Think . . . Geography! Year 9 Geography

We are currently in the process of writing some new units for the Year 9 course - the new material will be added to the site when we have completed this process!

Click here to go to the Fieldwork help pages - photos from the trip now online - 9th March 2008

1.    Rocks, Weathering and Erosion

•  What are rocks?  (PowerPoint)

•  Weathering (PowerPoint)

• Click here to see some work about the Story of rocks from 9MT (Oct, 2007)
  NEW!

2.    River processes

•     Rivers in the upper course (PowerPoint)

•     Waterfalls (PowerPoint)

•     Rivers recap (PowerPoint)

•     Flooding (PowerPoint)

•     Waterfalls (pdf)

NEW!  Click here to take the online Weathering, erosion and rivers quiz!

3.    Floods

•     Floods in Prague

• Boscastle!

• Video of Flash flood (Quicktime)

•     Links to look up information about Bangladesh

                    New Scientist Satellite Image

                    Map and information about Bangladesh

                    Pictures from UNICEF from 2004 flood

                    BBC News article from 2004 flood

•     Quicktime video of Bangladesh Floods (slow to download unless you have               broadband)

4. NEW Population and Migration unit (new for Jan 2007)

Click here for the NEW Year 9 Population page!

5. Coasts

• Erosion and Deposition at the coast (PowerPoint)

• Coastal Erosion presentation (PowerPoint)

• Click here to go to the Fieldwork help pages - photos from the trip now online

  and video now here!

   

6.   Pollution in the Sea

• Pollution in the Sea - The Sea Empress disaster - Feb 1996

• Sea Empress - Mind map homework (worksheet)

• Sea Empress - Uk Government  briefing notes (pdf)

• Sea Empress planning work (worksheet)

• Sea Empress (Weblink)

• Sea Empress - Welsh Environment Agency weblink

• The North Coast Conference information

• Pollution in the sea (weblinks)

Year 9 Coastal Fieldwork

The Year 9 Coastal Fieldwork will take place in March 2006.  Students will be taken for a day where we walk from Ballintoy to White Park Bay and complete some activities along the way.   For a complete and detailed information about all aspects of this Fieldwork event and the write up which follows it - please look up the Year 9 Coastal Coursework Page

7.   Primary Activities

• Primary, Secondary and Tertiary activities
• Quarrying and how it harms the environment
• Black Mountain (PowerPoint)
• The Aberfan Disaster (PowerPoint)
• Aberfan quarry disaster pictures (new PowerPoint)
• NEW!   Build that Quarry Activity (click to go to the page!)

Farming in Year 9

One of the key elements in the year 9 course is a look at the effect and impact of farming on the local environment.  In the light of the changes which Foot and Mouth disease (in 2001) has brought on farming in Northern Ireland - farming is experiencing a massive decline.

Go to the Year 9 ICT Page

(c) tmanson@thinkgeography.org.uk