The aim of this lesson: To examine the environmental and human factors affecting patterns and trends in physical water scarcity and economic water scarcity. Updated Jan 2012

Aims of this lesson: To be able to distinguish between the terms globalization and glocalization. To examine the extent to which commercial activities at a local scale have become globalized. To examine the reasons why the level and rate of adoption of globalization varies from place to place. Updated Jan 2012

Late yesterday evening I put together a quick slide deck on Ravenstein's Laws of Migration for a Year 10 lesson I was doing today.  

I just needed the text for each of the 'laws' as we were going to discuss their content and relate them to three contemporary images we were looking at.  I uploaded the slide deck to slideshare.net so that I could embed it neatly into a webpage.

It's a dead simple slide deck.  I pressed the button so it got posted on Twitter - I thought others may find it interesting - and went to bed.

Today the following email and tweet:

@richardallaway @slideshare Just OK...makes good sense...bt most of the slides r words...where is the engagement?Thanks 4 sharing though!

— Chris Stephenson (@geographywee) January 23, 2012

The slide deck on slideshare.net has currently had 777 views - bizarre - there are far better presentations on the site!

Where is the engagement?  The dialogue between teacher and students was 'the engagement' - relating geographical theory to modern images.  It doesn't just have to be engagement through technology or 'whizzy' presentations.  "Simple" works - an effective lesson where students gained understanding of what the lesson was designed to convey.

Click here to download:

ee-title-creation.pdf (104 KB)

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Click here to download:

ee-title-creation.pdf (104 KB)

A document that I have produced to support a couple of my students who are currently trying to decide upon their IB Geography Extended Essay title and research question.  Getting a good title and research question is really important in ensuring there are not problems later on as deadlines loom and the stress levels increase!