Starting this Year 9 unit next week - what do you think are the greatest risks you face on a typical day?
We'll be using the Professor Spiegelhalter clip again.
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Showing posts with label Professor David Spiegelhalter. Show all posts
Saturday, 12 November 2016
Saturday, 14 March 2015
Thursday, 27 February 2014
KES Osmond Lecture in two weeks time...
Hayward Theatre at 5pm...
Recommended for all Year 9 students in particular given our topic of the Risky World....
Recommended for all Year 9 students in particular given our topic of the Risky World....
Friday, 14 February 2014
Haiti Earthquake
Reminder for Year 9s about the 500 word piece on the Haiti Earthquake, which answers the question: 'Why did so many people die in the Haiti Earthquake of 2010 ?'
This will then contribute to the end of term assessment piece, which will expect you to be able to describe at least three natural hazards and to consider why people continue to live in areas which are risky.
You could usefully explore:
- the South East Asian Tsunami of 2004 or the Japanese Tsunami of 2011 - what were the reasons why so many people died in these events, other than the size of the wave itself ?
On Valentine's Day, also consider this story, from yesterday's BBC news....
- the current flooding in large parts of Somerset and elsewhere - why do people buy houses built near rivers or on floodplains ?
- what benefits does being in an active tectonic zone bring to the residents of Iceland ?
- here's the contents of an earthquake grab bag from Japan
Final reminder too that at the end of this term, we have a visit from Professor David Spiegelhalter: the professor whose video we watched part of at the start of our unit on Risk.
More details nearer the time....
And finally, as another reminder that geography is the most up to date subject, here's a story from today about efforts to reduce the risk of Avalanches in mountainous areas.
This will then contribute to the end of term assessment piece, which will expect you to be able to describe at least three natural hazards and to consider why people continue to live in areas which are risky.
You could usefully explore:
- the South East Asian Tsunami of 2004 or the Japanese Tsunami of 2011 - what were the reasons why so many people died in these events, other than the size of the wave itself ?
On Valentine's Day, also consider this story, from yesterday's BBC news....
- the current flooding in large parts of Somerset and elsewhere - why do people buy houses built near rivers or on floodplains ?
- what benefits does being in an active tectonic zone bring to the residents of Iceland ?
- here's the contents of an earthquake grab bag from Japan
Final reminder too that at the end of this term, we have a visit from Professor David Spiegelhalter: the professor whose video we watched part of at the start of our unit on Risk.
More details nearer the time....
And finally, as another reminder that geography is the most up to date subject, here's a story from today about efforts to reduce the risk of Avalanches in mountainous areas.
Friday, 21 June 2013
Life expectancy explained...
A great way to visualise life expectancy from David Spiegelhalter.
This is something that I will be making use of for sure.
My copy of 'The Norm Chronicles' arrived today too...
"No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare"
Kingsley Amis
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Risky World
Year 9 will be exploring a unit called RISKY WORLD at the start of the Michaelmas term.
I asked my Twitter network earlier today to send me a risk they had taken... these could be passed to students to develop a continuum of risk and identify which risks we take on a daily basis.
Paul Turner passed me a link to a YouTube video, which I'd forgotten about, made for the Cambridge Ideas series by David Spiegelhalter, who is Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk. The video explores the uncertainties that we face in our daily lives, and how we might reconcile ourselves to some of them. It also reminds us of the useful term micromort: a 1 in a million chance of dying...
Some really interesting ideas in this short video which are worth exploring more.
As part of my preparation for teaching this unit, and also our Year 7 unit: 'Who wants to live forever', I've just ordered a new book that the good Professor co-authored called 'The Norm Chronicles'.
The website to accompany the book goes through a typical person called Norm's life experiences, and talks about risks.....
I asked my Twitter network earlier today to send me a risk they had taken... these could be passed to students to develop a continuum of risk and identify which risks we take on a daily basis.
Paul Turner passed me a link to a YouTube video, which I'd forgotten about, made for the Cambridge Ideas series by David Spiegelhalter, who is Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk. The video explores the uncertainties that we face in our daily lives, and how we might reconcile ourselves to some of them. It also reminds us of the useful term micromort: a 1 in a million chance of dying...
Some really interesting ideas in this short video which are worth exploring more.
As part of my preparation for teaching this unit, and also our Year 7 unit: 'Who wants to live forever', I've just ordered a new book that the good Professor co-authored called 'The Norm Chronicles'.
The website to accompany the book goes through a typical person called Norm's life experiences, and talks about risks.....
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