A Level Geography ideas

Avoid 4shared!!

2007-10-16T20:51:00.000+07:00

Apologies but many of my links to files have been erased by 4shared as I didn't log in to my account within 30 days. I missed it by one day! I asked for some reprieve but didn't get a reply.
I won't be using them as a host in future. Please bear with me whilst I re-load the lost files onto another, more reliable host.

Streuth!

2007-08-12T18:46:00.000+07:00

Some presentations relevant to A Level from the Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia.

How to prepare for an A Level Exam

2007-08-12T18:37:00.000+07:00

A Word document I 'borrowed' from the generous guys at the A Level Geography Room:
CLICK

Geography-related Presentation Materials

2007-08-12T18:21:00.000+07:00

Free resources from the Hong Kong Geographical Association - some useful stuff for A Level teaching despite the Hong Kong bias:
http://www.hkga.org/
Roll over "Resource Center" for the materials

A Level Ning

2007-07-26T16:16:00.000+07:00

Alan Parkinson has set up a useful ning to discuss the new EdExcel A level course:
http://newedexcelgeog.ning.com/
Alan says the ning is open to all to join.

A Ning is a new social networking platform - it allows you to set up an area which can be open to anyone, or closed off. Posts can have documents attached, which makes it another way to share resources for downloading for free, and photos, blogs and movies can also be added.

Mr White does Geography

2007-07-24T11:51:00.001+07:00

A site devoted to Geography resources for GCSE and A level students

http://ramblewell.blogspot.com/

The impacts of the 2004 Asian Tsunami on Phuket

2007-07-24T09:59:00.000+07:00

If you're looking for a case study...
Download Powerpoint

Teaching idea from Alan Parkinson

2007-07-24T09:37:00.000+07:00

TEACHING IDEA FOR CHANGES TO CLIMATE AS A RESULT OF GLOBAL WARMING
There'll be LESS OF THIS and MORE OF THIS...

Create a powerpoint with a series of images representing changes which we are likely to see as the climate changes...

See who can produce the best set of images which show the changes that we can expect

Try to think of some intriguing changes...

For example a view of people sat inside eating round a table and others sitting around a barbeque in the garden, or at a pavement cafe.

Crop Changes

Species change

Lifestyle change

Water shortages

Temperature related change: disease / health / clothing etc...

Try to alternate the LESS and MORE slides, and have perhaps some sort of connections between them....

Here is a basic template and a starter powerpoint, with the animations which fade the words in and out on the slide... You will need to add other slides, and of course an image on each one which will be behind the text. May need to move the text, or may want to add a semi-transparent box behind the text, or change the colour of the text. Each slide is set for 10 seconds which allows time for the text to fade in and out, and the transition is for a fade through black, which I like, but which you can change....

Could also attach music to the first slide and set to play through the duration of the presentation...

Download template from here:

TEMPLATE

Think Geography

2007-05-21T23:33:00.000+07:00

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

2007-05-21T23:24:00.000+07:00

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

2007-05-09T21:24:00.000+07:00

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

2007-05-08T22:37:00.000+07:00

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

ELR/DALR/SALR made simple

2007-05-08T21:40:00.000+07:00

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

Meteorology Notes

2007-05-01T22:00:00.000+07:00

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)

2007-05-01T21:34:00.000+07:00

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

Marble Thinking

2007-04-29T15:01:00.000+07:00

Great idea described by LangleyGeog, a SLN member:
'Marble Thinking' - have 21 circles and put key words in each one. The challenge is to link the 'marbles' (how long can the chain be), and describe the energy (the link between them).
http://www.learningnet.co.uk/ubb/Forum5/HTML/009190.html

OCR AS/A2 Revision website

2007-04-29T14:27:00.000+07:00

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/kingworc/departments/geography/revision.html

Teaching the DALR and SALR?

2007-03-25T20:39:00.000+07:00

Nothing creative but some pdf notes for downloading.
Adiabatic pdf
Moisture & stability in the atmosphere pdf

Contributions please

2007-03-12T22:08:00.000+07:00

This blog has attempted to pool together any new approaches/activities that teachers have developed when teaching AS/A Level (even IB Diploma) Geography. It is often the case that the traditional approach to teaching post-16 geography is too didactic and lacking in stimulation, largely due to the huge content, and unfortunately the thought-provoking activities developed at KS3 and KS4 are neglected. This blog aims to resolve this problem. But I need your help -please share your ideas (however feeble you think they are) on this blog otherwise my attempt has failed. Send any files or comments you have to me at:
pauliswi@gmail.com
Happy teaching!
Paul

Sand dune succession case study.

