Coronavirus Work: Rural and Urban UK – Change in UK cities

The video linked below is REALLY useful as it looks at lots of strands on the urban part of this topic. It does this by looking at change in cities and especially change through the process of GENTRIFICATION.

video is here

video notes:

1/ GENTRIFICATION

Land in London is very expensive because lots of people want to live and work there; demand for it is high and there is a limited amount of it. This means property developers build expensive new accommodation so they make more money and so rich people are the only ones that can afford this and the poor people are forced to move away. This also happens to local independent businesses. This is what gentrification is; less wealthy people being forced to leave where they live and work by increasing prices.

Also note the link to other parts of the GCSE here. As London is a global city, foreign residents and multinational companies are also involved is also a factor. If you can understand that, then you will be getting the higher scores in any 8 mark questions in your exam.

2/ SKATEBOARDING

• Why did people want to remove the skateboarders?
• Why did people want to keep the skateboarding space?
• The skateboard area was kept. If it had not been what might the effects have been? Write a list categorising the effects into social, economic and environmental

Coronavirus Work: Rural and Urban UK – Skeleton revision cards & key word lists

This is a set of revision resources, produced to help students after they have finished the topic. However, bearing in mind these strange times, you could also use them ALONGSIDE the work you are doing on this topic. this would have advantages:

1/ You would see the progress you were making and what you were covering

2/ You could see what you had NOT yet covered.

3/ When we go over this work in class, you could see how that fits in with the work you have done now.

4/ You could fill in keyword definitions as you go.

When you use these for revision after the topic, here is how they work best. The idea is that by using them both you will have revised the whole topic. You could work out all the key words first and then use them to help you answer the questions on the skeleton cards or you could start with the cards and work out the key words as you go along. Be aware that summing up each topic with just 4-8 questions means that you will need to spend a lot of time on each one to cover the whole topic properly.

Key words 1.2 urban rural UK

urban rural uk

The Beauty of Maps

Missing geography? Of course you are!

Well go to this BBC site and wonder and gasp at all the beauty of maps. Look at what maps were used for and how they looked. Which one are your favourites? How have maps changed?

You’ll never look at the map on your phone in the same way again! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s2w83

Coronavirus and Geography

I saw this on Twitter this morning and it altered my thinking a little.

It raised some questions I thought might be good for you geography students to consider as well.

1/ How might the impacts of the coronavirus differ between an LIC and an HIC?

2/ How could poverty affect the impacts of the virus?

3/ How could ‘preparedness’ and infrastructure affect the impacts of the virus?

4/ Why might it be harder for an LIC than an HIC  to manage an effective response to the virus?

5/ Do you think globalisation makes the virus easier or harder to manage?

I am sure there are many other questions that could be asked. But there is no doubt that geographers have a role to play in understanding the effects and responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Geography reading and resources for y10

I will add to this list as time goes on, but for the moment I give you just a few to start with:

This looks at the problems of water shortages in South Africa and what people have tried to do to solve this South Africa water Geoactive 597

This is an article on the problems of transport in UK cities  Urban transport Geoactive 599

This is an update on global warming impacts Geoactive 594

Here you can read about the causes and effects of extreme weather in the UK Extreme UK weather Geoactive 600

UPDATE 26/3/2020

This was produced by the wonderful @mrshumanities on twitter and I link it here with no editing at all. So a big thank you to her. In it are telly programs, books, online links, films and other stuff to help you keep your LOVE of geography going

Click here to see the documents KeepLearningGeography

Past Paper revision

At some time during your revision you will need to practise some past paper questions. as the GCSEs are still relatively new there are only the 2018 papers available online at the moment. you can find them on the EDUQAS site if you click here

Additionally it is likely that your teacher will have access to the 2019 papers from last year so you might want to ask them for copies of those as well

Big revision guide – part 3

All your revision key word lists in one place for every topic are attached. Please note there is no way I can cover every single word you need to know for the exam here. The list is not exhaustive. Also I have tried to avoid duplication so some words will be key for more than one topic but only appear in one list.

the secret with key words is not just to know what they mean but to be able to successfully use them in an exam answer. so also practice using them by writing out full sentecnes with key words in or by going on to exam papers and finding questions you can use them in.

The link for them are hereKey words 3.4 desertificationKey words 3.3 waterKey words 3.1 & 3.2 ecosystemsKey words 2.4 Climate changeKey words 2.3 Weather and ClimateKey words 2.2 rivers and river managmentKey words 2.1 coasts and coastal managmentKey words 1.3 glob and devtKey words 1.2 urban rural UKKey words 1.1 global cities

 

Big revision guide – part 2

All your revision personal learning checklists (PLCs) in one place for every topic are attached. These break each topic down into small questions that help you realise what you know and what you don’t know. They don’t provide such an overall linked up way of revising as the skeleton cards (which you can find here) but they do give you the chance to revise detailed manner and see what you need to do first by pointing out gaps in your knowledge.

Personally i would start by using these to check what I think I know and think i dont know, then use the skelton cards and then come back again when id finshed the topic use the PLC once more.

The links for them are here Eduqas GCSE B Geography PLC

Big revision guide – part 1

The link below gives you a breakdown of each topic in the GCSE you need to revise. All your revision skeleton revision guides in one place for every topic are attached. These break each topic down into 4-6 questions. They aren’t as detailed as a PLC (which you can find here) but give you the chance to revise in a more joined up and linked together way by seeing the work in larger chunks. I advie using them by taking each question or chunk one at a time and revising that and then testing yourself on what you have learnt. Or get someone else to test you; I know your parents or carers would love to assist you if you asked.

The link for them is here all skeletons

All coasts topic revision

Everything you need (apart from learning it testing yourself and revising it of course) is here. Lots of videos from the time for geography website and some revision pages too.