We are looking to provide an interactive, interesting and fun transition from Year 12 to Year 13. It’s an opportunity to explore hot geographical topics in the news. The aim is to work in pairs, to develop a variety of resources to provide a basis to your Y13 studies, and get you used to producing extended writing. Some work will take place in the computer rooms or library and some in class, and there is obviously some homework time to complete the topics in time. Each of the study areas is timetabled for two of your three lessons (with Miss Clarke) for the period of a week and the outcomes of the work should be of a standard that can be used to present your ideas in an assembly to your peers or a school magazine. Use this sheet to help to begin to plan your work.
Remember that there is a step up to Year 13 from Year 12 in the same way as there was from Year 11 to Year 12. It’s quite a big step, and some of you may stumble. Don’t worry, your friendly Geography teacher will be there to pick you up when you fall.
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Reporting Style |
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MEDC/LEDC country research-individually |
A presentation on two countries of choice, involving visual, audio and kinaesthetic learning. |
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The Olympics 2012 - good for London? Good for the country? |
Investigative reporting essay.
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Climate Change - Feeling hot? |
Movie maker film clip
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The issues facing an Ageing Population "When I’m 68" |
Newspaper Supplement
(Broadsheet or Tabloid)
Discursive writing
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You will need to work in different pairs or threes for most of the exercises (except from the presentation) to provide you with the opportunity to interact with others who may think slightly differently to the way you think, and who you perhaps haven’t worked with before.
Skills required: Using maps, text, graphs, photographs and diagrams. Interpretation, Annotation, spotting trends and anomalies, describing patterns and distributions.
Also remember the need to consider short term/long term, human/economic, small scale/large scale, direct/indirect, intentional/unintentional and MEDC/LEDC contrasts when looking at the themes.