2007-03-12T22:01:00.000+07:00

This site provides detailed information on the sand dunes of the Sefton coast in North West England.
http://www.sandsoftime.hope.ac.uk/succession/model.htm

Mind maps

2007-03-12T21:53:00.000+07:00

Making a lot of use of these to reinforce knowledge at A Level. Here are 2 maps made by my Y13 students. They have been studying the topic of Tropical Environments as part of the CIE International A level Geography specification.

Teaching Urban models

2007-03-04T15:23:00.000+07:00

Some tips from Val Vannet:
At the heart of urban models there is the concept that zones within the city have recognisably different characteristics which differentiate them one from the other.

What about giving a photograph of an urban landscape to every pupil in your class? It would depend how many you've got but supposing it's around 25, you'd prepare 5 photos of, say, five different zones and give them each one. Their task is to organise themselves into groups representing the different urban zones. It will require a fair bit of movement, a lot of looking at other people's photos and probably a lot of discussion. At AS level, when they should be bringing some knowledge of urban geography with them, I wouldn't make this too easy. A photo representing inner city redevelopment, for example, should be deliberately ambiguous. Other photos might make pupils think about land use in a historical context e.g. in which urban zones would you not expect to find a crematorium?

Once the groups have got themselves 'sorted', you could get them to check a code on the back of their photo. Who is in the wrong group? What reasons can they put forward for being there. Why did the others in that group accept them?

Could you finish by getting each group to make a display using their photos, highlighting the features of their urban zone?

ICTZ PowerPoint

2007-03-03T19:33:00.000+07:00

Click here

Rural settlements worksheets

2007-03-03T19:26:00.000+07:00

Thanks to Gilbert Frith for these contributions:

Social, economic and environmental change in British villages. 1st click below.

Characteristcs of rural settlements. 2nd click below.

Click1 click2

Population links for A level

2007-03-03T19:17:00.000+07:00

Rob Chambers alerted me to this site run by the University of Southhampton:
http://www.socsci.soton.ac.uk/socstats/Population_Links/default.php?NavContext=Discipline

Techniques for teaching Nearest Neighbour Analysis

2007-03-03T18:48:00.000+07:00

Thanks to Alan Parkinson:

‘I used the people on a beach analogy - set the mood of the seaside and give them some beach scenarios - where would you sit ? why ?
What if there was a group of lads playing frisbee ? Near or far away ?
Then give some patterns, and a step by step formula.’

A2 OCR Hazards Resources

2007-02-20T10:57:00.000+07:00

PowerPoints and Word documents created by Matt Burdett. Can be downloaded from the "A2 Hazards" folder contained with in the "Matt Burdett" folder:
CLICK
Thanks goes to Matt for sharing.

Soil intro. notes

2007-01-31T22:59:00.000+07:00

Know the name of this tropical soil??

Brief notes on soils here

AQA A Settlement SOW

2007-01-17T22:55:00.000+07:00

Thanks to Helen Nurton again for this scheme of work.
Click here.

Advice on teaching the ITCZ

2007-01-17T21:28:00.000+07:00

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

2007-01-13T13:09:00.000+07:00

Thanks to Helen, who teaches at Guildford County School, for this lucid example of an AS scheme of work.
CLICK

OCN Geography & Environmental Studies - useful web sites

2007-01-06T14:04:00.000+07:00

Hundreds of links here:
CLICK!!!

AS Links

2007-01-06T13:48:00.000+07:00

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

The Atmosphere - Global Circulation

2006-12-18T19:07:00.000+07:00

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

2006-12-18T18:56:00.000+07:00

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

2006-12-18T18:09:00.000+07:00

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

2006-12-17T13:34:00.000+07:00

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

Starter for Year 12 river management

2006-12-17T13:11:00.000+07:00

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

2006-12-17T13:09:00.000+07:00

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

2006-12-16T12:23:00.000+07:00

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

Natural Hazards

2006-12-16T12:19:00.000+07:00

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

2006-12-12T22:22:00.000+07:00

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

2006-12-07T21:07:00.000+07:00

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

2006-12-07T21:06:00.000+07:00

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

New ideas on teaching A Level Geog

2006-12-07T20:55:00.000+07:00

Powerpoint can be downloaded from:
New ideas Folder

Core-Periphery Model

2006-12-07T19:51:00.000+07:00

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

Some tips from Noel Jenkins

2006-12-05T12:59:00.000+07:00

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

2006-12-05T11:19:00.000+07:00

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

2006-12-03T15:44:00.000+07:00

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

Real time population counter

2006-11-29T23:08:00.000+07:00

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

2006-11-28T22:11:00.000+07:00

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

Kashmir earthquake PowerPoint

2006-11-28T21:51:00.000+07:00

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

2006-11-21T07:14:00.000+07:00

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....

