Geography is the study of the world - how it effects us and how we effect it! Nearly every day on the news there are geographical stories being told

Email addresses for the Slemish College Geography department

Miss G Adams

Mr M Bennett

Mr T Manson (work) or Mr T Manson (web site)

Travel/Business trip to Paris

Year 9 Geog Fieldtrip 2008

Geography is a flavourTM

Welcome to the Slemish College Geography Department

Slemish against Climate Change!

Thurs 14th Feb - Slemish students think about their 'global footprint' and make some Carbon Pledges!

Welcome to Think . . . Geography!

It continues to be a long time since I updated the site! There are a few changes that I plan to make to the site in the near future and you will hopefully start to see these appear soon. I am going to be concentrating on developing some new resources for the GCSE section and for the Year 8 Revised Curriculum.

What are the key issues for popular Geography in 2008? Will we start to take the carbon footprint/ global warming crisis seriously? Is this the year for action or will the politicains continue in their talk and hot air. Is it time for the individual to start thinking about consequences. This year we have had floods, more floods, killer typhoons and huge volcanic eruptions in Chile. As I write we have been having summer weather in May - does this bode well for the summer or is this it?

But maybe, the real reason for the snap of good weather is the imminent arrival of the school exams. It is always good weather when exams are about!

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Geoblog

The Impact of Natural Disasters

I live in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is not afflicted by huge measures of natural disaster. We dont get volcanoes. We dont get earthquakes. We dont get huge amounts of rainfall or drought. We dont get huge tropical cyclones parking off the coast and controlling our weather for weeks on end. I suppose we are pretty lucky. Over the last few days we have seen some pictures of the impact that a cyclone has had on Burma. To date about 22,000 are deads with another 40,000 lost. If this happened in NI what would our response be? It would be on every channel 24/7. We would know everything about the loss of life and the impact on people. Yet again, I feel that we are selling this crisis short. We need to see the problem. We need to see how we can help and we need to see how we can help countries like this make sure that something like this is minimised iun the future. Maybe it just that our countries have been navel-gazing recently - worrying about the global credit crunch and house prices falling that we are more worried about the state of our finances compared to the survival of others. Let me finish with one fact.

Average annual wage of a subsistence rice farmer in Burma (of which around 17,000 are now dead) = $150

Average amount of money spent by students in my school on school dinners in a year = $1000 (£500)

Do the maths!

7th May 2008