geogalot http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot geographyalltheway.com updates and my ICT in Geography education ramblings! Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:58:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en 2138454http://www.feedburner.com Where in the World? Week 95 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/geogalot/~3/412471963/ http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/10/06/where-in-the-world-week-95/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:58:33 +0000 Richard Allaway http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/?p=167

Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image enter the competition!

The competition is open to everybody - the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.

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Just for information really - I used to have a moodle installation on geographyalltheway.com.  I have closed it down and have moved it to istgeography.net - my school geography department website.

I will hopefully be developing it’s content later in the academic year.

Image Source

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Again I’m a little late in getting this post sorted.  I didn’t manage to write this post last week which was a little disappointment.  Is was mainly due to me being rather tired and behind after an excellent weekend spent trekking in the Pyrenees - more about that here.

Last Week

Year 7 Geography

Students have finished the What is Geography? unit and have started the Using Maps and Atlases unit by looking at Map Projections.

Year 9 Geography

Students have covered biofuels and locating a wind farm - which uses a geographyalltheway.com worksheet with a GIS simulation produced by Ordnance Survey.

Year 10 IGCSE Geography

Students have continued to work positively through the Population Change section.  They have looked at the Impact of HIV/AIDS and the Population vs Resources debate.

Year 11 IGCSE Geography

Students have finished the River Processes section and completed an IGCSE style assessment using past questions.

Year 12 IB Geography

Students have been studying Population Distribution and Population Fertility.

Year 13 IB Geography

Students have been looking at Contrasting Levels of Development by comparing the development of Norway and Niger.  Then they started the Sustainable Development section.

Next Week

Year 7 Geography

Students will cover Longitude and Latitude and hopefully progress onto Atlas Skills.

Year 9 Geography

Students will prepare for ‘The Great Wind Farm Debate‘ - using the information provided by Talking Heads, Google Earth overlays and delicious bookmarks.

Year 10 IGCSE Geography

Students will study Population Policies.

Year 11 IGCSE Geography

Students will start the Marine Processes / Coast unit of the course by looking at Wave Processes and Coastal Landforms.

Year 12 IB Geography

Students will finish the Population Fertility section by looking at Spatial Patterns and then start the Population Mortality section.

Year 13 IB Geography

Students will be look at Sustainable Development at various scales - Local, National and International.

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During Curriculum Extension activities today I had my group drawing with the Geography Departments GPS units.  This was the best of the bunch - produced by a boy in Year 8 - which I thought was great!

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I have been playing with my GPS and the school’s new GPS-USB cable, Google Earth and the GPS Visualizer website.  The image above and the .kmz file below shows our descent from Refuge du Rulhe which I wrote about here.  A mixture of outdoor adventure and gadgets - perfect!

rulhe_sunday

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Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image enter the competition!

The competition is open to everybody - the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.

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Image taken from Alan Parkinson’s geoblogs Flickr account.

Nice to see elements of geographyalltheway.com being discussed.  The Mystery Ghost Ship - a mystery activity based around the topic of migration, can be found here.

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All the photos below are from my flickr account.  A few more can be seen on flickr.

I hope to add a Google Earth file of the route over the next couple of days.

Panorama from just east of Refuge du Rulhe

Leaving the Refuge the next morning

Crête des Isards with Pic de Rulhe behind

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Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image enter the competition!

The competition is open to everybody - the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.

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The Chemical Brothers ran a competition to use Google Earth to produce a video for their latest single.  Does this make geography cool?

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