Six scientists in Italy have been sentenced to prison for manslaughter for failing to properly predict an earthquake that killed 309 people in 2009. Judges in Italy found the men guilty of giving "falsely reassuring" statements before the earthquake. The scientists lawyers insisted that there is no way of accurately predicting earthquakes. The men have been sentenced to 6 years in jail.
It is pretty much impossible to give accurate predictions about earthquakes, so many believe that sentencing the scientists is unfair. It is hoped that the decision will be overturned.
Read the full BBC report here
Can we predict earthquakes?
Showing posts with label year 11. Show all posts
Showing posts with label year 11. Show all posts
Monday, 22 October 2012
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Ageing Population SDME resources and revision
Ageing population podcast - could help with SDME retake exam for Year 11s
Click here for podcast
An excellent site with resources designed to help you revise and understand the SDME and ageing population - use it!
http://www.geographypods.com/june-2012.html
A useful website with some information about Ageing population
http://www.21stcenturychallenges.org/focus/britains-greying-population/
Click here for podcast
An excellent site with resources designed to help you revise and understand the SDME and ageing population - use it!
http://www.geographypods.com/june-2012.html
A useful website with some information about Ageing population
http://www.21stcenturychallenges.org/focus/britains-greying-population/
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
SDME exam: 60min podcast for students
As the Year 11s prepare for the SDME exam on the 24th Jan, some of you may find it useful to listen to this podcast, where Mark Howell, a teacher from a school in Northamptonshire, goes through the pre-release booklet and explains sources and gives advice on how to answer questions. Because it's a podcast, you can download it and listen to it whenever you get a spare moment, in small chunks. Click on the title and you'll be taken to the podcast on iTunes. If you do decide to listen to it or download it, leave a comment for the producer, maybe thanking him for the effort!
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
The Prosperity Index
What is prosperity? This website looks at ways of measuring how well countries are doing
The Legatum Prosperity Index is the world's only global assessment of wealth and wellbeing; unlike other studies that rank countries by actual levels of wealth, life satisfaction or development, the Prosperity Index produces rankings based upon the very foundations of prosperity those factors that will help drive economic growth and produce happy citizens over the long term.
Using their system of ranking countries and measuring prosperity, here are the 10 most successful countries in the world:
1 Norway
2 Denmark
3 Finland
4 Australia
5 New Zealand
6 Sweden
7 Canada
8 Switzerland
9 Netherlands
10 United States
Click on the post title to be taken to the website, where you can see data and maps showing levels of development all over the world.
The Legatum Prosperity Index is the world's only global assessment of wealth and wellbeing; unlike other studies that rank countries by actual levels of wealth, life satisfaction or development, the Prosperity Index produces rankings based upon the very foundations of prosperity those factors that will help drive economic growth and produce happy citizens over the long term.
Using their system of ranking countries and measuring prosperity, here are the 10 most successful countries in the world:
1 Norway
2 Denmark
3 Finland
4 Australia
5 New Zealand
6 Sweden
7 Canada
8 Switzerland
9 Netherlands
10 United States
Click on the post title to be taken to the website, where you can see data and maps showing levels of development all over the world.
Saturday, 23 October 2010
International Aid from the UK to increase
The Government has been cutting spending in an attempt to save money. But it announced that the amount of money being spent on aid for poorer countries will be increased by about 40%. This means that the UK will hit the UN target of 0.7% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) being given as aid within 3 years. Each country has this target, though only a handful have ever managed to meet it. However, aid to China and Russia will be stopped.
Click on the post title to watch a 2 minute clip from the BBC that looks at the issue and opinions.
Click here to read more about this story
Click here to watch a short and simple presentation from the BBC called "Beating Poverty"
Click on the post title to watch a 2 minute clip from the BBC that looks at the issue and opinions.
Click here to read more about this story
Click here to watch a short and simple presentation from the BBC called "Beating Poverty"
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Welcome back
Welcome back to school. Hopefully you have had a good rest and are ready to start working again! The blog has had some new information put on it, but will constantly be changing, with the latest Geographical news and advice/tips on how to do well in your studies.
Year 9 will be faced with an entirely new approach to their lessons and should look at the tab at the top of the page for more information.
GCSE students can find out more about their course using the tab at the top of the page as well as looking along the left hand side of the blog. The same applies for A-level students.
There are a collection of podcasts available (see tab at top of page), though these are mainly aimed at A-level students.
If there is anything that you wish to see on the blog, please mention it to your teacher and we'll see what we can do.
Year 9 will be faced with an entirely new approach to their lessons and should look at the tab at the top of the page for more information.
GCSE students can find out more about their course using the tab at the top of the page as well as looking along the left hand side of the blog. The same applies for A-level students.
There are a collection of podcasts available (see tab at top of page), though these are mainly aimed at A-level students.
If there is anything that you wish to see on the blog, please mention it to your teacher and we'll see what we can do.
Sunday, 23 May 2010
If you're stuck and not sure how to revise.....
....try some of these ideas:
Flashcards: On small cards, summarise a case study into one (or both) sides of the cards and refer to it regularly. Make sure that you include key facts and number as you condense the case study to fit the card.
Colour coding: colour code large pieces of text into sections. For example, it could be the social, economic and environmental impacts of the Cardiff Bay redevelopment
Memory tests: You could look at an important diagram (erg the cross section of a meander) for 20 seconds, then cover it over and draw what you remember. Then give yourself another 20 seconds to see what you missed and add it in. Eventually, you will be able to draw the sketch without looking at a copy.
