St Columba Geog Blog: Thursday 28th September

S4 have been studying land use conflicts in upland areas of Scotland-they watched a video on the Cairngorm funicular eailiway to help them assess the advantages and disadvantages of such developments-is it a simple matter of economic gain v environmental loss? opinion is certainly very divided. Click here to learn more about the Cairngorms.

Wednesday 27th September

In geography with Mr McDougall S2 have been out in Kilmacolm looking at the land use of Port Glasgow road and Lochwinnoch road. We made a scale map of the local roads, marking their land use then drawing up a pie chart of our findings.

We also completed a quiz of odd-one-out questions on geography, saying which was different and why.

David's question: Latvia Ukraine Kazakhstan Armenia

John's question: Britain Italy France Tunisia

Calum's question: Texas Florida Illinois Tenesse

Post your answer-and reason here!

Tuesday 26th September

S4 have looked at exam technique this morning, by studying past paper question on glacial deposition in Denmark. They were given the qeustion and also a prompt to help them identify the main points they should cover. Before starting we looked at how to CUBE a question.
Circle the instruction, eg "describe" "explain"
Underline the key words;
Box the resources in the question you need to use.
Explain in your own words what you are to do.
They also need to include a labelled diagram of how a terminal moraine is formed.
Good links to glacial deposition at BBC Bitesize.

St Columba's Geography Blog-Trial entry

Welcome to the first entry for the Geography Blog for St Columba's School, Kilmacolm. Kilmacolm is a village situated between Greenock and Paisley within Inverclyde District. The population (2004) was 3920. St Columba's is an independent, non denomonational HMC school, with over 700 pupils. Blogging is becoming increasingly popular among geographers as a way of communicating ideas and resources; amomg the most highly recommended are Val Vannet's http://highergeogblog.blogspot.com and Odblog (http://geodonn.blogspot.com). We are going to use this blog for pupils to put out their own thoughts, recommendations and experiences about what they are learning in geography.