The Atmosphere - Global Circulation

PowerPoint presentation to introduce the topic of atmospheric circulation. The resource demonstrates the reasons for atmospheric circulation, the transfer of energy between latitudes and the global pattern of surface winds. Questions for students are included.

Find the SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS Folder

Drawing Graphs with Excel

These resources have detailed instructions on how to use Microsoft Excel to create pie charts and line, bar, climate, hydro and scatter graphs.

Look in the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers Folder.

Construction of hydrographs

This PowerPoint presentation produced by Ollie Bray analyses the reasons for the production of hydrographs, the method of constructing them, analysis of hydrographs, factors influencing storm hydrographs and interpretation of them.

Find this folder:

Scottish Association of Geography Teachers

Hydrological Cycle Mind-map

Great intro to the topic. This one done by Pam and Simon (Year 12).

Starter for Year 12 river management

Draw/show a 'bad' drainage basin (natural and human causes of flooding) - write down as many solutions ... and their problems as you can in X minutes ?

River Management materials

The manual of River Restoration Techniques is presented in PDF. Check out the UK River Restoration Centre at www.theRRC.co.uk for details.
Their mission statement is to 'promote good practice in river restoration and environmentally sustainable river management'.

A contrast of 2 hurricanes

http://www.cooperscoborn.com/humanities/studypages/year13/Hurricanesplan2.pdf

Natural Hazards

Excellent site with lots of data about trends in natural hazards
http://www.em-dat.net/
....and one of the downloadable pdf documents
http://www.em-dat.net/documents/Publication/publication_2004_emdat.pdf
Do be aware that the spec is not simply trends over time it is prediction, management and reduction too.

Coasts and Tides animations

http://www.dac.neu.edu/physics/b.maheswaran/phy1121/data/ch01/anim/anim0106.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/getoutside/1996/jun/tides.html

http://kingfish.coastal.edu/marine/Animations/
A selection of coastal animations from Coastal Carolina University

Submit a quiz

Why not submit (esp. your students) an AS/A2 quiz to this site, so we can all share.

http://www.triv.net/html/geography.htm

Free PowerPoints to download

http://www.worldofteaching.com/geography.html

New ideas on teaching A Level Geog

Powerpoint can be downloaded from:
New ideas Folder

Core-Periphery Model

Thanks to Terry Portch for this Powerpoint. Look for "Portchy" folder.
PORTCHY

Some tips from Noel Jenkins

If you like the idea of using wave cams, buoys and animations to look at Atlantic weather systems and the resulting effects on the surf, then the ultimate resource is http://magicseaweed.com/
Excellent for A level weather and climate.

San Dune Sucession

C ourtsey of hre99 of SLN fame:

There is some good data on this site if you wanted to do kite diagrams - http://www.sandsoftime.hope.ac.uk/succession/vegdata.htm This is also a useful site - http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/biospher_reserves/braunton.htm

AS Schemes of work and a model answer

A big thanks to Matt Burdett, who teaches at Cromwell Community College, for these resources.
http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.html