Inspired by a mini-movie put together by Victoria Ellis of river scenes and quotes, Year 8 put together a short poem reflecting their emotions about rivers. We’d appreciate your feedback, and, if willing, your location.
Molly
Thanks to Paul Williams for sharing this new pop-up model.
The file can be downloaded from Slide Share or Radical Geography.
A new selection of poems, we would appreciate people taking time to leave a comment on our work.
LL
Josh R
Josh J
Marie
HA
Alice
Tara
Kerri
Inspired by a Victoria Ellis Enya backed movie, we got in touch with our humanist side and produced poems about rivers.
Here are three student contributions.
Kari
Wade
Lucy
Myself and the students would really appreciate feedback.
KS3 Geography has been a little more pedestrian, year 7 I’m working on new transition materials, so started by looking at different maps and what they had in common, we then drew maps from memory of our home area. I’ve now added a transition page to Radical Geography.
In year 8 will started to look at rivers, I use Victoria Ellis’s rivers introductory video (Nice bit of Enya..) as a starter, we then produce a poem entitled the ‘River’. Reminds me that I want to record some of them and put them online- one for this week to try…
In year 9 we started weather and climate, we considered the difference between the two terms, and then began to produce maps of the average summer and winter temperatures across the British Isles. Good traditional stuff!
Added a couple of bits to the rivers’ page, a rivers harvest (Remember we don’t have tests anymore, all success is deferred.), a penalty shoot-out game and a rivers whole class word search.
Added some new rivers resources. I think something similar has been done with Kung Fu, but I like aerobics- fits nicely with my pacifist tendencies. 
Just need a dance track now.
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After going through the different processes I ask students to reproduce them in cartoon form, if available we use MS Paint, some prefer the ‘old skool’ way.
Similar idea to the rainfall aerobics.
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.
Just preparing for next week, or is next year. Uploaded some Pilot cultural resources, that I spent last year producing- sadly cultural geography didn’t make it into the new spec, only going to get use them two more times…
Also uploaded some weather dominoes and a question of sport type starter for a river’s long profile.
Added a couple of new resources to the rivers page, based on the water cycle.
