Across the Land

This is my first attempt to explain how to write laporan kerja kursus geografi in my blog. If there's anything that is not clear, ask me. OK, calon PMR, ambil Panduan Penskoran Tugasan 1. Cikgu akan terangkan satu persatu bermula dengan aspek yang pertama iaitu 1. 'Tajuk'. Tulis tajuk di atas kertas A4 putih atau berwarna, kertas tebal atau nipis, tiada masalah. Di sini apa saiz tulisan pun boleh..boleh kreatif asalkan ringkas, jelas dan lengkap. PENCEMARAN ALAM SEKITAR DI TAMAN BUKIT MALURI, KEPONG, WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN KUALA LUMPUR Jangan lupa masukkan nama negeri, ya? Next, 2. Senarai kandungan . Nak tulis dalam bentuk jadual, boleh. Nak lukis bingkai sahajapn boleh. Tiada garisanpun boleh, macam contoh dalam buku teks. Yang penting ada tulis butiran/perkara dan halaman. BIL PERKARA HALAMAN --------------------------------------------------------- 1 Penghargaan 1 2 Pendahuluan ...

KKG PMR telah bermula sejak Februari. Tajuk tugasan tidak lagi dihantar dengan tangan. Caranya sudah canggih: dapatkannya 'on-line'. Mulanya tahun lepas, kami yang tidak tahu tertunggu-tunggulah lah sehingga ada suara-suara menyuruh kami 'download' daripada 'internet'. Mula minggu ini, saya sudah sampaikan kepada hampir semua kelas saya. Ada yang saya sampaikan dengan 'powerpoint' dan ada saya blah-blah di dalam kelas.. KKG wajib dilaksanakan oleh setiap calon PMR.. Dihasilkan secara individu. Segala maklumat boleh dikongsi tetapi penulisannya sendiri-sendiri. Ditekankan JANGAN MENIRU! Alahai, bolehkah? Kalau ikut pengalaman, ada pelajar 'copy-paste' sahaja daripada 'internet' tetapi mereka tidak 'bijak' sehingga sekejap kawasan kajian mereka terletak di Johor, sekejap beralih semula ke TBM. Bukan tidak boleh 'mencedok' daripada alam siber tetapi biarlah 'relevan' dengan kawasan yang dikaji. Selepas itu, jang...

It was ions ago since i wrote my last entry. No time or rather i'm not a good blogger. This time i need to write something to help my students in their kerja kursus geografi. Something they can refer to from time to time to help them write their report. Cakap panjang-panjang masa 'lesson'pun tidak guna sebab mereka akan lupa. Tell them to jot down notes, they are not fast. Last-last tengok pelajar catat sedikit sahaja walhal yang diterangkan agak berjela juga.

Postings from my Fb 16 june ...has flown from Los Angeles to Honolulu for 5 hours then waited for 4 hours for the next flight. From there, she boarded the Korean Airlines to Incheon for 9 hours and while in transit, is waiting to go on a 3 hour tour around Incheon. This is great.. ...thinks the Disney's night show and Aladdin are really amazing! This version of Aladdin was funny and hilarious! The funniest character was the one on the left, the Genie, modern and technology savvy. In the Tower of Terror ..is going out to Disney for the whole day. Will come back late at nite. 15 June ....last accomodation in this part of the world is Ramada Plaza near Los Angeles Airport. After arriving here about 15 minutes ago, the first thing I do was googling for halal food outlets around this area. Halal food is not a problem here. There are muslim communities scattered across the US. 15 June .. last day in San Bruno/San Francis...

SUNGAI SARAWAK                                    SUNGAI CHAO PHRAYA SUNGAI  GOLOK Big and small. Sg. Perak, Sg. Bernam, Sg. Sarawak, Sg. Muda, Sg. Golok, Sg. Chao Phraya. Can you guess which one is which? Will add some more if I come across another pictures in my album or passing any river during my travel to somewhere. I kinda like the phrase 'rivers of memories'. But I'm not a good writer. Not even a good photographer. I depend on my wonderful children for getting me good pictures. The rivers are where the earliest world civilisations began. Remember the Great Niles? Or the Land between the Two Rivers, the Mesopothamia. And the Indus Valley, the location of the great ancient cities Mohenjo Daro - Harappa. Not forgetting the Mighty Hwang He. Great history and geography lesson, also one of the favourite test items in the geography paper.

Wow..never seen this kind of 'fishing port' before. Why didn't they mention it in the text book? Look. It's bigger than Tumpat (it's called pusat perikanan but I haven't seen any active fishing activities in my almost 28 years of marriage to a local Tumpatian). It is even bigger than Tawau, my fishing hometown which definitely fits the pusat perikanan status. It is Hutan Melintang, a place we 'ronda-ronda' before and after we sent our daughter to her hostel in Bagan Datoh. Mind you, the boats that berthed there are not like the ones in Tawau. There are big! I might say, a small ship. Ships that are use for deep water fishing. Unfortunately for me, I did not bring any camera to take pics of the big jetty. My hubby brought a container in case we got there early enough to buy the freshly hauled fish. But no luck. Anyway, I was thankful as I was thinking ' I'm not going to cook this week, pls..' OK, we are going to another place, a market s...

I return the students answer sheets today. 3B, 3I, 3J and 3K. I went over the questions with 3B students and I was happy that they paid attention. But not all. The students, i noticed, love stories. About anything. As we discussed about rivers, i told them about my trips to the khlongs in Bangkok, Pasir Salak at the bank of Perak River and the rivers that i came across like Kelantan and Pahang Rivers. And we discussed about the change in the height of Kinabalu mountain and the Everest. I don't really like churning facts after facts without telling them the little stories behind them. Even the students in 3I got interested when we talked about the all time favourite, chocolates. That, in the process of teaching them how to draw 'rajah aliran' for the process of producing cocoa. However, age is catching up with me. I have become a forgetful person. I hope i can still remember stories or facts that i have collected in my almost two decades of teaching career.