2006-11-20T12:53:00.000+07:00

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

Teaching case studies

2006-11-20T12:28:00.000+07:00

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

2006-11-19T01:26:00.000+07:00

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

Fancy becoming a vegetarian?

2006-11-16T23:06:00.000+07:00

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

Movie quiz on river systems

2006-11-13T22:39:00.000+07:00

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

2006-11-13T21:58:00.000+07:00

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

2006-11-13T11:42:00.001+07:00

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

GIS Blog

2006-11-12T23:30:00.000+07:00

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

Geography is about making connections

2006-11-07T22:00:00.000+07:00

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

2006-11-07T21:42:00.000+07:00

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

2006-11-07T21:33:00.000+07:00

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

2006-11-07T21:31:00.000+07:00

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

2006-11-07T21:27:00.000+07:00

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

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

Periglaciation starter and coasts PowerPoint

2006-11-07T20:32:00.000+07:00

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

2006-11-06T21:57:00.000+07:00

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

International Migration (Singapore) PowerPoint

2006-10-31T22:27:00.000+07:00

Thanks to The School of Geography, Univ. of Leeds.

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

Coasts - lesson plans and PowerPoint

2006-10-31T21:54:00.000+07:00

Thanks to The School of Geography, University of Leeds, for these resources.
http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.html

A2 Coasts links

2006-10-21T14:59:00.000+07:00

Photo taken on Noppatarhara beach, Krabi, Thailand.
Thanks to "geojo" (of SLN fame) for these links below:

Holderness coast link below: http://www.herb.hull.ac.uk/erosion/index.htm

Bit about waves: http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/motion/default.htm

News report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/639263.stm

Moon phases etc. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/nav.00500300l005007003

Newcastle university study: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/content.phtml?ref=1005653401

Geography pages link: http://www.geographypages.co.uk/ascoasts.htm

Kays Geography link: http://www.geography.btinternet.co.uk/coasts.htm

Year 12 (AS) Scheme of Work (EdExcel spec. A)

2006-10-21T14:58:00.000+07:00

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

Useful Links for AS World Development

2006-10-17T19:03:00.000+07:00

Courtesy of Kay's geography site:

http://www.geographer.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/wd.htm

Weathering taboo cards

2006-10-15T21:46:00.000+07:00

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

Give Geography its Place' Campaign

2006-10-14T15:02:00.001+07:00

David Rayner and Daniel Raven-Ellison have devoted a lot of their time this year to raising the status of Geography through their ‘Give Geography its Place’ (GGiP) Campaign. The GGiP Campaign has two key aims:

1. To raise the profile of Geography as an academic subject in all forms of the media (newspapers, magazines, the internet, TV, radio, advertising, etc).
2. To increase awareness of the importance of Geography and the vital role that it plays in schools, colleges and universities in preparing young people for life in the 21st century.

The campaign’s website can found at:

http://www.passion4geography.co.uk/

Chinese mystery and hydro stuff!

2006-10-11T13:03:00.000+07:00

Some more thought-provoking resources from Matt Mason:

A China One Child Mystery
Features of a drainage basin taboo
Hydrological cycle Mexican wave

Cheers for these Matt.

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

The Barriadas of Lima

2006-10-10T22:11:00.000+07:00

Stephen Akeroyd of The Robert Manning Technology College, Lincolnshire, has provided a selection of resources on the Geographical Asoociation's site based around the city of Lima.
Migration Story: "This story is aimed at AS students and is used to identify the causes of rural to urban migration (a key factor driving urbanisation in Lima)."

http://www.geography.org.uk/post16he/

Useful Geog sites

2006-10-10T21:52:00.000+07:00

http://earthtrends.wri.org/ [searchable database World Resources Institute]
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/english.html [Encylopedia of the Atmosphere]
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/home.rxml [meteorology explanations]
http://www.meto.gov.uk/education/cu...roclimates.html [aspects of weather including microclimates]
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/impacts/index.html [Global Warming]
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwa...b?OpenDocument - excellent example for global warming.
http://www.weatherbase.com/ [stats about weather in every country]
http://www.ucar.edu/communications/q...onnection.html -global warming and el nino
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml - excellent hurricane site

