Year Nine Plate Tectonics

Some sites to break up the monotony of doing nothing!!

National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/

Great Stuff from Bristol Uni -
http://www.ideers.bris.ac.uk/index.html

BBC ON THIS DAY - Mount St Helens
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/19/newsid_2511000/2511133.stm

Plate Margin Animations (remember transform = conservative)
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0804/es0804page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization

Games4Geog
http://www.games4geog.com/earthquakesvolcanoes.html

Year 10 Depressions

PowerPoint used in the first lesson
http://www.slideshare.net/reservoirgeogs/depressions-presentation

Animations of Fronts
http://www.mesoscale.iastate.edu/agron206/animations/05_cnWfronts.html

Global Atmospheric Circulation
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com:8100/legacy/college/strahler/0471238007/animations/ch07_animations/animation3.html

Year 12 Demographic Transition

THE POWER OF OLD PEOPLE - youtube
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NVyyxyirKto

WEB RESOURCES:

http://www.scalloway.org.uk/popu.htm

www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/geog/population/

www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/geog/population/collecting_cases.shtml

http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/popn1.html (GCSE revision)

http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/worldguide/ - site giving population stats for countries and regions

http://www.geography.btinternet.co.uk/globalpop.htm - loads of stuff

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/ population stats PYRAMIDS GALORE

http://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/population_atlas/

http://www.geography.btinternet.co.uk/globalpop.htm - too much to list BROWSE




http://www.slideshare.net/reservoirgeogs

Have a go at matching the statistics to the country
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/demographer.html

Year 8 - Tropical Storms

As a introduction to your studies of weather and climate you are invited to find out about tropical storms. In particular we will look at Hurricane Katrina that devastated parts of Southeast USA in 2005.

Your learning will be presented in the form of a mind map. It is intended as an introductory exercise and you will have lots of questions about the how mind maps should be designed and how useful they may be for your future learning................sadly these questions can only be answered by yourselves. MindMaps should be personal to yourself and they map be of limited value to a small percentage of you.

Aims:

To know where in the world tropical storms form and the conditions needed for them to grow.
To understand the hazard they pose to many in the world.
To be able to offer a case study of a severe tropical storm (hurricane Katrina)
To be able to explain why Katrina was particularly damaging.
In addition to these academic aims most of you will gain an understanding of what a mind map is and how they van prove useful in a learning environment.

Outcome:

Each pupil will produce a "mind map" on A3 paper. Each mind map must contain certain information (see below).

You should aim to dedicate approximately half the space available to the topic of tropical storms in general and the remainder should focus on Hurricane Katrina.

Work will be done in class on what information you should be looking to include and notes on this may appear here at a later date.

AS a guide though you should remember the What? Why? Where? Who? When? and How? pricipals to Geography.

Computer Lesson 1 (Thursday)

You are to use this lesson to complete your research on;
the formation of Hurricanes,
http://www.defencedynamics.mod.uk/resource/view.html?id=238&lessonplans_id=217
http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/geo0008.html
and the naming and classification of Hurricanes.
National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/
ABC OF HURRICANES - American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/hurricanes/010524ABCs.html

Computer Lesson 2 (Friday)

Use this lesson to find out deatails about your case study, Hurricane Katrina

Useful Stuff

BBC NEWS ON HURRICANE KATRINA INCLUDING ANIMATED GUIDE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2005/hurricane_katrina/default.stm
NASA
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2008/jan/28/hurricanes
Animation Showing Hurricane Categories
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/hurricane/ap/

IMAGES S:\Read Areas\Geography\Year 8

Extension: What do you think this cartoon from the Guardian newspaper is trying to say?

the following link will take you to a word document on mind mapping
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6139840/How-to-Mind-Map

Year 7 Geography Postcards

Your first task of the year and of your career as Geographers at Bolton School.

You have been given full and detailed instructions on how to complete the task. The size of each postcard will be A5 (half the size of an A4 sheet of paper). Within that size you will have a picture (or more than one) and the name of the location you have chosen to write about. Approximately half of the area will be given over to your writing which if typed on a computer will not be more than size 14 font. (time has been booked on the school computers for you to type and find pictures).

The writing.

This is intended to do two things. Within the text you must give a "unique" sense of your particular location. Secondly you must include details of the place's physical, human and environmental geography.

Two files that may help are held on the school intranet (only accessible at school)

S:\Read Areas\Geography\Year 7\Geography Postcards

They are read only files so to use the template you must save a copy to your own drive first.