MERRY CHRISTMAS

To celebrate here is a picture of some snow in Platt Fields Park, Manchester. Enjoy your holidays and merry christmas from KHS.

Year 12 River Basin Management

Here is the mind-map from the revision session on Tuesday night. Click on the image to enlarge it.

The question on management will probably ask you to evaluate the management techniques, and to consider how the socio-economic needs can be managed in harmony with the environmental needs.

Year 12 Mock Exam

Thursday 17th December 2009, Period 2

This will be in preparation for the exam on Friday January 15th 2010 and is on the whole of Fluvial Environments and Coastal Environments. Happy Revision.

F761 Human Attractions: Rivers Revision Mind map

A photograph of the mind-map produced in the AS revision session on Wednesday. This shows the human uses and developments of two river basins: The Thames and The Mekong.

Remember, the emphasis for this type of question will be on 'COMPARISON' or 'CONFLICT'

Click on the image to enlarge.

AS Exam

The date for the AS Module F761 is Friday 15th January at 9.00am. This is also the time for any re-sit examinations. Remember, the revision sessions continue on Tuesday and Wednesday, this week looking at Human Development in Coasts and River environments.

Another Atkinson Presentation...

Glaciation: Features in the French Alps

Mr Atkinson fills his boots in a geographers playground

F763 Global Issues: Plate Tectonic Links

The syllabus requires that you study earthquakes and volcanoes to illustrate the following:

• The tectonic pocesses involved in creating hazards
• The scale and types of Impacts (SEEC Formula)
• Primary (destruction, casualties, landslides, fires) and secondary impacts (disease, infra-structure problems, resettlement)
• The human response in both the short term (emergency response) and long term (planning and management)

The following links will be updated to help you in your research. Keep checking the comments for any updates or extra information:

Geo-resources Excellent collection of websites with a short description of each.
USGS Volcanoes Latest updates on Current US Volcanoes, including webcams)
Volcano Photos Images and information on volcanoes around the world
MTU Volcanoes Includes volcanic mitigation
USGS Earthquake Hazards Information on the latest earthquakes
British Earthquakes
San Francisco Preperation How the American city prepares the population to survive a 'quake
San Francisco 1989

UK Flooding

BBC Report: Cockermouth. Over 200 people in the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth had to be rescued due to flooding caused by the heavy rains. Read the report from the BBC to see the rescue effort.

UK Extreme weather

Year 8: Use the following web-links to make your report/presentation:

UK Weather Statistics

Types of severe weather

Pictures of Extreme UK weather

Birmingham Tornado

Snowfall Extremes

Britain's worst storms

Bangladesh Flooding

Year 12: Try these links for helping to add detail to your Bangladesh Report:

-Environment Statistics

-Bangladesh Disaster Statistics

Llandudno 2009

A bit late but here are a few pictures from the Llandudno trip on Friday 11th September. Fond memories

Year 13 Flood Mitigation

The following websites are to be used for the task set in Monday's lesson: prepare an information sheet on the short-term and long-term responses to Flooding.

www.fema.gov.hazards/floods

www.usgs.gov.hazards/floods (download the file)

Soft-engineering slideshow

UK Environment Agency (v.good, spend some time to search this site, especially 'what we're doing section')

Spend as much time on short-term responses as long-term responses. The UK environment agency has some good information on hard engineering programs. Feel free to expand your research to other websites.

Earthquake Preperation

Year 10 students present their preparing the community schemes....

KHS Geography has 50 members!

Congratulations. Chocolate all-round....

Pakistan Earthquake. Your President speaks...

Fill your boots...

The UK National Statistics Website (link here) is an excellent resource for all budding geographers. It includes lots of government statistics from life expectancy to prison populations to food consumption. It will be useful for Y12 students after the January Modules and for Y13 with all of MKT's work. Now off you go...

The sound of the police...

The new Greater Manchester Police (GMP) website is a geographers dream (link). It features up to date crime statistics for all of Greater Manchester using an interactive map. Click on an area and a detailed mapping of recent crimes is possible. There is also a description of all recent criminal activity in the selected area. Trends can be identified such as burglary or even gang-related activities can be linked to certain locations. This can be used for secondary data on a Human A-Level investigation. Year 13's I see a project coming your way sometime soon....

Year 12 Essay

You decide. Use the poll on the top right...

Yellowstone Supervolcano

For Year 1o's. The following link 'YellowStone Volcano' is an interactive guide to the supervolcano in the Yellowstone National Park in the USA. If this volcano ever erupts then the results could be catastrophic!!!

This youtube video covers Yellowstone and suggests what might happen if it ever erupts (thanks to George for this!)

Atkinson Productions presents....

A short video to illustrate the features of the River Dane. Year 13 pupils visited the river on Tuesday 13th October as part of their A-Level course. They have to now produce a geographical enquiry including aims, a risk-assessment, hypotheses and methods.

11 PAN METHODOLOGY

The deadline for the Methodology is Thursday 15th October 2009. It must be handed in to PAN in the geography office.

Section A has been marked and is ready for collection.

River Dane Visit

Tuesday weather

Looking Good!!!!

• Sunny Intervals
• Max: 13°C
• Sunrise: 07:33

The Bradshaw Model

The model is used to show how channel variables change downstream. Pupils in Year 13 may carry out a geographical investigation on rivers using the model. On Tuesday we will be going go the River Dane to plan a geographical fieldtrip.

The Upper Course of a River

A quality set of AS presentations on the Upper Course of a river. Jessica and Mhairi explain lots of processes as well as features, and talk about channel shape in detail (with a few giggles). Grace and Rachel cover the features with a well structured presentation including description, explanation and examples of each feature. Quality ladies....

