A2 OCR Hazards Resources

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

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

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.
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