SLN Geography Forum

Thank you - very useful for my Edexcel B Development Dilemmas

The copyright things are fairly straightforward I think - having just taught this unit this term...

One is an image of Haytor, for example...

student told me that he always remembers the spelling of temperature because a previous teacher told him "I will lose my TEMPER AT U if you spell it wrongly"

I love these people - I'm sure not everyone's taste, but for me... so when I recently found that they have some geographically-related songs other than Istanbul not Constantinople http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo0X77OBJUg (which I played to Y11 as they were discussing about New York being New Amsterdam before - and they loved...):
Alphabet of Nations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drgrvDypOjA
I am a Palaeontologist (for the geologists on here) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7zo2zY1Zqg

Thanks for this link Judith - have signed up - amazing things you can get on the web sometimes, people indulging a passion, taking amazing photos around the world and then posting them for others to use for free...
For those who do deserts, I discovered what a haboob is browsing this site: http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/07/haboob-near-phoenix-arizona.html (good name, great pic)

  thank you - useful for AQA Pop topic just teaching at the moment...

Thanks Gazz. I spent about 2 hours I didn't have the other night downloading various Bear Grylls Sahara youtube video clips - hoping I will be able to find the relevant one amongst them!! - is worth it when you show Y10 though - they actually remember the details when it's things like squeezing the semi-digested contents of a camel's small intestines in order to get water in the desert - or climbing inside a camel carcass to for protection from sandstorms - or eating goats' testicles. Seeing as I am taking them to Morocco, including the Sahara next month, this was particularly poignant - though one girl did say she wanted her money back if I was going to make them do any of these things...

Thanks for this post Anne - led me to go back and research the One Child Policy a bit more - I thought people were allowed to have more children as long as they paid a fine and lost benefits for one-child families (an extra month's salary every year until the child is 14, interest-free loans, retirement funds, cheap fertilizer, better housing, better health care, and priority in school enrollment, etc.) - I have always discussed with students how this could be seen as an attempt to effectively prevent poor families having more than one child whilst allowing wealthy families to have more (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/25/china-one-child-policy-benefits-rules) - with the whys and wherefores of this... but seems to not be that simple... the wikipedia article has good account of the complexities - Tibetans (interesting...), Hong Kong and married only-children exempt, less stringent for rural families, etc.

Prob most fascinating 'fact' for me for students to use in A-level essay is that the steepest drop in fertility occurred in the 1970s before the policy was implemented in 1979...

From wikipedia: "As Hasketh, Lu, and Xing observe: "[T]he policy itself is probably only partially responsible for the reduction in the total fertility rate. The most dramatic decrease in the rate actually occurred before the policy was imposed. Between 1970 and 1979, the largely voluntary "late, long, few" policy, which called for later childbearing, greater spacing between children, and fewer children, had already resulted in a halving of the total fertility rate, from 5.9 to 2.9. After the one-child policy was introduced, there was a more gradual fall in the rate until 1995, and it has more or less stabilized at approximately 1.7 since then."[45] These researchers note further that China could have expected a continued reduction in its fertility rate just from continued economic development, had it kept to the previous policy."