Case Study Menu

We have covered close to 60 case studies over the last 2 years. We have covered these in various amounts of detail, some of them only require you to know a small amount of detail ( fleeting bleating case studies)whilst others need you to be able to recall a lot more. I've listed below what I consider to be the essential case studies...........there are more I'd hope you'd be able to use but the nitty-gritty basics are below.

Tectonic Activity - Kobe ; Colombian ; Mt. St. Helen ; Montserrat

Hurricanes - Katrina ; Mitch

Floods - Lynmouth ; Bangladesh

National Parks - Norfolk Broads ; Lake District

Landscapes - Yorkshire Dales ; Swanage Coast

Development - Liana Project ; Village Platform ; TSR ; Aswan Dam

Water - Aswan Dam ; Thames Water Marunda Project ; Ganga Action Plan

Food - Aswan Dam ; Green Revolution ; Gene Revolution ; Bunding in Burkino Faso

Tourism - Brazil ; Mamiraua ; Ariau Towers ; Kenya

RUF - Stevenage West ; CASE ; Camborne ;

MEDC Town and City Centres - Stevenage ; London Docklands ; BART

Resources and Tropical Rainforests - Amazon

Energy - Swaffham ; Aswan Dam

Rural/Urban Migration in LEDCS - Rochina ; Cingapura Project

Population- One Child Policy ; Bangladesh ; Kenya ; UK ;Japan ; Italy ( Vastogirardi)

We are back in C4 this Monday. I intend to use the lesson to create revision movies on Food and Water - a topic we haven't studied for over a year. Food and Water hasn't come up in the exam for a few years now....... Please remember to bring your old exercise books along with you.

For those of you who didn't attend last Wednesday we had an excellent after school revision session (although we may have lost a few teeth!) There will be another session this Tuesday after school in H1. I'll keep it to the same format - we'll work through an exam paper, drink tea and coffee and fill our faces with sugary goodies.

Case Studies at Your Finger Tips!

I've just marked your exam question extended learning (those of you who did it) . Not too bad, but it is obvious that many of you haven't got case study information at your finger tips, which is also an indication that you haven't started to revise thoroughly - if at all yet.

I expected you to write about the Thames Water Marunda Project when you were describing a scheme used to reduce problems caused by the rapid growth of LEDC cities ( China is not a city!!!!) and after today's lesson you could have used the Cingapura Project in Sao Paulo. The last question which refers to MEDC cities and the changes made to them would have been best served by referring to the London Docklands.

My last comment about this piece of extended learning is why didn't anyone use the term 'economically active' when referring to the problems caused by an ageing population?

New Podcasts

I hope you are all having a good holiday and that your revision is going well. I hope you aren't thinking or saying 'what revision?!' The earlier you start the better , the more likely it is that the information will go in and stay in and be in a retrievable form when the exams arrive. I've recorded 4 new podcasts for you :

1. The Thames Water Marunda Project


2. National Parks - Increasing visitor numbers


3. National Parks - Increasing visitor pressures


4. National Parks - Managing the pressures

I've focussed on National Parks as your paper 1 topic is going to be based on them.

Testing Times

I've finished marking your test papers - the highest grade is a B . I'm not sure how many times I can say,' If they give you figures use them.' Most of you threw a grade away by not doing this. Most of you when answering the question about why population growth in LEDCS is expected to fall referred to China, Bangladesh or Kerala. However,only one person referred to the AIDS epidemic in Africa. When you shaded the graph to show the natural increases you were looking for the places where the BR was greater than the DR.When you drew on stage 5,you should have shown how the DR is expected to increase above the BR ,possibly with some small amount of fluctuation to take immigration into account.

The final question asked you to describe how MEDC's try to cope with changes in population structure. CHINA IS NOT A MEDC.......GROWL . MEDC's such as Italy , Germany , Japan and the UK typically have an ageing population ,so you were expected how to deal with this particular scenario. For example , the need to increase the numbers of economically active by raising the age of retirement , offering incentives to young couples to try and increase the BR etc.

It was obvious that some of you had used the resources on your iPods ,which pleases me. After Easter I'll have some more headphone splitters and then we can experiment with more active revision strategies in class which you can then use at home.

Houston, we have an ipod.

Which movie was this quote from?

Get your own quotes:

Population Pyramid Extended Learning

As promised ,here is your feedback. I am shouting this next bit........IF THEY GIVE YOU FIGURES USE THEM!!! The population pyramids had figures on them and you were asked to describe them,so use the figures! When you answered the question about the falling death rate ,lots of you wrote about improved health care but you weren't specific enough - you needed to give examples such as vaccination programmes. The last question ,the 'biggy' needed you to refer to a case study in detail - it was actually asking for a mini essay and this is exactly what the higher paper will ask for - so get used to it. I expected you to write about China and /or Bangladesh . Some of you had obviously watched the movie on your iPod and this helped some of you to achieve much higher marks.

iPod Survey

I haven't been able to collect your extended learning scripts yet. I'll mark them on Monday and then post some feedback. I hope that you all handed your work in ,if you didn't then you have an extra couple of days to make sure that it is ready for Monday's lesson- NO EXCUSES!

As you know you have a Population Test next Friday. The Population Revision Symbol is made up of keywords and case studies I expect you to know. It might be a good idea to make revision symbols for your other subjects, let me know what you think.

In Monday's lesson ,I'd like to ask you some questions about the iPods. I've managed to upload the questions to an external server and embed in our Blog.Sometimes when you open the Blog,the document appears full size at other times it only takes up a quarter of the page (yes,this does annoy me!)Don't panic just click on the icon in the top right hand side and you'll be able to open the document full size ,print it ,email it etc. I thought it would be helpful to give you a chance to think about your answers. I'm interested to know if they are making a difference and what we can do to make them more effective.