Soil intro. notes

Know the name of this tropical soil??

Brief notes on soils here

AQA A Settlement SOW

Thanks to Helen Nurton again for this scheme of work.
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Advice on teaching the ITCZ

First from Val Vannet:
"I reckon the ITCZ is one of those topics where 'old technology' works best. You just can't beat two sheets of acetate on an OHP! Get your base map on one and draw the ITCZ and the converging air masses/winds on the other and then move it 'with the seasons'.
I usually get a climate graph for somewhere in Northern Nigeria at the ready, plot that location on my base map and as I shift the ICTZ, point out the corelation between the prevailing air mass and precipitation. This usually works!"

and from "Blue Square Thing":
"With the ITCZ I find it helps them to have a A3 sheet with 4 maps on and to be able to locate it in Dec, Mar, Jun and Sep - and then to add the Sub-Tropical High and so on - I use Africa essentially as it makes more sense later when I come back to ecoclines - and in Edexcel B I always make sure that I do grasslands rather than forests as the content doubles up nicely."

AS population and migration SOW

Thanks to Helen, who teaches at Guildford County School, for this lucid example of an AS scheme of work.
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OCN Geography & Environmental Studies - useful web sites

Hundreds of links here:
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AS Links

A list of links on river landforms, Bangladesh, Corals, Holderness Coast, Sea Defences, Sea Palling, Emerging Coasts, Submerging Coasts, Salt Marshes, Dunes, Mangroves etc.
http://www.peakscan.freeuk.com/edexcel_as_coasts.htm