2nd Rant - What are you doing for an hour at.....

Earth Hour 2009 - Saturday 28th March 8:30PM

At 8:30 switch off everything electrical in your house. The aim is to put out a big message to Governments who burn excessive amounts of fossil fuels which release CO2 and increase the rate of Global Warming. 75 countries and 538 cities have signed up to the agreement to switch off their lights and non-essential electricity use. To find out more log on to:

http://www.earthhour.org/

Do your bit!!

Mr. Still

Comic Relief!! - Make a difference today!!

Well I have not had a good rant about a topic in a while. So here it goes, Comic Relief is on FRIDAY 13TH MARCH. This is perhaps the biggest single event for raising money that makes an actual difference in the world. I have seen some of the projects myself and they make a real difference to some of the poorest people in the world. Even if it is just buying a red nose you can make a real difference. Buying one red nose can provide enough food to feed a child for 5 days!!

Make a difference. If anyone is doing something to raise money for Comic Relief let me know!!

Mr. Still

More and More people are realising the importance of Geography......

Enough said!

The Geography Challenge - week 2

Where is this place?

If you know, write your name, answer and form on a piece of paper and put it in the plastic wallet in the Geography rooms.

Mr. Still

Young Geographer Photo Competition

Are you a budding Photographer? Do have an eye for a great photo? Can you make the a landscape come alive?

Then why not enter our Young Photographer Competition. If you are out and about and take a great photo using a digital camera about anything Geographical then put it on a USB stick and show Mr. Still or Mr. McCrae.

At the end of each half term we will judge the best three photos. The winners will win prizes.

The photo can be of anything geographical. The wackier the better!

Mr. Still

International Links

As part of developing the Geography department at Healing School we have embarked on various projects with different schools across the globe. The aim is to broaden our students horizons so that they can gain an insight into different cultures and environments. We hope to write letters to different schools, send emails and depending on timezones webcam links.

Hopefully we can talk to schools in Ghana, Zambia, Turkey and India. Hopefully there will be more over the coming weeks.

We are very excited about this project and we hope you students will be to!!

Here are some links to videos about different schools

This is a video about the school in Zambia we will be writing to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTwpIDASWk4&feature=channel

This video is about education in Ghana at one particular school:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSxnvdxlrFI&feature=channel

Mr. Still

This week in the Geography department

Year Seven

We are starting our unit of work based upon the Long Way Down, the big motorbike ride by Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor. We aim to follow their journey down through Africa and look at a whole range of issues relating to Africa. Some of the topics involve Water, Aids and Tourism.

Year eight

See later post

Year nine

We move on from Globalisation to look at how industry has changed over the past 3o years in this country. Through deindustrialisation in the UK to how the British Government has tried to encourage new businesses to settle in this country.

Year ten

We have a revision lesson on Tuesday before our end of unit test on Hazards on Thursdays lesson. Powerpoints for revsion can be found at the link below:

http://healingschoolgeographydepartment.synthasite.com/gcse---tectonics.php

Year eleven

We have one more lesson on managing resources. Then a revison lesson and the test after that. We will then start revision lessons. I am glad that so many of you are coming to the revision sessions as hopefully they will help you achieve the grade you are capabel of.

Mr. Still

Fling the teacher - tectonics

Mr. Still has created fling the teacher based upon Tectonic hazards:

Follow the link below (make sure you have flash):

http://healingschoolgeographydepartment.synthasite.com/risky-world.php

Enjoy!

Revision sessions

Year 11
Revsion sessions have started already. You have already MISSED ONE. They are Thursday after school for about an hour. Also there are short lunchtime seesions on Thursday lunchtimes for those of you who cant make after school or if you need help in one specific area.

All revison materials as used in the revisions will be placed on the website. Also practice exam questions will go up soon.

Year 8
A revision powerpoint is available to help you prepare for your end of unit test.

http://healingschoolgeographydepartment.synthasite.com/risky-world.php

Year 7
Revsion powerpoints are available to help you prepare for your end of unit test.

http://healingschoolgeographydepartment.synthasite.com/year-7.php

website address:

http://healingschoolgeographydepartment.synthasite.com/

Mr. Still

The Geography Challenge - week 1

Where is this place?


















Write your answer on a piece of paper including your name and form. Place it in one of the plastic wallets in one of the Geography classrooms.

Mr. Still

This week in the Geography Department

There some quite exicitng developments this week:


1. The lauch of the Geography Challenge

A prize will be given out each week to the winner selected at random from all the correct answers who can guess the location of the photograph. In Mr. Still and Mr. McCrae's classrooms will be a plastic wallet where you can place your answer.


2. The launch of weathering recording

A weather station hopefully will be placed in the school grounds and we will select a couple or either year 7 or year 8 at random to collect and read data for us. This means that over the course of the year we can record the data and year 8 can use it for part of their work later in the year.


Year 7

A whole variety of different lessons, some of you are teaching each other and yourselves. Others of you are performing presentations or designing posters. Advance notice: your end of unit exam on Map Skills and Settlement will be in the last week of the half term.


Year 8

We are approaching the end of the tectonic hazard unit and are going to move on and look at another kind of hazard: terrorism. Advance notice: your end of unit exam on Italy and Hazards will be in the last week of the half term.

Year 9
We continue with our look at TNCs and Globalisation. We study the advantages and disadvantages of TNCs for the host country. We will also study the influence of ICT and the spread of call centres across the globe.

Year 10
We continue to look at tectonic hazards in LEDC's and MEDC's and some of the differences in repsonses to them.

Year 11
The final sprint is almost upon us. We start to look at different case studies associated with global travel. We also look at the economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism.