International Migration (Singapore) PowerPoint

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

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Coasts - lesson plans and PowerPoint

Thanks to The School of Geography, University of Leeds, for these resources.
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A2 Coasts links

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)

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Useful Links for AS World Development

Courtesy of Kay's geography site:

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

Weathering taboo cards

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Give Geography its Place' Campaign

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!

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.

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The Barriadas of Lima

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

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

Here is a ppt produced by one of my students on a selection of physical & chemical weathering processes.
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Odd One Out~ Hazardous environments

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Bid Rent Model: creative ideas

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

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

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

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..

A worksheet on the above:
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Drainage Basins and their Management

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

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.
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Earthquake prediction

A Word file containing recommended weblinks. Useful for A2.
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