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Active sketching revision

Tony_Cassidy — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:26:31 +0000

I’ve just finished updating some Pilot resources for the 2009 exam that we’ll be using.

For the exam students need to be able to explain how a physical feature in Antarctica is formed, with the aid of a labelled diagram. As repetition is king when it comes to memory, I’ve adapted a technique I’ve used before when revising sketch maps.

[slideshare id=1343452&doc=basaltime-090426091326-phpapp02]

Students have a piece A3 of paper which they fold into four. They watch the PowerPoint and copy the diagram and labels, when complete, they change their paper with another student who completes a second diagram on a new square of the paper, to promote a bit of challenge the PowerPoint increases in speed with each new attempt, this one is timed nicely to the William Tell Overture. Finally, after repeating the process until all four boxes are complete, students turn over their sheet and produce a diagram from memory.

Not sure how much learning takes place, but it’s fun to watch.

Two mistakes…

Tony_Cassidy — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:23:49 +0000

When planning this week I noticed a river domino had slipped into the weather and climate ones… glad I noticed that, because I was due to use them this week. Now updated.

Thanks also to Kenny for informing me about the broken link to the Extreme Environments introductory movie- should now be updated.

I do appreciate people informing me of mistakes and broken links.

Cheers.

A little update with noughts and crosses.

Tony_Cassidy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:15:40 +0000

Not much to update this week, now that I’m into exam entries, records of achievements and reports.

I’ve updated the instructions on the noughts and crosses slide for weather, because I’d confused my right and left clicks.

I tend to use one strategy across a scheme of lessons, so I’ve also added examples for rivers and Antarctica.

Some last minute planning…

Tony_Cassidy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:50:56 +0000

Wanting an easier day tomorrow, so just putting some finishing touches to resources for next week.

I’ve uploaded some resources to do with multiculturalism in Britain, under cultural geography, think I might update some of the case studies near the time of delivery. Also added a content generator match-up of the main cultural sub-divisions.

I’m also about to finish looking at Antarctica with Year 10, I’m be focusing on climate change, we do this in depth at Year 9, so have produced a Question of Sport type refresher as a starter.

When reading the excellent blog of Joe Dale I was reminded about the drag and drop macro that can be used in PowerPoint, as a result I’ve produced a noughts and crosses game for weather and climate, not really noughts but circles, because they interfere with the hyper linking; but I’m sure it will be highly adaptable. Please read the instructions under the notes on the first slide.

Coursework updates

Tony_Cassidy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:02:09 +0000

I’ve now finished marking the Year Ten Antarctica and Year Eleven flooding 2 coursework- please email if you want your mark before I see you.

Year 11, a gentle reminder that flooding 3 needs to be completed for this Friday.

Antarctica Updated… Ozone and other bits…

Tony_Cassidy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:59:40 +0000

Updated the R.G. Extreme Environments page, new resources related to Ozone, Basal Slippage and the underpinning concepts of the course.

Antarctica Penalty Shoot-out

Tony_Cassidy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:05:54 +0000

For those in Year 10 wanting to have a practice…

Antarctica Update- Development

Tony_Cassidy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:00:31 +0000

Updated the Antarctica section of R.G. to include an exercise about whether Antarctica should be developed or not. Also added a penalty shoot-out quiz, to round off the festive week.

Antarctica landscape tagging

Tony_Cassidy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:17:03 +0000

Can you name the landscape features from the tags?

Go on then…

Antarctica landscape tagging

Tony_Cassidy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:14:10 +0000

Produce as a starter, just a bit of fun, I’ve used this strategy before with coasts. Can you name the landscape features from the tags? Warning- not all fit the background images- well, there must be some differentiation. All images and music are creative commons.

Can be download from here.

Go on then…