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
Monday, 11 May 2009
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Year 12 World population trends
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
World population trends
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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.
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
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
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
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
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