Welcome year 7

Well if you are reading this you have found the Geog Blog.

Now click this link.

Use the site you end up at to practice your map skills and to play map games.

Have fun!

Remember to save the blog address in you favourites and the map site - they will both be very useful in the future.

What's in a name?

Year 7 Homework

Click on this link to take you to the University of Nottingham Institute for Name Studies.

Remember you have to find the meaning of 10 settlement names , including why Oldham is so called.

Any problems then come and tell me before the next lesson.

Help with grid references or just for fun

Have you come for fun or are you still not sure how to do them? Well no matter which, you can have fun as you practice using your map skills.

Click this link to the Ordnance Survey Map Zone.

Year 7 - Welcome to the blog

To help you with you map work skills take a look at this website.

There are bits of advice, practice questions and games all aimed at improving your map skills.

Click on this link: Map Zone

A bit of Historical Geography

Thanks to a pupil in Year 9 for this post: "I found this very interesting website, it gives you the tithe maps of Cheshire; the 1875 os map, the 1910 os map, the modern os map, and aerial views from 2000 and 1970. It also gives you land use maps and plot details. The site also shows you who owned most of the land. Sadly this is all for Cheshire! t will also allow you to search your postcode. Strangely it lets you look at the whole of the os map for the North West of England." Click the image for the website!

What's in a name?

I've been studying settlements with my year 7's and came across this website:

Institute for name studies

It helps explain the origin of place names in England.

I found it quite interesting and so did the pupils.

So why is Oldham called Oldham?

Are you a Flat-Earther?

Aristotle first described the possibility that the Earth was spherical in 330BC.

Despite all modern technology there are still a group of people who believe the Earth is not round; they are called Flat-Earthers.

Click on the link below and see if you are convinced?

Flat-Earth Society