Noel Jenkins @ Court Fields

Sustainable house game

build the house

Check how well your building is designed here:

Design Quality Analyzer

The instructions for the project are here

You’ll need to sign in with your Juicy Geography user name and password.

The Year 10 homework is to write up the mystery activity about Mohit, the construction worker in Dubai.

Here is the slideshow with the instructions:

The cards for the Mystery Activity are here: Mohit Mystery

Syllabus summary for settlement This topic is particularly dependent on case studies.

Revision websites:

Bitesize Good for basic revison

Bitesize audio There’s one relevant podcast here
S-cool Settlement notes Another good set of basic revision notes

Google Earth:
Google Earth placemarks of London trip as well as pictures and a map

Flashcards:
Download Flash cards from GeoBytes

Case Studies:
Don’t forget Brick Lane as an example of an inner city. Photos here to remind you.
Plymouth: A Vision For Plymouth is a really good case study of CBD regeneration.
Docklands case study from GeoBytes
We looked at Rio de Janiero when we studied shanty towns. The Programa Favela-Barrio case study was really important.
There are links to some of the other places we studied, including Dubai and Cairo on my settlement page.

A range of Geography revison “audiobite” podcasts can be found at the Bitesize site

click to visit

At the moment the relevant topics include rivers, coasts agriculture and development. The question is; would you use them for revison?

This is the web site that I showed in the lesson about the origin of place names.

 If you came on the London field trip you should recognise this place. Click the image to view a 3D panoramic image of the City of London.

Via Digital Urban

There’s a panorama of the South Bank here, another of the places we visited on the field trip.

This is the BBC news article about Cairo’s City of the Dead we looked at in the lesson. It might be useful for the homework, along with this article from Geography in the News about shanty town improvements in Rio de Janiero.