Geography Department – Transition activities Year 10 going into

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Geography Department – Transition activities

Year 10 going into Year 11

Activity

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Make revision notes for all topics studied in Year 10 – Water on the Land, Ice on the Land,

Development Gap & Changing Urban Environments.

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Revise the key words for Restless Earth using your CGP revision guide, learning their definitions ready for September.

Visit

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Visit the Natural History Museum (Red Zone) and make visit the Volcanoes and Earthquakes gallery and the Restless Surface galley. These galleries are excellent and will be very useful for our first unit of work, Restless Earth in September. (FREE!)

Books

Book title

Rough Guide to Climate Change

Globish – How the English Language

Became the World’s Language

Volcano – Iceland’s Inferno and Earth’s

Most Active Volcanoes

Free – Adventures on the margin of a wasteful society

What about China?

Six Degrees – Our Future on a Hotter

Planet

The Big Earth Book

How Bad are Bananas? The carbon footprint of everything

Author

Robert McCrum

Ellen J Parger (Editor)

Katharine Hibbert

Katharine Pate (Editor)

Mark Lynas

James Bruges

Mike Berners Lee

Publisher

Penguin Viking

National Geographic

Ebury Press

Sawday’s Fragile Earth

Harper Peremial

Sawday’s

Profile Books (2010)

GCSE Geography AQA A Revision

Guide

Richard Parsons (Editor) CGP

Websites

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Search these newspaper websites to find out about events happening around the world –

· http://www.independent.co.uk/

· http://www.guardian.co.uk/

· http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Documentaries available on Planet Estream

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Living Planet: Furnaces of the Earth

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Earth, Power of the Planet

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10 things you didn’t know about earthquakes

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