Question A Day

by Katherine Parr,
Lead Teacher of Humanities

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
This October you are being asked to answer a question a day for geography (minus weekends). You must complete the worksheet as you go through the month and will be tested on this throughout the month. The due date for this homework is Monday 6th November.						1st REST DAY
2nd Where is Bristol Located?	3rd Describe the pattern of world urbanisation.	4th Define the term urbanisation	5th List the facilities that a city has.	6th What three social challenges has Bristol faced?	7th List four push factors from a rural area.	8th REST DAY
9th What are the social challenges faced in Rio?	10th Name and describe one traffic problem in the UK.	11th Name the 4 sections of a city.	12th In one paragraph write the history of Bristol.	12th Explain the pattern of world urbanisation.	14th Give four examples of what economic advantages the Olympics brought to Rio.	15th REST DAY
16th Describe the location of Rio De Janeiro.	17th List the three environmental challenges in Rio.	18th Name and describe one solution to a traffic problem across the world.	19th How is Rio connected internationally to the world?	20th List the economic challenges face in Bristol.	21st How has Rio overcome it’s social challenges?	22nd REST DAY
23rd List the solutions to the environmental challenges in Rio.	24th How has Bristol overcome some of its environmental challenges?	25th How is Bristol connected to the rest of the world?	26th Where is Rio De Janeiro located?	27th Name and describe the solution to one traffic problem in the UK.	28th Give an example of sustainable city and list its main features.	29th REST DAY
30th What is the economic solution to Rio’s challenges?	31st List the question or tasks that you found most difficult on this grid.

This year, Geography are trialling new ideas to combine revision and homework ideas.

One way to do this is the 'question a day' mat. Each student gets an A3 copy of the grid above (dependant on the month) and simply have to complete a question a day on topics that have just been covered or may have been covered the previous year. This gets the students thinking and revising at home, without them realising. This task is also very useful as it does not need to be marked by the teacher but the students can mark each other's either as you go along, or in one go at the end. As you can see the last box is simply a question - 'Which boxes did you find the hardest?' This can then lead onto the next task of creating something that helps strengthen the knowledge on those topics.

 

The aim of this is not to ask complex questions which the students need to answer in length and detail- but to help them strengthen knowledge and identify areas of weakness.