Soar Valley Geography

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.

Mr Berry passed these photo’s of the college from above for us to use in geography. What do you think? If you are thinking about adding SVC to your google maps, you can download some of the photos here.

from animoto.com posted with vodpod

Hello Y9! Here is the mind map I showed you at the end of the lesson to help you complete the mind map for this topic.

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Here is the Tourism assessment sheet to help you set out your work and get an idea for what you need to do for each level. There are some really helpful weblinks on there so do have a look!  

It might be helpful to post weblinks or pose questions on the blog rather than emailing me directly as others might benefit from seeing what you ask. Good luck!

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

The geography@work Student Award for Geography Filmmaking
It’s competition time for Year 9 students!

I found out about this the other day and think we should enter. The task is to make a 60 second film on the theme ‘Do you really know where you live?’ A rather cheeky selection of prizes is on offer, and could be really cool to make. Your film may even end up being shown in a cinema, Nice! The instructions for entering are here, come and see Mr Renshaw if you fancy submitting a video.

Everyone should play this game. Improve your literacy and donate rice. It is a winning formula! See what vocabulary level you can reach!

Click this link to play the game

Hello Y9! Here are a few bits and pieces to download to help you put together your presentation.

car ownership Changing fashions  Holidays taken  Destinations number of holidays pie chart

What level is your report sheet

For those of you looking to identify additional questions and create you own graphs, these websites might be of use…

http://www.world-tourism.org/ 

http://www.staruk.com/

http://www.abta.com/

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.

Greetings Y11! - Thanks for all your coursework projects. It’s really nice to see what you have done and also to be able to do something others than Westcotes! Here is a link to the task sheet for your photo montage .

Hello Y11! Now that we have all completed our rather fantastic coursework projects, we can begin to get back into the topics we left behind before the summer!

 Each Wednesday evening from now until your exam you are more than welcome to attend an evening session  where I will help firm up the topics we have covered with you. If there was anything we covered that you we not happy with, do come along Here is a link to the Wednesday evening revision sessions timetable so you know what to expect and when.