OCR 'PILOT' GCSE GEOGRAPHY RESOURCES
AN EXTREME ENVIRONMENT: exploring landscapes and processes
RESOURCES PRODUCED FOR LESSONS
THE NEW ADDITIONS FOR 2007 ARE IN THIS PURPLE COLOUR
We will be using the CAPE FAREWELL pack, which is produced by the GA. We have purchased the STUDENT and TEACHER pack. The pack can be obtained from the GA SHOP by following the link. Thanks to Fred Martin for sending additional information, and to Val Vannet and Steve Johnston for some excellent Svalbard images, which will appear on a gallery 'soon' (ish) and also be stored in a folder on the school network for access.
Image from Cape Farewell website of GA Pack
CLICK THE IMAGE OR HERE for MORE ON THIS PACK....
| LESSON OBJECTIVES | LESSON ACTIVITIES / RESOURCES | |
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Introduction to course |
To explain the
nature of the course and its assessment. Basic 'housekeeping' at the start
of a brand new course. Show the FUGIS powerpoint and hand out the booklet and handouts of the 6 slides which make up the presentation. Examples of the 5 concepts and which they might be an example of. Concept mapping. Explain how one lesson will be in B1 and one will be in normal geography classroom. Extreme Environments - if these sports are extreme, what does that mean about the concept of being "extreme"... Ideas: they are taking it a bit further, they are dangerous, they aren't for everybody, not everyone can do them, need special equipment or altered equipment from an existing sport Can you apply this to environmental context ?
Vocabulary: extreme. |
FUGIS powerpoint PUPIL booklet (A4 folded) (Publisher format) Extreme sports: why are they extreme ? I put together a PhotoJam with some pumping urban soundtrack....well, a remix of Rush's "Tom Sawyer" and another one looking at Svalbard itself using Steve Johnston's images... List of extreme sports (Word document) from a list on Wikipedia We also use a list of pupil responses to the theme of extremes, which he produced at the start of last year. Students need to do a classification activity putting them into groups. |
| What is an extreme
environment ? What makes an extreme environment ? Where are they ? |
Introduce students to what we
might mean as being EXTREME in the context of environments. What are examples of Extreme environments ? What characteristics can be extreme ? - climate / location / altitude / water supply / resources ? Hot Deserts / Polar Regions / Mountains are the key examples. Map of Svalbard - location in relation to Norway. A useful map in the front of Burning Ice to show the relative positions (MAP produced for students to have) Have some NAMED and LOCATED examples for each of the types of environment. |
PhotoJams of Svalbard landscapes - in what way are they extreme ? Google PhotoMontages of extreme environments - identify the environment http://montage.sleepygeek.org/ - is another montaging tool. Ideas of extremes / word mapping... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5281344.stm - people still dying on Everest despite the new technology available to climbers... |
| GA Pack Lesson 1 Where is the area we are studying ? Location on maps ? Scale - difficult to assess at these latitudes, so use some comparisons Also chance to go over latitude again & key lines of latitude. |
STARTER - Click and guess what
happens. Thanks to Tom Biebrach and Tony Cassidy for the tip-off...
or how about the Mighty Boosh and their Tundra Rap ? - if you can't see it, you've been blocked ! Introduce the students to SVALBARD - hand out the student pack, and show the other resources and suggest various online sources of information.. http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/s0350775/blog.html Nicholas Golledge's visit to the islands - link to a WEBCAM which is rather nice. Shows the midnight sun. http://haldde.unis.no/vaerdata/ - current weather conditions - very useful graphical format to show the students the current conditions WMV: using Steve Johnston's images Cape Farewell Pack and Burning Ice book Mapping: Google Earth - where is Svalbard. Term: archipelago - explain what this means Can start a GLOSSARY at the back of their large blue exercise books (or could do an electronic version of this...) Also show them BLOGGER and encourage them to set up their own BLOGS. Svalbard is an old Norse word meaning "cold coast" |
Hand out the GA Cape Farewell packs and
explain their use. Google Earth - fly to the location... PhotoJam using images to set the scene - a great piece of software Tim Moore: 'Frost on my Moustache' (Word Document) Philip Pullman: 'Northern Lights' - descriptions based on Svalbard This is the home of the Polar Bears and Iorek Byrnison and Bolvangar, lit by the lights of the Aurora. Go HERE for a page related to this for suggestions for books related to extreme environments. Plenty of images for classroom use at the FLICKR POOL |
| GA PACK: Lesson 1(Cont.)
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Outline the nature of the pack
and the way that the lessons will work: in B1- no time for messing
around ! Explore CD ROM contents - show the workings of the CD ROM and what it has to offer them. Explain that they will need to produce their own notes on some aspects, but that a focus will be on FUGIS, and the sections which relate to the EE topic. Introduction to the nature of extreme environments. Need to produce a 4 page booklet using Microsoft Publisher, or a Powerpoint E-portfolio - more on this next lesson... |
GA Cape Farewell Pack Burning Ice book Websites list: on GeographyPages. Appropriate images from folder of Svalbard images on network. Thanks to Steven Johnston once again for these... |
| Classroom Lesson 2 (Cont.)
