Maintaining geographyalltheway.com is a bit like painting the Forth Rail Bridge – when I get to one end of the site I have to start again at the other. I’m focusing my efforts over the next week or so on a big ’site check-up’ – checking that links, videos and resources work. If you spot any issues - please get in contact. I have already done the GCSE/IGCSE section and will be starting the KS3 section after I finish writing this post.
Next week should have a good start. Monday is a ‘Journee Pedagogique’ (an INSET day) and I’m off with a number of colleagues on a ‘Mountain Safety and Awareness for Ski Day Supervisors’ course to Glacier 3000. A day skiing, on an INSET day, in Novermber – naughty!
Year 8 students are studying Plate Tectonics and will continue to do so until near the end of term. This week we will focus on looking at ‘Volcanoes – Where in the World?‘ and ‘Are all Volcanoes the same?‘.
Year 9 students are studying the French Revolution. This is my first experience as working as a ‘Humanities Teacher’ and I am enjoying it! I am collecting my thoughts and resources on a wiki page and I am using the excellent activehistory.co.uk as a basis of the programme.
Year 10 students have just started a unit on Coasts. We have looked at why coastal areas are important (I do like to live beside the seaside!) and are starting to look at Coastal Processes. This week we should cover transportation, deposition and start to look at how coastal processes combine to create various coastal landforms.
I teach Year 12 students the Higher Level components of the ‘new’ IB Geography syllabus. I have started with their additional (third) Optional Theme – Hazards and Disasters – Risk Assessment and Response. This week we will be looking at Drought case studies.
Year 13 students are working hard to complete the IB Geography course. This week we miss a lesson for the INSET day – the remaining lesson we will revise Rostow’s Model and start to look at Sustainable Development. We will return to look at ‘Countries at Different Levels of Development‘ when we are next in the ICT suite.
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