So this is the second ‘Last Week > Next Week’ post. The last one is here.
Last Week
Year 7 Geography
The new Year 7s have had a positive start. They are all currently deciding upon at least 8 places that are important for them as part of ‘Where Geography?‘.
Year 9 Geography
Again a positive start – hitting the floor running. The revision of Energy Resources went well. I have really tried to focus their presentations with the skills of giving presentations and constructing effective slides. This video clip has helped discussions:
Life After Death by PowerPoint
Year 10 IGCSE Geography
Having just eight students in this group this year means I have the ability to really focus upon each student. I went straight into the Population Structure unit and the atmosphere has been very productive.
Year 11 IGCSE Geography
Trying to get the River Processes unit finished. Two sections completed as planned.
Year 12 IB Geography
Induction unit has progressed with a couple of hiccups due to the network firewall etc. All students now using delicious to help then research a disease for their case studies.
Year 13 IB Geography
A steady start to the finial section of the Core – Development. Some really interesting discussions about what development is and global disparities in wealth when looking at the Millennium Development Goals.
Next Week
Year 7 Geography
Will be using a lesson to complete their ‘Where Geography‘ Google Earth Tours and then a lesson looking at ‘When and Who Geography‘ and the research skills associated with the set tasks.
Year 9 Geography
One lesson will be spent watching the student’s Energy Resource presentations. I will be using ClassTools.net’s excellent Random Name Picker to select the order of the students. I will also be uploading the presentations to slideshare.net for feedback. The second lesson of the week will look at Peak Oil and the ‘running out’ of fossil fuels. This lesson is still under-development!
Year 10 IGCSE Geography
We will be looking at the Demographic Transition Model and then I haven’t decided whether to do ‘Jelly Baby Geography‘ now or at the end of the unit as revision. If we don’t have any Jelly Baby or Smarties based fun we will be looking at Ageing Populations.
Year 11 IGCSE Geography
We are still looking at the Lower Course of the river. Levées and Floodplains and a MEDC Flooding case study this week. Students have completed a LEDC Flooding case study as their summer work.
Year 12 IB Geography
The Induction unit continues with the students having their disease case studies completed by the end of the week. I will also add some skills associated with organising their tasks and time – the use of RSS feeds, Remember the Milk, Google Alerts etc – this will require the students to have Google accounts.
Year 13 IB Geography
Poverty, Development Indicators and maybe even a start on Patterns in Development will mean a busy week for Year 13. They are also doing a timed exam question – just a single 10 mark question – so about 23 to 25 minutes of writing during Wednesday’s lesson. They will do one of these every fortnight – with me telling them the area of the course the question will be taken from a week before.
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