Posts Tagged ‘Weather’
Teaching about weather systems
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
Things that caught my eye… Week 28th of February
Sunday, March 6th, 2011Loved this find by Terry on the SLN forum. Great little starter which I’m going to use as an introduction to a revision of fronts.
Also posted a response to a mobile policy review that is being conducted at my place of work on my personal pages, any response would be grateful.
Sorted our 19th Geography Flash Meet on the 10th of March, all are welcome to join us.
One area I had success with last week was looking at the Christchurch earthquake. I like the idea of floating topicality, it makes students realise that geography is a living subject. I do struggle though with developing an appropriate response to such a recent tragic event. For Key Stage 4 it was a useful revision of plate tectonics, for Key Stage 3 I used a little strategy I picked up from Ian Murray. I first shows a clip in of the quake aftermath from the BBC, then explained the tectonic theory. I then read eyewitness accounts from the BBC website, as students actively drew what came into their minds.
It was interesting to see how students responded in a variety of ways, from artistic representations…
To storyboard accounts…
To images with associated quotes…
It was interesting then to discuss why they had drawn such responses and what key themes ran through the class set of images.
Also signed up for the RSS feed of a new Alan Parkinson blog about supporting geography teachers. Should be good… no pressure 
How a hurricane is born…
Saturday, February 19th, 2011Thought this was a brilliant clip for starting a mystery exercise…
Weather or climate?
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010Air masses
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Continued to work on my CCEA resources for weather and climate. Uploaded a simple air masses sheet. I’ll be using a few of my resources from Key Stage 3 to supplement it.
CCEA Weather and Climate- a start…
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Another job for the holiday is putting together a scheme for the CCEA GCSE weather and climate unit, I’ll be drawing on some of the Key Stage 3 resources I use already, but I’ve started a new GCSE page on RG. First resource is a picture and description match-up exercise on the sources of weather data- ok, I’m not that inspired yet.
As always I’m happy to share resources and ideas.
Winter Iphone Apps
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Thanks to Liz Smith and students for sharing their Winter Iphone Apps. Nice work.
Examples of Students Work.
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I’m always happy to see students’ work.
Frozen Britain and the Iphone
Sunday, January 10th, 2010I was thinking about looking at the cold spell over the coming week, I’ll be asking students to write a piece about how the weather effected their week, but I also fancied doing something a little more creative- so we’ll have a go at developing some winter Iphone Apps!
Frozen Britain 2010
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I thought this could be adapted to other topics, so I’ve put a template together.
Iphone Template
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Both can be downloaded from my SlideShare account.
Week.1 in my classroom- KS3
Sunday, September 20th, 2009KS3 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.
Introduction to mapping
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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!
