A+River+Runs+Through+It+(Geography)

20 and 22 /6/11 You are working very well on these, well done. They look impressive.

Finish off tonight and email the completed one to me tomorrow. I will mark over the weekend. We will go over them on Monday, Wednesday is our last lesson.

16/6/11 and 17/6/11 Fieldwork You completed the worksheet on the Hjulstrom graph. And inserted your answers for 1, 2 and 3 into your introduction. For homework, you have to copy and paste the methodology but alter it to suit your group. Add in some photographs from our trip.

Write your evaluation. What was difficult about doing the fieldwork? How did you overcome the problems? What would you do differently next time? This is all due on Monday - emailed to me. I will check the soft copy and return it to you.

We will work on our data next week and complete the fieldwork report.

7/6/11 We will go over our exams.

Then we need to get prepared for our river fieldwork. Week 30/5/11 - 3/6/11 Secondary Assessment Week

Thursday 19th May Quick vocabulary test What a river does

River posters - Danube, Yangtze, Amazon, Nile, Zambezi, Mississippi Make a poster. It must have pictures of the source, waterfall, meander and mouth of your river. We will complete our posters on Monday.

Friday 13/5/11 Look at the permeability of surfaces today! 1. Odd one out - Ethiopia, Egypt, Uganda 2. We'll go over the Rockhampton photo analysis 3. Vocabulary of the hydrological cycle

Learn the vocabulary, there will be a fun test next week!

Wednesday 11 May is Dare2Dream Day. Linda, Adeline and Elizabeth will represent us in their business clothes.... (and win - no pressure girls!) Malcolm and Guby will make sure this class sits in the right place. Whitney and Vincent will meet and escort the VIPs to their seats.

Monday 9/5/11 Is this connected to our work on infiltration rates?

Need to review the water cycle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BayExatv8lE&feature=related

5/5/11 double lesson We went outside and onto the roof to test infiltration rates on a variety of surfaces. When we returned to the class, we evaluated our activity and you copied the questions from the board to answer for HOMEWORK You then shared your data in your group and drew a graph of the rates. 3/5/11 Double lesson