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Volcano task: Year 8

Dear Professor……………..

The small Caribbean island of Mont Isle is planning to hold a major celebration in three months time. The island is ten miles long and is part of an arc of islands typical of the Caribbean. At one end of the island is a tall, beautiful, cone-shaped mountain; a composite volcano which the local people call Poco-poco.
The mountain is over 1000 metres tall and is also known as a strato volcano. The capital city of Iguana Cay is located at the base of the mountain in the middle of the island. No one living on the island remembers any volcanic activity coming from Poco-poco.

The mayor, Jose Cruz, is concerned that tourists may not come to the celebration because of other volcanic eruptions on nearby islands. He needs an expert volcanologist to give him a briefing on volcanoes so he can give an explanation to any worried tourists and to the local and international press.

Due to your reputation as an esteemed volcanologist you have been selected to submit a report. The tasks you need to cover are outlined below. The mayor is an intelligent and educated man, however he is also very busy. Your report will therefore need to explain the complexities of volcanic eruptions in a clear and straightforward way. You should also aim to use pictures/diagrams/maps wherever possible to help clarify your writing.

USE THE MARK SCHEME ON YOUR SHEET to make sure you include sufficient detail!

You may use any book or magazine in your classroom (or in the library). Your primary resource will be the Internet. Do NOT do a search for volcanoes!

Use only the two Internet web sites listed below this paragraph. Warning, do not look for Mont Isle, Iguana Cay, or Poco-poco; they do not exist. However, volcanoes and islands like them exist throughout the Caribbean. The Volcanoes in the Learning Web is maintained by the U S Geological Service. This site is an excellent overview of the subject and includes cutaway drawings as well as some great photos The Volcano World is a site sponsored by NASA. One of the features of this site is the Ask a Volcanologist section. You can send a question to be answered by a Volcano scientist. (click on the links to quickly get to these sites)

Year 8: Land Use in Leeds

-sorry Year 11, this isn't for you!

These are the transects:
Transect One: Along the A58 from Wetherby via Collingham, Bardsey, Slaid Hill,Easterly Road area, Harehills to Leeds City Centre.
Transect Two: Along A64 (York Road) from the A1 (Bramham crossroads), via Seacroft, Cross Gates, Killingbeck, Burmantofts to Leeds City Centre.
Transect Three:From Harewood, along the A61, Alwoodly, Moor Allerton, Chapel Allerton, Chapletown to Leeds City Centre.
Transect Four: From Bramhope, along A669, via Adel, Weetwood and Headingley to Leeds City Centre.
Transect Five: From Menston, along A65, via Guiseley, Horseforth and Kirkstall to Leeds City Centre.
Transect Six: From Stanningley, via Pudsey, then A645 to Wortley & Armley to Leeds City Centre.
Transect Seven: A6110 from Morley via Churwell and Beeston to Leeds City centre
Transect Eight: A639 from Oulton via Hunslet to Leeds City Centre.

For your transect produce a series of PowerPoint slides. Each slide should be a 'collage' of pictures, call outs, adverts ........ showing the land use of a location along the route. The call outs may contain some facts & figures. Adverts could include adverts for shops in the location. The pictures should represent a range of land use including roads, parks, houses & industries as well as shops and services. You may wish to add text in the form of newspaper headlines.

The following websites may be useful (in addition to 'googling' the place name -add 'Leeds' after the name):
Yorkshire Post
Wetherby News
Up my street
Leeds City Council
BBC Where I live -Leeds
I will put a link to this post in the side bar.

Year 8 GCSE Humanities groups

This blog has been running really successfully for nearly a year. The blog has had a very specific aim, that is to support my GCSE Geography groups. The posts either include material used in the lesson so that students can have another look at them & possibly make their own copies for revision purposes or they support additional work to be undertaken by the students. Some of the posts will be of use to Year 8 students, especially those with high target grades & I will label such posts for Year 8 as well as Year 11. In addition I have created a special 'sidebar' for links to materials that are useful/ important just for Year 8 so that they will be easy for you to find. You will be told if material is on the blog. It would have been great to do a blog just for you but..... there ARE only 24 hours in my days!!!!!

Learning Targets

Choose at least two 'Learning Targets' based from this list of 'Knowledge and Understanding' objectives:
Use geographically terminology correctly
Explain key ideas in detail (within an extended piece of writing)
Explain key ideas, justifying a point of view
Describe and explain key ideas
Make effective use of case studies

You may make the target more specific where it is appropriate (e.g. ..... when answering data type questions) or ....in Rivers....

You may express targets in your own words.

You may identify one additional 'organisational' target if appropriate.

Enter them in your planner (around p 20???)

You will be expected to complete a more detailed PDSA exercise in the lesson. The hyperlink will take you back to an earlier post on this. It is vital that you consider WHAT you are going to do to meet the target set! 'Try harder' doesn't promote change!

Kashmir Earthquake

Need to know: Cause of the quake, short & Long term impact, short & long term management strategies & issues