Showing posts with label revision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revision. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Revision Ning
There is now a Geogtastic revision Ning... Check your emails for the link and more info.
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Skills Books...
The skills books that I've mentioned are:
AQA Geography Skills - book written specificially for our course, covering GEOG2 (AS) and GEO4a (A2).
and Essential Geographical Skills - a general skills book covering a range of graphical, statistical, cartographic and fieldwork skills...
I've just noticed that there are also guides for GEOG1 and GEOG3 available in the same series as the first book - I've not got copies of them yet, so can't say how useful (or otherwise) they are.
AQA Geography Skills - book written specificially for our course, covering GEOG2 (AS) and GEO4a (A2).
and Essential Geographical Skills - a general skills book covering a range of graphical, statistical, cartographic and fieldwork skills...
I've just noticed that there are also guides for GEOG1 and GEOG3 available in the same series as the first book - I've not got copies of them yet, so can't say how useful (or otherwise) they are.
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
GeoTube
Meant to post about this ages ago but don't think I ever did!! GeoTube is a collection of geography related videos from YouTube and other such places, and although primarily aimed at Geography teachers, there is lots of really useful stuff on there so if you fancy a change from reading through your notes and essay practice, have a look!!
Monday, 27 April 2009
Revision Guides.... again!
Another reminder for Yr12 and for those of you in Yr13 who are resitting AS modules, that the revision guides that I wrote at Christmas are all here. The Population and Rivers ones, although written for the old specification should be useful for Yr12 too.
I have also just added a Cold Environments Revision Guide, written by Rob Chambers, who is a Geography teacher in Cambridge. Although it is specifically written for AS, it is also of use to Yr13. There is some stuff at the beginning that is specific to Rob's school but you can just ignore that bit!
The password is Ben's geographical nickname... If you can't remember, ask me at school, email, or ask one of the Yr13s.
I have also just added a Cold Environments Revision Guide, written by Rob Chambers, who is a Geography teacher in Cambridge. Although it is specifically written for AS, it is also of use to Yr13. There is some stuff at the beginning that is specific to Rob's school but you can just ignore that bit!
The password is Ben's geographical nickname... If you can't remember, ask me at school, email, or ask one of the Yr13s.
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Revision Guides
Proper posts with reminders about what we covered in the last week of term will be here tomorrow.
In the meantime, however, a reminder about the revision guides that I put together at Christmas... Although they were written for resits for the old spec (ie the one that Yr13 are doing at the moment), much of the Population, Settlement and Rivers stuff will be of use to Yr12 too.
They are here and the password is Ben's geographical nickname (email if you can't remember!).
I hope to be able to get some more stuff together in the next few days, esp Cold Environments - will add to 4shared and post here, if and when it's complete.
You might also like to check out the couple of revision bits that I have put on GeogtasticGCSE as well - the ideas could easily be adapted, so if you fancy putting together some mobile phone revision quizzes (or perhaps "flashcards" of key words?) or Xtranormal videos, send them to me and I'll put them here so everyone can use them.
In the meantime, however, a reminder about the revision guides that I put together at Christmas... Although they were written for resits for the old spec (ie the one that Yr13 are doing at the moment), much of the Population, Settlement and Rivers stuff will be of use to Yr12 too.
They are here and the password is Ben's geographical nickname (email if you can't remember!).
I hope to be able to get some more stuff together in the next few days, esp Cold Environments - will add to 4shared and post here, if and when it's complete.
You might also like to check out the couple of revision bits that I have put on GeogtasticGCSE as well - the ideas could easily be adapted, so if you fancy putting together some mobile phone revision quizzes (or perhaps "flashcards" of key words?) or Xtranormal videos, send them to me and I'll put them here so everyone can use them.
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Make yourself some revision cards!
Just put this together in less than 5 minutes using the Trading Card Maker from Big Huge Labs and one of my Flickr photos... Your finished trading card is a jpeg file, so you can print them out easily as small cards or full pages - make yourself a set of case study revision cards!
Better still, make yourself a set and upload them to Flickr so that other people can use them too!
Better still, make yourself a set and upload them to Flickr so that other people can use them too!
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Year 12
The first part of Monday's lesson was spent discussing the fieldwork section of the Unit 2 exam that you will be sitting on Monday morning. Remember that you can access some of the sample questions on the AQA website... If you know your fieldwork investigation thoroughly, then this section should be very straightforward - and there is no reason why you can't answer the fieldwork section first, even though it will not be the first question in the exam booklet.
We then revised some of the key rivers ideas - the drainage basin hydrological cycle, river processes and landforms, flooding and management. If you look back at previous posts on Geogtastic6 (click on the Yr12 or Rivers labels at the bottom of this post) there are various bits and pieces that will help you - and if you look at the post below this one, you will find the link to the revision guides I've put together for the Year 13s who are resitting GGA1. The two Water on the Land documents, and the Exam Command Words one, will both be of use to you. If you have forgotten the password that I gave you the other day, email, or ask one of the Yr13s.
