I am continuing to do some major maintenance on geographyalltheway.com -- so it may be worth checking any bookmarks you have to ensure they work before a lesson. Otherwise head for the home page and work you way through the menus. geographyalltheway.com is almost 4 years old now!
Year 8 this week will be focusing upon ‘Are you prepared for the big one?’ -- looking at tectonic hazard management. This will be mainly building design this week. I have purchased all the necessary materials to build a shake table so sugar cube buildings will be included at some point. I will post more about this as it progresses.
Year 10 will be continuing to look at coastal landform after last week’s ‘I-Spy at the Seaside‘. This will involve some stop animation (hence the YouTube clip at the top of this post) either in with Play-Doh or maybe something in the style of the videos produced by the Common Craft show.
The competition is open to everybody – the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.
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 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.
