Year 8 pupils continue with Book 1 of the new Key Stage 3 geography course, to finish their work on Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Shortly they will switch to Book 2.
The website for the book is http://www.oup.co.uk/oxed/secondary/geog.123/geog2_all/ and the password can be obtained at school!
September 5th
9.1 What's football got to do with it?
pages 90-91
Issuing files, going through general guidelines, and introducing the topic..
Location of Premiership clubs.
September 10th
9.1 What's football got to do with it?
pages 90-91
homework: Can you see a pattern on the graph? Give reasons for what you see?
The relationship between league status and town size. A graphing exercise. Is there a link between town size and league status?
September 17th
9.5 Who are the losers?
homework: sheet 9B The World Cup, with world map.
Review the Word Cup homework. sheet 9A Football around Europe
September 24th
9.6 A football scandal?
pages 100-101
homework: The Atlanta Agreement
Research on the working conditions of children, especially in stitching footballs. 8G
Mapping the route of a football from Sialkot to England. 8D
October 1st
9.4 Moving home!
pages 96-97
homework: Photosheet - What has the Stadium of Light done for Sunderland?
The location and impact of a football ground on its neighbours - a case study of Roker Park.
The move of Sunderland to the Stadium of Light
Roker Park/Stadium of Light on Multimap
Sunderland
AFC official website
October 8th
9.3 The football business
pages 94-95
homework: All units in by Friday 12 Oct (8G) and Thursday 18 Oct (8D)
Football as a business .. and packing up the unit for overall marking.
Computer work - assessment of ITFC's Portman Road site
weblinks:
ITFC Ipswich Town official website
October 15th
1.1 Off to the coast
pages 4-5
pages 6-7
homework: Find a photograph, drawing or web graphic of a piece of coastline. Mount it on a sheet of A4 paper and write around it all the questions you need to ask to understand that coastline. Discussed in class.
Video G 214 Coast to introduce the Dorset coast.
Waves and wave energy. The role of wind and waves and some key word, or glossary, work.
Draw and label the parts of a wave; explain fetch and draw up fetch graph.
Half Term October 20th-28th
October 29th
1.3 The waves at work
1.4 Landforms created by the waves
pages 8-9
pages 10-11
homework: Draft explanation of the formation of the Old Harry Rocks. Research the area and headland erosion.
Wave attack - headland erosion. The effects of waves on the coast; how the coastline is eroded; hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition and solution.
The erosion of a headland; sequence diagrams from page 10.
Video G 203 Geography in Animation on Old Harry Rocks.
Use photographs of the Old Harry Rocks to label wave-cut platform, an arch, a stump, cave.
weblinks:
GeoTopics -
Coasts
Georesources on
coastal erosion, headland erosion, hard and soft rock transverse coasts,
and longshore drift
Geography Department Gallery - Old Harry,
November 5th
1.3 The waves at work
1.4 Landforms created by the waves
pages 10-11
homework: Complete Dorset landforms work.
Hard rock, soft rock. The effects of hard and soft rocks on coastline shape; transverse coast of Dorset page 12. Old Harry work.
November 12th
1.5 Along the Dorset Coast
homework: Explain longshore drift with suitable diagram. Longshore drift workpage
Mapreading practice.
Longshore drift page 9; the process explained.
The role of groynes and formation of spits.
weblinks: Georesources on coastal erosion, headland erosion, hard and soft rock transverse coasts, and longshore drift
November 19th
1.6 How we use coastal areas
pages 14-15
homework: 1E No More Landslips! ... study sheet on the Holbeck Hall landslip.
Spit formation from Geog.2 page 11
weblinks: BBC changing Coasts
Possible extension: A short Decision-making exercise (DME) on a development for a leisure complex, proposed for the Studland section of the Dorset coastline.
November 26th
1.7 Cliff collapse!
1.8 Waving goodbye to the Holderness coast?
pages 16-17
pages 18-19
The processes involved in cliff collapse; such as slumping and landslides. Example of Holbeck Hall, Scarborough in 1993.
Barton-on-Sea video G 214 Coast.
Some of the techniques used to defend soft-rock coasts.
weblinks:
December 3rd
1.8 Waving goodbye to the Holderness coast?
pages 18-19
homework: Revision
Case study of Holderness and Mappleton; mapping historical erosion and how defences in one location affect erosion in another.
video G 157 or G 163 Shifting Sands or G 172 or G 211 Shifting Coastlines East Coast.
Question 1-4 from page 19.
weblinks:
GeoTopics on Mappleton
Mappleton from the air - map and photo -together on Multimap
Photos of
Mappleton, Sue Earle's Farm and defences
December 10th
homework: Mappleton 1910-1988 sheet on losses to erosion. Map-measuring exercise.
All parts of the unit to be finished by Thursday next!
