Soar Valley Geography

Hello Y10! Click this link to download the resource sheet that Mr Dada has produced to help you to complete your research over the next few weeks. If you find anything else out there that might be useful, please add it to the post in the comments section.  

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.

After our recent work on deforestation… some of you wanted the link to this game. Click here to launch.

After the exercise in class today where you we worked in groups to create a diagram of the soil profile in a coniferous forest, we wanted to know the answers to the following questions…

(1) What is a hard pan?

(2) Why do pine needles take so long to decay?

(3) What is leaching?

(4) What is found in the A+B horizons?

(5) What are redeposited clays?

(6) What is humus? 

So the homework is easy, using the sheet provided in class - stick it in your book and answer the questions your not sure about. Next lesson we’ll have a look at the kind of thing your likely to get in the exam on this part of the topic.

Hello Y10! Following our lesson today on exam practice, your homework for today is to write up your answer to the fold mountain mystery using geographical terminology.

“Why did Alfred find fossilised sea creatures high up in the Alps?”

You can download the cards by clicking this link alps_mystery.doc Big thanks to Laura Davidson who created this mystery. We all thought it was great!

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!