Saturday 23 October 2010

Belize Report

You have to write a report answering the following questions:

1) Where are coral reefs located and what are they made of?

2) Explain why areas of coral reef are under threat, think about coral reefs in general and specific issues with Belize's coral reef ecosystem

3) Why are coral reefs important environments

An example is Belize's coral reef ecosystem. Watch the video and go to the attached weblinks to find the information out to create your report




Coral Reef under threat

Coral reefs explained


Coral reef explained v2


Wednesday 20 October 2010

How you Revise

Click this link to find out how to revise using the right and left hand side of the brain.

An interesting read, which may improve revision across all subjects

right/left brain revision techniques

Revision through Mind Maps

This website has an excellent step by step guide to show you how to create mindmaps

How to create mind maps

Revision Sites

Click the following links to go to various websites with excellent revision resources and links

Revision of various topics


Revision Papers

Revision Glossary of key words

Revision centre

S-Cool revision site

Sahel Case Study - Water

Click the link to go to an online case study of the Sahel

Sahel Case Study

Hazard Animations

click the link to watch animations for various hazards including hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis

Hazard Animations

Podcasts - An Excellent tool for revision

Listen to the various podcasts to help you revise various topics throughout your GCSE

Coast Podcasts

BBC various topics podcasts

Case studies for coasts podcasts

Podcasts by units of work

Various podcasts

Tuesday 19 October 2010

Protected areas of the world

Click the link to go to an excellent website where you can search for protected areas of the world and learn about the animals found there as well as the environment

Protected Planet

Sunday 17 October 2010

London Profiler

The london profiler lets you investigate different areas of London finding statistical information about crime, transport, health, house prices among other information

Click the link to find information about different areas of London

Interactive map of London

Maps

Click the link to go to a dual map with a google map/with street view

Dual Mapper

This link is a wrbsite that allows the map to be overalid with information, an excellent GIS tool

Wheres the path