Key stage 3 geography Blog

Biomes – Students have just started their new topic of Biomes. Click on the picture below to see the main biomes around the world. If you didn’t finish your map in class then use this map to complete it.

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Volcano Models – Year 9 have recently excelled themselves and have produced the best collection of model volcanoes the school has ever seen. They are so good we have taken as many as possible to St Ives Town Library and put them on display there. Have a look…..

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Volcano end of unit test – Revision. Use this Powerpoint to help you revise for your upcoming end of unit test. Good luck.

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Click on the icon to the left to play a  game to help you learn some of the key terms covered in recent lessons.

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Structure of the Earth – As an introduction to volcanoes, Year 9 have been learning about the structure of the Earth. Watch this excellent short video to help you understand the structure and the force at work inside the Earth.

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September 2010 – Welcome back to the Year 9 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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Olympic Logos

We have been looking at the history of the Olympics; the host cities and the logos from each games. The London 2012 logo has been very controversial, have a look here at some of the other contenders.

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London 2012

Year 9 have started to look at the London 2012 Olympics. Here is the link for the official London 2012 website. It has loads of information on it and is a great place to start your research about a ‘sustainable games’.

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Click on the video in the right hand panel to watch the video of all the excellent year 9 volcano models.

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Revision for Year 9 volcano test

Use the below Powerpoint, along with your class notes, to help you revise for your upcoming volcano test.

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Volcano homework for Miss Yorke’s year 9 class:

Click on the picture to get the recipe for honeycomb pumice.

And click on this picture of an excellent homemade volcano to get the instructions for how to make your own.

Homework for Miss Yorke due: bring to the lesson on Monday 19th October

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Plate Tectonics Jigsaw worksheet

Here is the plate tectonics jigsaw homework sheet. Don’t forget, you need to carefully cut out each plate and glue them in to your exercise book for next lesson.

Don’t worry that it doesn’t fit together perfectly, that is the whole point. Put it together as well as you can, we’ll dicuss it in class next lesson.

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The powerpoint below shows some examples of Wordles created using volcano vocabulary:

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Have a look at this short National Geographic video to get an idea about just how important volcanoes are in the formation of the Earth…

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The schedule for year 9 geography:
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Welcome back to school and your outstanding geography department. This new blog is designed to help you with your class studies as well as with homework assignments. There will also be links to other useful sites and further reading.