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?
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.’
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
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.