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Mapping and description. Used video clip from 'Pole to Pole' (more details on Michael's excellent website at http://www.palinstravels.co.uk) - he has visited all of the EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS: Polar (Pole to Pole, , Desert (Sahara) and Mountains (Himalayas)
Image is Copyright Prominent Palin Productions
The globe screenshot above shows the Svalbard
leg of the trip, which included a snowmobile journey from Ny Alesund to
Longyearbyen, via Kap Wik.
http://haldde.unis.no/vaerdata/ - remember that the temperature today
reached as high as 4 degrees celsius |
Starter Google Earth file Video: Michael Palin: Pole to Pole Episode 1 - book also available... Atlas & blank outline map |
| GA PACK: Lesson 2
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E-portfolio - produce using
POWERPOINT - an example will be available to download shortly.... We will also have some examples of student work - just need to sort out some sourcing issues first. Remember to credit the places you got your images from... Where is Svalbard ? Explore Svalbard using the pack. What is Svalbard like for those who live there ? What pressures face Svalbard ? How is Svalbard likely to change in the future ? The statements in red will be explored later... |
GA Cape Farewell Pack |
| Images of Svalbard and impressions from visitors. Different points of view. |
Will use some details from early
Arctic explorers from a range of texts. Also some appropriate music which has been sourced. Can I recommend a free programme called FREE RIP to produce mp3 files from CDs that you own so that they can then be embedded into other media such as PhotoJam. Also have a copy of the SVALBARD BROCHURE from http://www.svalbard.net - available in a range of languages - a 12 page download (PDF format) - makes good display material when printed off. Also some extracts from the following books: Tim Moore: Frost on my Moustache Fergus Fleming: Barrow's Boys Lucy Jago: The Northern Lights Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan: Icemen Christoph Ransmayr: The Terrors of Ice and Darkness The aim is to compare the tone and language and atmosphere which is used in the different texts. Need to consider what we mean by EXTREME. In what respect is Svalbard extreme today ??
Consider this text extract:
“Only a hundred years ago, the Arctic was a
blank space on the map, as remote and unattainable as the moon. Its
explorers were a strange breed of men: proud, uncompromising and
eccentric. Some of them found glory, others were never seen again….”
“Ice Men” – Mick Conefrey & Tim Jordan
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Choose one of these Arctic
explorers and do some research on their explorations. How extreme did
their journeys get ? What did they end up having to do as a result of the conditions they found themselves in ? Did they survive ? What happened to them ? Some of them were GEOGRAPHERS, and some of the most famous ideas in modern geography were developed by these brave men... Fridtjof Nansen Sir John Franklin Robert E Peary Roald Amundsen Umberto Nobile Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen Carl Andree Homework: consider some questions which you would ask someone who has been to Svalbard. Extracts from Barrow's Boys for textual analysis. |
| GA PACK: Lesson 3 | Continue with enquiry questions
and e-portfolio - adding answers and images to the slides to create a
pictorial account of the islands. Need to find out about the following processes and features: FREEZE THAW - FROST SHATTERING Use some images of Chris Durbin's from an Iceland fieldtrip. There is an excellent sequence of images which shows a rock slowly disintegrating over time... (OK, so it's not the same rock, but you get the picture !) I will also point out some new documents which have been produced. Thanks to Tracy Dixon from University of Dundee for some images which she placed on her website of the effects of Frost shattering on rocks: http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/~spitz/ FROST SHATTERING produces what Tim Moore calls the: "broken-paving-slab rubble" which covers huge areas of Svalbard. |
GA Cape Farewell Pack Folder of Images on Pupils on Curriculum drive. Spreadsheet containing EXCEL data of climate of Svalbard. Webcam image: reminder of 24 daylight at this time of year. Powerpoint - land of the MIDNIGHT SUN. Websites Powerpoint of images of rock being Frost Shattered. Scope for other use e.g. Macromedia Flash for those who have done the unit in Year 9 and have good competence. SHEET OF INSTRUCTIONS for lesson on Human use of Svalbard. Use it to fill in KWL Graphic Organiser. KWL - Graphic Organiser (Word Document) |
| Coursework Introduction | First half is to talk through
some physical processes which are characteristic of the region. http://www.natureview.nl/spits/ - this is a useful website produced by someone based in the Netherlands. Useful links to new stories... May use some of them... http://www.spitzbergen.de/HTML-Dateien/E_Index.htm - an English version of a splendid German site http://www.svalbardbutikken.no/ - the supermarket in Longyearbyen
http://berglund.univ-tln.fr/svalbard.html - Nils Berglund's page of travels and maps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen - Wikipedia article on Longyearbyen http://polaris.ipoe.uni-kiel.de/kw2006/Woche3/Nora/index.html - some remarkable images of a mountain trip on Svalbard |
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| GA PACK: Lesson 4 | Need to produce a CLIMATE GRAPH
