I am a secondary school Head of department and I love to teach engaging, vibrant and interesting lessons. I try to inspire students with what greets them when they come into my classroom and try to move away from the chalk and talk teacher at the front lessons and make learning interactive and fun!
I am a secondary school Head of department and I love to teach engaging, vibrant and interesting lessons. I try to inspire students with what greets them when they come into my classroom and try to move away from the chalk and talk teacher at the front lessons and make learning interactive and fun!
This lesson explores the issues of the Bhopal disaster alongside other issues associated with rapid urbanisation.
There are exam questions and tasks embedded that are self contained in the powerpoint and would just need to be printed.
Students have the opportunity to identify links between rural areas and deprivation in Wales. Students have to use the sources to make links and annotate the maps.
Following on there is a flow chart to organise in order to understand what causes rural deprivation and link this onto the issues of health care provision and education. Students then have a writing frame to complete an analysis style question using the opinions and sources.
All resources are attached to be printed. This can be completed as 1 or 2 lessons.
Students complete the case studies with probing questions for the topic of Urban environments. The pack includes sustainable transport in London and sustainable living in Curitiba, squatter settlements in Kibera, Kenya and managing CBD's including UDC's (Newcastle upon Tyne), City Challenge (Manchester) ,Sustainable communities (New Islington) and Managing a city sustainability (Newcastle upon Tyne).
Students complete the sheets for revision alongside the booklets, the questions are challenging and related to the exam specification/question demands. There are also case study notes to assist with completion.
This can be a lesson revision activity or a stand alone weekly set of home work tasks. Excellent for half term revision see shop for other topic sheets or bundles.
A variety of worksheets for mix and match homework's to compliment a series of What is Geography/Map skills lessons. The tasks differ depending on their level of skill, effort and knowledge. The tasks are standalone and there are enough tasks for 7 weeks of homework once per week.
No planning needed all sheets are prepared.
This is a fully comprehensive differentiated bank of lessons, all resources, homework, scheme or work and assessment materials with student rubric descriptors and staff mark schemes for a stand alone unit on the Geography of China.
Resources and lessons can be purchased separately.
Students learn about the key terms associated with MNC's (TNC's) and where they are distributed globally and the reasons why.
Students apply their knowledge to Nike as a case study using the large task sheets and the information hand out. Then students complete the information on Tata steel for homework and how MNC's can also impact on the UK. Questions on the homework sheet are structured from AO1-3.
This is a full lesson with homework covering regional inequality and links on from the previous lesson about water resources and inequality.
The first part of the lesson looks at the differences across Brazil in terms of the climate, wealth and infant mortality. Students have to make links between the maps and there are prompts on the board in the form of questions to look at the differences and draw conclusions.
The second part of the lesson looks at the differences in the UK and compares the North and the South of the UK. Students have a map to annotate with AO1 sentence starters before looking at what is being done to reduce the gap in the form of HS2.
My students completed the HS2 for homework but we structured the extended examination question together.
This booklet contains question and answer for all of the topics that are contained in component 1 for Eduqas and also suitable for AQA GCSE Geography.
The following topics are covered:
Distinctive landscapes
River landscapes, landforms and flooding
Coastal landscapes, landforms and processes
Urban and rural links
Urban challenges and sustainability
Rural challenged and sustainability
UK population including ageing populations
Coastal vulnerability
Coastal management (with case studies)
SIDS and LECZ’s with case studies
This booklet was used to distribute to parents in order to assist parents quiz their child to revise, parents that did not attend were sent the packs home (I have included the instructions on the front). These booklets are also used for students to test each other and make their own flash cards. There is a booklet for component 2 also - please see my shop.
This lesson is the final lesson in Theme 2 for Urban and rural links. It looks at the changes rates of urbanisation including push and pull factors and industrial changes over time.
The lesson then looks on further to global and world cities and considers New York as one of these cities and looks at how successful it has become as a result of the 5 factors that influence global cities.
Students then compare and contrast two global cities, Mumbai in an NIC and Manchester in the UK (HIC) they look at a variety of factors such as challenges, reasons for growth and management of these cities.
The last task is concerned with an examination question that summarises all of the information and evaluates it in an AO3 question.
An introductory lesson to the first lesson for the new GCSE course from WJEC for teaching in the UK under the Eduqas brand. Resource planned with endorsed materials.
This is a full scheme of work for China with extended questioning and linked to student assessment rubric. It covers many areas of the current National Curriculum framework in addition to teacher assessment criteria and student assessment rubrics. Lesson 1 is also attached.
This lesson covers 2-3 lessons regarding the way in which different coastlines are eroded as a result of geology of the cliffs and slopes. Students compare two coastlines and identify factors responsible. In addition this then goes on to show the formation of spits and the process of LSD as well as sand dunes. All activities are included to print and are stand alone without the need for a text book. These lessons fit in with the other coasts lessons for landforms and processes.
This is the third lesson in the series of China to help understand more about the social and economic issues associated with the One Child Policy and encourages students to be reflective about the future of China and the changes. The card sorting exercise encourages students to think about their own situations in addition to Mai Ling.
Students need to complete the information as a means of revision by working through the tasks. This booklet can be used for homework, revision, lesson activities, extension tasks and can be a useful resource to set for supply staff as cover lessons as booklets are stand alone activities.
A variety of worksheets for mix and match homework's to compliment a series of development gap lessons. The tasks differ depending on their level of skill, effort and knowledge. The tasks are standalone and there are enough tasks for 6 weeks of homework once per week.
A variety of worksheets for mix and match homework's to compliment a series of living world/ecosystems lessons. The tasks differ depending on their level of skill, effort and knowledge. The tasks are stand alone and there are enough tasks for 6 weeks of homework once per week.
A variety of worksheets for mix and match homework's to compliment a series of tourism lessons. The tasks differ depending on their level of skill, effort and knowledge. The tasks are standalone and there are enough tasks for 6 weeks of homework once per week.
This booklet is designed to send home to parents so that they can revise with their child. There are a series of questions and answers that the parent can traffic light to assist and monitor revision. This has been a great tool for the 'revising in my bedroom on facebook' generation when a parent wants to help.
This can also be used to help students check their own learning and then use the questions as mini-knowledge checks. There is also a physical geography booklet.
This works best with AQA A Geography but has many elements of EdExcel and OCR.
Full scheme of work for the new National Curriculum changes to Geography to incorporate the elements of Extreme Environments and various locational knowledge. The perfect unit for preparing students for ecosystems and environments in the majority of specifications at KS4. There is also a bundle available with the first three lessons on the scheme of work.