Year 10 work: Tuesday 22nd November PAN

Work for Period 4 and 5 (Y10 Tuesday 22nd November)

Task: You have two hours to complete all the case-study information on flooding. You should have already started this with some work on Boscastle a few lessons back.

Please complete the following on word documents (but also add images, maps etc) and save in your 'geography' folder:

-Information on 3 flooding case-studies: Boscastle, Bangladesh and 1 recent UK Flood (2007-2011)

-Split each case-study into the following sections- Location/ Causes (human and physical)/ Impacts of the flood/ The Responses (solutions) to flooding used.

-make each case-study short and snappy with lot's of facts and figures

-Use the internet to research the floods as well as pages 88-91 of the textbook

-This will be printed off next time we are in U10

Good Luck

Mr Atkinson -at home with a lemsip :(

If you have your headphones then watch these videos from a few years back for inspiration! The first one is very factual whilst the second is more entertaining...click here for videos

NB. The third case-study of a recent UK Flood can be any flood in the UK from 2007. Recent events are the Cumbrian floods around Cockermouth and Workington in 2009, flooding in the Summer of 2007 in all of the UK but especially in Yorkshire and Oxfordshire, due to record rainfall and more flooding in Cornwall in 2010...

What number are you?

Excellent website where you can find out about how you fit in with the demographics of the world population on the BBC: click here.

Tourism in the UK

Cities: London

Coasts/ City : Brighton

Coasts: Weston-Super-Mare

Mountains: Lake District

Landslide in Japan

Although titled as 'Californian Landslide' this event took place in Japan. A great example that shows the potentially devastating effect of landslides.
What factors could turn a landslide like this into a socio-economic disaster?

Aberfan disaster 1966

Mass Movements: Inducing a rockfall

This footage from Norway shows a helicopter inducing a rockfall. It shows how devastating a rockfall could be on humans (look at the net at the end). Thanks to Todd Hale in Y13

Year 9 Development work

Class 9C1 PAN period 5 Friday 23rd September

Instructions for the lesson:
-Complete the table from last lesson researching the development indicators for the seven countries (e.g. Life expectancy, Infant mortality...)
-Using Microsoft word, produce a 400 word report comparing the development of any two countries.
Choose two contrasting countries, perhaps and MEDC and an LEDC and write a report about the level of development
-Include images, tables and charts

To be completed for next lesson on Wednesday 29th September 2011. Please print out or email to pan

We are back!!

Good news. The blog has been resurrected and will be part of the new Knutsford High School Frog web-page. Look out for news and updates on all things geographical, as well as the setting of work and case-study information

Haiti earthquake caused by a 'new fault'

The January earthquake in Haiti which claimed more than 200000 lives and left over 1.5 million homeless was caused by a previously unknown fault line, scientists have reported. (BBC Report)