Year Nine Coffee

Year Nine homework reminder.

Weather

If you are interested in the weather then you can click here for the latest radar map of the Gulf.
Cloud shows up in different colours depending on cloud density.
Yellow and red areas indicate intense convectional activity.
The image is updated every 10 minutes.

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

Year 12 - Bangladesh Flooding Research

Research how Bangladesh is trying to manage the flood problem
Use Fig 1.52 to help -
E.g.
Compartmentalisation pilot project,
Bank protection pilot project
Brahmaputra right embankment strengthening (BRE)
etc

You can also use the following links as a starting point (you need to do more)
http://www.gwptoolbox.org/index.php?option=com_case&id=127
http://geobytesgcse.blogspot.com/2006/12/flooding-in-ledc-1998-floods-in.html (GCSE but good)
http://www.apfm.info/pdf/case_studies/bangladesh.pdf

Year 7 map skills test

Complete the map skills test by clicking this link
You will need to use this map (below)

Twitter Feed - Unit 4B

Look through this periodically - some very good links being posted. Be selective with what you read.

Not all are relevant to UNIT 4B

https://twitter.com/ZigZagGeography

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.