GAG (Geography Awareness Week)

Geography Awareness week

 Geographical Awareness Week (GAW) November 18th to 22nd is being run by the Geographical Society of Ireland;;;find out more from their website and their blog...the theme is An Exploration of Water.
other media links are: gawireland@gmail.com        @GAWIreland       facebook.com/gawireland

 What I found useful...
Storytelling with maps from the ESRI: they publish story maps with three goals: To showcase interesting and important topics; to explore techniques and best practices for map-based storytelling; and to help enable people to make their own story maps.Examples I found interesting were Renewable energy; 50 largest container ports; Refugee camps; Top 10 most damaging Hurricanes; Population 7 Million;

SE Branch AGM

The AGM of the South east branch will take place at Castlecomer Discovery Park on Saturday November 16th. 
The guest speaker will be Ian Saunders from Trinity College Dublin

Explain and illustrate the continual process of rock formation, change and destruction

(Curriculum outcome from LC Geography Syllabus)

• 10.00  Rocks and the geographical investigation, an overview by Kieran McCarthy: 
• 10.30  Educational programmes on offer at CDP. 
• 11.00  Getting to know your rocks by Ian Saunders from TCD. Dr Saunders was the author of the booklet that went out with the rock sample packs to secondary schools. 
• 12.45  Break for lunch 
• 2.00 Optional visit to the History of  Coalmining exhibition  and/or an introduction to using the Permanent Orienteering courses for anyone interested

  

Please contact agtise2011@gmail.com if you are planning to participate to guarantee your place by 11^th November

Annual Conference

39th Annual Conference

Thurles, Co. Tipperary

 

‘Geography: Past, Present and Future’

 

Friday 18th October /Saturday 19th October 2013

The Anner Hotel, Thurles

Word exercise

How many 4+ letter words can you make out of the word

ENVIRONMENT?

...it does depend if you spell it write!
 Did you put an IRON in the middle?
How many 8 letter words did you get? More than 8?
61 more 5+
Look up Litscape.com


How do you spell RESERVOIR?
I found only 20% of 5th years spelt it correctly...there were 6 different versions. Some avoided the issue by writing artificial lake?

.....best mine could come up with...EROSIVE...not bad when you REVISE  RIVERS.
Be careful not to make any ERRORS

Urban fieldwork

Kieran McCarthy facilitated an insightful urban workshop at the Waterford teacher's centre. 
The focus was the 2014 urban topic:

 

Analysis of the relationship 

between land use and traffic flow in a local area

Fieldwork Investigation

Kieran McCarthy will run a workshop on March 2nd at the Waterford Teachers Centre (and nearby) on the urban topic for the 2014 Fieldwork Investigation.

We hope to gain a better understanding of the reporting Booklet and to share ideas and experiences on the investigation.

Topic: Analysis of the relationship between land-use and traffic flow in a local area.

• Identifying themes or aspects suitable for investigation
• Setting out aims / hypotheses
• Planning for the investigation
• Identifying tasks and methodologies needed to undertake the investigation
• Trialling / practicing some of the activities
• Identifying sources of secondary information
• Providing resources for undertaking the investigation (worksheets etc)

 The workshop will begin at 10.00 and end by 13.00. Coffee/tea on arrival at the teacher's centre.

In order to book a place at the workshop, please send a refundable cheque of €10 to Andrew Cox c/o Newtown school, Waterford. Cheques should be made out to :AGTI. Anybody who has not paid their membership will be expected to sign up before or on the day of the workshop. The SE branch are subsidising the costs from membership fees. Thank you for your understanding.

Autocomplete Maps

Have you ever wondered how geeks perceive maps?

Resource Blog

Over the past 4 years I have put together a series of resource links using a Blog. This resource is available for all teachers to use. I would welcome input and suggestions at any time. If you find a good link, post it on to Andrew Cox. The latest entries are on Irish Geology and Discover Ireland (useful for those doing Tourism Awareness in TY)