Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Monday, 11 June 2007
25% please
Your coursework is worth 25% of your final Geography mark. The importance of this cannot be overstated. I did a few calculations, and this means that if the coursework is 25%...
Coasts, Rivers and Plate Tectonics are each worth less than 10% each
Settlement, Managing Tourism and Resources, Industry and Map skills are each worth around 10% each.
You do around 20 hours on each of the topics on Industry, settlement, etc (classwork and homework)
So translated, full marks on your coursework are the equivalent to two and a half topics on Paper 2...this would equate to around 50 hours of work.
This seems a lot of time, but you have several hours in class and overall it is certainly worth it. Today's Paper 2 exam sprung up a few surprises and some of the questions were genuinely difficult. Thankfully, most of our students have gone into this exam safe in the knowledge that they have a healthy coursework percentage already.
Some food for thought!
Sunday, 10 June 2007
Saltburn and Yarm...
Well, tomorrow we start the Year 10 Saltburn and Yarm fieldwork. In summary. don't forget the following:
Consent form - without it you cannot go!
Trainers - yes, for once we are actually allowing you to wear them. Make the most of the opportunity!
Disposable camera - no point in taking your 'flashy' digital one for it to get broken, but it is a good idea to get some pictures
A clipboard or something generally to rest on
A freezer bag to cover your work in case its wet.
Pens and pencils to complete the surveys
Mr. Cowan
Friday, 8 June 2007
A big success!
Well done to those who made Blencathra '07 a fantastic experience!
I think everyone (both Y10 and staff) will agree that was a fantastic few days of fieldwork in the Lake District! The weather was great, fieldcentre staff were helpful and accommodating, and the work was interesting and obviously very important for the follow up work we do for coursework. You now have a choice of which piece of coursework you will folow-up - the effect of tourism on the shopping patterns of Keswick or a study of the Glenderaterra Beck and how channel variables change downstream. That decision needs to be made fairly quickly and work will go on in the next few weeks on each of the sections, which were highlighted in a previous post.
I would like to post some pictures on here and on the VLE - if you have any you want to go on here, I will choose a selection from those sent to my e-mail address at mfc@egglescliffe.org.uk
Thanks to those of you who have already sent me some. A sub-selection can be seen above...
I think everyone (both Y10 and staff) will agree that was a fantastic few days of fieldwork in the Lake District! The weather was great, fieldcentre staff were helpful and accommodating, and the work was interesting and obviously very important for the follow up work we do for coursework. You now have a choice of which piece of coursework you will folow-up - the effect of tourism on the shopping patterns of Keswick or a study of the Glenderaterra Beck and how channel variables change downstream. That decision needs to be made fairly quickly and work will go on in the next few weeks on each of the sections, which were highlighted in a previous post.
I would like to post some pictures on here and on the VLE - if you have any you want to go on here, I will choose a selection from those sent to my e-mail address at mfc@egglescliffe.org.uk
Thanks to those of you who have already sent me some. A sub-selection can be seen above...
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
Tourism in LEDCs done and dusted...
Well, that's four lessons we've had on Tourism in LEDCs, having covered Kenya (mass tourism) and Zimbabwe (Green tourism). There will be no more 'conventional' lessons again this year because each lesson will be focusing on coursework.
Hoping for a good few days of weather in the Lakes, and with a bit of luck for it to go on into next week when we are in Saltburn and Yarm. Mind you, you only need to say the words 'Geography fieldtrip' and it is a sure guarantee of rain. There we are - those two words could be a solution to the world's drought problems!
This topic of Tourism is frequently examined on Paper 2 of the real exam.
If you click below you'll notice on p23 there is a question where you could easily talk about Kenya. But look carefully at the wording of the question. Environment - in the past, students focused on why the country would attract people, rather than on what is attractive about the environment to people from places in Western Europe (i.e. - UK)
http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/qp-ms/AQA-3031H2-W-QP-JUN04.PDF
Finally, whilst general surfing myself I stumbled across this really impressive video on the advantages and disadvantages of tourism to Kenya, by students in Year 10 at another school in Bury. Very impressive, as I'm sure you'll agree, so a big thank you to them...
Hoping for a good few days of weather in the Lakes, and with a bit of luck for it to go on into next week when we are in Saltburn and Yarm. Mind you, you only need to say the words 'Geography fieldtrip' and it is a sure guarantee of rain. There we are - those two words could be a solution to the world's drought problems!
This topic of Tourism is frequently examined on Paper 2 of the real exam.
If you click below you'll notice on p23 there is a question where you could easily talk about Kenya. But look carefully at the wording of the question. Environment - in the past, students focused on why the country would attract people, rather than on what is attractive about the environment to people from places in Western Europe (i.e. - UK)
http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/qp-ms/AQA-3031H2-W-QP-JUN04.PDF
Finally, whilst general surfing myself I stumbled across this really impressive video on the advantages and disadvantages of tourism to Kenya, by students in Year 10 at another school in Bury. Very impressive, as I'm sure you'll agree, so a big thank you to them...
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