Key stage 3 geography Blog

Christmas homework for Mr Gray’s classes:

You need to write a newspaper report of the Haitian earthquake. It should be written within a few days of the disaster. You need to include the causes, effects, an interview with an eye witness and a picture of the devastation. Your newspaper also needs a name, price, date and punchy headline. Click here for some help and a blank template in case you have lost your. Due date: first lesson back

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Haiti Earthquake – January 12th 2010

Year 7 have started to study the Haiti earthquake of January 2010. There are many details on the presentation below.

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Natural Hazards

We are now starting the new topic of Natural Hazards. Have a look at the Wordle below, it is made up of different types of natural hazards. Have a go at making your own at www.wordle.net. The more times you type in a word the larger it will be displayed in your wordle. Send any that you make  to Mr Gray as an attachment in an email (Word or Powerpoint)

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Year 7 map skills – use the links below to practice your map skills that you have recently learnt in class. You will soon have an end of unit test, so get practicing…

Various map skills – try these excellent Ordnance Survey games to practice map skills such as directions, grid references, scale and map symbols.

European countries – use this game to practice the location and flags of many European countries.

Grid references – here is a nice, quick, game to practice 4 figure grid references.

Grid references and directions – use this game from the Ordnance Survey website to practice your grid references and directions.

Longitude and Latitude revision game – Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Longitude and Latitude game – Crack the Code game. High level, but fun. A good way to learn some world cities.

Longitude and Latitude game – This is a great interactive game where you need to locate Hannah. Do well enough and you progress to the next level.

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Year 7 EU homework – Click on the Newsround link below. On the Newsround page you can learn about the EU by clicking on the links on the right hand side of the page.

Also, once you have read about the EU, have a go at this game where you have to match the country to the flag. My best score is 13, see if you can do any better. To play it click on the EU flag below.

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Here is a wonderful video to help you learn the country names and where they are in the world. Lots of fun to watch over and over and over…..

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Where in the World is Matt? – We have just started to look at countries around the world and this video is a great way of introducing some of the far flung and inspiring places we will be studying in the KS3 course. Watch to see where Matt dances around the world.

And here are the outtakes that didn’t make it to the final cut:

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Geography in the News – Year 7 students have recently made some posters highlighting geography in the news. Have a look at the Geo-news link above to see some recent geography in the news. You don’t have to look far to find plenty of geography stories out there…..

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Click on the picture to play a game to help you practice the different branches of geography. The quicker you are, the better your score. Good luck.

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September 2010 – Welcome back to the Year 7 page of the geography blog. Hopefully you will be able to look at this page often to help with homework assignments and get general hints and tips on the current topics.

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Tsunami poem

All students will be assessed and given a national curriculum level for their tsunami poem. Click here to download a spare copy of the blank sheet to write your poem on. Also you can click here to get a copy of the poem framework with the example vocabulary. Remember to imagine you were there and experienced the tsunami.

7Bz – homework is due on Wednesday January 6th

7Cg – homework is due on Friday January 8th

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Earthquake proof bridge simulation

After the success of making buildings from spaghetti and marshmallows try this website. Here you can learn about how to make bridges earthquake proof and even make your own bridge and test it in an earthquake.

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Natural Hazards

We are now starting the new topic of Natural Hazards. Have a look at the Wordle below, it is made up of different types of natural hazards. Have a go at making your own at www.wordle.net. The more times you type in a word the larger it will be displayed in your wordle. Send any that you make  to Mr Gray as an attachment in an email (Word or Powerpoint)

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