A quick reminder about the exam:
Monday 12th January - 9.00am - 6th form block
1 hour
50 marks - 25 marks on Rivers-based OR Population-based skills questions, followed by 25 marks on your fieldwork.
Email (or leave a comment on here) if there are things you are unsure about.
And remember READ THE QUESTION!!!
Good luck!
We then revised some of the key rivers ideas - the drainage basin hydrological cycle, river processes and landforms, flooding and management. If you look back at previous posts on Geogtastic6 (click on the Yr12 or Rivers labels at the bottom of this post) there are various bits and pieces that will help you - and if you look at the post below this one, you will find the link to the revision guides I've put together for the Year 13s who are resitting GGA1. The two Water on the Land documents, and the Exam Command Words one, will both be of use to you. If you have forgotten the password that I gave you the other day, email, or ask one of the Yr13s.
A quick reminder about the exam:
Monday 12th January - 9.00am - 6th form block
1 hour
50 marks - 25 marks on Rivers-based OR Population-based skills questions, followed by 25 marks on your fieldwork.
Email (or leave a comment on here) if there are things you are unsure about.
And remember READ THE QUESTION!!!
Good luck!
Monday, 29 December 2008
Yr13 Resit Revision
If you have been checking your emails you will know about computer issues, etc. If not, apologies again for the delay, but the [redone] Energy and Life revision guide is now here http://www.4shared.com/dir/11440708/8f2e61da/AS_Revision_Guides.html - the password is Ben's geographical nickname!
The others will be going in the same folder as soon as they are done, which I am hoping will be Wednesday at the latest.
The others will be going in the same folder as soon as they are done, which I am hoping will be Wednesday at the latest.
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Today...
Some very good mini-lessons today - well done.
We looked at rias, fjords, raised beaches and relict cliffs. We talked about eustatic and isostatic sea level change (we will talk about this more at a later date).
We also looked at geos, blowholes, cracks, caves, arches, stacks, stumps, headlands and bays, wave-cut notches and wave-cut platforms. We also considered concordant and discordant coastlines.
Make sure that you are clear about all of these!
The revision website that Laura mentioned is www.revision-notes.co.uk - there is some useful stuff on there but I've just spotted several mistakes in the bits I've looked at so be careful!! The S-Cool site that I have mentioned before is also handy.
If you are in the group that were not ready today, make sure that you are sorted for Friday (I will definitely be in school, and so there will definitely be a lesson).
Also, a reminder about Wales money/permission slips... Someone asked if you can pay all the money at once - absolutely you can if you/parents are happy to do that!! The sooner it's sorted the better!
We looked at rias, fjords, raised beaches and relict cliffs. We talked about eustatic and isostatic sea level change (we will talk about this more at a later date).
We also looked at geos, blowholes, cracks, caves, arches, stacks, stumps, headlands and bays, wave-cut notches and wave-cut platforms. We also considered concordant and discordant coastlines.
Make sure that you are clear about all of these!
The revision website that Laura mentioned is www.revision-notes.co.uk - there is some useful stuff on there but I've just spotted several mistakes in the bits I've looked at so be careful!! The S-Cool site that I have mentioned before is also handy.
If you are in the group that were not ready today, make sure that you are sorted for Friday (I will definitely be in school, and so there will definitely be a lesson).
Also, a reminder about Wales money/permission slips... Someone asked if you can pay all the money at once - absolutely you can if you/parents are happy to do that!! The sooner it's sorted the better!
Friday, 4 April 2008
GGA3 resits and past papers, etc.
A reminder that all the papers since June 2004 are available to download from the AQA website, together with markschemes. Some of the pictures/maps are missing due to copyright restrictions... I have got various papers/resource booklets at home so if there is a particular question you are desperate to do, email and I might be able to help out!!
For those of you who missed the discussion at the end of this afternoon's lesson, we also talked about getting together to go through some questions, etc. - my frees are p4 and 5 on Mondays, p4 on Thursdays, and p3 and 4 on Fridays. If we can all agree one of these times, we will - if not we'll organise a couple of after-school sessions (any day except Monday)... Let me know if you want to come along and if so which time(s) would be best.
For those of you who missed the discussion at the end of this afternoon's lesson, we also talked about getting together to go through some questions, etc. - my frees are p4 and 5 on Mondays, p4 on Thursdays, and p3 and 4 on Fridays. If we can all agree one of these times, we will - if not we'll organise a couple of after-school sessions (any day except Monday)... Let me know if you want to come along and if so which time(s) would be best.
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