Information for pupils studying Geography in school ages 11 - 18 in Scotland. Geography "in your face".
Thursday 31 December 2009
Happy New Year
Thursday 24 December 2009
Norad
Just a reminder to visit the Norad tracking Santa site here to see all the amazing places he visits. No speeding Santa!
noradsanta
Saturday 19 December 2009
Sunday 29 November 2009
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Muppets do Bohemian Rhapsody
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Extreme Environments
Earthquake revision
Nice link here to a video clip showing earthquake damage in Kobe, Japan. You might want to do this for your homework activity.
Link here.
Example of home made tornado
Film your own example and bring it in. We will judge which is better.
Monday 16 November 2009
Revision resources - Online Geography
A great site here summarising a lot of the stuff you will need for prelims and the final exams. Not all the sections are the same as ours as this is from the English GCSE system rather than Standard Grades but there is still a heck of a lot to keep you busy revising and taking new notes.
Link here
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sunday 8 November 2009
Thursday 5 November 2009
China changes the Weather-possibly.....
With a lot of potential disasters some say, there must be a law against geoengineering. What do you think?
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Underwear and the box
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Thursday 15 October 2009
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Tornado in a bottle experiment
Chocolate week
• Traidcraft has been fighting poverty through trade, with all its profits going back to the producers. It has made a commitment to convert to sustainable palm oil for all of its products. Good news for the orang utangs.
• Divine Chocolate Kuapa Kokoo, the farmers' co-operative that produces the cocoa for Divine.
Outside of these ethical leaders, the chocolate trade is anything but sweet. More than a third of cocoa traded globally comes from Ivory Coast recently 54 children were rescued from slave labour, from its plantations. Violence in the country since 2002 has also been called the "chocolate war, with hundreds dying in conflicts over the cocoa trade.
In February, the Gates Foundation pledged £14.4m to examine conditions in the west African trade. Hershey, Kraft Foods and Mars have pledged a further £26.3m to the project. And since Cadbury's Dairy Milk brand went Fairtrade – things are perhaps looking up for these children and adults.
Chocolate is a good example of how ethical consumption can change things in the world. Even before Dairy Milk's decision sales of Fairtrade chocolate in the UK grew from £1m in 1998 to £26.8m in 2008. Cadbury's will be supplied by Kuapa Kokoo, the co-op that co-owns Divine. If it hadn’t been for Divine spending years working with farmers and educating people like us about this issue, there's no way Cadbury's could have changed to Fairtrade.
Saturday 10 October 2009
Happy ending?
Is there a happy ending?........All depend on you.
Population Satistics explained
Population growth explained
Sunday 4 October 2009
Earthquakes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8287159.stm
Whole areas flattened by quake
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8288588.stm
Inside a destroyed village in Sumatra
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8288644.stm
Close to the epicentre in Sumatra
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8288227.stm
Tuesday 29 September 2009
Limestone coastal erosion
Tuesday 22 September 2009
Sunday 20 September 2009
Continents song
Feel free to sing along Carrick kids. Thanks to Tony Cassidy via twitter.
Or the hip hop version here. This does the oceans too.Which do you prefer?
New blog
http://carrick-marrlondon.blogspot.com
Saturday 19 September 2009
Sunday 30 August 2009
Sunday 23 August 2009
Tuesday 18 August 2009
Monday 17 August 2009
Travel
Not sure it is a good way to get to school. Saves fossil fuels? What powers the hoses though?
Saturday 15 August 2009
Alan?
Thanks to Liz Smith on twitter for this one.
Wednesday 12 August 2009
Revision site
http://geography.alltop.com/
Climate scientists warn of wild weather in the year ahead as El Niño starts
Traffic solutions in Tokyo
Ways to use a map.
Fairtrade bananas
Message from a BBC newsreader - George Alagiah on Fair trade
Wednesday 5 August 2009
Saturday 1 August 2009
Wet July 2009
Friday 24 July 2009
Shanghai now wants a 'two-child policy'
Couples who were both only children, which includes most of the city's young adults, are allowed a second child. There are too many old people in the city and fewer people to look after them. There is a similar problem in Europe. The many only children of China have earned the nickname of "little emperors" as they are very spoiled.
China's birth-control policies have been hugely controversial in other countries and even in China itself, as enforcement has involved forced abortions and other abuses.
It has also been blamed for a gender imbalance, as a traditional preference for boys has persuaded some parents to abort girl babies. In other words more boys are being born than girls and this is now causing problems when boys cannot find a wife in some areas. Read the rest of this BBC article here. Look at sme of the links on this BBC page too as they are very seful for Int 2 and Higher.
Earthquake moves New Zealand towards Australia
Wednesday 22 July 2009
Tuesday 21 July 2009
Moon Landing 40 years on
Monday 20 July 2009
Thursday 9 July 2009
Australian town bans bottled water
Wednesday 8 July 2009
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Nearly time to go.
