Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Your revision powerpoints

I was impressed by the concentration and effort you put into producing these today - well done! Use them to recap what we talked about during the lesson.





Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Revision time is upon us ...

Hopefully you have all recovered from the Ireland trip! Now, however, our thoughts need to turn to revision as your exam is on Tuesday 20th May. -not far off!

This is an electronic copy of a revision booklet you will recieve in Tuesday's lesson (it seems to have got slightly muddled up during uploading, but it's all there). Don't waste loads of paper by printing it off - I have already done that for you! Just have a read ...


Read this doc on Scribd: AS LEVEL GEOGRAPHY rev guide

Wednesday, 26 March 2008

Economic Activity homeworks

We have no lessons for ages now; next week we are in Ireland (!!) and then it is the two week break. Therefore, you need to complete a number of homework activities before our next lesson on Tuesday 22nd April.

1. Complete the mind map you started in the lesson - this needs to be very detailed and you will therefore need to read the articles I gave you.
2. Complete the exam questions I gave you.
3. Read the notes about Newly Industrialising Countries (NICs)
4. Produce a case study about a Multinational Corportaion (MNC) e.g. Ford, General Motors etc. You might want to read P250-251 in your textbook to help you with this.

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Changing patterns of retail

Learning Objectives Part 1:
•To identify the theoretical sphere of influence of Derby using Reilly’s Law of Retail Gravitation.
•To identify the actual sphere of influence of Derby using fieldwork data.
•To evaluate the similarities and differences between the actual and theoretical sphere of influence.
•To suggest reasons for any differences.


Learning Objectives Part 2:
Be able to describe and explain how and why patterns of retailing have changed in an area of the UK you have studied. Case study: Manchester / Trafford Centre.

Homework activities DUE TUESDAY 18th MARCH
January 2004 exam questions:
(ii) Referring to Figure 4, suggest reasons why the theoretical sphere of influence around Buckingham is irregular in shape (3)
(iii) Suggest reasons why people might shop in a central place such as Buckingham even if they live outside the theoretical sphere of influence (3)

January 2005 exam question:
Referring to an area in the UK, explain why patterns of retailing have changed in recent years (7).

Thursday, 31 January 2008

Brownfield or Greenfield?

You need to:
Be able to explain why there is demand for new housing in the UK
Understand the issues faced over using both brown and greenfield sites for the development of new housing

Homework
Read the Geofile article given out in the lesson.
Answer questions:
i) Examine the issues regarding the use of brownfield sites for additional housing in a town or city in the UK (7)
ii) There are plans to extend existing rural settlements and to create new villages within southeast England before 2016. Examine the issues considered by decision makers when selecting sites for such new developments (7)

Additional reading - remember you should be doing 4 hours of study for each of your subjects. Are you?
Guardian article: Housing demand - The issue explained
Environment Agency statament about the use of brownfield sites
BBC Bitesize overview - it's designed for GCSE, but a concise place to start

Reurbanisation - your powerpoints

Thank you to everyone who has e-mailed me their presentations - you can now view them all here: