|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
April 2008 |
March 2008 |
|
| Visitors per day (average) |
5071 |
4757 |
| Page views (average per day) |
7472 |
7089 |
| Total visitors for the month |
152, 149 |
141,855 |
| Top day |
30th
April |
10th
March |
It is also interesting to see which pages you use most! Most frequently used pages during the recent months (apart from this home page and the search function) were Bob Jones' Images of Uganda and Jordan, the Geo primary pages and the Thinking through Geography pages. and flooding enquiry and Kobe enquiry
Are
you part of the forum yet? On 9th
February 2006, the 21,000st message was posted on the Teachers' Forum.
This has more than doubled and the total posts by February 2007 was 43,000
and on 10th May 2007 the 50,000th post was made by Alan Parkinson. It is well worth having a look at the range of
support and advice that the community of geography teachers are providing
for each other.
Quick off the mark, Caroline Gosling, NQT teacher at Finham Park School, Coventry, has created this mystery activity looking at one environmental impact of the oil explosion – polluted firewater entering the groundwater system and polluting local drinking water supplies. The PowerPoint sets up the mystery and the word document gives the cards for the card sorting exercise (and my answers). It should work for either year 8 or year 9 (the cards can be made more challenging for older students.)
Why might Mrs Brown have to buy bottled water PowerPoint, and card sort
As you know there will be big changes to Ofsted inspections from September. School inspections will be shorter, with much less notice, and school's self evaluation will be central to the whole process. Subject and survey inspections will focus on individual subjects and curriculum areas from Foundation Stage to post 16, but they will be far fewer (a secondary school might have an inspection in one subject every three years, primaries less often). The new process will have implications on your work; these will become more apparent as the process evolves. More information is on the Ofsted website for schools, including the SEF form. Ofsted have produced two very useful information leaflets, aimed at parents, which provide a very clear overview of the two types of inspection. Please download the School inspections information leaflet here and the Subject and survey inspection leaflet here.
HMI Subject reports have just been published
for 2004 - 2005 and can be read on the Ofsted website.
Primary Geography and
Secondary Geography.
QCA annual report on curriculum and assessment in geography for 2004 - 2005 can be found here
How did they do it? Could I build upon other successful practice? Would it work for me? School Improvement Division Officers undertook a series of visits to schools during the year in order to highlight, identify and illustrate aspects of good practice in subject teaching and learning. From the visits, a selection of brief "case-studies" designed to interest and inform users and trigger further thought, research and action. Geography Case Studies from Alleynes (ICT and web enquiries), Blessed William Howard (Leadership and planning), de Ferrers (Thinking Skills) and Endon (AfL, ICT and planning) can be found here
It is difficult to wish people happy new year in the current situation as all our thoughts go out to the Tsunami victims and their families and the survivors who are valiantly rebuilding their lives and the aid workers who are doing their best to help.
SLN geographers have been doing what they do best over the past few days - responding to the situation by creating resources to help pupils understand and make sense of the events of 26 December and since.
Global Eye Spring 05 www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_spring05/eyeon/aftertsunami.html) which has a mystery activity to explore the idea that a natural disaster is never completely natural ... reflecting the thinking of David Leat and Diane Swift.
MapAction is a UK charity which specialises in mapping disaster areas and supplying geographical information to relief operations. They use GIS so it is a good example of GIS in action too. MapAction deployed 16 volunteers in Sri Lanka and worked alongside the UN Disaster Assessment and Co-ordination desk. They helped the Sri Lankan government to gather information coming in from affected areas and provide real time mapping of the areas and its population.
Thrishana Pothupitiya is a 17 year old student from Sri Lanka, studying at Bishop's College Colombo. She has written an eyewitness essay titled: 'The Power of Humanity' on the Tsunami which devastated her country. The essay was also published in the Daily News in Colombo, Sri Lanka in January. Please see her website: http://thrishanapothupitiya.tripod.com
Edwin Chew, Sembawang Secondary School, Singapore, returned from a visit to Phuket in March and shares these recent photos with us. Click here for Edwin's website. They show how life is slowly getting back to "normal".
