Energy from the Sahara

Hello year 10

Below is an advert for an ambitious solar energy plan for the Sahara desert.

 

You can visit the webpage of DESERTEC for further information or read this Guardian newpaper report on the project.

Desert landscapes

Hello Y10!

A simple research task for your homework this week. Following our lesson on desert landscapes this week, your homework task is to research where desert landscapes have been used in either adverts, films or other kinds of media. Stick a screenshot or image of what you find in your exercise book. Extra Renshaw respect will be awarded if you can name the desert landform in your chosen image! Good luck!

Can’t find your own…? here is a You tube video of a BBC Top Gear episode where they attempted to drive over the largest salt pan in the world.

The BBC and Top Gear boys got into trouble with environmental groups for this challege, which you can read about here.

Some images of the Top Gear team driving across the salt pan here.

Y10 settlement project

Hello Y10!

So here is your summer project. Your task is to put together a short report on cities in LEDC’s. This report must contain three sections.

(1)  Typical land use in LEDC cities

For this section you will need to include a land use model for LEDC cities. Here is an example from Bitesize you could also use. Annotate your image with an accompanying explanation of each land use zone. You should consider why that land use zone might typically be found in that particular location.

(2)   Problems facing LEDC cities

You can use this worksheet to help you create a photo montage of problems facing LEDC cities. It might be helpful to categorise these problems under the social, economic and environmental headings. Below each image write a short piece of explanatory text that identifies what the problem is and why it might be an issue for people in LEDC’s

(3)  Solutions to the problems facing LEDC cities

In this section you must research case studies. Choose two locations and explain how planners are attempting to solve the problems facing LEDC cities. Here is one from the textbook on Brazil, here is another on Cairo.

Other useful sites for reseach…

BBC Special Report on Urbanisation

Save the Children – Virtual tour of life for children in Kroo Bay, Freetown in Sierra Leone

19 cities in the world with 20 million people in the 21st century

Different views and opinions on the rural urban fringe

Hello Y10 – Following our lesson today, rather than completing an exam question on paper, many of you expressed a preference for completing this as a voice thread so…

Here is the link to the voice thread for this question… Add your comments before Friday and we’ll use this at the start of the lesson.

What were the disadvantages of the green revolution?

Hello Y9,

 

Please add the links to your story boards in the comments section to this post.

Remember you can use Pixton or Go Animate to help you complete this task

There was also an interesting series of articles from the BBC on food production and the history of the green revolution which some of you will find useful.

Good luck!

Y9 tourism report

Hello Y9! Click here for the powerpoint which has all the resources on it to help you do your report. 

Enjoy!

Miss Basra

Settlement Hierarchy Newspaper Headlines

Hello Y10! Thought you all did a great job in our first lesson back this term constructing your own settlement hierarchy. After having a quick chat about the idea behind this concept you  can use this newspaper headline generator to create a headline.

Remember I’m looking for a headline and short story about something you would certainly not find happening in a conurbation, or a headline and short story about something you would not find happening in a hamlet.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with, the stranger the better!

Creativity and geographical investigation

Here is the presentation used at the SPC Workshop on creativity and geographical investigation.

Great presentation from Sir Ken Robinson on the importance of creativity within education. Taken from the awesome TED website.

Click here to download the excellent article by Chris Durbin on creativity within geographical education.

Wonderful range of creative thinking tools collected on a wiki.

How to have creative ideas: 62 exercises to develop the mind.

Holistic Understanding in Geographical Education

Slide show for our holistic understanding project presentation at this years GA annual conference. Big thanks to Phil Wood.

Y11 Effects of flooding in Bangladesh

Hello year 11!

After todays lesson on flooding in Bangladesh, your homework task is to answer the following exam question on voicethread. 

Using an example of a flood in an LEDC, describe the effects of the flood on the land and people.

 

Click here to download the cards we used in the lesson

Click here to download a writing frame and mark scheme