Think Geography

A useful AS/A2 section on this blog set up by Slemish College, a Secondary School located in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

http://www.thinkgeography.org.uk/ASGeog.html

http://www.thinkgeography.org.uk/A2Geog.html

THE GEOGRAPHY ROOM

Worth a few visits - the blog for and by the A2 Geography students at Boston Spa School, Yorkshire, studying Edexcel B Geography.
http://www.geographyroom.blogspot.com/

Alternative clocks

Try this in your A Level lessons. Might wake them up!

Alternative clocks - set time limits for activities in fun ways:

Finish before the ice cube melts;

Finish before the slice of apple is not eatable;

Finish before the cymbal fades;

Finish before the music stops;

Finish before the match burns down (careful)

Finish before the snail makes it to the food

Etc.

Royal geographical Socirty's A Level revision conference

Took place in October 2005. Lots of useful PowerPoints and PDFs to download:
CLICK HERE

ELR/DALR/SALR made simple

Here's a PowerPoint for the taking:
CLICK HERE!

Meteorology Notes

These series of lectures by Joel Michaelsen of University College Santa Barbara provide an excellent set of notes for AS/A2 Atmosphere.

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~joel/g110_w07/

Variations on the Odd One Out (OOO)

I often include One Out Out (OOO) actvities at AS/A Level. Too often we stop using these after GCSE level but I find they are very useful to test learning and to iniatiate discussion in class. I would like to thank Mike Fleetham for providing me with these ideas. Mike's Thinking Classroom website can be found at:
http://www.thinkingclassroom.co.uk/
Variations on the Odd One Out (OOO):

Odd All Out – give a different reason for why each item could be the odd one out

Odd None Out – give a reason why there isn’t an odd one out

Odd One In – give a reason why the Odd One Out is more important/valuable that the others

Odd Two Out – from 5 or more items choose 2 items which are OOO for the same reason

Odd One First – use the reason for choosing the OOO to put the other items in order

Odd One More – after choosing your OOO find other items that could be too

Odd One Less – Start with 5+ items. Remove the OOO. Repeat for the remaining and so on