Is the ecotown a good thing for Leicester?

Hello Y7!

From here you can download the powerpoint that contains images you might want to use for your newspaper article.

There are also some useful links below…

What is an ecotown?

What will the ecotown be like?

Who is against the ecotown?

Good luck!

Your Eco town design

Hello Y7!

Today we looked at what it was that planners hope Leicester’s Ecotown will have.

Your homework task is to design a logo that helps you to remember what these features of an ecotown are. You can use the example below to help you. Can you think of anything you think the planners might have missed?

You can also download the cards we used in the lesson here.

If you would like to find out more about the planned Ecotown for Leicester, click this link.

Rushey Mead and your own geographical imagination

Hello Y7!

To help you to comlete your task on how your geographical imagination of Rushey Mead has changed, you can use the following links to help you.

Land use map

Census worksheet

Assessment task worksheet

What do you wish for?

Click here to take the survey

How are peoples’ wishes different? Do they change depending on where you live in the country? Does age or gender matter? What do you want? What would you change? What is acceptable and what is unacceptable? 

A team of geographers aim to find some basic patterns to show what people dream for and where. It will also discover what you think is most unacceptable in life and if some parts of the country think that kissing in public is more acceptable than others….

You must be in Britain and in KS3 (Years 7, 8 or 9) to take part in this research. The data collected will end up playing a part on some of your geography lessons!

Click here to take the survey

Y7 Maria Cursi

Hello Y7! Your newspaper report on the Maria Cursi Favela needs to be completed in neat for homework. Remember you can set your work out in the following way…

(1) Headline

(2) What is this story about?

(3) What is the history of the favela?

(4) What is the government view?

(5) What is the residents view?

(6) Conclusion – What do you think the future will hold?

 Download the worksheet here

Rushey Mead presentation

Here are a few useful links to help you with your group presentation…

Ward statistics on Rushey Mead - These are the ones we used in class

Images of Rushey Mead - These are the pictures of Rushey Mead we used at the start of the topic

Slide share - This website might help you store your presentation so you can all see it over the half term

Drawing a shape in Google Maps

Hello Y7! It is your job to have a go at drawing a shape around your local area using Google maps.
Click on this link to download a guide to help you draw the shape.

My Favourite Place

Hello Y7! Some people have emailed me about your first homework task so I thought I would stick a little reminder on the blog.

In lessons so far we have been looking at what geography is actually about. In a simple way, geography is the study of the Earth’s surface and its people. Some people find it helpful to split the subject into two parts, human and physical geography.

Physical geography is about the natural world. These are the natural things in the world that people have no control over. So that could be everything from mountains to rivers and lots more in between!

Human geography is about the things in the world that people have created. That could be
everything from the places we live to the money we use to buy goods.

The world around us all is a mixture of both human and physical geography. When you look out a window you can see some things that are natural (physical geography) and some things people have put there by people (human geography). Soon, we will look at how human and physical geography are linked together.

Your job is to write about the physical and human geography in a place that is important to you. You can download the help sheet by clicking this link.

You can always email me what you have done and I’ll check over it before it is due in to see if you are heading in the right direction.

Responding to a Hurricane

Following the lesson on how different groups responded to hurricane Katrina, now is your chance to see how you would cope with the disaster. Will you make the right decisions?

Your homework task is to play this online simulation game. It is really easy to use, all you have to do is to choose what you think are the best decisions based on the information you have. Let us all know how you get on by leaving comments on this post.

Google Earth update and the Blue Marble

If you have not got Google Earth on your home PC, you seriously need to get it in your life! In the past the images of Leicester were not very good. Thankfully the good people at Google have updated their images and Leicester looks much better!

While we were looking at the use of satellite images to predict the weather, many of you wanted the link to Blue Marble’s live cloud layer… here it is!