Noel Jenkins @ Court Fields

Dress your person using this website

download the worksheet

You have to write a comment about the weather in the speech bubble, and dress the person appropriately. Add labels to describe your designs. The catwalk show is on Friday!

Links for today’s lesson:

PLEASE don’t open the sites until told to! 

QTVR panorama (this might not work!!)

Learn your speleothems

Vandalized caves

CCC 

Cave bird nest 

Recipe

Cave birds 

Deadly delicacy 

Congratualtions to Ashleigh who wins the memory stick. I liked these organic looking fluvial features in South Africa, and in particular how she got the background colour of the poster to match the colour of the river.Very clever!

The resources for today’s lesson:

Dress a caver

Inglesport

Titan images

Titan map

Guide to cave 

BBC film 

If you’ve tried to use Google Earth to find your house in Wellington and been disappointed, have another look now!

Yay!

Other exciting news is that thanks to a generous donation by 3d connexion, we have a class set of Space Navigators to fly around in Google Earth. Come along to D3 and have a go!

We’ll be using them in lessons, but don’t forget the Artwork Earth competition as well.

This competition is open to everyone from Year 7 to 9. All you have to do is find a special place on the Earth, capture a picture and add a suitable caption. The idea is to visualize the Earth as a pice of art. Here’s an example:

There will be prizes for the best ones. I’m looking for originality, creativity, inspiration and a good choice of words to accompany the image. I’ll publish the best ones as well. To get going, do the following:

How to:

1. Start Google Earth, or use this site: NASA Our Earth as Art
2. Browse around until you find a spectacular place.
3. Make a screenshot. (Cntrl + Print Screen)
4. Crop the image if necessary.
5. Upload the image to the Flickr Motivator tool.
6. Add a suitable title and (optional) caption.
7. Download the finished image to your computer.
8. Email it to me at: NJenkins@educ.somerset.gov.uk
   

Some helpful resources:
Download Artwork Earth Google Earth placemarks (you need Google Earth)

See these places on a Google Map

The original teaching idea comes from this web site.
Can you do better than this?

I’m not sure I could. However there will be a prize for the best entry.

Closing date for entries to be emailed to me: 5th July

Here’s some resources to add to your own photos, notes, sketches and mobile phone videos.

Photos:
Because I love you, I’ve uploaded my photographs to Flickr.

To download them, click the photos, then “All Sizes” There’s now a link to download the picture. There are plenty of other images from previous years on shared documents. (btw, using your own pictures is preferable and can get you extra credit.)

Where did we go?

Here’s a Microsoft Virtual Earth map of the sites. Choose Aerial view to zoom right in. I’m sure you can make use of this web site in your write-up

The Google Earth resource I used with the “amazin” overlays and pictures can be downloaded here (if you have Google Earth obviously)
Other resources:
including links to the Bradshaw Model, information about flooding and the shingle ridge are here. Do ask questions about the coursework via the blog if you like!

syllabus summary tectonics Only one more after this!

Revison websites:
BBC Bitesize on Plate Tectonics

S-cool is probably better for this topic - it mentions fold mountains too. Don’t forget them!

BBC News has nice animations of volcanoes and earthquakes

Flash Cards:
Download these nice flash cards from Geobytes Amazing Mr Chambers has also made some games like this one and this one


Case studies:
Try looking through the entries I’ve made under the Tectonics category.

The Bam earthquake in Iran 2003 was our LEDC example of an earthquake. More info from Geobytes. The Bam earthquake occurred around the same time as a quake in California. A really useful comparison of the two quakes can be found at the RGS site. You might also like to read the Geobytes post on Comparing earthquakes. This is a recurring theme in the exam.

We looked at the volcanic erruptions of Montserrat and Mount St Helens. Geobytes has a great case study on Mt St Helens as well as a number of other excellent revison articles on plate tectonics. We also mentioned Vesuvius and the potential for a major disaster. Vesuvius is a good case study for explaining why people live in areas of tectonic hazard.

syllabus summary for rivers I think you get the idea now!

….. I’ll continue these posts once 5 different members of my year 11 class have posted a comment or question about revison!

Update: Thanks for the comments - obviously the ICT lesson was a bit boring, however I’m glad that I’m helping students that don’t even take GCSE Geography

Revison sites:

BBC Bitesize on rivers There’s some alternative case studies to the ones we studied.

S-cool also has some revison notes - not much help for our syllabus though.

Case studies:
Yangtze floods 1998 You’ll need a case study of a flooding event in an LEDC. This one is great. Make notes under three headings: Causes, Effects, Strategies - then go onto :

Three Gorges Dam If you can’t get this case study into the exam, I’ll be suprised! Hard engineering doesn’t get any harder!

Boscastle is a good case study of a flood in an MEDC. Revise the causes and effects here. I’ve edited some video footage of the flood.
The Environment Agency, togther with the council, are putting together a flood prevention plan. In the short term this has involved clearing out the harbour, rebuilding the river walls and constructing a new channel for the river Jordan. Riparian management is being used to remove potential obstructions from the channels of the rivers Valency and Jordan.

There is discussion about rebuilding the bridge in the centre of the village, and re-siting of the carpark, which is located on the flood plain. you can download a copy of the plans here (big download - do it in school!) Essentially, the long term plans include widening and deepening the river and removing any potential obstructions from the river when it floods again.

Year 8 local enquiry We have started our Personal Geographies project. The wiki is here: