Giants causeway
Sunday, November 27th, 2011A short film from Natural History Museum Ireland depicting the formation of Irelands Giants Causeway, which I’ll be making use of this year…
Archive for the ‘Tectonics’ Category
Continental drift…
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Great spot by Alan Parkinson.
Things that caught my eye… Week 7th March
Sunday, March 13th, 2011Census dropped through the door and completed it online…
A good Geography FM meet this week, discussed a range of issues including achievement, revision and mobile policies. A replay can be found here. Do join us for the next one. Great website from Noel Jenkins- listening to Los Angeles -considering how to get this into a lesson.
Spent part of the weekend preparing some resources about the development of the Olympic site in Newham for CCEA GCSE spec, I’m now less a fan of the 2012 games. 
Nearly finished the course though…
Of course, the major breaking stories was about the Japanese tsunami. Spent much of Friday watching the live feeds and answering questions. I think the images said enough. Some interesting screenshots from the QuakeZone IPhone app.
Huge cluster of tectonic activity on the day.
Magnitude of the foreshocks and aftershocks were quite intimidating.
Lots of geographical thinking going on from various geography colleagues about how to respond to such an event. great collation of a range of ideas from Alan Parkinson. I think it’s a little too early to get to grips with the huge implications of the disaster, but will be showing the BBC Japanese news special as an overview. Considering an emotional response to the event using a 100 word challenge, simple but effective technique.
We have links with Toyota schools in Japan, I hope all our connections are safe and well at this challenging time.
Tectonic Features in the UK –SU 39-40
Sunday, August 15th, 2010Simple presentation and supporting student worksheet, under tectonics.
Tectonic Features in the UK
View more presentations from TonyCassidy.
Rocks and the Rock Cycle – SU 37-38
Saturday, August 14th, 2010Had a bit of a rest yesterday.
Started a new page for my CCEA tectonic resources.
Two new resources, an introduction to different rock types and the rock cycle
Rocks and Rock Cycle
View more presentations from TonyCassidy.
and a plenary activity based upon this brilliant video.
Tectonic Hands – SU 36
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Different people have various kinaesthetic ways of making tectonic plate boundaries ‘sticky’. I used this idea when teaching tectonics last year, students changed the position of their hands to represent the different plate boundaries.
There is a practice, then the names of the boundaries appear and students have to show the correct hand positions, its timed, to make it a little more challenging. Add some music and it’s an enjoyable plenary.
Remember to show the power!
Tectonic Hands
View more presentations from TonyCassidy.
Eyjafjallajökull 2010-
Saturday, April 17th, 2010Not particularly happy with this, but it’s a start.
Eyjafjallajökull 2010
View more presentations from TonyCassidy.
