Mrs Ralph's Geography

Friday 8 September 2017

NEW WEBSITE!!

Mrs Ralph's Geography has been an amazing resource which I have used for the last two years. It has enabled me to enhance my students learning in many ways. I have been working on an exciting project over the last few months. I have developed a new classroom website. This new website will be much more user-friendly and have many more exciting features. I hope you enjoy using it. Please find the link below.

www.mrsralphsclassroom.com

Monday 14 November 2016

Duke Of Endiburgh Award - Compass Skills

Duke of Edinburgh compass skills from Máiréad Marie Ralph

Thursday 8 September 2016

A2: Paper 3 - Unit 2: Environmental Management

All students need to know the following:

To understand the differences between renewable and non-renewable energy resources
To understand why levels of supply and demand for energy resources vary at the national level.
To examine trends in the patterns of energy consumption in LEDCs and MEDCs.
To understand the environmental impact of energy production, transport and usage at the local scale.
To understand the environmental impact of energy production, transport and usage at the global scale.
To examine and evaluate the supply of electrical energy in one country at two scales (overall national energy strategy & Named located energy scheme)
To understand the nature and causes of the many types of pollution
To distinguish pollution from environmental degradation
To analyse the factors which have led to degradation of rural environments
What are the causes and consequences of misuse or overuse of rural land.
to examine and evaluate policies designed to improve the quality of degraded rural environments.
To understand why selected urban environments have become degraded
To understand the relative success or failure of policies designed to address urban environmental degradation.
To have knowledge of risk factors affecting environments, environmental protection policies and their impact.
To acquire detailed knowledge of one degraded environment

Unit 2 environmental management from Máiréad Marie Ralph

#TedTalks #AllanSavory

Friday 26 August 2016

A2: Paper 3 - Unit 1: Production, location and change

All students need to know the following:

To understand the concept of an agricultural system
To understand factors affecting agricultural land use and practices
To know case studies of intensive and extensive agricultural production
To be aware of agricultural change (intensification of production and extension of cultivation)
To understand the reasons for industrial location
To study the processes leading to industrial change, growth and development.
To understand the character, and reasons for hte development of industrial estates and export processing zones (EPZs)
To learn about the improtance of the informal sector (manufacturing and services)
To understand the basis of industrial policy
To evaluate the success of the industrial policy.

AS: Paper 1 - Unit 3 - Settlement Dynamics

All students need to know the following:

To be able to understand the difference between urban and rural
To understand the relationship between urban and rural.
What are the reasons and consequences for growth/decline in rural areas
To know a case study of a rural settlement
To understand the process of urbanisation
Understand the concept of a 'world city'
To understand the structure and dynamics of urban areas

Introduction to settlement dynamics m ralph from Máiréad Marie Ralph

Settlement Revision Video Clip

Thursday 25 August 2016

AS: Paper 1 - Unit 2 - Migration

All students need to know the following:

To understand the meaning of the migration (internal, and external etc.)
To be able to classify the different types of Migration
To be aware and understand the various reasons people migrate (push and pull factors)
Full understanding of a case study on international migration

Key Words

Migration
Push Factors
Pull Factors
Constraints
Intervening Obstacles
Barriers
Rural-Urban
Urban-Rural
Intra-Urban
Inter-Urban
Stepped Migration
Voluntary
Forced
Sorce Area
Recieiving Area
International Migration
Regugee
Asylum Seeker
Economic Migrant
Migrability
Mobility
International Migration
Migration Stream
Mass Migration

AS: Paper 1 - Unit 1 - Population

All Students need to know the following:

To understand population distribution and density
To understand terms such as 'natural increase' and 'natural decrease' of population and how this leads to population change
To understand replacement level to maintain populations
Factors that influence birth rate and death rate (economic, social, environmental and political factors)
To understand the different types of population structures (demographic transition model DTM)
To be aware of the Historical growth of population.
To be aware of population debates both in relation to positive and negative effects of increasing population.
Understanding of basic concepts such as Overpopulation, Underpopulation, Optimum Population
What is sustainability
Case Study on Population Management.