Year 11: DME podcast download available!

Those of you resitting the DME could download this podcast from Mark Howell who is a Geography teacher in Northampton. As well as discussing and explaining the resources in the booklet, Mark also talks about the sorts of questions that you can expect for each of the resources.

Message for Year 11...

Please see the VLE for your work for period 5 today. You should have downloaded the DME booklet in the earlier post on here but if not then please do so now. Then go to the VLE where you will find the work for today. If you don't understand or require support feel free to leave me a comment. Miss Smith :)

Wind Farms: Generating power and jobs?

A useful BBC News article here for Year 11 to be reading about wind farms. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is launching a £100bn programme to build thousands of offshore wind farms.

Year 11- Decision Making Exercise

The Decision Making Exercise (DME) exam will be on the morning of Friday 29th January and will last for 1 hour 45 minutes.

The Issue: The Energy Gap: Is the answer blowing in the wind?

Here is a copy of the pre-release resource booklet that you have in the exam and we will be using this every lesson to become familiar with the materials.

OCR Resource Booklet

View more presentations from Liz Smith.

Here are some general wind energy links:
EIA Energy Kids US site explaining how wind energy works, types of turbine, etc.
BBC Video on How Wind Produces Electricity
BBC News - Government sets 2020 renewables targets (video clip)

Please make sure you access the VLE where all the lesson materials will be there incase you miss a lesson. Miss Smith :)