Take 10: Typhoon Haiyan
Appealing black and white revision strips to help GCSE students learn and recall key facts about the Typhoon Haiyan case study.
The PowerPoint slides present the key information, associating each fact with an icon to make it memorable through the technique of dual coding. Students can then annotate the printable revision strips or use them to test recall.
The Word document includes exam-style questions on the relative importance of environmental impacts and social impacts, and of short-term and long-term responses. The questions and mark scheme were written with the Eduqas B GCSE geography specification in mind, but the rest of the resource is likely to be relevant to all exam boards.
An extract from the revision tips section:
Connect one idea to the next to create a chain of knowledge. For example:
- Typhoon Haiyan occurred in the Philippines, Pacific Ocean. When did it make landfall?
- On 7 November 2013. And how strong was it?
- Category 5, with gusts of up to 235 mph and a landfall windspeed of 195 mph. What impact did it have on agriculture?
- 71,000 hectares of farmland were affected, and $85 million was lost from damage to farms.
Carry on in the same way, making connections …
