This lesson starts by encouraging the students to estimate the UKs current energy use. Following this are a series of discussion questions for the pupils to tackle. Next the students are introduced to why our use of gas and nuclear energy will increase. The next activity is to draw a proportional map to show where our gas supplies come from. this will develop both knowledge and skills. To stretch and challenge the most able there is also a bar graph/ pie chart drawing activity. Alternatively this could be used as a homework task. All worksheets are included within the lesson PowerPoint.

This lesson teaches students about the climates since the Pleistocene, from Allerod to Boreal to sub Atlantic etc. It builds up to allowing the students to create their own climate timeline. There are also opportunities for graphical interpretation. The lesson ends with a quiz to test the students knowledge, with answers.

This lesson is designed as a stand alone lesson that can be set as cover. All resources are included within an answer booklet. There are also a set of answers to give to a cover supervisor and an extension task. The focus is on what are the impacts of the stadium currently, what changes will be made, who is for and against the building of the stadium. It also incorporates many skills including OS map skills, graphical skills and comprehension skills.

In this lesson students will be using persuasive writing to evaluate the effects of climate change. The starter involves recalling an explanation of the greenhouse effect. The main involves group work. Each group has a different elements of either advantages or disadvantages and national or global impacts. They have to use the persuasive writing frames to convince you their viewpoint is correct. They will be required at the end of the lesson to give a speech on their views as a group. The plenary is an opinion line linked to a statement that the pupils have to locate themselves on and justify their location.

This lesson starts by defining the greenhouse effect. After that students have 4 resources explaining the effects of global warming. Each contains maps, diagrams, photos and facts. Students need to read these and then use the writing frame to construct detailed and thorough PEE paragraphs explaining the effects. Students should work at different station and pass the resources from station to station. The plenary gives the students a paragraph that they need to improve to demonstrate their learning.

This lesson focuses on the natural causes of climate change including sun spots, Milankovitch cycles and tectonic activity. Students should be given the information sheets and asked to make a presentation to the class explaining how their factor causes climate change. There is a note taking sheet for them to put their answers on and an answer sheet in case they missed anything. There is also a quiz on climate change since the Pleistocene at the start.

In this lesson pupils will be introduced to the population terminology needed during the whole topic. They will interpret a graph of world population growth and analyse a world population density map.

Students will hear two differing views of the same story one from an American and one from an illegal Mexican migrant. The lesson is designed to questions the pupils perceptions and to develop empathy with both characters. The stories are carefully written to allow this to happen. At the end of the lesson pupils are ask to apply what they have understood to migration to the UK and discuss who is migrating to the UK and why they are migrating.

This lesson introduces key terminology and examples needed to write an essay on migration. The students will then use a writing frame to write their essay. It includes a mark scheme that can easily be adjusted.

In this lesson students will identify densely and sparsely populated areas. They will then attempt to explain why there are different population densities. There are writing and speaking frames to help them to do this. There is also a mark scheme which can be adapted to your school’s Key Stage 3 assessment policy. There are also opportunities for peer / self assessment. there are a choice of plenaries with a population terminology bingo or a prediction about the future and the impact of climate change.

This lesson teaches students about India’s population policy, which aims to reduced the birth rate to below 3 children per women. I prefer to teach this to the one child policy as it is more factually based. It includes note taking sheets, modelled assessed paragraphs, mark schemes which can be adjusted.

This is a series of 3 lessons during which the students will research groups involved in rainforest exploitation and preservation. There are role play cards outlining the characters and a writing frame to support speech writing. There is a mark scheme which you can adapt to your schools Key Stage 3 assessment strategy. At the end there is an opinion line for pupil to consider their opinions about rainforest exploitation and preservation.

This resource gives the template to create a website on PowerPoint with hyperlinks between the different pages. Pupils can use this as a project over the course of 2-3 lessons in an ICT room

This lesson introduces the rainforest location, with a writing frame for locating the forest. It then uses a guided fantasy (story telling) to create a sense of place. There are diagrams and descriptions of the layers of the rainforest. Finally there is a plenary quiz.

Pupils are introduced to the concept of food webs and shown a range of diagrams. They are then split into groups. Each group is given a set of images of rainforest animals. They then need to use the internet to research what the animals eat and to classify them into herbivores, carnivores etc. before sticking them down and creating their own food web. There is a plenary bingo activity to tests the students understanding of the key terminology used in the lesson.

Students will learn about the rainforest climate. they will complete a climate graph and annotate its features. Pupils will summarise the characteristics before using a writing frame to describe the climate.

The starter is a rainforest plant adaptation card sort. Students are then introduced to animal adaptations. They are then given a wide range of plant images. They have to chose one image and explain how the plant has adapted to living in the rainforest. Pupils then need to pick from a list of adaptations and design a plant, which they can then make. Once complete they need to annotate it with adaptations to living in the rainforest. Finally there is a Venn diagram comparing the rainforest to the UK.

This lesson introduces animals that have adapted to their environment and then asks the students to apply the adaptation strategy to plants in the rainforest. they are given fact cards on epiphytes, trunks and bark, roots and leaves to take notes on. Finally there is a rainforest plant card sort which matches adaptations, with explanations and photos of plant features, to test the students understanding.