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Thanks Guy....loved this site and have emailed it to our new politics teacher. Can make use of it in loads of ways.
I found a Philip Allan book by David Holmes called "Ecosystems and Biodiversity" in the Contemporary Case Studies series edited by Sue Warn. Pages 84-88 maybe of use "Urban ecosystem" :- profile and importance plus case study of a part of Wandsworth…
Agreed .....7 marks on potholes is a bit steep but it did say describe as well so I guess that would get a few marks. I suspect that as rejuvenation is rather a less-well known topic that seemed to have disappeared from many of the older specificati…
Here here Sarah. This ning has been so useful and thank you to everyone who has contributed and to Victoria for setting it up. Now that we have seen the first real Geog 1 I will feel slightly more confident about contributing myself.
Thank you for these..I wish I'd seen them 3 weeks ago...
Margaret
Thanks for sharing this David........I haven't listened to it all yet but I think the girls will find it fascinating.......some of my year 7s were really worried about it all this morning!
Hi Kim
Because we have the Knill and Smith Nelson Thornes book, I just used the idea of a health profile from our local area and compared it with what we could find out about Newcastle's health. For explaining the differences we came up with the nor…
I understood AQA recommend offering three so ours voted for Tectonics, Ecosystems and Dev & Globalisation. We have decided to do Fieldwork as we believe our girls are more suited to that type of approach rather than issues-type questions.
Steve
I have only just read these comments as I haven't been on this ning site for ages.
Thank you for your suggestion of organising a workshop. What an excellent idea as I haven't a clue what an ESRI shapefile is! (This is despite in the past havin…
Hello there.
I have been troubled over this too. i used ArcView last year at the excellent pilot run at RGS with Birkbeck lecturers but it was a bit too unwieldy for potential AS use. I get the feeling using Google Earth is fine.
I am really hoping…
Being new to AQA I'm not at all sure about how to go about getting copies of past papers, mark schemes, examiners' comments etc. I rang the Board in the summer to ask about linkages of old AQA papers to the new Spec. and was helped tremendously by a…
Have to say " Hear, hear" about Juniper Hall.
Have taken students to Juniper Hall, Blencathra and Preston Montford.. all were absolutely excellent courses with fantastic tutors....well done FSC.
Found out recently though that some centres are having…
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