Blood Diamonds - Google Earth

I blogged about this a long time ago and thought I might talk about The Diamond Trade. I will use it with Year 7 this week.

See the link below for lesson ideas from Noel Jenkins

Juicy Geography

Mr. Still

Past exam questions

The link below has all the past papers for the last three years available for download. You can also download the mark schemes.

I am more than happy to mark any questions you answer.

Exam paper link

Mr. Still

Revsion Sessions - Easter

Make sure you bring your consent forms back this week for Easter revision sessions.

Year 11 - Monday 12th and Wednesday 14th April - 9am-12

Year 10 - Tuesday 13th April - 9am-12

Mr. Still

What's on this week.....

Year 11

The majority of classes will start managing resources the final topic of your GCSE. A letter will
also be given out this week to invite you to revision sessions starting in February. Coursework sessions Monday and Thursday after school will continue as normal from this week.

Year 10

We continue with our revision based for your mock exam

Year 9

You have your end of unit test this week.

Year 8

It is all about earthquakes and we look at what happened in Haiti.

Year 7

We look at Las Vegas and Dubai this week.

Mr. Still

It's now or never, I ain't going to live forever...

I think these words are very apt for year 11. You have 6 and 1/2 months till your proper GCSE exams.

You may not do as much revision for the mocks but they are very important for two main reasons:

1. They will influence which tier of examination you will be entered for - either higher or foundation
2. The revision you do now will help you later on with the real exams

Tomorrow you will get a pack of information talking about what you need to know, how to revise and answer one or two questions.

Make sure you use the online textbook website:

http://onlinegeography.wikispaces.com/

Revise...

The 100th post

Well finally made it the 100th post!!

What is happening this week and next week in the Geography department:

Year 7:
It is all about Landscape in a box!! We have had some fantastic ones in already. We will take pictures of each one and the pictures will be made into video of the whole entire year!!

Year 8:
Indian food tasting and the start of the volcanoes and earthquakes topic. This will also include the singing of the world's a grapefruit!!

Year 9
The Newcaslte Urban Regeneration adverts are in full swing and will be recorded using a video camera. There are some fantastic ideas such as big brother, I'm a celeb and a horror movie. I look forwsrd to seeing their work.

Year 10
We continue with our look at sustainable cities and have a go at designing our own sustainable cities. We also look at Cairo and Eco-towns as well.

Year 11
Next week you start your mock exams and I wish each of you all the best with them.

Mr. Still

Geocube and Wallwisher

If you read an earlier blog post you will have seen me talk about Geocube. Well I tried it out with some students today and they loved it. I let them spend ten minutes exploring the site and the different topics.

I then asked the students to create a small powerpoint no more than 4 slides on a topic of their choice (what they can create here is up to them I just chose to play it safe).

After this I asked them to go to:

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/geogrocks

The above website acts as a giant wall where students can 'stick' a post-it to it. I decided to ask the students to write down 3 pieces of information they have learnt from Geocube. Soon we had over 100 posts on the wall.

The students really liked the fact they could see on their computer but also on the whiteboard what they had learnt.

Below is a screen shot of the wall after I tidied it after the lesson:

I asked the class for homework to research 3 facts about volcanoes and earthquakes as this is our next topic and include pictures and possibly video links.

I think this will make an excellent start to the lesson!!

Mr. Still