Olympics 2012

It's me again! It has been a long time since I updated properly. I have recently downloaded a blooging app on my iPad at school, so I am going to try and blog a bit more often. I'm not sure how many people read my blog but it's a good place to keep links of useful pages etc.

So, my attention has been drawn to this video on the BBC all out the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. You could say it is about the good, the bad and white elephant!

It is an interesting watch, and we can only hope that London 2012 won't suffer the same fate of producing a £9 billion white elephant! I'm sure we won't, but interesting none-the-less.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17695233

Miss U

Innovation?

Nigeria's plastic bottle house.

Year 9 are studying about sustainable development - what could be more sustainable than this new house that is being built alongside 25 others in Nigeria. Bullet proof, cool and eco-friendly as it is recycled used bottles, this house in my opinion is a cracking example of a sustainable development in all senses! It also employs local people, is helping children in the future by enabling them access to an education as well as reducing carbon footprints!!!!!!! All in all, I think this is great!

Years 9, 10 and 11.... what are your thoughts?

Could this be used all around the world? What do you think of the value of this recycling? Read the news story (Click on the image!) and it would be great if some of you could comment on it!

If you find any further information, let me know and you can write a post about it for the blog and become a published (in a sense!) author!

Keep up the hard work,

Miss Udy

p.s Keep an eye out for information about the earthquake in Turkey as well as flooding in Thailand! :)

Hyrdogen Cars in the UK

Article from BBC 20th Sept 2011.

Usefull for year 10 GCSE students.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14979817

Frozen Planet

Dear Year 9, 10 and 11.

The programme that is on BBC 1 tonight at 9pm is an easy to watch programme that will help you with your studies this year. Year 9 you will be studying a unit called Pole to Pole - this will give you some info that may help you! Year 10 and 11 you will be studying a unit called Extreme Climates at somepoint soon, this series will help you understand a little about colder climates and may give you some good basic knowledge following on from the Pole to Pole unit you studied when you were in year 9!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mfl7n/broadcasts/2011/11

For anyone that was really interested, you could go to the open university website and do some learning from there in a free unit they have designed! http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=406544&section=3.3

Also, follow the BBC news, parts of America suffered over Halloween with some unexpected snow fall.... above all, get practicing for your snow dance!!!! I love snow days, I am sure you do to so we need to do the snow dance to get some snow ourselves!!!!!!

Miss Udy

What number are you?

So, someone close to me saw this. Being the true geographer that I am of course I had to look at it!!!!!!!!

So what number are you?

When I was born, apparently I was the 4,695,788,505th person born!

What does your number mean to you?

Does population growth worry you?

Year 10 - this is your time to shine!!!!!!!!! Show us what you know... go on, I dare you to make a comment!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

Enjoy

Miss Udy

Rethink Refugees....

Yr 9 have recently looked at migration.... as I am hoping you have seen in the news, here is an interesting video from Australia.

Miss Udy

Yeo Valley

A favourite advert of mine at the moment - the owl always makes me chuckle!

But, in all seriousness this is a good link for Primary Industries.

Yr 7 will have studied about employment types for the festival unit.

Yr 10/11 will need to link into Unit 2 - Working topics!

Task: Year 11/10 - How does this show diversification?

Miss Udy

Population Dynamics... ageing populations

Welcome back to Eltham Hill's Geography Blog - I'm sorry I have not updated for so long. So much to do, so little time to do it!

Anyway, I thought I would start off, hopefully updating once a day with things that will be useful for my students.

My new year ten group, who are so far lovely, are studying population dynamics. Here are two very interesting articles I saw on the BBC website earlier. China's pension system waltzes into crisis: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11288492##

Ageing populations and fewer workers strain pensions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11281670

Please think about what futher problems an ageing/youthful population may bring.

Good stuff, over and out for now!


Miss Udy

Video for year 10 Revision

What is the optimum population for Planet Earth?




Miss Udy

Year 10 Geographers - DME UNIT £ PRE-RELEASE MATERIAL

Hi year ten....

Quick link for you.... the materials for the DME on the 24th June are now available for you to access on the shared drive.

They will be there as of the end of Monday.

W:Geography/Year 10/Unit 3 - DME

You only get one copy that is in colour which is for the exam. I will provide you with a black and white version - feel free to print your own one out in colour should you so wish. I will be creating a display soon with some more information! Keep your eyes posted!

Miss Udy

Andrew Ledger - Shackleton Centenary Expedition

BBC Breakfast 17 October 2008 from The Shackleton Foundation on Vimeo.