Key words test: You could ask someone to read out 10 definitions and you have to say what the key word is. Then you could try it the other way around which is harder with someone giving you a key word to define.
Spider diagrams (mind maps): Write a key theme in the centre of an A3 piece of paper. Write the sub-themes around it with important ideas and case studies to back them up. Stick your finished spider diagram somewhere visible where you will be able to refer to it often (e.g. fridge door, bedroom wall).
Practice exam questions: Look at the examples of past case study questions. Practice writing responses to these questions using the flashcards or colour coded case studies you have created. There are some past papers and mark schemes under the Year 11 panel on the left hand side of the blog.
Summarising: Condense a section of text into a set number of bullet points.
Reading aloud: Read a case study summary aloud, then try to say aloud all the facts and figures you remember without the summary. You could also read your keyword lists aloud.
Repeated writing: Copy out pieces of information more than one time (five times would be appropriate). The repetition will help you to fix the facts in your memory, which is obviously important with case studies.
Look at the STUDY SKILLS section on the left hand side panel for more ideas and search for "mind maps" to see some examples.
Flashcards: On small cards, summarise a case study into one (or both) sides of the cards and refer to it regularly. Make sure that you include key facts and number as you condense the case study to fit the card.
Colour coding: colour code large pieces of text into sections. For example, it could be the social, economic and environmental impacts of the Cardiff Bay redevelopment
Memory tests: You could look at an important diagram (erg the cross section of a meander) for 20 seconds, then cover it over and draw what you remember. Then give yourself another 20 seconds to see what you missed and add it in. Eventually, you will be able to draw the sketch without looking at a copy.
Key words test: You could ask someone to read out 10 definitions and you have to say what the key word is. Then you could try it the other way around which is harder with someone giving you a key word to define.
Spider diagrams (mind maps): Write a key theme in the centre of an A3 piece of paper. Write the sub-themes around it with important ideas and case studies to back them up. Stick your finished spider diagram somewhere visible where you will be able to refer to it often (e.g. fridge door, bedroom wall).
Practice exam questions: Look at the examples of past case study questions. Practice writing responses to these questions using the flashcards or colour coded case studies you have created. There are some past papers and mark schemes under the Year 11 panel on the left hand side of the blog.
Summarising: Condense a section of text into a set number of bullet points.
Reading aloud: Read a case study summary aloud, then try to say aloud all the facts and figures you remember without the summary. You could also read your keyword lists aloud.
Repeated writing: Copy out pieces of information more than one time (five times would be appropriate). The repetition will help you to fix the facts in your memory, which is obviously important with case studies.
Look at the STUDY SKILLS section on the left hand side panel for more ideas and search for "mind maps" to see some examples.
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Year 11 Revision material
Two more revision presentations for Year 11 have just been added - look on the left hand panel under the Year 11 banner.
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
GCSE students
Year 10 - information about May's controlled assessment can be found now on the left hand panel. Please take a look at it.
Year 11 - Two items have been added for your revision. One is a powerpoint, produced by the exam board which is well worth a look. The other is a 47 page document that has revision tips and case studies in it. Some of the case studies are different to the ones you have studied, but some are the same. It is worth getting hold of this document and printing it out.
Year 11 - Two items have been added for your revision. One is a powerpoint, produced by the exam board which is well worth a look. The other is a 47 page document that has revision tips and case studies in it. Some of the case studies are different to the ones you have studied, but some are the same. It is worth getting hold of this document and printing it out.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Earthquake in Haiti
On Tuesday a big earthquake hit the poor Caribbean country of Haiti.The extent of the devastation from the huge quake in Haiti is slowly emerging thousands of people feared dead.
Jordan, Brazil and China have all reported deaths, and France says it fears the Tunisian head of the UN mission in Haiti has been killed.
The 7.0-magnitude quake, Haiti's worst in two centuries, struck south of the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday.
The Red Cross says up to three million people have been affected
The quake's epicentre was only 10 miles from the Capital city, Port-au-Prince, which has a population of about 1 million, and aftershocks as powerful as 5.9 rattled the city throughout the night and into today. Reports on casualties and damage were slow to get out of Haiti due to communication problems.
As the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti is ill-equipped to respond to such a disaster, lacking heavy equipment to move debris and a sufficient force of emergency personnel.
Click the headline to go to BBC reports about the disaster.
Saturday, 3 October 2009
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Indonesian Eartquake death toll reaches 1000
Latest reports this evening on the BBC News website state that at least 1,100 people have died in the earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday, the UN humanitarian chief has said. John Holmes said many hundreds more were injured and both figures were set to rise further. Rescuers are working into the night to find survivors in the rubble of hundreds of collapsed buildings. The 7.6-magnitude quake struck close to the city of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province. The earthquake brought down hospitals, schools and shopping malls, cut power lines and triggered landslides. For more reports, video and audio clips select: BBC News Indonesian earthquake reports
Indonesian Eartquake death toll reaches 1000
Latest reports this evening on the BBC News website state that at least 1,100 people have died in the earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday, the UN humanitarian chief has said. John Holmes said many hundreds more were injured and both figures were set to rise further. Rescuers are working into the night to find survivors in the rubble of hundreds of collapsed buildings. The 7.6-magnitude quake struck close to the city of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province. The earthquake brought down hospitals, schools and shopping malls, cut power lines and triggered landslides. For more reports, video and audio clips select: BBC News Indonesian earthquake reports
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