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/ [flood risks etc]
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/tcmweb/tcm/crlinks.htm [coral reefs]
http://www.geography.btinternet.co.uk/ [Kay’s Geog page – good links]
http://www.pupilvision.com/ [Another good links page]
http://www.georesources.co.uk/ [And another very good links page]
http://www.geography-site.co.uk/ [a good general site]
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/Gg_Sec/ [loads of links]
http://geography.radley.org.uk/web_human.html [another very good link page]
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ [nice up-to-date pictures]

http://www.geography-site.co.uk/ [info on case studies etc]
http://www.nationmaster.com/ [graphically very helpful]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main [a useful site for geog articles]
http://www.britanniatrophies.co.uk/geofactsheets/ [geofactsheets]

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/ [Volcanoes] http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc100?OpenForm [Disaster relief]
http://www.sciencecourseware.com/Vi...iver/index.html [rivers]
http://ndrd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Natural Hazards resource page
http://www.mantleplumes.org/VolcanicBombs.html - tectonic hotspots
http://www.nativemaps.org/conference...rth_slope.html Alaska and periglaciation

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ [CIA Factbook – statistical country data]
http://www.worldbank.org/data/datab...atabytopic.html [world data eg debt relief]
http://www.mrdowling.com/800nations.html [User-friendly stats on countries]
http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/Demotrans/demtran.htm brilliant site on Demographic Transition
http://www.fao.org/FOCUS/E/Women/green-e.htm Women and development
http://www.foodfirst.org/media/opeds...-greenrev.html Food and Development
http://www.malhamdale.org.uk/malham_cove.htm [lovely site on Malham]
http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/ [good Lake District plus factsheets –downloadable]
http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/planning/tranport.htm [sustainable transport in Cambridge]
http://www.worldbank.org/data/databy...tabytopic.html
very useful if you want world data eg debt relief etc
Web site for weather and climate. Very good for A level.
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/T.../contents.html
A version of the CIA factbook but in a more user-friendly form!
http://www.mrdowling.com/800nations.html
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/english.html
Content - Encyclopedia of the Atmosphere (Very user-friendly!)
http://earthtrends.wri.org/
World Resources Institute website, brilliant for searchable databases on all aspects of geog - human and environmental mine of information. You can sign up for regular updates to be emailed to you.

Weathering PowerPoint

2006-10-10T10:23:00.000+07:00

Here is a ppt produced by one of my students on a selection of physical & chemical weathering processes.
Downloaded from:

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

Odd One Out~ Hazardous environments

2006-09-26T13:58:00.000+07:00

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

Bid Rent Model: creative ideas

2006-09-25T12:26:00.000+07:00

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

2006-09-21T21:38:00.000+07:00

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

2006-09-21T21:31:00.000+07:00

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

2006-09-21T21:16:00.000+07:00

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..

2006-09-19T21:47:00.000+07:00

A worksheet on the above:
http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.html

Drainage Basins and their Management

2006-09-19T20:57:00.000+07:00

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

2006-09-19T13:01:00.000+07:00

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

Earthquake prediction

2006-09-19T08:13:00.000+07:00

A Word file containing recommended weblinks. Useful for A2.
http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.html

Water on the Land (AQA A)

2006-09-19T07:50:00.000+07:00

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!

2006-09-17T20:01:00.000+07:00

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!

2006-09-17T19:53:00.000+07:00

Psammosere case study

2006-09-17T19:45:00.000+07:00

An excellent Studland sand dune PowerPoint courtesy of "fkhan", a member of the SLN forum:
Download at:
http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.html

Creative idea for Hjulstrom Curve

2006-09-16T12:05:00.000+07:00

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

2006-09-16T11:47:00.000+07:00

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

AS Weather & Climate taboo cards

2006-09-14T21:35:00.000+07:00

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

Odd One Out - Plate Tectonics

2006-09-11T19:40:00.000+07:00

Download the Word document here:
http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.htm

Interesting blog

2006-09-10T18:18:00.000+07:00

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

2006-09-10T11:34:00.000+07:00

Please send in your contributions.

Most Likely To...

2006-09-10T11:19:00.000+07:00

Here is my 1st contribution: a "Most likely to..." on flood hydrographs.
http://www.4shared.com/dir/787269/e28119cb/sharing.html