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diane Swift on behalf of the GA's
Valuing Places project has created a sequence of learning enquiry
related to the recent events in the Indian Ocean. She hopes that the
following ideas and resources prove to be helpful and would be delighted to
receive feedback and ideas for development (contact Di
by e-mail). The main file is Talking
about the Asian Tsunami. which Di suggests that you download and read
that first, the you can choose which of the following resources you wish to
use.
1Location 2
Magnitude and impact
3 Indonesia earthquake education
scheme
4 What are Tsunamis and how do we cope? 5
Map from memory
6 5 Ws pupil resource 7
The most devastating earthquakes since 1900
8 Outline map of Indonesia
9
Diagram of Tsunami
10 How the shape of ocean floors can affect tsunami
11 Idle Tears article
12
Indonesia asks for early warning system article
13 UN appeal article 14
Natural disasters and politics article
15 Oral presentation matrix 16
What's this got to do with me? frame
17 Tourists face moral dilemmas
18 Thailand map 19
The Effort continues 20
Global why why why chain 21
Tourists face moral dilemma frame
22 Futures framework
23 World helps but will it
forget?
Chris Kelly from Charles Edward Brooke School, Lambeth has
written the attached materials for use with Geography students, on the issue of International Aid and the Tsunami. I hope that
colleagues in other schools may find it useful. "As with first drafts,
I am sure there are things that may need to be amended! I am always
interested in feedback, particularly suggestions for improvements, or ideas
for additional resources on this topic." ckelly@globe360.fsnet.co.uk
International Aid and the Tsunami
quiz (for Y9 upwards); Questions
and answers about the Tsunami and a decision
making exercise "What to do" (amended version) for all
KS3.
Dan Denker and Andrew Boardman have sent resources about hazards (including Tsunami) for use with EdExcel students, which are on the Post 16 section of this site.
Val Vannet's very moving PowerPoint presentation Indonesian Earthquake and Tsunami is a large 2.3 Mb file and is best accompanied by Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (1Mb)
Laura Smith has a Word files picture worksheet which could be adapted for other sources and a Seismograph.
Liz Crisp's PowerPoint presentation about the December Tsunami is available too.
Jason Day offers this Indian Ocean map worksheet, a cross section of the plates to label and hazard effects cards.
Most of the Aid Agencies have good resources and information on their sites; Save the Children included a poster with GA News. TIDEC~ have produced Responding to the Tsunami which includes links to other resources.
Beyond the Wave www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/beyondwave/index.htm is a free online resource with stories of people affected by the tsunami disaster and what their lives are like now. It leads into wider issues about global poverty and how pupils can take action to help make the world a better place. It is particularly relevant given the current media attention to Make Poverty History and the Live 8 concerts. The activities explore serious global issues in a positive way, and cover foundation subject areas of the curriculum. With colourful photostories from around the world and five days' worth of activity ideas, Beyond the Wave is a creative, informative and fun resource for the summer term.
The SLN online forum has been buzzing since 9.11am on Boxing Day, with teachers posting their initial thoughts and concerns in response to the disaster and then finding resources (websites, TV programmes and newspapers) which help to explain and understand it all.
Make Poverty History is the campaign of BOND (British Overseas NGOs for Development) a network of UK development agencies and community groups; a group of partners, including Oxfam, Action Aid, and Cafod. Their current "White Armband" campaign Make Poverty History (was launched at Christmas, did you see the Vicar of Dibley?) Some powerful videos on the site and how you can get involved.
Laura Smith has sent the following resources for you to use
Child Poverty worksheet Poverty in the UK PowerPoint
Poverty Around the World PowerPoint
Val Vannet has sent this Make Poverty History template so you can make banners for your noticeboards (as described in the forum below).
Miles Aarons from Dubai sent these resources really relating to Comic Relief, but they are very appropriate here too. The PowerPoint presentation is a great example of successful modelling and assessment for learning too! This Aegis worksheet will only open if you have Aegis installed on your system.