Restless Earth in the news

(above) The Samoan Tsunami on the 29th September triggered by an earthquake in the Pacific ocean kiled at least 36 people...

(above) Damage caused by the Earthquake in Indonesia on 1st October measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale. The 'quake has killed at least 1100 people and caused millions of pounds worth of damage. The earthquake brought down hospitals, schools and shopping malls, cut power lines and triggered landslides.

Volcanoes

The Pacific 'Ring of Fire'. This short movie describes this famous volcanic area.

Hjulstrom Curve...give it some respect...

Year 11 Coursework deadlines

11PAN. Section A (Introduction to Llandudno and Urban Models) is due in on Friday October 2nd.

What are the different plate margins?

Year 10 pupils explain the different kinds of plate boundaries...destructive, constructive and conservative margins. This was the first lesson in year 10 and some pupils were a little shy, they will no doubt improve throughout the course.

Remember that you can add comments by clicking on the 'comments' link at the bottom of the post. But be nice.

How (not) to measure Velocity...Anglesey Stylee...

Featuring James Brown, Matthew Eyres and a little yellow duck.

Gorgeous Geography...

Mr Perry (closet geographer?) has found this blog www.gorgeousgeography.wordpress.com. It has now closed with no new updates but has some superb resources. I would like to think that this blog will fill the void left by it's closure (one lives in hope). I have added the hyperlink on the right-hand side. Have a browse, especially year 10 and 11 pupils as the revision powerpoints look good.

Ask Briggs...

Stuck with your work? need inspiration? Then log onto the VLE and use the AskBriggs forum. Jack Briggs in Y13 is an encyclopedia of knowledge and will try to answer your geographical question. If he can't (doubtful) then one of the teaching staff will.

To log onto the VLE you need your username and password. Your Username is always your full name e.g khs_johnsmith. Your password is 'password' unless you have re-set it.

Mind Map Basilicata LandSlide

by Jess Slinger (Y12 Geography Legend). Click on it to enlarge. The mind map shows the causes and effects of the landslide and can be printed once enlarged.

Coursework Club

Every Wednesday until half-term in U34. Come and get help from PAN, MKT and CST with any part of your coursework. Drag your non-geography friends along and they can get on with some work whilst you complete the important stuff...

Llandudno Weather Update

Friday is looking good!

10:00 (Fri)

• Fog
• Temp: 13°C

13:00 (Fri)

• Sunny
• Temp: 16°C

16:00 (Fri)

• Sunny
• Temp: 17°C

Year 13 Mass Movement Websites for research

Sorry not hyperlinked, you will have to type in or copy and paste:

http://landslides.usgs.gov/ (excellent site, use the links and sections at the top)

www.geolsoc.org (The geological society- use the search function)

www.scotland.gov.uk (looks at landslides and impacts on the roads)

www.news.bbc.co.uk (for landslides in the news)

http://geology.about.com/od/naturalhazardsclimate/ig/Landslides (Peter and Tom's powerpoint site)

LLandudno Weather

It is usually nice on our yearly outing to the North Wales coast, but what about this coming Friday?

Weather for Llandudno, UK

Tue 20°C | 9°C Wed 19°C | 8°C Thu 21°C | 7°C Fri 20°C | 7°C

N.B. The Geography Department is in no way responsible for the accuracy of this information so bring your coat.

Search Results

Mapping From Memory

Year 10 winners...Josh, Cameron, Alex and Lawrence. Well Done with this great attempt at drawing a diagram of the structure of the earth from memory. They just beat Jake, Ryan, Aidan and Dave.

From small acorns...

...grows world domination? Steven Hewins became the 10th follower of the blog as its growth mirrors that of an East Asian tiger economy in the late 1990's. Congratulations to the first ten members who will now be known as the 'famous ten' . Two members have profile photos but this behaviour is just worrying. You all win a trademark elbow patch to be worn in the name of geography.

Llandudno Fieldtrip

All Year 11 pupils (11PAN 11CST 11MKT and 11PAN Short-Course) will visit Llandudno on Friday 11th September for their GCSE coursework. Please return the payment and medical form to J. Allen in the Humanities office ASAP.

French Alps

What is better than holiday snaps? Simple...holiday snaps featuring glacial features. The Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice) Glacier in the French Alps and the view across the French and Italian Alps from Mt Blanc.

Podcast of the Year 2008/9

The first and best revision movie, by Rachel and Evie. The girls provide an explanation of the typical features of the upper course.

Arise top geographers

Congratulations to the following Year 10 pupils who have achieved excellent examination results this year:

In no particular order...Josie McIver, Kristian Gill, Chloe Slaney, Zara Ashton, Aaron Norton, Matthew Clayton, Jenny Eadie, Theo Gregory, Millie Parr, Jessica Longmore, Oliver Wright, Callum Thomas, Penny James, Jake Fowler and Peter Gartside.

Well Done all of you...keep it up and lets have some more names added to this list next time!

Also, congratulations to Year 12 students Rachel Millington and Rebecca Grimshaw on yet another victory in group tasks...it is becoming too easy now I think!

First iMovie: Australia

The first of many short movies by pupils. This one was made by Jessica Dytham and Michael Etherington in the Y9 Academy and is on Australia. Some iMovie editing skills are shown, yet the Geography is limited in detail...

It's Landed....

Like a Mr Barber one-liner, timing is everything. With September around the corner the KHS geography blog has finally arrived. What is it for? you may ask...
This blog is for the geography department to share information, resources and support pupils studying geography at Knutsford High School. It is also to highlight excellence by pupils. Expect to see podcasts, powerpoints and discussions about all things geographical.
Need help with your coursework? Worried about Mr Atkinson driving the mini-bus in Anglesey? Need to get something off your chest? We are here to Help. Viva Geography.