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Environmental systems & Societies: Unit 1.1 - What are Environmental Value Systems (EVS)?
Title: Environmental systems & Societies: Unit 1.1 - What are Environmental Value Systems (EVS)?
Learning Objectives:
● To identify the factors that affect different EVS
● To explain the different environmental philosophies
Great lesson that introduces students to the first unit, also incorporates some excellent video clips for discussion and a Homework task to consolodate learning.
Outstanding lesson: How can the environment be polluted?
How can the environment be polluted?
Learning objectives:
To identify different types of pollution
To describe how they can harm the environment
A stimulating interactive lesson that encourages students to identify a range of pollution types.
Students will also consider how environmental concerns can be categorised on a variety of scales.
British Culture: icons
A great fun activity involving a treasure hunt style challenge around the school followed by a research activity and group presentation.
Outstanding Lesson - Weather and Climate
Title: Weather and climate
To identify the how weather is described and measured
To suggest a range of weather hazards experienced in the UK
Rated outstanding - A fantastic lesson reviewing the environmental conditions caused by weather and climate factors and their influence on human activity. Involves kinaesthetic collaborative class group task, analysis and evaluation. Includes pit stop plenaries and free plenary placemat.
Great for an introduction to this popular theme and ideal for a lesson observation.
Demographics - UK - ageing population
An activity booklet with 7 fantastic tasks that review:
Statistical analysis calculations
Population pyramids
Dependency ratios
Population management
Predictions for the future
Creative task
Critical thinking and speculation related to current population patterns
Airline ticket boarding pass – Earthquakes
Interactive, great and fun ‘ticket to learning’ starter activity.
Adaptable for ANY lesson!
This focusses on earthquakes and has different levels of questioning - ideal for a mixed ability class.
Allows students to reflect, peer mark and use images/drawings for show their comprehension. Good fun!
How can we reduce the effects of flooding?
A research based lesson reviewing the strategies to reduce the effects of flooding - including soft and hard engineering techniques.
Outstanding Lesson: Hurricanes, Typhoons & Cyclones
Title - What are Hurricanes?
Learning Objective:
To describe how they form using keywords
To map their global distribution
*** A comprehensive introduction to the natural hazard referred to as hurricanes – areas of intense low pressure. This has an excellent starter, main and plenary. It covers mapping global distribution, key words & terminology, the Saffir-Simpson scale measurement and tidal surge. It also has extension higher order thinking question for more ale students.**
Differentiated lesson: Introduction to Global Warming & Climate Change (TES Pick)
This lesson has been used and accredited as outstanding within many observations and interviews.
This alternative to a carrousel task allows student to stay in their seat yet rotate the resources as it introduced them to Climate Change and Global Warming. It allows teachers to judge prior knowledge, learning and misconceptions students may have. This is combined with excellent starter and plenary resources that consolidate learning objectives and helps teachers plan for the next lesson on this current important theme of geographical study.
Has been used at KS3, GCSE, IGCE, KS4, MYP and A Level standards.
Excellent activity booklet: Guide to rivers, flooding with key terminology
Great introduction to river studies and the water cycle.
Includes activities looking at:
World famous rivers
Flooding Case Study
Key terminology
Crosswords
Wordsearch
River run-off
Infiltration cartoons
Outstanding Lesson - Coastal Landforms & processes
This lesson has been used and accredited as outstanding within many observations and interviews.
This alternative to a carrousel task allows student to stay in their seat yet rotate the resources as it introduced them to coastal landforms and processes. It allows teachers to judge prior knowledge, learning and misconceptions students may have. This is combined with excellent starter and plenary resources that consolidate learning objectives and helps teachers plan for the next lesson on this current important theme of geographical study.
Has been used at KS3, GCSE, IGCE, KS4, MYP and A Level standards.
Title: What processes happens along the coast?
To identify examples of erosional landforms
To explain how the sea shapes the coast
Excellent starter - Identification of Coastal Erosion Landforms
Excellent starter and introduction to further research
Brexit. Excellent map skills: How well do you know Europe?
Great worksheet to increase spatial awareness and atlas skills.
Excellent map skills: How well do you know Asia?
Great worksheet to increase spatial awareness and atlas skills.
How well do you know Oceania?
Great worksheet to increase spatial awareness and atlas skills.
Excellent for map skills
Detailed guide to earthquakes: Causes and effects
Title : What happens in an earthquake?
Objectives:
To describe what happens during an earthquake
To explain the effects of an earthquakes has on a place.
A great lesson that introduces the theory behind how earthquakes happen, how people and places are affected and
Includes comprehensive terminology, diagram cross-section for students, video animation hyper-links, emotional earthquake poem resource and bell task!
Outstanding lesson: Sustainable development and obstacles
Title: Sustainable development
To describe what sustainable development is
To suggest how an LEDC could improve
To identify at least 4 obstacles to development
An outstanding comprehensive kinaesthetic group task based lesson covering all aspects of sustainable development. Encourages higher order thinking skills, application of logic, transferable skills, debatable issues and includes:
• Key terminology
• Country Case study
• Solutions
True or False? What do you know about China?
Useful and engaging - True or False starter for lessons introducing China as a place of study.
Outstanding Lesson - Sources of energy, Green, renewable, wind energy
Title: How can wind power be used create renewable energy?
Learning objectives:
•To identify examples of renewable and non-renewable energy
•To list the costs and benefits of wind power
•To look at a Case Study
A great lesson that reviews the many variety of energy sources and focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy.
Includes a useful case study for application of skills, knowledge and understanding.
Plate tectonics jigsaw map
A fun and challenging activity sheet that names and locates the worlds major tectonic plates.