Revision tips for NABs

As always the main one is to keep calm !

Remember the hints from Standard Grade and your 6 deep breaths

Read the question/s very carefully

Watch your time - 50 marks in 45 minutes

Do not run out of time - the GMT questions can gain you many marks in a fairly short space of time.

The GMT question is owrth 10 marks

It is a physical NAB on Hydrosphere, Lithosphere and Biosphere.

It is marked on a pass/ fail basis - you need to get 25 /50 to pass.

The photograph is of the Athabasca glacier in Canada.

Keep calm and good luck tomorrow !

River revision

As part of your revision for the practice NAB on Wednesday you may like to look at this river site

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/int/geog/rivers/

Also don't forget revision material is available on the BBC Higher bitesize site too.

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

Limestone

I have finally got round to trying out some ICT recommended many month ago by Geography colleagues and I am delighted with the results from "dumpr". I will post both the photograph and field sketch so that you can judge for yourselves.

Where is the photograph taken ? Could you add labels to it ? Remember a GMT question may ask you to do so.

Round the world cycle

Following on from the display outside RoomG at the start of term further news about Mark Beaumont on his attempt to beat the World Record for cycling the 18,000 miles around the world. More details can be found on the "geoblogging with Mark" blog written by a Geography colleague.

http://www.geobloggingwithmark.blogspot.com/

The geographical information available on this blog is outstanding and most informative.

Mark's diary and opther details can also be found at http://www.artemisworldcycle.com/

Mark is raising money for various charities by undertaking this journey

CAN is a mountaineers’ charity to help mountain people to help themselves raise their standard of living and strengthen indigenous, community-based culture.

CHICKS provides free respite breaks for disadvantaged children aged between 8 and 15 from all parts of the UK, regardless of race or religion, relying solely on donations from individuals, companies and charitable trusts to provide for the increasing number of children who would benefit from a CHICKS holiday.

Edinburgh Cyrenians Trust is an independent local charity, established in 1968 to create and operate services, facilities and opportunities for disadvantaged people offering effective and lasting routes out of homelessness and promoting social inclusion.

Building on over 200 years experience, Rainer now runs around 60 services and projects nationally, working with thousands of under-supported young people each year focusing on the following areas that affect young people:- Supported accommodation- Learning & employability- Tackling crime

Tusk Trust promotes the protection of wildlife and habitats, sustainable rural community development, environmental education programmes, responsible tourism, and constructive wildlife research throughout Africa.

Limestone

Now we have started our Lithosphere work some photographs to remind you of the features and places we are speaking of when studying limestone. The link to the excellent BBC Scotland site on Upland limestone is below and is highly recommended. There are interactive elements, features to study, mapwork as well as field sketches - it will aid your understanding of this new section of work and is well worth devoting some time to.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/int/geog/limestone/index.shtml

Fieldwork - a great start to the year

I hope you have all caught up on sleep now after our fieldwork excursion - great work from everyone. It is a really good opportunity to get to know people better and to spend time with people outside your normal friendship groups and of course a great chance to do some real Geography. For the HIgher class a good way to start the session, and we will attend Pupil Conference in November and also complete some more fiedlwork at the end of the year. Thank you so much for the lovely flowers for me and the chocolates for Mrs Ch - a lovely surprise for both of us.

Results and holidays

I hope you like these photos of St Ives, Land's End and the Eden Project.

Well done everyone - great results. I am delighted for you. For those of you going on with your studies I look forward to working with you next year. To those of you who are not carrying on with Geography I wish you all the best in your studies at Higher/ Advanced Higher /degrees - your core skills wil be very relevant in other subjects too. I am always interested to hear your news so keep in touch.