Typhoon Haiyan

Typhoon Haiyan

By Alan Parkinson

Living Geography: Typhoon Haiyan: A huge storm has hit the Philippines, and is now heading for Vietnam... This storm: super-typhoon Haiyan has broken records, with devastating winds and storm surges. Happily, the speed at which the storm passed through seems to have reduced the amount of rainfall in any particular area. The track of the storm also bypassed some of the major cities such as the capital: Manila.

News of the storm in 'The Guardian'...
An image gallery 

What has been particularly interesting for me have been some of the images, showing the storm from space, like a puncture wound in the Earth's atmosphere.

Images from NOAA

Those investigating tropical cyclones / extreme weather and similar processes would do well to explore some of these links and stories while they are 'live'.
For example, are storms like this becoming stronger and more frequent ?

Toilet Twinning: Undercarriage Urgency

Y11 - Tackling Rural Issues in the developing world;

We have bought an acre of the Moon, how about twinning our toilets?
 
 READ or
Toilet Twinning: Undercarriage Urgency: Four out of 10 public toilets are reported to have closed in the past decade, increasing our collective fear of being ‘caught short’...

WATCH

Guerrilla Geography Day - November 7th

Guerrilla Geography Day - November 7th:
The latest Guerrilla Geography Day is on the 7th of November I'll be taking part with some of my groups... The theme this time round is ...
PAST AND FUTURE

We'll explore how places have looked in the past and how they may look in the future
View the website for more ideas on taking part, which could involve you:

• showing people what places used to look like in the past
  
• transforming places to show what planned redevelopments will mean
  
• creating imaginary futures for places

Here’s a list of actions that you could take:
1. Place images of the past in the places the images were taken...
2. Create artworks showing the past, present and possible future of that place and exhibit them somehow (see http://www.postcardsfromthefuture.co.uk/ for some inspiration for this)
3. Draw field sketches from the future of a site from one of your field trips or a place near your school so that the whole class can compare their sketches and discuss what they have imagined
4. Create a temporal map of your local area or school route as it seems to travel through time
5. Place dates on buildings shown when they were built and when they look like they were built ? 

Find the most modern and the oldest building in the local town centre/main street

Don’t forget to share your actions by posting blogs here and sharing photos on twitter with the hashtag #GuerrillaGeographyDay.

Data Presentation - Section 3

Use this for ideas, there are also so many more....

IGCSE Geography - Fieldwork Data Presentation from geographyalltheway.com

Mr J.

Bakewell CA 2013/14

Bakewell CA 2013/14, a set on Flickr.

"Photos from the field," if you require anymore, please come and see your teacher armed with a memory stick.

Mr J.

Sorry about the weather....

Snap guide - How to Use digimaps.

Y10 - Watch this guide and learn how to make your data presentation look sensational!
Check out How to Use Digimaps for GIS by Matthew Johnson on Snapguide.
Mr J.

Data Presentation - Prezi

Y10 - This will help you look at techniques to present your data...explore the prezi below:


Mr J.

Snapguide - Section 1: Purpose of Investigation

Y10 Follow this Snapguide to help with your introduction...
Check out How to Create Your Perfect Introduction. by Matthew Johnson on Snapguide.
Mr. J

Bakewell Controlled Assessment 2013/14 - ThingLink

Use this interactive image below to find information and video clips about Bakewell and the Peak District...

Just plain CRAZY!!!

Check out this unbelievable adventure...



Mr. J

Y7/8 Climate - New Topic

This video may be useful for the new climate topic....

Mr J.

Living Geography: 2011 Census Open Atlas

Living Geography: 2011 Census Open Atlas: Produced by Alex Singleton from the University of Liverpool. Downloadable PDFs for every area of the country.

 

Mr. J.

GeogSpace now open

Living Geography: GeogSpace now open: The new Australian Curriculum document for Geography was launched in the last few weeks. The support site for the introduction of the new curriculum has now gone live too.

Think Link - Creating an interesting interactive image...trial

Hopefully this is interactive!!!! Click on the targets and see what happens.

Mr J.

Everest timelapse...

Living Geography: Everest timelapse...: This has been doing the rounds... A lovely piece of work.

Countdown! The KS3 Mock Week

These posters have been popping up around the department for the last week or so...

In a week Y7&8 will be tested on what they have learnt throughout the year. One question that has been echoing down the corridor is: "...but sir we are not taking Geography next year so why do we need a test?" This may well be true for a number of Y8s, however the Humanities department believes that having a summer mock week will prepare you to perform better when the real exam week starts in Y11.

With recent changes to the GCSE (or potentially the I-level)  more pressure will be placed on you to achieve the best result with only one chance. Therefore the mock week is here to give you the opportunity to practise the art of revision and time management. These tests are not all about your ability in a certain subject, but also about how you can cope with a number of subjects demanding deadlines all at once.

Hopefully over the course of this week you will have created a revision timetable and learnt about all the different methods and techniques available to your personal learning style. Below is an example of a 'learning poster,' produced by Beth Miller Y8 who is certainly managing her commitments well.

Good Luck

Mr.J

3D Contour Lines with Y7

As a department we have decided to use this webspace as a site to not only keep you up to date with recent geography news and relay messages about homework deadlines etc, but to also highlight the excellent examples of learning happening all around school.

One example is a recent Y7 homework project. The brief was to create a 3D map using the various methods of showing relief on a map, and below are some of the superb examples in this week.

Well done all!

My personal favourite!!!!! Superb work!

Mr J.

The Learning Environment

As the cleaners (and Miss Whetstone) are constantly asking me to tidy up HUM2, I have decided to come up with a plan for the classroom. This is an example of another Humanities room in a different school, what do you think? Since you lot are the main people who spend most of your time in the classroom, what are your opinions from a pupils perspective. Please leave some comments on what you feel should be in your 'dream,' classroom.

View in full screen!

Priory geography classroom from David Rogers

Mr J.

Memory Maps (Outside with 7E)

Despite experiencing yet another wet and wild period in our local weather, I find myself praying for rain before Mr Jackson (site manager) discovers the remains of what was quite an active Y7 mapping lesson. Following an introduction to 'memory maps,' the pupils had the chance to walk around school and visualise the building and its surroundings for 5mins. They then teamed up with nothing more than a piece of chalk and the images in their memory, and were asked to draw the school plan on the new tarmac. Hence why I am now attempting a rain dance as we speak to help clear away the chalky depictions.

Some work is below, and interestingly enough the Y10s on lunch used the pictures for some good old hopscotch!

PS. Apologies for the chalk lines left on the ground, although a couple of days will see them erode away with our appalling weather!

Mr J.

Data Presentation Methods

IGCSE Geography - Fieldwork Data Presentation from geographyalltheway.com

For future reference, this slide show will help you with the data presentation section of your coursework.

Ridley Hall 2013 - Day 3

Superb weather meant for an awesome day studying glaciation surrounded by the sensational Grisdale Beck U-shaped valley. Once the pupils realised that they were not in Scotland, they enjoyed the 6.74 mile trek through drumlins, scree and farmer's fields. Whilst sat at one site they looked at many features including arêtes, corries and pyramidal peaks.

As you can tell the tarn was under snow, and conditions were tough higher up the hill, therefore we did not tackle the steep climb to the summit. However the troops did enjoy an ice-cream when back at base.

Once back we all attempted a field sketch highlighting the keywords that we have learnt today, below are Mr. Morris and Mr Barnes' attempts...guess which one is which.