for Svalbard. We are going to use a very useful booklet which was
originally produced by Val Vannet, but with some ideas on formatting the
graph with images originally provided by me... Changes for the worse ? The effects of Global Warming on Svalbard Also need to explore some of the websites of companies who offer tourist facilities. These include the excellent HURTIGRUTEN (the new name for Norwegian Coastal Voyage), who very promptly sent me a DVD of the excursions which they offer. I used this as a STARTER. Need to look at GLACIER ICE and FROST SHATTERING: some of the processes which created the landscape. Can use some of the BOARDWORKS animations on the KS4 Glaciation unit to put together a brief outline on ice formation and how glaciers can move down out of the mountains. |
GA Cape Farewell Pack Climate Graph Instructions Boardworks slides on Powerpoint |
| Need to start work on coursework
planning. Those who need to will do some work on GLOBAL WARMING. Need to use some existing GCSE resources and videos to get across the idea. We have folders full of resources and news items giving both sides of the argument. Can mention the BBC4 CLIMATE CHAOS season. There is a very good half hour programme which would be a key resource here. Need to have some PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY today. This involves looking at some of the physical background to the formation of the landscapes on the island. |
Videos Boardworks Powerpoints. |
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| GA PACK: Lesson 5 | Preparation for coursework. Reminder of key issues for EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS. STOP PRESS: I am on fieldwork this lesson, so have left a set of resources and some details which can be seen at THIS PAGE. Also need to consider the nature of the PERMAFROST. |
GA Cape Farewell Pack Coursework Ideas adapted from those produced by Paula Cooper for the GA website. |
| Global Warming - how is this
going to affect Svalbard... Polar Bears in decline... (Mrs. Clarke is very interested in developing this area) Loss of jobs in the Coal Industry - does its location make it uneconomic - but what would happen if it closed ? Useful article on Pyramiden on the BBC article: named after the angular mountain which looms over the town. Pyramiden has a population of about 60 people. Some of the language in the article is (once again) fairly negative. |
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| GA PACK: Lesson 6 | Coursework: one of the 3 pieces
of work needs to involve PRIMARY data collection: data which you have
collected, so we won't be doing that with Svalbard ! We will instead be setting up 2 pieces of work, one of which will involve ICT, which need to be complete in a 2 hour period of time. This means that you need to start promptly. |
GA Cape Farewell Pack Coursework Instructions: these are adapted from work posted on the Geographical Association website by Paula Cooper: Head of Geography at King Edward VI 5 Ways school in Birmingham. Many thanks for sharing... |
| What is the future for Svalbard
? (FUTURES) How is Global Warming going to affect Svalbard ? |
You will have 2 hours on your
coursework. Spent some time looking at the requirements for preparation for the 2 tasks. |
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| GA PACK: Lesson 7 | Coursework Lesson 1 1 hour to produce Task A For more information download the COURSEWORK PACK (Word Document, 80 Kb) |
HAND IT AT END OF LESSON |
| GA PACK: Lesson 8 Coming to the end of the session. |
Coursework Lesson 2 1 hour to produce Task B For more information download the COURSEWORK PACK (Word Document, 80 Kb) |
HAND IN /
HAVE SAVED IN FOLDER AT END OF LESSON All coursework is handed in - well done - but not all posters have been finished yet - these need to be done please ! |
This unit then concluded with several lessons which
tried to bring all the loose ends together and draw together some ideas.
They included:
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| ADVICE TO ALL CANDIDATES | Don't think that because we have stopped the unit that you
can stop thinking about this section of the course... It's vital that you continue to look for information to expand your knowledge on all aspects of life in the Arctic, and in particular you should focus on the following. A* candidates should aim to do the following: a) Continue to keep clippings file of any newspaper stories which are related to the Arctic and the various aspects which affect it, such as permafrost melting and global warming b) Continue to look at the issues affecting the landscape More to come on this soon... |
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| M/S Explorer | New for
November 2007 This was a ship operated by a tourist company which sank after hitting an iceberg and being holed. No one died, and the passengers and crew were rescued. Plenty of newspapers and agencies had the story. This TELEGRAPH ARTICLE has a good video and links to related stories.
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SMART NOTEBOOK FILES (need latest version of software...)
POWERPOINTS
Svalbard E-Portfolio exam template
MATERIALS FROM FRED MARTIN
These documents are adaptations of materials provided by Fred Martin, colleague on the GA Secondary Committee. Coming soon...
SPREADSHEETS
Svalbard Climate Data - instructions for the graphs - produced by Val Vannet, with extra additions by AP (WORD DOCUMENT)
WORD DOCUMENTS
Download the COURSEWORK PACK if you need an extra copy of the instructions or mark scheme..
