A Merry Christmas to all pupils, staff and their families and see you all in 2009!

(bright eyed and bushy tailed)

World Population Clock

Many of you have been interested in the world clock we've been showing in class over the last few weeks. Click on the link below to take you to the site.

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

A Level - Essay

Examine the factors influencing land use in the rural-urban fringe.

Having looked at this as a recent essay I decided to post one way of dealing with the question on the blog. Remember there are more ways than this to tackle it.

Go to

http://www.slideshare.net/michaelbryce

and hunt for the slide presentation there.

A Level - United Nations development animations.

The animations on development that we have been looking at in class can be found on the UN's website. If you cannot get directly to it here...

http://hdr.undp.org/external/gapminder/2005/2005.html

Then look at the "Human development in animation" at the following link

http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/

A Level - Food Aid

This is another article linked from the Worldwatch site.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-food1apr01,0,5185698.story

"The U.N.'s World Food Program is struggling as costs of food and fuel skyrocket while the numbers of people needing help surge across the globe. Millions are in danger."

This quote would be a great starting point in an essay!

A level - The cost of food production.

I just recieved this article from a feed I subscribe to. It has some really interesting points that would help round off any essay on the global supply of food.
This is the title....

Meat and Seafood: The Global Diet’s Most Costly Ingredients

Now follow the link....

http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/SOW08_chapter_5.pdf

GCSE Exam revision

The exam preparation slideshow that I showed in school on Friday is now available at the link below.

http://www.4shared.com/account/flashUploader.jsp?sId=EmYZtb5plXXS3wUU

I have also added the revision planning timetables and tips sheets to my webspace at this link....

http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/4440889/39558952/sharing.html?sId=bTUo4OjpGWlH1KXq

The file you want is titled "Overall planner 2008 Easter". You will have to navigate the various sheet tabs at the bottom left hand side of the spreadsheet in order to see all the sheets I presented at the meeting in the SLT.

Happy Easter!!!

GCSE, Industry, Cadbury Schweppes

We have been looking at the industrial process and how it applies to Cadbury Schweppes. You can find out more about the company and it's products at the company website. Just follow the link below.

http://www.cadburyschweppes.com/EN/

A Level - Food Miles

Part of our work on Agriculture involves the way in which food is sourced from all over the planet. This recent episode of "Costing the Earth" on Radio 4 gives and excellent overview of what is happening. Food for thought.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/costingtheearth

Higher Prelim Revision

Now that you are setting out on your preparation for your Higher you might try checking out some of the excellent revision site son the web. A good place to start is the BBC Bitesize site. Click on the link below to get there....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/higher/geography/index.shtml

The Cloud Appreciation Society

Here's one for the Boomers. Click on the link below and look skyward with a whole new perspective.

http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/

Higher, Atmosphere, Global Climate Change

We are just about to start a new section in the Higher syllabus studying the Atmosphere. We will be looking at Global Climate Change as one aspect of this section. A recent post on the BBC website claimed that 2007 was the second warmest year on record in the UK (despite the wet summer!). The link below takes you to the article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7169690.stm

You can get a reminder of the chaotic weather conditions of last year by going to

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7170000/newsid_7170600/7170674.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&ms3=22&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2

... and if you want to be ahead of the game by the time that DJC and TLER get around to looking at climate change you can brush up on your GCSE notes by looking at a break down of how it all fits together at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/portal/climate_change/default.stm