The online forum has a vibrant thread on this theme too.
Following the success of SLNgeography@Iceland03 and last year's smaller visit to Saxony, SLNgeography was pleased to organise a trip for teachers at Easter. Please follow our adventures on the SLN@Malaysia2005 pages. Plans are under way for the next venture to Jordan, during May half term 2006 ! Wet your appetite with some photos from Bob Jones' previous visit.
During
the visit we were able to have close encounters with Orang Utan in the
rainforests of Sarawak [Borneo]; examined ecotourism and sustainable coastal
management; travelled by canoe into the heart of the forest with the Iban
people in a long house; discovered a biodiversity and rural development
project to explore traditional people's knowledge of local plants medicinal
properties.
We
enjoy
friendly multi-cultural modern, globalising and dynamic Kuala Lumpur; visited
a Hindu temple in a limestone cave and a mosque in; looked up and
down on Kuala Lumpur to see this modern dynamic city as well as see
the new government capital city be built before your very eyes in this Newly
Industrializing Country. We tried to decide for ourselves whether this country will meet
its target of being an MEDC by 2020!
More photos from a previous visit on the PhotoEnquiries page
Chris Durbin,
founder of this site, now works for the English Schools Foundation in Hong Kong. Chris says a
'big big big' thank you for all those who have helped make this site work.
Without the participants and the contributions there is no fun, no richness,
no networking on the site.
ASTs
specialise in teaching and learning and their skills in this area are used
within their own school and with teachers from other schools through agreed
outreach work.
 |
Chris Rogers is a Year 3 teacher and geography subject leader at Perton First School, near Wolverhampton. As Chris has also worked in secondary schools, she has experience of teaching pupils from Y1 through to Y11. Chris is particularly interested in cross curricular work with a geography focus. |
If you would like to request AST support in your school please find further details and the outreach request form here which should be completed and returned to AST OutReach Manager, Kate Russell at The Kingston Centre. Please do not contact the ASTs directly.
Image
of the moment -
Meeting of cultures
Click here to find out more....
Website
of the moment - Topical events
Click on the image to find out more
What
else is new from this site?Geo-resource
- Click on an image to find out more.|
KS1/2 Food and Farming
|
KS3/4 Cities and Citizenship
|
The course held earlier this year was a great success. For those who missed it on a CD full of potential resources. If you would like a copy of the CD it will be £50. email kate.russell@staffordshire.gov.uk with a name address for an invoice to be sent.
Courses are open to teachers from beyond Staffordshire and indeed many participants regularly come from beyond the county borders! All new courses can be viewed via the online booking service. More about the planned programme on the Support from QLS pages. You can book on line or you can phone 01785 277932 or fax 01785 256193 or e-mail norah.lavin@staffordshire.gov.uk to request a list of courses or quote.
Get your digital map (in .ntf format, for use with GIS software such as
Aegis, InfoMap, Local Studies) of your Staffordshire school free!
For schools outside Staffordshire please contact your authority's Ordnance
Survey Liaison Officer (who may be based in the planning department) or the
new Ordnance Survey / ESRI digital map distribution service (which is free
for an initial period)
www.maps-direct.com/schools/
Please contact Kate Russell 01785 277966.
or email kate.russell@staffordshire.gov.uk
Questions or problems regarding this
web site should be directed to
kate.russell@staffordshire.gov.uk
Copyright © 2007 [QLS Staffordshire County Council]
This page last updated 08 September 2008
 |
This Geography Web Ring site is owned by QLS. |
|||||
| Join the ring | Previous Site | Next Site | Next 5 Sites | Random Site | List the Sites | |
Two
more Staffordshire schools have recently been awarded Quality Marks! All
Saint's First School at Alrewas, near Burton on Trent have the gold
award and St. Nicholas First School in Codsall have the silver. Well
done to all staff and pupils at these schools. The full lists of all
recipients of these awards and details of how you can apply is on the
