I’m a little late doing this, this week!
Last Week
Continued with the ‘Induction Unit‘. The ‘When and Who Geography‘ proved to be an interesting baseline assessment of their research and ICT skills.
I continued to develop the Energy Resources unit as I teach it. A big thank you to Kathleen Noreisch who sent me some resources based on ‘peak oil‘ after reading last weeks blog post. The lesson went really well. The resources can be found here – Running Out?.
The Demographic Transition Model and Ageing Populations were covered.
Levées and Floodplains and an MEDC Flooding case study were covered.
Second week of the Induction Programme saw the students hand in their detailed disease case studies and start work on their presentations. They were also informed that they would complete an exam question to finish off the Induction Unit.
Covered slightly less than planned – looking at Poverty and Development Indicators.
Next Week
The final week of the ‘Induction Unit‘ will include ‘Why Geography‘ and then some finishing off.
The Energy Resource continues to develop as I teach the unit. This week the students will look at managing energy demand using Electocity and then look at Biofuels, focusing on the what are they and how they generate press attention.
Youthful Populations and HIV/AIDS.
Flood Management and River Fieldwork. The River Fieldwork work acts as revision for the fluvial processes part of this unit plus add knowledge and understanding necessary to the ‘Alternative to Coursework’ IGCSE Geography exam.
Will finish the Induction Unit by giving presentations and completing an exam question. Peer assessment will be used with the presentations using Google Forms as a way of collating feedback. We will then start the course proper – looking at Population Distribution to start with.
Started the week with an excellent whole class game of Top Trumps. This week we will complete Development Indicators, Patterns of Development and the Rostow Development Model. The Rostow Development Model page of geographyalltheway.com has been redeveloped to include a living graph exercise.
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