Some interesting reactions to the test this morning... Remember that in the actual exam you will only have population OR rivers questions, plus fieldwork questions. We will endeavour to have the papers back for you for Monday next week.
We also had a look at the causes of the 2004 flooding in Bangladesh (although the causes are very similar every time there is flooding in Bangladesh), and the impacts and responses. You will need to be able to talk about flooding in countries with different levels of development.
Also a bit disappointing that I have still only had two Boscastle movies...
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Monday, 24 November 2008
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Scintillating Statistics! And two important reminders...
A bit of an adventure across the road this morning for Year 12... The lesson was spent thinking about statistics - and specifically measures of central tendency.
You need to understand:
- mean, mode and median
- standard deviation
- range and interquartile range
- box-and-whisker plots
You will not be asked to calculate things like standard deviation or Spearman Rank from scratch in an exam, and nor are you expected to learn the formulae. You may, however, be given a partially completed calculation to work with, and it is important that you understand a) how the calculations work, and b) why they are useful from a geography point-of-view.
Remember that you have the "skills checklist" from the specification in the handbook I gave you at the beginning of the year.
Assessment Week
Please don't forget that next week is Year 12 Assessment Week, and so in your lesson on Monday you will be completing an exam question - under exam conditions. As it is not too long until your Unit 2 exam (12th January), we have decided that the most useful thing would be for you to do a skills-based paper. Your exam in January will be skills-based, but will use content from either the Population unit or the Rivers unit, and then there will be generic fieldwork questions. The paper you do on Monday will have some Rivers and some Population questions (skills-based) and some generic fieldwork questions.
Boscastle Movies
Need to be finished for Monday if they are not already!!
You need to understand:
- mean, mode and median
- standard deviation
- range and interquartile range
- box-and-whisker plots
You will not be asked to calculate things like standard deviation or Spearman Rank from scratch in an exam, and nor are you expected to learn the formulae. You may, however, be given a partially completed calculation to work with, and it is important that you understand a) how the calculations work, and b) why they are useful from a geography point-of-view.
Remember that you have the "skills checklist" from the specification in the handbook I gave you at the beginning of the year.
Assessment Week
Please don't forget that next week is Year 12 Assessment Week, and so in your lesson on Monday you will be completing an exam question - under exam conditions. As it is not too long until your Unit 2 exam (12th January), we have decided that the most useful thing would be for you to do a skills-based paper. Your exam in January will be skills-based, but will use content from either the Population unit or the Rivers unit, and then there will be generic fieldwork questions. The paper you do on Monday will have some Rivers and some Population questions (skills-based) and some generic fieldwork questions.
Boscastle Movies
Need to be finished for Monday if they are not already!!
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Year 12 - Boscastle and the UK Floods of 2007
Boscastle
A reminder about some of the Boscastle-related links that we looked at last week (and some that we didn't):
Comprehensive coverage of the flood including a timeline and meteorological data from geographyalltheway.com
The findings of the Environment Agency's investigations into the flood.
GeoProjects KeyFile
And a Geogtastic6 post about Boscastle from last year.
UK Floods 2007
Some images showing the impacts of the flooding in Sheffield - thanks to Andy Pinks:
The main cause of the Boscastle flood was very heavy rainfall combined with the topography of the area causing a rapid increase in the discharge of the River Valency and the River Jordan... In the case of the floods that affected much of the UK in 2007, however, rainfall was higher than normal, but pluvial flooding - caused by surface runoff - is thought to have been a major element.
Thanks to GeoBlogs for this PowerPoint which looks at the causes, impacts and responses of the floods and some of the (very complex) issues involved:
This report from the Association of British Insurers makes some interesting points about planning and preparation for similar floods in the future, and it's worth having a read of this Guardian article about the problems of predicting pluvial flooding.
The Environment Agency's pages about the UK floods make for interesting reading ("Currently, surface water flooding is not part of our remit. We are responsible for issuing warnings for flooding from rivers and the sea only...") - and they also contain a variety of useful links, including to the Pitt Review.
The BBC Panorama programme Keeping Britain Dry doesn't seem to be available any more, but you can read the transcript, together with a whole host of links to news articles, images and video clips.
A reminder about some of the Boscastle-related links that we looked at last week (and some that we didn't):
Comprehensive coverage of the flood including a timeline and meteorological data from geographyalltheway.com
The findings of the Environment Agency's investigations into the flood.
GeoProjects KeyFile
And a Geogtastic6 post about Boscastle from last year.
UK Floods 2007
Some images showing the impacts of the flooding in Sheffield - thanks to Andy Pinks:
The main cause of the Boscastle flood was very heavy rainfall combined with the topography of the area causing a rapid increase in the discharge of the River Valency and the River Jordan... In the case of the floods that affected much of the UK in 2007, however, rainfall was higher than normal, but pluvial flooding - caused by surface runoff - is thought to have been a major element.
Thanks to GeoBlogs for this PowerPoint which looks at the causes, impacts and responses of the floods and some of the (very complex) issues involved:
This report from the Association of British Insurers makes some interesting points about planning and preparation for similar floods in the future, and it's worth having a read of this Guardian article about the problems of predicting pluvial flooding.
The Environment Agency's pages about the UK floods make for interesting reading ("Currently, surface water flooding is not part of our remit. We are responsible for issuing warnings for flooding from rivers and the sea only...") - and they also contain a variety of useful links, including to the Pitt Review.
The BBC Panorama programme Keeping Britain Dry doesn't seem to be available any more, but you can read the transcript, together with a whole host of links to news articles, images and video clips.
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Boscastle...
As promised (though a little later than intended.. sorry!) a selection of useful and interesting Boscastle resources. I deliberately haven't included anything from the news websites - not because there's nothing there, or they're not useful, just that there are too many... But do have a look at the BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, Times, etc.
Excellent report from the Environment Agency about the Boscastle Flood.
A leaflet about the flood produced by North Cornwall District Council.
Information from the Met Office about the weather conditions leading up to the flood.
Video clip from the construction company responsible for the flood defence scheme in Boscastle.
Details of the Valency defence scheme from NCDC.
Costing the Earth - programme from Radio 4 from December 2004, looking at the flood, the aftermath, and "the lessons we might learn" from the flood.
And finally, the Witchcraft Museum in Boscastle (those of you who were in my GCSE group already know about this one - and the witch balls in the window!) has an online diary of the floods, the damage to the museum, and the cleanup operation.
Excellent report from the Environment Agency about the Boscastle Flood.
A leaflet about the flood produced by North Cornwall District Council.
Information from the Met Office about the weather conditions leading up to the flood.
Video clip from the construction company responsible for the flood defence scheme in Boscastle.
Details of the Valency defence scheme from NCDC.
Costing the Earth - programme from Radio 4 from December 2004, looking at the flood, the aftermath, and "the lessons we might learn" from the flood.
And finally, the Witchcraft Museum in Boscastle (those of you who were in my GCSE group already know about this one - and the witch balls in the window!) has an online diary of the floods, the damage to the museum, and the cleanup operation.
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