Send a postcard to the DC Geography Department

• send the Geography Department a postcard
• choose one that is geographical - human or physical
• there are some on the noticeboard in the corridor
• send your card to: The Geography Department, Dubai College, P.O.Box 837, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Year Nine Fieldwork

Click here for the guidelines.
Click here for the fieldwork instructions
Click here for data entry

Click here for QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS. Open the document. Copy and paste the data into EXCEL spreadsheet, or your own Google Docs, or a One Drive spreadsheet

note -
Much of the data is NOT numerical so Excel struggles to create graphs.
Google docs will create graphs from non numerical data (see below)

Mass Tourism in Europe

Mass Tourism in Europe
Find a city (coastal) in Europe that is WELL KNOWN for mass tourism. (Millions of people). 

Check with JM that you can choose it.

On a word document:
Introduction Write an introduction to include a map, description of its location etc
Factfile
Add a factfile - population, climate, geographical features, landscape etc

Mass Tourism
How many tourists visited in in a recent calendar year? E.g. 2014
What was life like there before tourism? When was that?

Negative Aspects
Find out some of the negative aspects of tourism in this city.
Have crime rates risen for example?
Are resources such as water being used at an unsustainable rate? Electricity generation? Space (land)?
What are some other issues such as waste disposal, pollution.
Pollution - noise, light, air, sea, water (fresh)
Do all the local people like what has happened to the area? 
What is happening to the local culture? 

Chosen so far:
Faliraki, Ayia Napa, Benidorm, Malia, Zante, Kavos, Palma de Majorca, Magaluf

‘The last free people on the planet'

In small pockets around the world live isolated indigenous communities. It’s important for humanity these peoples exist… they’re the last free people on this planet.’

Research Questions
What numbers are we talking? How many isolated tribes have been discovered? How many are there estimated to be? Have the tribes been given names?

Where in Brazil? Specific areas? Have areas been zoned off or protected by the Brazilian Gov't?
Are there dedicated gov't organisations whose job it is to identify & protect these people?

Many of these groups have tragic histories of encounters with outsiders — too much ‘contact’ — where they fought to preserve their isolation and, usually, came up much worse off than their more numerous intrude6rs.


Are there any success stories? Tribes successfully protected ........
Are there any tragic stories where tribes have been wiped out in recent history?

The uncontacted tribe in theBBC video you watched has been monitored by the Brazilian government for 20 years, and lives in a reserve set up to protect uncontacted tribes........WHERE? WHO?

FUNAI (Brazil’s National Foundation of the Indian) - What do they do, how do they do it? Are they successful?

Take a look at these:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7427417.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7426794.stm

more to follow......keep refreshing

MAKE SURE THEY ARE UNCONTACTED TRIBES.
***** IF THEY ARE ON YOUTUBE CLOSE UP THEN THEY ARE NOT COMPLETELY ISOLATED AND UNCONTACTED*****

Global Problems in 2030

Population Rise + Economic growth = ????????

What will be the population in 2030?
Where will most of this population growth be?

Which regions are expected to experience major economic growth?
Is there a link between the two? (Pop Growth & Eco Growth)

What problems can we expect in the future? (doesn't have to be exactly 2030!)
Food, Farmland, Energy, Resources, CO2, Water, Climate change, Conflict, Migration

You are gathering information.

Put all research, photo's, graphs etc into a document.

Don't worry about presentation at this stage

Chinese History Pinboard by 9NL

 

 

Year 9 JBR data

Here is the link to the shops & services spreadsheet.

Feel free to copy the data into a MS EXCEL file if you want to edit & manipulate existing data OR save it as another Google spreadsheet

9AY - We are still waiting for some Env Quality data from 9TJ. The file will be updated so keep checking back.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At8D2_Eb6I0edGJKWVV5M1RsMU9oRFVDSFUwZVJFeFE&usp=sharing


Here are the questionnaire responses:

Feel free to copy the data into a MS EXCEL file if you want to edit & manipulate existing data OR save it as another Google spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At8D2_Eb6I0edDlISElfV01GN1c1TlBOQUNIUzAwSkE&usp=sharing

Permissions for both spreadsheets are set so that you can VIEW but not EDIT

JBR Fieldwork - Hypothesis

Retail and Global Brands Investigation at Marina Walk
Jumeirah Beach Residence

Hypothesis
Write a brief hypothesis for the following research questions:

1. What is the link between type of shop/service and pedestrian density?
2. Do similar shops and services cluster together?
3. Do major brands have larger frontages?
4. How have the planners made the area attractive?
5. Who are the visitors to JBR and what brands are they buying or using?

Year 9 - China City Study

Imagine you had to put together a factfile about Dubai!

It would be easy!! However - you need to do it for one of the top 10 Chinese cities (by population)

For your chosen city find out and elaborate on the following topics:

Location - map etc - 2 maps? - different scales

Photo’s

Population - current & growth

Wealth - GDP?

Main language(s)

Main industries - tourism? manufacturing? Trade? Finance?

Infrastructure - Int airport? Port, New Billion dollar metro etc

Physical surroundings - mountains, rivers, plains, deserts, seas

Nearby cities

Weather & Climate

Hazards - flooding, EQ’s, volcanoes

Tourism - Famous Landmarks, monuments

Any notable historical events

British School?

Links to Dubai?

China Inequality - How the Rich and the Poor compare

Year Nine Coffee

Year Nine homework reminder.

9DR Development analysis

Complete these questions for your HW:
What does the 'total' column tell us about the countries you picked?
How does the 'total' column compare to the 'GNI per cap' column?
What does it tell you about ONLY using GNI to judge a countries development?
Use the statistics to explain why country X is more developed than country Y

Y9 JBR Coursework write up guidelines

JBR data about frontages, shop types and pedestrian accounts are here.  You need to think about presenting your data in a variety of ways, for example, pedestrian density could be as a bar chart.

Questionnaire data is available here. This data is only for 9EJ and 9RD.  The sheet is locked. I suggest that you download all data so that you have your own private copy.


Please click here to access JBR task sheet.

Marking guidelines are here.