A2 Geography Unit 3 pre-release 'Development in East Africa'

Resources to help you with 

Worksheet 4 - Indicators of Development #3: MDGs

Use this link to research why the MDGs were set up, and by who

Use this link to know what the MDGs are

Use this link to research progress in Kenya's MDGs

Use this link to research progress in Tanzania's MDGs

Use this link to research progress in Uganda's MDGs

A2 Geography Unit 3 pre-release 'Development in East Africa'

Resources to help you with 

Worksheet 2 - Indicators of Development #1: HDI

Worksheet 3 - Indicators of Development #2: Single Indicators

Use the following UNDP site to find the data to complete Worksheet 2

Click on the 'Country List' and select the individual country.
Then click on the category for individual indicators.

Use the following site and links to it to find information about what the HDI is and what individual indices mean for both Worksheet 2 and Worksheet 3.

A2 Geography Unit 3 pre-release 'Development in East Africa'

Resources to help you with Worksheet 1 - The Colonial Legacy

Uganda under British colonial rule.

Brief History of Uganda 1888-1962

Kenya under British colonial rule

Brief History of Kenya 1888-1963

Tanzania under colonial rule

Brief History of Tanzania 1900-1961

BBC Horizon - why can we not predict earthquakes?

UVI Unit 4 - watch this in the holidays (before 4 April...)

Event profiles

Tectonic hazards can be described in terms of their frequency, magnitude, duration and areal extent. Use the following links to complete the worksheet:

Earthquake scales

Richter Scale

Mercalli Scale

Magnitude calculator

Volcanic explosivity index

VEI

Frequency and magnitude

Frequency

Last hour / day / week

Ethnicity mix in MEDC cities

2011 census results - ethnic mix
Integration challenges

Climate change game

Managing climate change activity

Click on this link to open the game

Click on 'Student Code' at the top of the page and enter the code - PFVVEU

If they ask you for a logon, use:

geography@merchiston.co.uk
password - geography

Traffic in Edinburgh

Use the following links to complete the sheet on traffic issues in Edinburgh

Edinburgh Park and Ride Schemes

Cycling in Edinburgh

Go to p13 of the Edinburgh 2030 Transport Vision for an overview

Article - Scotsman

Housing issues in MEDC cities

Video clips

Radstad, Holland (greenfield / brownfield)
Cambridge

Megacities

Documentaries for megacities topics.

Andrew Marr - Living in the City
Andrew Marr - Cities on the Edge
Andrew Marr - Sustaining the City

Megacities - London (National Geographic)

Megacities

See link to tweet below. Use the Guardian interactive to make some notes on the rise of megacities.

The rise of megacities – interactive http://t.co/GMwST606H4 via @guardian #ASUnit1 - make some notes
— Merchiston Geography (@MerchiGeog) March 13, 2014

Calculating your Carbon Footprint

Calculate your carbon footprint using the ‘Act on CO2’ web site
Draw a divided bar chart to show your footprint
Draw a divided bar chart for the national average footprint
Create a ‘plan’ to begin to reduce your carbon footprint
Sort the actions by ‘Easiest to do’. Complete the table to show three actions you could take in each of the categories – Home, Appliances and Travel

Guess answers to the questions you are not sure about as best you can
If you would like to, 'share' this post with your family and they can e-mail you their results back!

Retirement flows to Spain

This is a compulsary case study for AS Unit 1. The flow of retiree migrants to Spain. Use the following articles to complete the case study sheet.

The Guardian
Telegraph
Telegraph 2
Tips for retiring to Spain
All the positives!

Hacking the planet

Geoenginerring - the ultimate mitigation - large sale intevention in the earth's climatic system. There are some crazy ideas out there!

Read this article from the Guardian

Choose two of the proposed options for 'hacking the planet' and create a PowerPoint slide for each including the following things:

• A title
• Pictures from the web illustrating the idea
• A description of how the scheme is proposed to work
• Any problems with the idea
• Include the Practicality Rating / Apocolypse Rating / Cost scores

Make them look good and we will display them

Post them up onto moodle when you are finished.