Friday 23 October 2009
Wednesday 21 October 2009
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...
Tuesday 20 October 2009
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....
Monday 19 October 2009
Friday 16 October 2009
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!)
Thursday 15 October 2009
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.
Wednesday 14 October 2009
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.
Monday 12 October 2009
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.
Thursday 8 October 2009
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....
Tuesday 6 October 2009
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.
Friday 2 October 2009
Thursday 1 October 2009
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