Mapping China

China controls mapping rights – interesting for yr13 superpowers as it highlights China’s power and influence over established technology companies like Google.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/13/google-china-business-with-the-west

National Geographic: Water issue

The April 2010 issue of National Geographic has lots of articles on water. This will be especially useful for yr13 students and people starting the GCSE course on September

Map websites

These map websites are a little different from the usual mapping websites.

Strange Maps: a blog featuring a huge variety of interesting maps

Maptube: make your own maps by combining different data sets

Pollution in the Pacific Ocean

This article is from the Guardian. It is about the voyage across the Pacific of the Plastiki, a catamaran made from recycled bottles. The crew are hoping to raise awareness about plastic waste in the oceans, and the article highlights an interesting geographical phenomenon.

Find out more about the Plastiki on their blog.

The VLE

The school’s new VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) is now up and running. The VLE will be used by every department at school, and the Geography department has been busy setting up special pages for each year group. You should have been given a password and username for the VLE in one of your lessons: you use the same log-in details for every subject.

This blog won’t be disappearing: we’ll be using it to keep you informed of geography in the news and any issues that might be relevant to your classwork.

Record Breakers Tourism Homework

1. Follow the link to this website: http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_spring2002/focuson/index.html
2. Read the introduction.
3. Click on the first ‘Click here’ button.  Read the factfile, look at the graph and map, and answer these questions:
   1. Which regions of the world are predicted to experience the greatest growth in tourism arrivals in the future?
   2. Which regions are predicted to experience the slowest growth?
   3. Why do you think this is?
4. Go back to the introduction.  Use the world map underneath it to help you write a list of the top 20 tourist destinations in the developing world.  How many people visit each place a year?

Extension:

Read the rest of the introduction and write down five key points from it.

Year 11 Hazards Revision

Flooding case studies

Bangladesh Revision notes

Summary of Bangladesh

These detailed notes will help you to revise the Bangladesh case study.

Battle for the Biosphere Revision

Revision

Climate and Change Revision

Climate and change revision