keystage3 resources

KS 3 - Web - based resources

	Unit 1	Unit 2	Unit 3	Unit 4	Unit 5	Unit 6
Year 7	Settlement & Mapwork			Personal Enquiry	Resources	Global Connections
Year 7	Land use patterns Quality of life indicators in Cardiff - Grangetown - Lisvane Maps of Cardiff showing: - Detached housing - Terraced housing - Adults who have never worked - Rented accomodation - People with no qualifications What services are close by in your place? - 'Walk Score' Mapwork Download a map extract - O/S 'get-a-map' O/S Revise mapskills O/S Practise mapskills Mapskills test - 'fling the teacher' (from Wycombe High School)	as unit 1	as unit 1		Sea Empress oil spill Wind power Taff Ely wind farm Excellent lesson example using Google earth and Taff Ely windfarm - By Noel Jenkins Arguments for and against wind power (detailed) GIS - locating a wind farm (OS website) Porthcawl windfarm - debate	Cool planet - map projections
Year 8	Extreme weather	Geography of crime	Ecosystems under threat	Antarctica - key skills project	Climate change	Group enquiry - 'geography in the news'
Year 8	What is extreme weather? - Current UK weather chart (Met office) - UK Weather & Climate enquiry - Average monthly rainfall figures for UK (Met Office) - UK Regional climate data archive (Met Office) - Comparing climate graphs in Australia (data sheet here) from SLN - Global climate graphs Flooding - UK & South Asia 2007 - Boscastle 2004 (BBC) - Pencoed flood risk (Environment Agency) - Comparing Boscastle & Lynmouth - (Richard Allaway) Hurricanes - National Hurricane Centre - Causes (BBC) - Effects (BBC) - Effects (NY Times) - Katrina links - Enquiry guide Tornadoes - Tornado project Avalanche - Videos -Information	Crime figures - Bridgend Mapping crimes - Chicago US census data by post code (zipcode) Using GIS to reduce crime (O/S) Mapping where illegal drugs to the UK (BBC) Reducing drug smuggling (BBC)	Rainforest film clip Background information Deforestation film clip Rainforest Action Network Oxfam Cool Planet	Discovering Antarctica - RGS	Your climate, your life (RGS) What is it? (BBC) Causes, effects & responses (Defra) Visualising sea level rise Carbon footprint - calculator (Defra) - TV advert (from You Tube)	Geography in the news (RGS)
Year 9	Volcanoes & earthquakes	Geography of sport	Geography of fashion	Geography of surfing	Geography of Africa	Synoptic enquiry - developing country
Year 9	Volcano World Volcano simulator Montserrat enquiry - (BBC) Latest earthquake events (IRIS) Recent earthquakes Google Earth overlay (needs GE) Active volnaoes - Google Earth overlay (needs GE) USGS - plates of the world Plates jigsaw (by Christine Lloyd-Staples) Animation of plate boundary Background information - earthquakes USGS Earthquakes Great Kanto earthquake - background Earthquake design simulation Asian Tsunami - (BBC)	Football grounds enquiry - Is there a spatial pattern? Football clubs - where do the players come from? Cardiff City Swansea City Arsenal Man United Liverpool Spurs Chelsea Rugby World Cup 2007 - Official site - Population statistics (US Census) Beijing 2008 - official site - environmental issues - response to environmental issue (BBC) - controlling the weather? - improving transport Cardiff City redevlopment - stadium plans - stadium news - BBC coverage	Trading trainers simulation (Cafod) 'Sweatshop' simulation Globalisation case studies - Starbucks and McDonalds McDonalds Game - campaign site Faitrade	Rest Bay - surf prediction site (magic seaweed) Rest Bay - live webcam Surfing & climate change (RGS)	Patterns of development If the world were a village...(visualising development issues) - Global patterns of development - Basic GIS - Alternative way of viewing development - Worldmapper Development indicator database (US Census bureau) Into an LEDC Interactive map of Chingola, Zambia Shanty town - starter image Improving shanty towns (SLN)

Many of these resources have been recommended by Alan Parkinson at geographypages (packed full of fantastic resources)