GCE AS/A LEVEL GEOGRAPHY - Teacher Network January - August 2017

GCE AS/A LEVEL
 GEOGRAPHY
 Teacher Network
January – August
      2017
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/wjecalevelgeography/

This document contains links shared by teachers on the WJEC Eduqas Geography
Teacher Network between January and August 2017.

  Skills and Fieldwork / Unit 5: Independent Investigation

      Student guidance on presentation and analysis techniques

      Bob Digby WJEC training on Fieldwork and NEA (40 minute video)

      Invaluable Student Guide to the Independent Investigation from the RGS

      Word bank for Independent Investigation

      Guide to fieldwork and data presentation for NEA from geography-fieldwork.org

      Glacial fieldwork guidance - ideas to try

      Coastal Fieldwork guidance – ideas to try

      Sand dune fieldwork – ideas to try

  Unit 1: Changing Landscapes and Changing Places

  Changing Landscapes: Glaciated Landscapes

      Glacial Landscapes course content overview (RGS)

      Quaternary glacial landscapes of the UK

      Amazing GIS mapping tool from Sheffield University to explore the glacial landscapes of
      the UK

      Blakeney Esker Explored (Norfolk landform)

  Changing Landscapes: Coastal Landscapes

      Huge accelaration in erosion on England's famous White Cliffs

      Managed realignment on the coast at Medmerry – resources

      Managed realignment on the coast at Medmerry - video

Unit 2: Changing Places

     Changing Place – course content overview (RGS)

     Editable PP presentation on Clark-Fisher model

     The geography of the Uk's high-tech and creative economies

     Hi-tech clusters in South Wales

     Where has the slowest broadband speeds in the UK?

     Leicester's cultural quarter thrives

     Hipster bashing in California: the fight back against gentrification

     Rural challenges in Cornwall – conflicts between local people and the tourism industry

     Regeneration: Can Rhyl shake-off its 'crap town' label?

     Manchester: How did a city in decline become the poster child for urban regeneration?

     Regeneration: John Harris writes in the Guardian about the future of four UK cities

     The success of rural rebranding in Cartmel in the Lake District

Unit 3: Global Systems and Global Governance

 Water and Carbon cycles

     RGS Guidance to water and carbon cycles content – worth a read before you start!

     NASA short film showing movement of CO2 in the atmosphere

     Feedback in carbon cycles: fires and peat bogs

     Peatland Restoration in the UK

     Global warming and thawing permafrost: water + carbon cycles feedback

     Greenland's Glaciers: carbon cycles and tipping points(specialised concept)

 Global Governance: Migration

     Fantastic Esri story map following plight of Syrian Refugees

     Rohingya refugees – an unprecedented humanitarian crisis

Global Governance: Oceans

    RGS Q and A with Dr Kimberely Peters on Governance of the Oceans

    Some great graphics to use (click at the bottom of this page to download the free Ocean
    Atlas – more great graphics on plastic pollution etc.)

    Undersea cable map and explanation

    Short video to introduce undersea cables

    Nine of the world's biggest fishing firms firm-up pledge to help protect world's oceans

    Eduqas Digital Resources on Oceans (2.2.6)

Unit 4: ContemporaryThemes in Geography/Tectonic Hazards

Tectonic Hazards

    Teaching about plate margins….?

    Teaching about volcanic hazards….?

    Earthquake and tsunami reources from the GA following 2016 event in New Zealand

Ecosystems

    Indigenous people and conflicts in the Arctic Tundra

    US coral reefs on course to disappear within decades

    What are the threats to wetlands? (WWF piece)

Economic Growth and Challenge

    Case studies / individual stories to support teaching of India and Africa

    Half the children in Sub-Saharan Africa live in extreme poverty – World Bank warning

    Rural-urban migration in Africa – latest news from the U.N.

    China's villages vanish amid rush for cities

    My village didn't have a traffic light, now it has 1.4m people – urban growth and
    environmental impacts in China

    How outdated urban passports still rule the lives of China's citizens

    Chinese women push ahead in search for gender equality

Energy Challenges and Dilemmas

    Peru tribal leaders vow to halt oil output unless indigenous rights are respected

    Africa leapfrogs coal and chooses renewable energy instead

    Global investment in renewable energy

    Bringing sustainable energy to the developing world

Weather and Climate

    Excellent resources from the Met Office on characteristics of UK's climate

    Could climate change make cities 8C hotter?

    Why this hurricane season seems so catastrophic – National Geographic

General teaching tools

    https://edpuzzle.com/ (add questions and commentary to video resources)

    https://schools.esriuk.com/ (various teaching resources)

    https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/ (interesting map showing cost of living in cities
    worldwide)

    http://datashine.org.uk (the 2011 census mapped)

    RGS KS5 Teaching Resources