  Jess
Page, Launceston College,
Cornwall, has sent this mystery for
the Boscastle flood ....
and its a true story, her friend's
mum actually did find a brand new pair of walking boots! It provides
quite a good link between rivers and coasts too.
How did Mrs George come across a brand new pair of walking boots? |
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A
visual Coastal Dominoes
is here from
Kathy Brown, Ash Manor School Surrey. This will surely appeal to all
the visual learners in your classes. |
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Why
did the rock I sat on for lunch end up in my wellies? This is a
rivers mystery,
on erosion, transportation and deposition from
Hannah Rowe, Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar school.
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Old
Harry rocks mystery is used with
Y8 class to set the lesson up as a “who
dunnit?”. Usually I introduce the lesson as a murder mystery, they have
to think of questions to find out what happened to Mrs Rocks before
going onto the mystery and then I introduce the real Old Harry and they
then write an explanation of how it was formed using the cards, but
using appropriate terms.
Old Harry mystery cards with thanks to Dave Parrish, The
Buckingham School.
Dan Denker, King Edward VI
School, Handsworth, has created an
Old Harry PowerPoint
using stills from Geography in Animation. |
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Why
is Sanjay’s home insurance so high? Sanjay lives in Bangladesh -
sort the cards out to find out why his insurance is so high and design a
poster to explain why.
The mystery is here.
Jennie
Denton, Whalley Range High School, Manchester |
Rhine
flooding mystery from Lizzie
Canvin from Grays School Media Arts College, in Essex for this
mystery which she created for her Y10 class, as part of the hazards
unit.
1) In pairs or 3's, pupils take statements from envelope and sort into
categories - Causes, Effects, Background info.
2) Next ask pupils to sort the causes pile into 2 categories - Human,
Physical. Discuss flooding processes, key words etc. Focus on factors
which increase surface run-off.
3) Pupils present statements on A3 paper, in categories, drawing arrows
to show links, colour code etc.
This activity works well after a lesson on the basics of how rivers
flood. I used it to try and encourage them to think of how human
activity is affected by, but can also contribute to flooding (catch 22
situation). By answering the mystery question afterwards as well, pupils
had to think about secondary/longer term effects of hazards, and links
between human activity and hazards. They really enjoyed it, and it got
them discussing/arguing about some of the statements.
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Odd
One Out Rivers - Alan Jeanes at Simon Langton Boys School
Canterbury.
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Odd ones out
Coast Alison Bowers, Le Bocage International School, Mauritius |
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Get out of your seats geography!
Find
someone who ... Rivers can be used at the start, in the middle or at
the end of a lesson; the activity is easily adapted and the
questions can be changed according to the local situation. Gary
Dawson, Fair Oak Business and Enterprise College, Rugeley, Staffs. |
 Why
was Bob the builder not allowed to build in Stone? This mystery
has been created by Bob Jones from Alleynes High School,
which he used with Y9 pupils in conjunction with fieldwork in Stone. Don't
forget to look at the Flood 2000 site
too.
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 Journey
down the River Severn is a card sort activity based on the Landmarks video, Follow the
River, pupils are given a list of statements and descriptions which they
have to put in order from source to mouth.
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From
Jackie Arundale,
now FSS Consultant
for Sheffield LEA,
working with staff from schools in
Sheffield, Doncaster and
Rotherham as part of a G and T workshop run with Ann
Hoyland of
Stocksbridge School.
Why
did the Chinese writer Dai Qing spend 10 months in prison?
3
Gorges Dam mystery
Why
are Jim and Betty having problems getting house insurance?
Coastal erosion
mystery |
 More
Domino activities for starters
These cards can be used like the pub game at the start of a
lesson, either in small groups or as a whole class
activity. When cutting the cards up, remember each card has two
halves!
Bangladesh flooding dominoes
Richard Allen, Weston Road High School, Stafford. |
Dominoes These
rivers dominoes are in Excel
spreadsheet format. NB They print out onto 31 pages of paper -
one domino per page!
Rivers With thanks to Joanne Booker Jones, from North Halifax Grammar
School. |
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Odd ones out Coasts for AS / A2 -
full list of words,
sets of words,
answers! Simon Renshaw, Roundhill
Community College, Leicester has sent these |
Mystery on Lynmouth floods
Over 50
years ago the
most seminal flooding event in the UK happened. It still
lingers.
 Why
did PC Harper nearly die one night in August 1952? (Please
note: This is a Microsoft Publisher file)
Amanda Roff, Uffculme School,
Devon
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Andy Pinks'
 Effects
of weather concept map
This is based on a severe snowfall in the South East of
England in January 2003. There is a set of web links to
newspaper reports of the event. There are full instructions on
how Andy used the concept mapping cards. He has also offered 2 PowerPoint presentations with before
and after photos on them. he has found then really useful as
lesson starters on
 hurricanes
and
 flooding
for KS4. Andy Pinks teaches at Caterham School in Surrey
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 Why
was Bob the builder not allowed to build in Stone? This
mystery has been created by Bob Jones from Alleynes
High School, which he used with Y9 pupils in conjunction
with fieldwork in Stone. Don't forget to look at the
Flood
2000 site too. |
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