Welcome to Geography@marrgeog

Our Geographers

design solutions to

world problems

and create

earthquake proof

buildings

S1

Geographers

create and

even bake

Free choice homework

S1 Geographers explore,

analyse and present

results

Geographers travel

Weather Revision

S1 Geographers

personalise their

learning

Over the next

few slides are

some tasks

you could try

out.

Give these

Geographical

investigations

a try

What’s that sound?Go into your garden and stand, silently for 1 full minute. Write down all the things that you hear during that time. Now think about why those sounds happened – was it due to the time of day, the weather, the location of your house…….

Everything is connectedSketch something that is alive, then draw connections to other living things. What does it eat and what eats it? Does anything live with it?

Why won’t it snow?Write a weather diary for one week. Use the met office website or BBC Weather to record: temperature, wind speed, rainfall, wind direction and air pressure.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/https://www.bbc.co.uk/weatherCan you link any of these weather elements together?

Become a garden explorerSit in the garden or watch from a window and give new names, that you have made up, to plants and animals according to what they look like or what they do.

Where are you from? Speak to family members and find out where they have lived. Create a map to show the locations.

How connected are you?

Find 10 household items – food stuff, clothes, technology, book….. Create a map to show where these items were made or have come from.

Give these

Geographical

investigations

a try

How has it changed?

Speak to the oldest person in your family. Ask them how the place where

they live has changed – bigger, quieter, more houses, less trees, same

shops, do they know as many people…..

Micro-explore

Explore a crack in the path in the back garden. Draw tiny sketches of this

newly-discovered micro world.

Underground

Dig a hole in the garden. What do see in there? How many insects ae

there and what are they? What colours can you see? What rocks or

debris makes digging the hole difficult?

Build a mini-cairn/ rock stack challenge

Using only rocks or stones from your garden, build the tallest rock stack

that you can. Will it stand, unsupported for 1 minute?

Give these

Geographical

programmes

a watch

Natural World: Wild Cuba. The Caribbean Islands natural wonders and

unspoiled landcapes.

War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita. The problem with Plastic and how

we solve it

The Americas with Simon Reeve. Simon Reev travels the length of the

Americas

Earth from Space. Cameras in space, show the rapid change of your

planet

Planet Earth II. Discover incredible creatures, wherever they are

Meat: A Threat to our Planet? Is our growing hunger for meat

destroying our planet?

Blue Planet II. Meet the incredible creatures that live beneath the waves

In S1 Geography you will study Wild Weather. Focusing on Hurricanes and how they form, where they occur and the damage they cause.

Follow the link to play Stop Disasters Game and try to reduce the impact a Hurricane can have on your Caribbean town. Use your budget wisely to protect the people and strengthen the buildings. Can you complete the mission?

https://www.stopdisastersgame.org/stop_disasters/

S1

Geographers look

at real

world issues!

Try to keep

pollution down by

playing the

offset game.

https://climatekids.

nasa.gov/offset/

Redesign the Scotland Flag

The Scottish Government have given you the task of redesigning the flag of Scotland. The flag should represent the Geography of Scotland, as well as anything else that interests you about Scotland. Flag checklist:

1. Something representing the physical geography of Scotland (mountains, lochs, sea, rivers, the weather)

2. Something representing the human Geography of Scotland (cities, towns, famous landmarks, people)

3. At least one other design feature relevant to Scotland (this can be anything; haggis, irn bru, tartan.............)

S1 Geographers Rock