Year 10 Period 3

Title: An introduction to Llandudno
-continue with the work we started on Wednesday on the location of Llandudno. Try and use a number of scales of maps and describe each map.
If you finish this, then do an introduction to the geography and history of the town: area. Include pictures, facts, areas, famous people etc etc

Mr A

CBD

On the seventh day God created Manchester.
Excellent timelapse video showing the CBD of Manchester (with thanks to Ed from FCUM AD for finding this)

Llandudno 2012

Please collect your letter for the Llandudno trip from either the Humanities office or the Geography office ASAP. The revised cost is £11.

Llandudno Trip 2012

The year 11 visit to Llandudno will take place on Friday 21st September 2012.
The aim of the visit is to collect data to complete the controlled assessment part of the full course and short course.
The cost is £10 and is payable to JAN in the Humanities office by Friday 14th September 2012

 

Coming Soon to this blog:

A brand spanking new, one off TV show brought to you by geography pupils in Year 9 at Knutsford Academy

This news is so exclusive that the show does not yet have a title, but we did hear this quote from an excited Mr Knott:

"It's going to be great i've heard. Lots of information about earthquake proof bulidings and general advise about how to survive an earthqaake, what you need and some great prizes and interviews. I'm looking forward to the exclusive interview with Alex Mcleish about survival (in the premiership). I just hope that James Davis is featured as much as possible as he really is a top geography geek."

The show is due to be aired on Friday 25th May and will be around 5 minutes long so keep in touch with this blog to see watch this exceptional documentary

Urban Regeneration

An excellent video on urban regeneration featuring Langworthy in Salford. It is not as 'ghetto' as some videos on Langworthy, with no door booting or attacking buildings with television pylons but it is good.

Year 9 Tourism Work Wednesday 7th

Task:

In U10 on a PC, produce a powerpoint presentation on an 'extreme holiday'. An extreme holiday involves going to places that are exciting and often even dangerous; places where people do not often go such as the Sahara or Antarctica.

Try and find travel and accommodation, and describe the scenery and wildlife. Plan some adventurous activities. This work can be done in pairs.

See you all on Friday!

Mr A

Year 11 Work- Wednesday 23rd November

Hi year 11,

Guess what...controlled assessment is over! ...today you are going to start the year 11 course. I will give exercise books out on Friday.

The topic is Tourism and today is a very straight forward task:

-On Microsoft Word

-Produce a definition of the word 'tourism'

-Research and produce a fact-file for 3 different types of tourist area's

-Include as many facts and figures as possible

-Please locate each area

-Explain why each area is a popular tourist destination

e.g. you could do a city (Paris?) and a beach (Cornwall?) or a Mountain area (Alps skiing?) for different areas. Please print off (not save in your CA folder!) so it can be stuck in your nice new book on Friday

Mr A.

Year 9 Work- Wednesday 23rd November

Hi Year 9 Geographers,

You can have today (Wednesday) and Friday period 5 to complete your piece of of work planning a holiday around France

You need to get to the real detail now: start planning activities and giving detailed information on the local area and spend a little less time on planning (cost, travel etc)

Remember that each person in the pair will get the same mark, so plan who does what effectively

Maybe do a mind-map at the start to plan how the work will get done?

see you all on Friday... Mr Atkinson

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)

Largest tidal turbine in the world unveiled

The AK-1000 is 22.5m tall and is believed to be the largest tidal turbine in the world. (BBC Report)

Natural Hazards continue to cause havoc in Asia

There has been continued flooding in Pakistan and more than 700 people have now been confirmed dead as a result from the massive landslide in China.

The Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari returned home to anger as 1500 people have been confirmed dead and 13.8 million people badly affected.

Meanwhile, in China a further 1000 people are still missing along with 700 confirmed dead as a landslide destroyed buildings and buried people. Rescuers are searching by hand in very remote areas. BBC Report and Video.