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!
Students and parents can test themselves using the question and answer activities to learn and retain the content needed for the examination. The questions are largely focused around the AQA specification but can be applied to both EdExcel and OCR.
My students have RAG these and put them onto flash cards for the questions that they find the most difficult.
This Christmas quiz has four rounds including an editable subject round (in this case Geography and History questions but these can be changed to suit other subjects).
The rest of the quiz works for events that have occurred this year, a music round (with a link) a subject specific round and a Christmas movie round. It should last a full lesson around 60 minutes.
Students consider what a hard engineering strategy is with a mix and match sorting activity. They then complete a series of activities that are embedded into the power point to be printed.
The students need to annotate a map, watch a short clip, look at some satellite images, use text and a key effective;y. All of the evidence that they have then created is used t structure the examination question at the end of the lesson.
This lesson covers the question about what are the uses of a fold mountain range as a result of the physical geography? Students look at the Geography of the area, the uses and apply to an examination question to consolidate learning.
There is also a homework activity about sustainability and management and the sorter activity is included.
This is a full scheme of work for Theme 1 for Eduqas Geography GCSE with accompanying lessons including assessments, mark schemes, activities and homework. Nothing to plan or create, fully resourced. All of these items can be purchased individually (Individual costs £35 - save 29%)
This lesson follows a typical examination structure of looking at causes and effects of flooding in a less developed country, Bangladesh.
There are a variety of tasks and skills that are all planned and need to be printed directly from the power point or are attached. Students have to categorize, make decisions, evaluate and write an exam response using the information in the lesson.
This lesson works really well as a comparison lesson for students after completing the River Severn Part 1 and 2.
A variety of worksheets for mix and match homework's to compliment a series of Natural environment and global threats lessons. The tasks differ depending on their level of skill, effort and knowledge. The tasks are standalone and there are enough tasks for 9 weeks of homework once per week. The worksheets include measuring shrinking ice caps, endangered animals, considering the threats to global environments, understanding how a globe works and wilderness exploration activities.
No planning needed all sheets are prepared and ready to print!
A variety of worksheets for mix and match homework's to compliment a series of lessons on Spain, Tourism or Geographical skills with a country study element . 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.
This resource is a good end of year quiz that can be adapted as it is aimed at mid level KS4 as there are core elements that are covered in examinations for Rivers for rounds one (hydrographs, causes of flooding, long profile) and then Round 2 is the use of map skills including grid references and location knowledge, round 3 is a guess the location by making inferences from the clues in the locations and then Round 4 and a bonus round of problem solving. All with a Christmas theme and then the slides are duplicated for peer marking as shown on the preview.
Works best with small teams in a class (3-4 in a team, answers and any activities that are not on the power point are attached!
This lesson is a fantastic lesson to engage the students in what can normally be a dry topic when covering development! Students have to use a variety of skills including numeracy and there is extended reading and decision making skills, this can also be used as an assessment or stand alone lesson.
Print the task sheets on A3 to make sure students have enough space to get all of their written work completed.
Scheme of work to cover theme 1 of the Eduqas Geography specification theme 1, including distinctive landscapes, processes and change such as coasts and rivers and the flooding issue. This scheme of work is also available with a full bank of lessons to go with the scheme.
The River Severn case study in Tewkesbury considers a range of causes and effects. Effects have to be categorised into social, economic and environmental and students have the introduction to what is considered a response and the homework task to research the responses in preparation.
All resources are attached and ready to print including homework.This is the part 2 lesson looking at management of the River Severn at various points. Students consider what engineering is generically and then look at examples and applied examples on the River Severn. There are opportunities for a variety of Geographical skills such as map and evaluation skills.
This is the part 2 lesson looking at management of the River Severn at various points. Students consider what engineering is generically and then look at examples and applied examples on the River Severn. There are opportunities for a variety of Geographical skills such as map and evaluation skills.
This lesson links together the previous lesson on causes of flooding human and physical or can be taught as a stand alone lesson. The River Severn case study in Tewkesbury considers a range of causes and effects. Effects have to be categorised into social, economic and environmental and students have the introduction to what is considered a response and the homework task to research the responses in preparation.
All resources are attached and ready to print including homework.
A variety of worksheets for mix and match homework's to compliment a series of population 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.
This is good as a baseline or end of unit test for Year 7 or using skills within a topic (Rivers and Water management) in particular on a variety of map skills covering many elements including direction, compass work, 4 and 6 figure grid references, photograph interpretation and sketch maps.
All resources and assessment with mark scheme are stand alone so no additional planning needed.
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.
A 60 page power point for lesson by lesson coverage of the core elements of the Development gap with activities embedded into the ppt to print.
Please see additional resources that have revision guides and student work books to complete and consolidate this unit of work.
This lesson considers the main rock types and students complete and make a comparison pyramid to display in the classroom or in their books. Students then examine the rock cycle and have a variety of key terms and phrases to include in how rocks change shape and state as they journey through the cycle.
There is also a homework task to consolidate learning.
A variety of worksheets for mix and match homework's to compliment a series of rivers lessons. The tasks differ depending on their level of skill, effort and knowledge. The tasks are standalone and there are enough tasks for 8 weeks of homework once per week.
No planning needed all sheets are prepared.