Monday 1 June 2009
Volcanoes starter
Wednesday 27 May 2009
All over
Sunday 17 May 2009
EMDC or ELDC?
HIV rates of spread in the world
Tuesday 12 May 2009
Saturday 9 May 2009
Swine Flu
Saturday 2 May 2009
Carrick is Quaking up!
Sunday 26 April 2009
Google Alphabet
Go-ahead for carbon-capture power stations
World rivers in trouble
Saturday 25 April 2009
Amazing world
Wednesday 22 April 2009
World’s rivers are drying up.
Water levels in some of the world's important rivers have dropped by a huge amount over the past 50 years. This is partly due to climate change and will become even more important as the population increases in the future. Read more here and /or try the water quiz here.
Wednesday 15 April 2009
Desertification
video here to help with this section. Thanks to sln contributor - Cindy for the linkWatch out for the “magic stones” and no I won’t be pronouncing the French bit in class!!
Wednesday 8 April 2009
Survivor rescued 42 hours after Italian quake
Monday 6 April 2009
Earthquake hits central Italy
In Rome, which is rarely hit by earthquake activity, people were woken up by the quake, which rattled furniture and swayed lights in most of central Italy.
Thursday 2 April 2009
Earthquakes in Action
How to make a house virtually worthless.
Tuesday 31 March 2009
South Downs becomes a National Park
Sunday 29 March 2009
How did Earth Hour look?
Malaysia switches off - Petronas Tower
Australia and New Zealand lead the way for Earth Hour 2009
Saturday 28 March 2009
Dubai makes a new World
Earth Hour tonight!
This shows how this idea is now global.
Sunday 22 March 2009
World map
Street View
Saturday 21 March 2009
Tonga volcanic eruption
Thursday 19 March 2009
Extreme farming
Monday 2 March 2009
Saturday 28 February 2009
Antarctica
Geography - Why is it relevant to me?
Sunday 22 February 2009
Higher/ Int 2 Industry
Industrial Change in WalesEbbw Vale has changed dramatically. Where now lies a barren empty valley once stood the largest steelworks in Europe. See the BBC site here.
The story of the South Wales valleys is a picture of a world that no longer exists. Once a working mining industry, the region now experiences unemployment and poverty. The one colliery still open is Big Pit. It's a museum and tourist attraction.
One hundred and fifty years ago the landscape of South Wales was transformed by the coal industry. From the air you can see the industrial legacy.
There is also a nice summary, especially revision of S grade work and introducing call centres for Intermediate geography. Link here.
Saturday 21 February 2009
Glaciation revision
Thanks to Mark Cowan for sharing his geography poems – anything that helps you learn this stuff folk! See his blog here http://poemsforgeography.blogspot.com
Is this you?
Sunday 15 February 2009
Saturday 7 February 2009
They are preparing for us visiting in June.
Wednesday 4 February 2009
Sunday 18 January 2009
Water Cycle Songs
Really “cheesy” this one!
Water Cycle Rap
Groundwater Animation Song
India’s disappearing slums
Not because they are improving them, however but because the authorities want the land for other things such as building roads or new hotels before the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Is this the answer? Some are provided with new homes but the majority don’t get any help at all. The authorities say they are there illegally and should go.
Thursday 15 January 2009
Tundra song
Monday 12 January 2009
Global warming – yes or no?
Global dimming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
Fossil fuel use, as well as producing greenhouse gases, creates other by-products. These by-products are also pollutants, such as sulphur dioxide, soot, and ash. These pollutants however, also change the properties of clouds.
Clouds are formed when water droplets are seeded by air-borne particles, such as pollen. Polluted air results in clouds with larger number of droplets than unpolluted clouds. This then makes those clouds more reflective. More of the sun’s heat and energy is therefore reflected back into space.
This reduction of heat reaching the earth is known as Global Dimming.
Impacts of global dimming: millions already killed by it?
Global warming results from the greenhouse effect caused by, amongst other things, excessive amounts of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere from fossil fuel burning. It would seem then, that the other by-products which cause global dimming may be an ironic savior.
A deeper look at this, however, shows that unfortunately this is not the case.
Health and environmental effects
The pollutants that lead to global dimming also lead to various human and environmental problems, such as smog, respiratory problems, and acid rain.
The impacts of global dimming itself, however, can be devastating.
Global dimming can be dealt with by cleaning up emissions.
However, if global dimming problems are only addressed, then the effects of global warming will increase even more.
Horizon Video on this topic here. –beware folks it is 48 minutes long!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2058273530743771382
If this is too long then here’s a shorter one
Climate change from the BBC
Good for the new additional section to Higher Geography on the impact of global warming this year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/6528979.stm