Andrew Ledger came to Eltham today to relive his expedition to Antarctica. This was before they went on the expedition and see Andrew on BBC news!

Miss Udy

Haiti Earthquake

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/haitis-killer-quake-why-it-happened/4od#3030763

The Helping Haiti song - please watch it/buy it. We are fortunate we can help.... please try.

Also, for those of you interested there is a video on channel 4 about why the earthquake happened. A recommended watch.


Miss Udy

Vertical Farming....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8503498.stm

Could this be the solution to our farming problems? I'll let you decide.

I'm sure I heard somewhere you can buy air space already... perhaps this will be one way of making money in the future.


Miss Udy

Links for year 10 - Baby Boom

Year 10 (and 11 as it is useful!)

Below are the web addresses for some useful information for our current unit. It may well give you some usefull case study information!


http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/123352/Immigrant-baby-boom


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209396/Population-UK-tops-61million-biggest-baby-boom-generation.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1211622/250-extra-primary-schools-needed-migrants.html
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2610013/Randy-Brits-push-population-to-61million.html
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6140059/Hundreds-more-primary-schools-needed-because-of-baby-boom.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6811980.ece
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article6812888.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6815590.ece

Miss Udy

Revision Quizes....

Good morning,

I was trying to save the games my year 10 girls helped to make on this page - it isn't working and I need to work on how to save them on here!!!!!!!

For the time being if you are a student here please follow this file path:
W:\Geography\Revision Games

There are two in there at the moment...... spent quite a while on this last night! I am sure I will get quicker so please check back regulary to have a look!


Miss Udy

Citizenship..... Year 10

Hi there!

Miss Chandler was telling me today about a year 10 lesson that she did where she incorporated Twitter. I do have a twitter account, although to date I have found no real use for this! However, the citizenship twitter idea really struck me as fantastic!

http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2009/05/06/today-i-took-part-in-a-citizenship-lesson-via-twitter/

It has also been blogged about by Michael Grimes and I think with a little refining this could be a fantastic idea!

I tried to find the twitter account earlier, but in my haste could not remember the name! I'm hoping Miss Chandler will tell me again!

Iwas a fantastic idea and not only that but it was all to do with Geography as well! Discussing the topic of Sustainable development and Climate Change.

Good stuff... keep posted for links to the twitter page!


Miss Udy

Undersea Tonga volcano - a new island is born!

Wow,
I know this happened on the 18th but this is the first chance I have had!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7952030.stm

Click on the bbc link for more info!!

Miss Udy

Google Street View

Good afternoon,

Sorry it has been so long since my last post - things seem to all come in one go! I finally found 5 minutes to sit down and write!

Last Thursday Google Street View shot into the news... I have to say I am a fan! I did spend an hour looking at my nans house, my house (where my housemate is in the window when the pic was taken!), my best friends house (her daughter was throwing a trantrum on the street!) and generally looking to see what was on there!

Where's Wally? A favourite childrens book even managed to get a Wally somewhere in London!
As well as a marriage proposal, two kinghts fighting, some breaking into a house and so on!

Google’s camera cars covered more than 22,369 miles of UK roads in their effort to map towns and major cities, including London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and Oxford. Already, web users have been scouring the maps to find quirky or unusual sights, including a broken-down Google car being photographed by another camera car, and Banksy graffiti.
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Enjoy!

Miss Udy

Year 10 Homework - 9/3/09

Good morning!

Homework for the week - Find out what agencies such as Age Concern and Help the aged do to help the Birtish Elderly population. Do they give out grants to help people who are struggling?
What happens in the local area for the elderly in our community? Does the school do anything?

Due: Next Monday 16th March

Any questions let me know on Wednesday.

Miss Udy

Year 10 Homework - 2/3/09

Good afternoon!
Year 10 homework this morning was to imagine you are packing a bag as a migrant leaving from Mexico to the USA. At the link below (hopefully it will work, if not it is in the shared area W:\Geography\GCSE yr 10 08-09\Population - there are 3 sheets!

usehttp://www.elthamhill.greenwich.sch.uk/ehtc.net/page_students.aspx?id=&d=Population&sl=..%2fshared%2fGeography%2fGCSE+yr+10+08-09&dl=..%2fshared%2fGeography%2fGCSE+yr+10+08-09%2fPopulation

Don't forget you may need a work permit (which costs $20) or pay $20 to get over the border!

Any questions, you can either post a message or e-mail me!

Miss Udy