Posts Tagged ‘GCSE’

New Nuclear Power at Bradwell on Sea?

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Just down the road from where I live and work is Bradwell on Sea. There has been information in the local press recently about one of the new Nuclear Reactors being built there. There is already a nuclear power station on the site though it stopped generating in 2002, has been fully defueled and is now in the process of being decomissioned.

Village at hub of UK Power Debate

Page 2 that links with the above article:

Page 2 of Article

Powering Ahead

Bradwell is right choice says MP

Click on the scans of the articles for larger versions.

There is also an online article here.

The local council still maintains some form of contingency plans.

I will be using this when teaching the ‘Old’ GCSE Managing Resources.

Impact of Climate Change in an LEDC

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

This year we are teaching the new CCEA GCSE Geography Syllabus and we have started with the unit on Weather and Climate.

We had lots of information in the textbook on impacts to MEDCs but not much on LEDCs.

Attached is a mystery type card sort activity with the key question:

In November 2008, President Mohamed Nasheed announced plans to look into purchasing new land in India, Sri Lanka, and Australia. Why?

Included within the cards are subheadings to be used to aid classification (Economic, Social, Environmental, and Response).

(I can’t take all the credit for this – it was a team effort with my colleague Michelle)

Farming Quick Quiz

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Nothing exciting – just a quick one page key word exercise that I spent five minutes putting together for my Year 11s to start off tomorrows lesson.

May save someone five minutes (answers on second page.)

New GCSE

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

I have spent my afternoon / evening thinking through the new GCSE syllabus.

The reason why as a school we picked the CCEA syllabus is it is the most straightforward of all of the offerings from the examinations boards.

The syllabus makes it very prescriptive which makes it easier to deliver as you don’t have to guess what is going to appear on the examination. There will also be enough time left over for some fun and innovation (I hope).

The examination board have also produced a detailed scheme of work which is downloadable in an editable format. In addition they have produced a textbook mapping document which shows how  These are both really useful as they save alot of extra work.

The only disapointing thing is the endorsed textbook will not be available until the end of October. However hodder have agreed to send me a copy of the weather chapter; the section we are delivering first.

I have now produced a plan for how we plan to deliver it and am quite excited. Hopefully it works!