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.
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.
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.
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