There is a kid at my (special-needs) school who is hopefully going to a really fancy, famous private school when he finishes here, if he passes his exams etc? Which is cool I guess.
There is kind of a slight problem with this, though, because the curriculum we teach here is not really the most demanding for obvious reasons, so I've been assigned to give him special work for the next few months.
Except - I know NOTHING about geography! It seems really really hard and really really boring. I'm happy to just give him articles about topics and stuff and ask him questions about them, only I can't find any that are remotely interesting at all?
Help me out ilx!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 26 January 2008 18:04 (eighteen years ago)
you mean geology
maybe you want to look into ron redfern's books?
― gabbneb, Saturday, 26 January 2008 18:25 (eighteen years ago)
Well this stuff is geology, it's examined as geography at this level tho along with population stuff, stuff about how a city works, and global location (what is the capital of...) stuff
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 26 January 2008 18:40 (eighteen years ago)
Have him map the 10-worst earthquakes since 1900 in 3 categories -- intensity, lives lost, property damage in adjusted dollars or pounds -- and assign 1000 words on what inferences might be drawn. Are there areas that people avoid because of earthquakes? Are there areas that people flock to despite earthquakes?
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 26 January 2008 18:51 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.gdacs.org/ http://www.hewsweb.org/
...are two useful sites for finding out about any kind of recent/on-going natural disaster. This sort of stuff is a lot more interesting when you can look at a news reports, read what happened yesterday along the Pacific rim, and then go back to decode what a particular type of earthquake, etc actually is and how its caused/predicted/managed.
― Jacob, Saturday, 26 January 2008 19:23 (eighteen years ago)
Look for Assembling California, John McPhee. It's been out a while. It is part of a longer series of geology books by McPhee that were collected into a big, big book called Annals of the Former World.
I mention the Cali book because it has probably the most fireworks about tectonic plates, docking island chains and subduction earthquake zones: the really cool stuff.
Unless you were really looking for geography stuff. Then a really, really detailed atlas is the best place to start, spinning off into whatever grabs the kid's fancy. The best maps are pure magic. The worst are thin gruel.
― Aimless, Saturday, 26 January 2008 19:43 (eighteen years ago)
Er, just what age is this student? Or, more importantly, what age level can he work at? I presume it's OK to hand him stuff that is a little above his head, but not to toss him straight into the deep end.
― Aimless, Saturday, 26 January 2008 19:47 (eighteen years ago)
This past Thursday's In Our Time on Radio 4 was about Plate Tectonics. You can download the show here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml
― Gukbe, Saturday, 26 January 2008 19:51 (eighteen years ago)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080412/D9000MJ00.html
― gabbneb, Saturday, 12 April 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)
'swarm' of earthquakes?
― emil.y, Saturday, 12 April 2008 15:50 (seventeen years ago)
maybe they should allow snowmobiles in yellowstone
― gabbneb, Sunday, 13 April 2008 16:36 (seventeen years ago)
Tectonic plates? Don't be silly, obviously women are to blame
― Is that your Ayrshire bacon? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:54 (fifteen years ago)
veniet imber
― zinging of a fuckboy (imago), Friday, 7 February 2014 16:42 (twelve years ago)
your link is broken fuckboy
― waterbabies (waterface), Friday, 7 February 2014 16:46 (twelve years ago)
first word of thread sez link
are we not already on ilx
think abt it
― zinging of a fuckboy (imago), Friday, 7 February 2014 16:47 (twelve years ago)