December 17th
1.9 Help! We're going under ..
pages 20-21
homework: Research weather and plan out items for inclusion in personal web pages!
The threat to coastlines from rising sea levels; global warming, increased storminess and sinking coastlines.
Responses to the threats.
weblinks:
Introduce the next topic; Weather Geography High
Christmas Holiday
January 8th
2.1 What is weather?
pages 22-23
homework: Look for weather data and weather stories to build up resources for your web pages.
The difference between weather and climate
page 2 qns. 1, & 6. What is weather?
Weather and climate
January 14th
2.7 From weather to climate
pages 34-35
homework: sheet 2A Hold the Front Page.
Look for weather data and weather stories to build up resources for your web pages.
Drawing a climate graph by hand, with questions alongside.
Instructions to draw a climate graph on Excel.
Climate graph of East Bergholt.
Hand draw the climate of Plymouth from page 34-35
January 21st
2.2 Measuring the weather
pages 24-25
homework: sheet 2C And now for the weather ..?
Demonstrate anemometer and explain weather instruments
page 25 qn. 1& 2.
Weather instruments grid from page 25
January 28th
2.3 Clouds and rain
pages 26-27
homework: sheet Depression cross section
How three types of rainfall are formed, and what happens to air masses to form rainfall. Relief rain, convectional rain . and frontal rain
February 4th
2.4 Air pressure and weather
2.5 Sudden changes in the weather
pages 28-29
pages 30-31
homework: sheet 2B Introducing isobars
Depressions. Complete cross section , gap-fill and model of a depression.
Half Term February 11-15th
February 18th
2.8 The factors that influence climate
2.9 Climate across Europe
2.10 How climate affects our lives
pages 36-37
pages 38-39
pages 40-41
homework: sheet 2E Holiday clinic on European weather
Learning about the shape of Europe and the factors which affect its various climate zones.
These are: latitude, distance from the coast, prevailing (usual) wind direction, ocean current, such as out Gulf Stream/North Atlantic Drift keeping us ice-free) and local factors such as altitude, shelter from winds (including south or north-facing slopes) and how urban an area has become.
page 39 qns. 2,3,4
February 25th
2.9 Climate across Europe
2.10 How climate affects our lives
pages 38-39
pages 40-41
homework: sheet 2E Holiday clinic on European weather (mini project)
Complete qns. from page 39
sheet 2D Europe's climates on extended writing on Europe and her climate zones.
Tidy and finish written unit.
March 4th
3.1 What is an ecosystem?
3.2 Feeding in an ecosystem
3.3 Where do human fit in?
pages 42-43
pages 44-45
pages46-47
homework: sheet 3A Food webs and sheet 3E Extinctions.
March 11th
3.4 The Earth's main ecosystems
3.5 The tropical rain forests
pages 48-49
pages 50-51
homework: writing up the video response sheet to the video.
The Tropical Rain Forest. video G 139 or G175 The Living Forest Landmarks. Fill in video response sheet on rainforests, and relationships of animals in various layers of the forest.
March 18th
3.6 What are we doing to the rainforests?
pages 52-53
homework: Draw a poster showing the way the rainforest is being destroyed, under the title 'Mahogany is Murder!'
page 51 question 1. - a cross-section of the rainforest. qn.2 to be answered on the same piece of large squared paper.
Qn. 3- a drawing of the nutrient cycle, with boxed labels.
Forest loss and the nutrient cycle - page 52.
Easter Holidays
April 8th
3.7 The savanna
3.8 Farming in the fragile savanna
3.9 The Machakos miracle
pages 54-55
pages 56-57
pages 58-59
homework: sheet 3D
April 15th
4.1 People everywhere
4.2 So where is everyone?
pages 60-61
pages 62-63
homework: sheet on population birth and death rates.
Population growth - making a graph of world population growth, and labelling some events. page 61 qns 1-4
Birth rates and death rates qn.6
Skills - making a population pyramid graph.
April 22nd
4.3 Resources
4.4 The trouble with resources
pages 64-65
pages 66-67
homework:
April 29th
homework: researching weather topics for web pages
This will be fitted in when computer room booking allow. It is part of the assessed Year 8 ICT programme.
May 6th
homework: researching weather topics for web pages
May 13th
homework: researching weather topics for web pages
May 20th
homework: researching weather topics for web pages
May 27th
homework: sheet on Europe's population density.
Almost finished web pages, with half the class assessed for ICT reports! Second lesson on file sorting and re-starting syllabus ... population density.
Half Term June 1st -9th
June 10th
5.1 Fuel - just a store of energy
5.2 Bringing you electricity
pages 68-69
pages 70-71
homework: sheet 5A - Energy timeline
Sources of energy.
Energy production in the UK
June 17th
homework:
June 24th
homework:
energyquest - California
tidal power in Wales as on page 57
windenergy links
July 1st
homework:
July 8th
homework:
July 15th
homework: