reflective post

Reflective post

We start learnng physical geography with a fun lesson, which Mr Heah brought us to a “hidden drainage basin”. In the lesson, he did not only teach us about geographic knowledge, bus also show us how physical geography is connected with our daily life. The reason why we should learn physical geography is that we can know more about how the surrounding environment works, thus, we can live a better life by modifying them to suit us.

In the following lessons, we had learnt how season and whether contributes. In those lessons, the most complicated is the formation of desert. The location the desert is so unique.

At the beginning, we thought about why desert forms and we thought it is because of the hot weather of the region. Then, we kept thinking why these regions are the hottest over the world, even hotter than the regions at the equator, we could not figure out why. Then, Ms Tang came over and tried to help us by introducing the WIND, also reminded us that hot weather is not the only reason, but also the dry weather. After the gentle reminder from Ms Tang, we changed our way of thinking. We began to think about wind system, how wind flows worldwide. Amazingly, we had discovered “three-cell system” by ourselves, in turn, figured out the formation of desert and why they located as shown in above picture.

After that, we began to explore a new world, which was RIVER. J

It was a totally new topic to me. I did not have any basic understanding before. However, I found it was quite fun after Ms Tang had touched a bit on the topic. Then, we learned drainage basin, hydrograph, features of river and so on. Many of them seemed quite complicated from the surface, however, they needed us to understand the concept. Once we understood the basic concept, which was the flow of water, it was quite easy to remember all the knowledge.

After finishing the module, I have realised that all the staffs we have learnt in physical geography are closely connected with our life. It is very important to study the surrounding environment, so that we are able to deal with them once disaster occurs, or we want to modify it to get a better living environment, but avoiding destroying them at the same time.

Therefore, I think, to get a better life, we need people to study physical geography. J

- Posted by xiangkang