Entries categorized as 'Year 7'
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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!
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Categories: Living Geography · Year 7 · Year 8 · Year 9
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
Categories: Year 7 · urban planet
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
Categories: My place · Year 7
Categories: My place · Year 7
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.
Categories: Year 7
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.
Categories: Weather and climate · Year 7
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!
Categories: General · Year 7
Hello Y7! The concept maps you have drawn about how weather might be linked to topics we have studied so far this year were really impressive. Being able to explain the links between topics is the sign of a good geographer, so well done!
This week we continued our investigations into weather and one of the questions we wanted to answer was, how do clouds form? For homework this week, visit the Cloud Appreciation Society website and look at the various photographs of cloud look-a-likes.
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Categories: Weather and climate · Year 7
Hello Y7! We had a good lesson today on how we are going to address the problems of traffic in urban areas. We all thought that the answer will lie in restricting private car usage rather than making improvements to cope with an increasing number of cars.
In London, they have designed a system which aims to restrict private car use in the central part of the city. This scheme has many advantages, but also some disadvantages. Next lesson we are going to have a full class discussion on what the advantages and disadvantages are. Read the following sites carefuly and make some notes on the follwoing…
(1) What is good about the congestion charge?
(2) What is bad about it?
(3) Would it work in Leicester now?
(4) Will we need one in Leicester after the city centre gets redeveloped?
Wikipedia a detailed introduction to congetstion charging
A BBC site that gives an overveiw of recent changes
Categories: Transport · Year 7
