http://www.uaf.edu/coop-ext/publications/freepubs/HCM-00754.pdf

Permafrost zones and Permafrost temperatures http://http-server.carleton.ca/~msmith2/permafrost_zones.htm

Permafrost in Canada http://http-server.carleton.ca/~msmith2/current_pf.htm

Permafrost and Climate http://http-server.carleton.ca/~msmith2/permafrost_and_climate.htm

Climate Change and Permafrost http://http-server.carleton.ca/~msmith2/climate_change_and_permafrost.htm

Permafrost – not quite so permanent http://www.sciencepoles.org/index.php?s=2&rs=home&uid=455&lg=en

Permafrost Distribution Map http://arctic.unep.net/index.cfm?issue=&type=1&data_id=9118

Periglacial Processes and Landforms http://uregina.ca/~sauchyn/geog323/periglacial.html

Scientists explain Arctic Stone Circles http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2665675.stm

Permafrost Photo Gallery http://www.uspermafrost.org/gallery/swalker/swalker_gallery.shtml

Geocryology – some great photos including deformed buildings built on permafrost http://www.netpilot.ca/geocryology/photo5.html

Alaska Range http://www.terragalleria.com/pictures-subjects/tundra/picture.tundra.dena5967.html

Flickr Sets – Tundra http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=tundra