At the moment, in Geography we are completing our unit on culture. It’s pretty good, especially the current task on a global culture where we are examining evidence for and against global culture an the reactions to these. For example my favourite is the town of Tavistock, Cornwall who boycotted McDonalds’ arrival and forced the branch to close down. They couldn’t compete with the world renowned pasty [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Pilot GCSE Geography’
January 10, 2008
The Egg and The Chicken …
You have to sign up for Hugh’s free range chicken protest. You must pledge to buy only free range chicken from now on. The conditions cheap battery farmed chickens are living in are absolutely appauling. It’s just not right. I am supporting all Hugh (a new friend) is doing and good luck to him, he’s [...]
November 6, 2007
Flood Prevention
I’m dead busy at the moment and will be for a while with revision and what not. On Monday’s we watched panorama about flooded Britain, we made notes on the video. We then made notes on a PowerPoint about what individual people can do to stop their homes flooding. It included things such as: Floodgates, [...]
October 8, 2007
Summer 2007 Floods
We began today by considering whether Global Warming was to blame for the summer 2007 floods. The answer, we don’t know yet but it may have affected the situation. We then looked at La Nina, which is an effect where the jet stream wind moves. In summer 2007 the stream moved to the South of [...]
September 25, 2007
Floods
Today we continued filling in our table of conditions that will favour surface runoff. We discussed that tarmac and concrete areas are impermeable, so all the water is drained into storm drains which are faster flowing than surface runoff because there is less friction and so this makes the LAG TIME shorter. Also in surface [...]
September 23, 2007
E-Learing Research
Mr Cassidy and I have been included in a piece of academic research looking into E-Learning i.e. Learning with aid of technology. My student blog generated some interest as a good revision tool and my Wiki as a place to collaborate findings for a project. You can find the paper here , If any contributer [...]
September 21, 2007
Geography – An update
This week we have been busy with our Coca Cola Awareness Coursework, if not already handed in, its due in on Monday. We were examining the economic, social and environmental issues of Coke. We found out where existing boycotts took place. Some of Coca Cola’s issues were: Trade Unionist Assassinations in Columbia, Water shortage for [...]
September 15, 2007
GeoMusic and New Blog News
New video by Athlete out now called Hurricane, has an interesting lyric ‘is it something we’re gonna get used to now?’, maybe. Take a look, embedding it doesn’t work. It’s been a busy first and second week so blog posts have been unreliable, sorry about that. I’ve had a good clear out and theme change [...]
September 4, 2007
The Coke Side of Geography …
… Yeah, great drink. Today we were introduced to our new coursework topic again it involves Wanda Lust, Thicko. This time we see Wanda is trying to decide whether to join a boycott for Coke or not. We began by reading through an article from a magazine about how Coca Cola is impacting certain parties. [...]
May 2, 2007
Urban Adventure …
No we’re not talking about Ilkeston !!!
An Urban Adventure competition is where you go to checkpoints all over a designated city and do extreme sports to collect points for your team the most popular of which is the Rat Race which you can check out by clicking that link. It combines both navigation (from map [...]
