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How do you eat an elephant?

A671 Extreme environments. Exam Date: ____________. How do you eat an elephant?. Freeze it and serve it up in small chunks. How to revise. What do you do to revise? http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/gcse/revision.html Can you remember the countries of the Sahel?

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How do you eat an elephant?

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  1. A671 Extreme environments Exam Date: ____________ How do you eat an elephant? Freeze it and serve it up in small chunks

  2. How to revise... • What do you do to revise? • http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/gcse/revision.html • Can you remember the countries of the Sahel? • Why is the Sahel significant?

  3. A671 - What’s the Unit about? • Study 2 contrasting environments: • DESERTandMOUNTAIN • Look at where they are found, what they are like, how we use them and what challenges they pose for people. • Concentrate mainly on the Challenges of each environment • Be specific to a place – get to know real locations CASE STUDY APPROACH

  4. What will you do next? • What ‘chunks’ can you identify • Where are you going to start • What style of revision do you like? • Are you a visual, Audio or • Kinesthetic learner?

  5. Exam Tips – in the exam… • Get your brain organisedread the entire question first before answering any part, in order to decide which section requires which information, to avoid repetition of answers • highlight the command words and other key words so that answers are always relevant to the question (examiners mark positively when they see this) Keep reading more on the next slide….

  6. Exam Tips – in the exam… • Use the mark allocations in brackets as a guide to the amount of detail or number of responses required [4 marks] • Focus your answer, don’t just write all you know! Rather than including all facts about the chosen topic or area and develop each point wherever possible instead of writing extensive lists of simple, basic points Keep reading more on the next slide….

  7. Exam Tips – in the exam… • Study the resources such asmaps, graphs, diagrams and extracts carefully and use appropriate facts and statistics from resources to back up an answer, • Interpret the resources by making appropriate comments, rather than just copy them. • Use analysis tool such as HLGTA. • Always refer to real places and examples

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