Geography Competition Year 7 - Year 9

Pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9.

You have the task of helping to make people aware of the importance of Geography.

You will do this by producing a resource explaining how different aspects of Geography vary around the world. This could be:

• Food (could specialise further and look at companies such as McDonalds)
• Sport (could specialise further and look at individual sports e.g. football)
• Fashion
• Housing
• Tourism
• Cultures in general
• Music
• Religion
• Climate
• Disease
• Transport
• Film
• The list is endless....

The choice of media is up to you. It could be a poster, collage, Powerpoint presentation, report, mini video etc.

Competition entries must be submitted to me by Friday 19th December 2008.

Good luck!

My World In 60 Seconds

My World in 60 Seconds is a film project set up by the Geographic Association to create an alternative guide to our world, a guide that is created by you. The GA wants to re-present the world as people know it, so they are looking for young people to make short films that are thought provoking, insightful and engaging. 60 seconds is just long enough to guide someone through part of your world, to show what it is really like for you.

The GA want films that show people your lived geographies... They have teamed up with the BBC so that the best films can appear on BBC Big Screens across the country. A panel of judges will watch all the films and the ones that in their opinion best reflect what the GA are looking for could be shown. These films will also appear online as part of a guide to our world.

The GA are looking for films that...

• are about something that you find fascinating
• use geographical thinking to help the audience understand your world
• encourage people to see the world in a new way
• are original, creative and thoughtful
• are well made, are sixty seconds and submitted on MiniDV before 1 May 2009

If you are interested in entering this competition you need to click on the link above for further details.

Where's Wally? The Competition

Fancy putting your geography skills to good use? Want to win yourself a holiday? Then this is the place to be.

Google Earth, Borders and the Guardian have teamed up to provide you with this fantastic opportunity.

You will need to locate Wally over 7 days and provide the longitude and latitude figures for each location.

If you need a reminder, just come and ask!

The instructions and links to the competition can be found here.

Good luck!