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Where in the World? Week 135

Richard Allaway — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:26:07 +0000

Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image, enter the competition!

The competition is open to everybody – the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.Similar Posts:

What am I teaching next week?

Richard Allaway — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:43:07 +0000

I am continuing to do some major maintenance on geographyalltheway.com -- so it may be worth checking any bookmarks you have to ensure they work before a lesson. Otherwise head for the home page and work you way through the menus. geographyalltheway.com is almost 4 years old now!

Year 8 this week will be focusing upon ‘Are you prepared for the big one?’ -- looking at tectonic hazard management. This will be mainly building design this week. I have purchased all the necessary materials to build a shake table so sugar cube buildings will be included at some point. I will post more about this as it progresses.

Year 9 students are looking at Marie-Antoinette and then ‘Mid-Term Causes of the French Revolution: War, Economy, Philosophers‘ -- all based upon the excellent resources on activehistory.co.uk.

Year 10 will be continuing to look at coastal landform after last week’s ‘I-Spy at the Seaside‘. This will involve some stop animation (hence the YouTube clip at the top of this post) either in with Play-Doh or maybe something in the style of the videos produced by the Common Craft show.

Year 12 students will be having an overview of hurricanes as a hazard -- spatial extent, prediction, frequency and magnitude. They will also get a homework to produce a case study of a drought in a LEDC.

Year 13 will be looking at ‘Contrasting Levels of Development‘ -- focusing upon Niger and Norway.Similar Posts:

Update: I-Spy by the Seaside […

Richard Allaway — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:22:24 +0000

Update: I-Spy by the Seaside [http://bit.ly/1RWKWM] Coastal landforms lesson resources based upon the popular I-Spy books.Similar Posts:

Resource: Deciphering Popn Pyr…

Richard Allaway — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:39:12 +0000

Resource: Deciphering Popn Pyramids YouTube clip from the PRB http://bit.ly/35DYYe -our main source of population pyramids #geographyteacherSimilar Posts:

Resource: Volcanic Hazard Mana…

Richard Allaway — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:07:39 +0000

Resource: Volcanic Hazard Management – Mount Rainier, USA [http://bit.ly/3PvqjZ] – worksheet, Google Earth and Google Street ViewSimilar Posts:

Resource: Tourism 2023 Animati…

Richard Allaway — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:15:23 +0000

Resource: Tourism 2023 Animations [http://bit.ly/28lsmX] How will we holiday in 2023? Useful for future tourism trends?Similar Posts:

IB Geography teachers – check …

Richard Allaway — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:33:31 +0000

IB Geography teachers – check out the blog [http://bit.ly/1rmFk7] associated with the IB Geography 2009-2017 wiki [http://bit.ly/2EN40k]Similar Posts:

Where in the World? Week 134

Richard Allaway — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:49:06 +0000

Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image, enter the competition!

The competition is open to everybody – the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.Similar Posts:

What am I teaching next week?

Richard Allaway — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:32:59 +0000

Maintaining geographyalltheway.com is a bit like painting the Forth Rail Bridge – when I get to one end of the site I have to start again at the other. I’m focusing my efforts over the next week or so on a big ’site check-up’ – checking that links, videos and resources work. If you spot any issues - please get in contact. I have already done the GCSE/IGCSE section and will be starting the KS3 section after I finish writing this post.

Next week should have a good start. Monday is a ‘Journee Pedagogique’ (an INSET day) and I’m off with a number of colleagues on a ‘Mountain Safety and Awareness for Ski Day Supervisors’ course to Glacier 3000. A day skiing, on an INSET day, in Novermber – naughty!

Year 8 students are studying Plate Tectonics and will continue to do so until near the end of term. This week we will focus on looking at ‘Volcanoes – Where in the World?‘ and ‘Are all Volcanoes the same?‘.

Year 9 students are studying the French Revolution. This is my first experience as working as a ‘Humanities Teacher’ and I am enjoying it! I am collecting my thoughts and resources on a wiki page and I am using the excellent activehistory.co.uk as a basis of the programme.

Year 10 students have just started a unit on Coasts. We have looked at why coastal areas are important (I do like to live beside the seaside!) and are starting to look at Coastal Processes. This week we should cover transportation, deposition and start to look at how coastal processes combine to create various coastal landforms.

I teach Year 12 students the Higher Level components of the ‘new’ IB Geography syllabus. I have started with their additional (third) Optional Theme – Hazards and Disasters – Risk Assessment and Response. This week we will be looking at Drought case studies.

Year 13 students are working hard to complete the IB Geography course. This week we miss a lesson for the INSET day – the remaining lesson we will revise Rostow’s Model and start to look at Sustainable Development. We will return to look at ‘Countries at Different Levels of Development‘ when we are next in the ICT suite.

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Resource: Some Friday fun … …

Richard Allaway — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:01:58 +0000

Resource: Some Friday fun … ‘Geography Teacher’ on YouTube http://bit.ly/3pPp3LSimilar Posts: