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 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.
Students look at the water cycle using a range of key terms in preparation for an embedded examination question to check learning. Students then complete a flipped learning exercise in preparation for floods and hydro graphs next lesson. Exam question is included for new Eduqas specification and mark scheme. All resources in ppt for printing.
These two lessons are an excellent starter to plate tectonics and give students the opportunity to learn about all of the key elements including convection currents, plate tectonics and the structure of the earth.
There are printable activities on the power point and the jigsaw is attached as a pdf.
This lesson can be differentiated up or down for KS3 or the introduction to a topic at KS4 with more interactive learning.
There are 7 different homework activities that accompany tectonics lessons, they are best suited to KS3 and they can also be used as a pick and mix homework for stretch and challenge for some students to complete more difficult tasks that can be worth more credit.
All resources are included as stand alone ready to print with no additional planning materials needed.
This is an excellent resource as a baseline or an end of unit assessment for generic Geography skills such as decision-making, describing, explaining and photograph interpretation. There is a writing frame and a mark scheme provided for the students to self assess and staff to mark with.
This assessment can be used a stand alone assessment including activities that are self contained with all resources including the assessment, writing frame and mark scheme that is used for students and for staff to mark. There are various activities that are set out in an exam style format.
Students have to look at photograph interpretation, use sources to make a decision, literacy skills, writing frame for an extended written task in addition to a recall and climate graph activity.
A variety of worksheets for mix and match homework's to compliment a series of coasts 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.
No planning needed all sheets are prepared.
Students are assessed about the management and use of water in rich and poor areas of the world. They have to use map skills, data handling, decision making and there is a writing frame and a mark scheme including in the document. This also includes student friendly assessment statements that can be used for self assessment.
Homework or in class support sheets ideal for KS3 homework as stand alone activities.
These topics can be purchased individually or as a pack.
Happy homework!
This lesson has a lot of resources as it can be used for an assessment and there are full versions of the lesson and resources for high and low ability students both with regards to task, content and literacy levels.
Please see other China lessons that also follow the scheme of work and end of unit assessment in line with the KS3 National Curriculum and also for Globalization and Development at KS4 to look at the impact of the games.
This resource can be used for students to gain an understanding about how the coast is impacted by storm surges and rock type. Students have the opportunity to look at OS maps and apply them to their understanding of the coast.
Students need to make links between a variety of geographical resources in order to prepare to answer the examination question embedded into the lesson to test retention.
This lesson covers the reasons why some areas and people are more vulnerable to coastal hazards. There are a variety of activities such as a concept map and then students move on to the Thames Gateway.
There is an examination question that can be used for retention at he end of the lesson or homework, all print outs have been attached.
This is a 22 page booklet summarising the Eduqas course from September that supports all of the Eduqas lessons (see shop) that I have published. The booklet is self contained as a revision document and there is also the addition of case study summary sheets included.
The Urban-Rural links, distinctive landscapes and extreme weather sections are all covered and the activities are varied throughout.
As part of the extreme weather sequence this lesson covers the formation of hurricanes/cyclones and follows on from the work on the ITCZ in the previous lesson. Students complete activities including information extraction and a storyboard.
There is a homework on hurricane formation and the following lesson in the sequence will focus in on the case study of Hurricane Katrina.
These lessons all have the activities, lesson power points, homework and assessment opportunities in the form of exam questions, nothing for you to do but print.
The topics covered in this unit are:
- Drought (California)
- Hurricanes (Katrina)
- High and low pressure systems
- Microclimates
- Air masses that impact the UK
- Depressions and anticyclones
- Aspect and altitude
- Understanding Climate Change
- Natural evidence for climate change
- Greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle
- natural Theories of climate change
This is a two sided homework sheet with a research link to help students answer the material and stretch and challenge for additional reading matter.
There are a variety of tasks including map and photograph comparison exercises in addition to two short exam style questions.
This bundle contains all of the lesson power points, activities, homework's, exam practice and all you need to do it print and go!
Lessons can all be purchased individually however he bundle is a bargain and all planning is done for a full unit of work!
Each of these packs attached contain one or two lessons worth (there are 14 lessons in total but some of them are both lessons on one power point) and all of the resources that go with that lesson are attached to that download link so it makes it easier to prepare.
This would cost £31.50 purchased as individual lessons!
This is the first lesson in the sequence on extreme weather. The first lesson is looking at what the global patterns are, understanding key terms, developing understanding about the ITCZ using diagrams and flowcharts in addition to a homework consolidation exercise.
This revision guide is 72 pages and covers everything that is needed for component 2 on the Eduqas specification for Geography.
The revision guide is very detailed and has all case studies and accompanies all lessons that are on my store that match with the revision guide.
The revision guide covers the following; climate change, evidence for climate change, the greenhouse effect, extreme weather including a hurricane and drought case study, extreme weather in the UK including depressions and anticyclones, ecosystems and their distribution, threats to tropical rainforest, threats to the grasslands and sustainable management of both.
Global development, north south global divide, development continuum, MNC's/TNC's and Nike, Tata steel in the UK and Mumbai, India, tourism impacting development, NIC Cancun and the Gambia, North-south divide in the UK, regional inequalities, health issues that impact social development, education of children and water security impacting development, UN and Millennium development goals.