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What am I teaching this week?

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on November 16, 2009

in Campus des Nations and geographyalltheway.com

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This week’s post is ‘What am I teaching this week?’ rather than ‘What am I teaching next week?’ as I have been a little later writing the post – the wonder of DP report deadlines .

I am in the middle of a major update to geographyalltheway.com so some links you have may be broken. The best advice I can offer is to head for the homepage and work through the menu system until you find what you are after – alternatively contact me if get stuck.

Year 8 continue to look at tectonic hazard management focusing this week upon ‘Drills and Kits‘. I’m predicting some time spent under tables!

Year 9 will finish watching the film ‘Marie-Antoinette’ and writing a Movie Review about it, focusing upon an element of film-making and it’s historical creditability.

Year 10 will turn the images they took while ‘playing’ with play-doh into animations with an audio commentary – see the image above. They will also be having job interviews for the position of a tour guide with ‘Seaside Tours‘.

Year 12 will continue with an overview of hurricanes as a natural hazard. Homework will be a case study of a recent hurricane in a LEDC – probably using Cyclone Nargis. Hurricane Katrina will be used as a MEDC case study next week.

Year 13 are finishing off the Development section of the core looking at International Scale Sustainable Development, Conservation and Resource Substitution.

What am I teaching next week?

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Richard Allaway

on November 8, 2009

in Campus des Nations and geographyalltheway.com

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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 9 students are looking at Marie-Antoinette and then ‘Mid-Term Causes of the French Revolution: War, Economy, Philosophers‘ -- all based upon the excellent resources on activehistory.co.uk.

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.

Year 12 students will be having an overview of hurricanes as a hazard -- spatial extent, prediction, frequency and magnitude. They will also get a homework to produce a case study of a drought in a LEDC.

Year 13 will be looking at ‘Contrasting Levels of Development‘ -- focusing upon Niger and Norway.

What am I teaching next week?

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Richard Allaway

on October 31, 2009

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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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Resources for OCR GCSE Geography B – Coasts

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Richard Allaway

on August 20, 2009

in GCSE / IGCSE Geography, ICT in Geography Education and geographyalltheway.com

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Post number 2 giving focused links for geographyalltheway.com resources listed in the OCR GCSE Geography B ‘Sample Schemes of Works and Lesson Plans’.

Coasts

OCR GCSE Geography B Topic Outline: Introduction to coasts. How are waves formed? What are constructive and destructive waves?

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Marine Processes

OCR GCSE Geography B Topic Outline: How do waves erode the coastline?

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Marine Processes

OCR GCSE Geography B Topic Outline: Erosional features 1: Cliff retreat.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Coastal Landforms

OCR GCSE Geography B Topic Outline: Erosional features 2: Headlands and bays, caves, arches, stacks and stumps.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Coastal Landforms

OCR GCSE Geography B Topic Outline: Transport and deposition – longshore drift.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Marine Processes

OCR GCSE Geography B Topic Outline: Depositional features 1: Spits.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Coastal Landforms

OCR GCSE Geography B Topic Outline: Coastal management strategies.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Hard and Soft Coastal Engineering

OCR GCSE Geography B Topic Outline: Coastal erosion and management case study.

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Coastal Management Case Study – Scarborough, UK

OCR GCSE Geography B Topic Outline: Synoptic Decision making exercise

Suggested geographyalltheway.com Resource: Greetings from Hallsands

'Live' Ship Visualization

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Richard Allaway

on June 21, 2009

in AS / A2 / IB Geography, ICT in Geography Education and Key Stage 3 Geography

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Useful as a starter on transport or Globalization – if you click on the placemarks you can see the where the vessel is registered and it’s destination.

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Panoramic Coastal Defences

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Richard Allaway

on June 20, 2009

in GCSE / IGCSE Geography, ICT in Geography Education and Key Stage 3 Geography

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Sidmouth seafront west in England

Digital Geography guru Noel Jenkins has added a 360° immersing panorama to 360cities.net of Sidmouth Seafront showing the various coastal defences – an excellent starter to a coastal management lesson.

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