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General Discussion / Re: hydropower generation in the Amazon
« Last post by kevincooper777 on Today at 05:25:32 PM »
Thank you - very useful for my Edexcel B Development Dilemmas
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General Discussion / Re: Good luck
« Last post by kevincooper777 on Today at 05:24:53 PM »
Thank you Alan, nice of you to think of us  :)
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General Discussion / Re: Legacy AQA A GCSE
« Last post by kevincooper777 on Today at 05:20:23 PM »
The copyright things are fairly straightforward I think - having just taught this unit this term...

One is an image of Haytor, for example...
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General Discussion / Re: Legacy AQA A GCSE
« Last post by edge on Today at 10:57:44 AM »
I've tried eAQA, they have some old papers but none with the copyright images.  After a certain period of time they replace the online versions of papers with the copyrighted ones - not helpful for practising past paper questions!
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General Discussion / Re: Teachers of WJEC GCSE Spec A!
« Last post by htdavies on Today at 10:23:10 AM »
I will e-mail you now!
( Only just spotted your request - I have not been on here for a while as its a busy time in work at the mo!)
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General Discussion / Re: C to D grades at GCSE
« Last post by htdavies on Today at 10:20:39 AM »
We have quite a lot of pupils who are better at geography than they are at literacy and often they do not apply their knowledge and understanding to the question.

 We stress the need to answer all questions ( obvious to us I know!) We have spent time going over past questions especially focusing on the command terms, key words and terms in the syllabus. Make sure they can refer to named examples/ case studies.

 We have also spent time on skills type questions regarding describe the location of....  describe the distribution of.......  describe the changes on the graph.... etc. I have produced some basic help mats for these skills and am happy to e-mail them to you if you want them.

 We have breakfast club on the morning of the exam to cover a few key points relevant to the exam that day.  Many of our pupils are reluctant to revise, we do our best to encourage them! 
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General Discussion / Re: Legacy AQA A GCSE
« Last post by MissGeog on Today at 08:34:21 AM »
Have you tried logging on to the EAQA section you will need to get a log on from your exam officer?
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General Discussion / Re: Legacy AQA A GCSE
« Last post by scanrod on May 17, 2013, 04:38:09 PM »
Sorry Emma I don't but I am having exactly the same problem.  It is ridiculous!  We just want to be able to help people pass their exams!
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General Discussion / Re: Map Work unit
« Last post by Yosemitelover on May 17, 2013, 03:01:11 PM »
I have exactly the same problem. I trialled this year integrating in to other subjects but they just don't know what they would if they'd had a map skills unit. For September we will be going back to map skills but i'm going to use historical maps as well as today's ordnance survey map and we are investigating the local area. 2/3 of our kids are out of catchment and are bused in so have no idea of what the local area is like. I've also got them to do activities in groups such as 'maps from memory' where a girl will have to remember the Q, grid ref, map symbol etc and report back to the rest of her group so they can solve the question. We also have a murder mystery based on an OS map which they really enjoy doing. For homework we get them to write their own.
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General Discussion / Legacy AQA A GCSE
« Last post by edge on May 17, 2013, 02:17:13 PM »
Does anyone have electronic copies of papers and inserts with the copyright images included?  I have the papers and markschemes ewlectronically but without the copyright bits and its a bit of a pain!  We didn't do this spec and are trying to plan and resource the Rocks unit which isn't really examined by other specs so this is our only source of questions.

Thanks in advance, Emma
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