GCSE GEOGRAPHY LINKS

As of September 2007 we will ONLY be delivering the OCR Pilot Geography (1949) - until the specifications change again...

What follows are some useful links and resource ideas for use with the OCR Syllabus 'A' (1989) - the syllabus we previously taught at KES.

Check out the REVISION PODCASTS on BBC BITESIZE (Written by a friend of GeographyPages...)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/audio/geography/index.shtml

http://www.geobytesgcse.blogspot.com/  -  a weblog which covers the topics on our GCSE Specification...

www.brumbygeog.blogspot.com - lots of slideshares thanks to 'IRON'....

also check out the GEOGRAPHY LOST weblog: http://www.geographylost.blogspot.com/

and http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc-home/vtc-ks4-home/vtc-ks4-geography.htm

and some good revision sheets at: http://burychurchgeog.blogspot.com/index.html

RESOURCES AND LINKS ARRANGED BY TOPIC

Click on the topic you want to go to the required page

ACID RAIN

THE ALPS

 THE ARAL SEA

BOOKSHOP 

Click through to Amazon to buy your revision guides and I'll get a few pence too.  You know it makes sense

CASE STUDIES - do you have a full set ?

COASTAL FEATURES & MAPPLETON (Holderness)

GCSE COURSEWORK HELP

Deadline October 2006

DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

UN MILLENNIUM GOALS NOW INCLUDED, PLUS PAGES ON COMIC RELIEF, MAKE POVERTY HISTORY AND FAVELAS

DROUGHT IN PAKISTAN

THE GUJARAT EARTHQUAKE 2001

THE TURKISH EARTHQUAKE 1999 ACTIVITY

Many thanks to Miss Davidson for her hard work on this activity

SOUTH ASIA EARTHQUAKE OCTOBER 2005

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

New Amazon Case study

ENERGY: RENEWABLE OR NON-RENEWABLE

New CARBON REDUCTION MATERIALS

MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT: CASE STUDIES Updated

FARMING LESSON IDEAS

includes DIVERSIFICATION Enquiry

FAVELAS

FLOODING: BANGLADESH & MISSISSIPPI etc.

FLOODS IN THE UK: 2000/1 & LYNMOUTH FLOOD: 1952

(plus Boscastle & Lynmouth links...)

THE SHEFFIELD FLOOD: a Geography-Poetry collaboration

FOOD MILES
GLACIATION: ICE and its effects

 (not needed by KES students)

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

AEGIS

GLOBAL WARMING

Is it in doubt now ?

HIGH RISE FLATS

HOLDERNESS PHOTO GALLERY

Thanks to Adam Vaughan for images

HURRICANE KATRINA

August 2005

ICELAND: LAND OF ICE AND FIRE

Case study material - newly added

KING'S LYNN FIELDWORK

New THE WALKS

LONDON 2012

A case study of Urban redevelopment and Sport

Will be ongoing for the next 5 years !

MAP-WORK & LOCAL AREA

SKILLS PAPER !

MEADOWHALL

MONTSERRAT: the evacuation of an island

MOUNT ST. HELENS: the eruption of May 1980

'Classic' case study

MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES (MNCs / TNCs)

NATIONAL PARKS IN THE UK

New NEWLY INDUSTRIALISING COUNTRIES (NICs)

OLYMPICS 2012

Resources relating to the successful bid, and the regeneration of Stratford in the borough of Newham which will now take place. As above...

THE PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK

inc. Castleton as a tourist 'honeypot'

SNOWDONIA NATIONAL PARK

includes information on Green Key proposals & Snowdon Summit Cafe

POLAND

POPULATION ISSUES

Demography

QUARRYING New

RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

(now includes OIL POLLUTION materials)

RETAILING LINKS

REVISION HELP

Try these revision games, thanks to Rob Chambers

Key Stage 4 - Coasts Hoopshoot (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Tectonic Activity (Hull Trinity House School) (external link)
Key Stage 4 - Year 10 Coasts (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Year 10 Plate Tectonics Revision (1) (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Coasts (Hull Trinity House School) (external link)
Key Stage 4 - Tectonic Activity (Hull Trinity House School) (external link)
Key Stage 4 - Farming (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 3/4 - PlateTastic! (Tectonics - Types of Plates / Plate Boundaries (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Population (Quick Starter Quiz) (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Farming - Key Terms Quiz (St Ivo School Geography Department)
Key Stage 4 - Plate Tectonics Starter (10 Questions) (St Ivo School Geography Department)

SECOND HOMES

SETTLEMENTS: AN INTRODUCTION

&

URBAN REDEVELOPMENT CASE STUDIES

SINGAPORE

SUSTAINABILITY 

&

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTING

THE THREE GORGES DAMS

TOURISM

UK, EU & LEDC

TROPICAL RAIN FOREST ISSUES

TSUNAMI RESOURCES

Following the S.E Asian Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 - lots of links and weblogs

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