Soar Valley Geography

Explain the factors that have led to the decline of steel-making industry in an MEDC that you have studied.

Greetings Y1o! Here is the link for the GIS mission you can complete over half term as part of our work on industrial location. When you come back we will have a quick discussion on your successes, or not! Do feel free to leave some comments over half term.

Thought we had a superb lesson today Y10, what did you think…? I felt like we made some excellent progress. You really impressed me, you are coming on leaps and bounds, so well done!

We will be looking at multinationals next lesson and what advantages and disadvantages they can bring. There is an excellent geography website that has lots of information about a story involving these multinationls that we will examine next lesson. To keep one step ahead of the game, your homework for this week is to investigate what happened in Bhopal, India. Follow this link, and read two versions of the story to familiarise yourself with the different viewpoints on the disaster, guess which one I symapathise with…?

If you don’t like the idea of reading, there is an excellent video from the BBC you can watch online which is fantastic!