POST 16 Geography

What is on this site is partly up to you

Have you prepared anything that is worth sharing? So far there are these people who have come out of the closet.  Remember if we all do a little then we have a lot! Send it to kate.russell@staffordshire.gov.uk

Post 16 Networking for EdExcel A level

In Staffordshire we get together regularly to review progress and share developments. Other LEA schools are welcome, we regularly get colleagues from across the West Midlands and even further afield.

Meetings are held in Stafford, at the Kingston Centre.
The next meeting will be 22nd September 2008, 
 Booking code GGB 31001.

This will be an all day event (09.30 - 4.00) in order to provide in-depth support for teaching Units 1 and 2 for AS, an opportunity to do some activities, including marking "mock answers" and also a look forward to the new A2. Teaching notes and electronic resources will be provided.

Sue Warn will be leading discussions and we will also be joined by Simon Oakes (Principal Examiner Unit 1).

A further meeting will be held in the Spring Term 2009.

The EdExcel website has a lot of support material.
Ask the Expert service - email contact with subject specific advice and support.
Results Plus for analysis of student performance.
Are you registered to receive e-mail updates from EdExcel?

Have you seen the EdExcel Ning? This is created and maintained by Alan Parkinson. Thank you Alan!

Other schools are welcome to join in from outside Staffordshire LEA.   Details from Lynda Sims 01785 277924
lynda.sims@staffordshire.gov.uk

Resources

Jayne Whaley recommends Carbon Based sea level rise for Crowded Coasts.

At recent meetings Sue Warn has recommended the following:-

Development Works, a booklet from DfID which can be ordered through their website.

Farm Africa website

Shoreline Management Plans from Defra

Cities and Urbanisation, Michael Witherick and Kim Adams, Philip Allan updates, 2006

Health and Inequality, Sarah Curtis, 2004, Sage publications, (available from Amazon)

Fair Trade for all: How Trade can promote Development; Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton, Oxford University Press (available from Amazon here)

Crossroads for Planet Earth, Scientific American £3.95 (available from high street bookshops)

Rural Geography, Michael Woods

Revise AS and A2 geography - Heinemann

Global Issues, Global Environment, Changing Environment, edited by Andrew Blowers Open University (for teachers not students!)

USA Today

There is also GeoCases - a subscription service from Hodder Murray

Nottingham Case Studies

Anne Logie, Ockbrook School, Derby, has two presentations about issues in Nottingham; Waste Management and Transport.

Have I got geography news for you?

This Have I got New for You PowerPoint is an example used with A level students to try to get them to look out for news stories relating to Geography – a good lesson starter/end? Steve Dann, Head of Geography, Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge

AQA Spec A revision checklists

These checklists may be useful for students following this syllabus (for the physical geography AS and A2 courses) to help them with revision. 

AS Physical Geography
A2 Physical Geography 1       A2 Physical Geography 2

Liz Close, Ravensbourne School, Bromley, Kent.

Hazards (some relate to Asian Tsunami)

Andrew Boardman from JFS, Brent, has sent these resources to help students with essays and revision

Initial thoughts about Asian Tsunami               Key themes
Possible essay titles                                     Practice essay
Revision tables

Global Futures (Natural Disasters)

Dan Denker, formerly of Cannock Chase High School, offers these resources and news reports about many of the disasters around the time of Bam. They are merely a collation but I have used them in group work with my global futures groups for A2 EdExcel B.
Philippine landslide 2003             History of earthquakes
Drain Pinatubo                            Economic impacts
Iranian earthquake, Bam 2003      Location of earthquakes
Mega-tsunami                             Californian earthquake
Volcano Hell

Presentation to parents and pupils about A level Geography 

Have you got something worth sharing for your syllabus? How do you 'sell' geography?

Edexcel syllabus A for AS and A2, kindly provided by Miles Aarons, Jumeriah College, Dubai.

An OCR version has been kindly donated by  Emma Meredith  Download it here - it is large [2.7Mb] but worth the wait.

Have you any others for other syllabi?

EDEXCEL B ISSUES ANALYSIS May 2004

Thanks to Andrew Boardman and Fran Martin from Brent, there are some ideas to help prepare students on the recently released generalisations. These are examples NOT definitive advice.  Download these word and excel documents for adaptation to your own situation.

Synoptic  Ideas   Synopticity concept web  Flaunting synopticity  Analysis of all figures 

Facts to learn  Mapwork included   Impact analysis table  Conflict matrix 

Exam Buster 

Dan Denker Cannock Chase High School has offered this presentation - not bad for a bit of last minute stuff won't go a miss.

Download it now 250kb

EDEXCEL B UNIT 5 HAZARDS JANUARY 2004

Thanks to Andrew Boardman from Brent, there are some ideas to help prepare students on the recently released generalisations. Download these three word documents for adaptation to your own situation.

Essay titles  Key themes  Tables to complete

TOPS - Tamworth Opportunities at Post 16

A group of geographers from all the Tamworth and Lichfield schools have got together to share resources at GCSE and A level. There are PowerPoint presentations and TOPS 10 weblinks for various subjects as well as fieldwork enquiries.

Click here to find out more

General Studies  with a geography theme

Bob Jones at Alleyne's High School, Stone has offered these PowerPoint presentations.

Socio economic trends globally

Part I INCREASING WEB & Part II MOBILE PHONE USE 2.3Mb

Part III AIDS EPIDEMIC 6.5Mb

Part IV ECONOMIC GROWTH Part V POVERTY PERSISTS 2.3Mb

UK Social and Environmental Issues

Part I Health Problems in Britain 1.3Mb

Part II Traffic in Britain 2.8Mb

Part III Countryside Conflicts 4.1Mb

Structured enquiries

A level Geography  web enquiries   Can you offer to create one of these. Click to see what has already been done. 

Fieldwork Ideas

Developing AS level fieldwork from Cannock Chase High School

Urban regeneration in Stoke on Trent - Ian Mutter Biddulph High School

Not forgetting the Fieldwork abroad from Blythe Bridge and Leek High Schools

Weblinks for syllabi

Using the Internet for AS/A level Geography - an overview

WJEC AS spec.; We have been using the website in our teaching (we're lucky enough to have whole computing suites at our disposal and good drop-in facilities for our students). Kay Williams from Newcastle-upon-Tyne College has set up a website for her AS students. "This started off as a web handout, but I soon realised the students we get are too lazy to type in web addresses, so the website was born." www.geography.btinternet.co.uk

Have you any others for other syllabi?

Links to exams specifications and more

Who else in Staffordshire is doing your specification?

Conference Papers  

If you would like a copy of the excellent handouts from the conference contact Bob Jones.

• CHINA: THE AWAKENING DRAGON

• The MYTH and REALITY of ECOTOURISM

The lecture programme of the North Staffs GA is here too with downloadable files after the event, never as good as the real thing.

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