Georesources - guide  

This page shows you what you can do to use a site to construct a one-page A-4 revision sheet. Georesources is especially good for this as the material has already been processed by a geography teacher! You need to refine this to one page!

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Case Studies

National Parks (England/Wales).

Earthquake (Kobe).

Oil Spills At Sea (Sea Empress).

Volcanoes (Kilauea & Pinatubo)

Hurricanes (Mitch)

Select Key stage 3 and GCSE

               Keystage Three and G.C.S.E

  • It is fine to import some graphics for your page ... but

  • They should be useful, not decorative

  • They should not be too large

  • There should not be too many of them!

This graphic, of the plates involved in the Kobe 'quake, is too big, so you can either reduce it by clicking on the image and 'squeezing' it smaller by using the arrows on the corners, or put it into Paint Shop Pro, for instance, and resize it. The latter is best, because it reduces the size of the graphics file.
 
You need some boxes, or paragraphs of text on this earthquake. Causes

Primary and Secondary Effects

Description of the extent of the damage
David Rayner has a number of images, but you can find different ones, by using Google and keywords. Annotating the photo, as here, makes the graphic much more useful - its like writing a postit to yourself!

Sum up with sections on the following: Responses to the earthquake

Short and long-term effects - especially industrial output

What has been learned from this quake

What next

All of the case studies on Georesources could get the above treatment. It has two advantages:

1. The work is on a single side of A4, handy and compact.

2. You distilled the contents of a webpage on to that piece of paper, which means you learned more about it than you think ... doing some of your revision already!