Friday 22 May 2009

GCSE DME

Bored with the long half term holiday? Have a browse of this website to look at initiatives to create a sustainable communities in the Peak District (where Stoney Middleton is)

http://www.peakdirections.co.uk/index.asp?ID=154


Countryfile on IPlayer from Sunday 30/5/09 Issues regarding the lack of affordable homes in rural areas.

watch from 16minutes and 24 seconds

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kv209/Countryfile_31_05_2009/


Do second home owners kill villages? BBC news with radio clips
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7964000/7964499.stm

Rural potential goes 'untapped' - and many other news items
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7439194.stm

NEED FOR NEW HOMES
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brown-plans-three-million-new-homes-456904.html

Stoney Middleton
http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/content.php?categoryId=150
http://stoneymiddletonparishcouncil.org.uk/
http://www.derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk/stoneymiddleton.htm

The Threat to the Primary School
http://friendsofstoneymiddletonschool.org.uk/pages/campaign.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/6433439.stm

Wednesday 6 May 2009

Year 12 World population trends

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Thursday 30 April 2009

Year 7 Revsision

In your year 7 exam you will be tested on:

Map Skills - grid references, scale, symbols, contours, latitude and longitude

Settlement - location factors, land use models, Belmont Case Study, Housing Types and shopping

Geography of the British Isles

http://www.oup.co.uk/oxed/secondary/geography/atlases/quiz/uk/quizbi3.swf

Basic World Geography

National Parks

Over the coming weeks I will place useful revision exercises on this blog.

Friday 27 March 2009

AS Human Core Goodies

All resources are on sharepoint. Also the have been uploaded onto scribd.com

follow the link if you are having difficulty accessing Sharepoint

Good luck - no luck needed if you revise.

http://www.scribd.com/people/documents/2983252-reservoirgeogs

Friday 6 February 2009

Water - precious reource

Some interesting stuff aboutr water, the water vendors of Nigeria

interactive map and other great stuff about possible water shortages

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7867202.stm

Monday 2 February 2009

YEAR 12 - Urban Environment and Service Provision

As part of your AS studies you need to be able to interpret census data to describe social and economic differences between certain parts of the urban environment the link below is to a word document which your will attempt to work through over the next two weeks.

The word document is also on sharepoint so that it can be accessed from you homes!! - in theory

S:\Read Areas\Geography\Year 12\AS Population Core - school intranet