Universal and sustainable resources which can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and free up your energy to make teaching more fun.
Universal and sustainable resources which can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and free up your energy to make teaching more fun.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 5 – The IMF and the World Bank (Bretton Woods, IGOs, BRICs, SAPs)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 24 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Answers for tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – comparing key terms
• IMF and Africa video
• Malawi case study
• IMF and the World Bank video
• Bretton Woods, IGOs, BRICs
• Other IGOs – UN, NATO, WTO, OECD, NAFTA
• Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs)
• Multiple choice quiz
• Extension exam question
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
Include HANDOUT – with extra information on BRICs for students to stick in
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 13 – Relationships with Developing Nations (China, Africa, Mozambique, land grabs)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 13 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter – recap quiz
• Demand for resources
• China’s interdependence with Africa
• Political cartoon interpretation
• Land grabs
• Case study – Mozambique resource boom
• Plenary questions – disucss and ‘to what extent’
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 12 – South and East China Sea (tensions, disputes, escalation)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 8 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter – definition and questions
• Annotating a map – disputes and claims
• Case studies: causes, impacts, potential to escalate, managing the dispute
• Model answer
• Plenary quiz
• Teacher’s information slides
Includes HANDOUT – Map to stick in
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 14-15 of 19: Threats to the Carbon and Water Cycles (deforestation afforestation coral reefs)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Deforestation and soil erosion
Madagascar case study
Labelling blank tropical rainforest sketch to show impacts of deforestation (extra sheet included)
Impact of deforestation on carbon and water cycles
Afforestation
Ecosystem services
Other threats to carbon and water cycles
Coral reefs
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 16-17 of 19: Degrading the Water and Carbon Cycles (Kuznet’s curve, climate change, Yukon)
Thoughtful discussion starter
Palm oil and forest loss impacts
Protecting forests: Indonesia’s forest moratorium, consumer pressure, forest recovery rates
Interpreting Kuznet’s curve
Climate change in the Yukon, impacts on water cycle
Skills: systems diagrams + Additional sheet for students to complete
Changing precipitation patterns
Climate change and coastal communities
Thoughtful written plenary
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 2-3 of 19: The Carbon Cycle (stores, fluxes, geological and bio-geochemical carbon cycles)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Questions to check prior knowledge
What is carbon?
Recap: The Global Hydrological Cycle (Systems)
Stores and fluxes
The long term geological carbon cycle (students add labels to a hand drawn blank sketch)
Skills: Ranking carbon stores and fluxes
Bio-geochemical carbon cycle (students design their own diagram)
Explain and discuss questions with model answers
Comparison of factors which affect the carbon cycle
Extension question
Photosynthesis and respiration
Exam question and mark scheme
Plenary to summarise learning (with answers)
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Additional document with blank carbon cycle sketch
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 4-5 of 19: The Carbon Cycle (Gulf Stream, biological carbon pump, role of soil and trees)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Thermohaline circulation
The failing Gulf Stream
The biological carbon pump and the carbonate pump (Students use a writing frame to explain these processes and then design a diagram to represent this – 4 examples provided)
Terrestrial stores: producers, consumers, decomposers
Respiration and photosynthesis recap
The role of soil and trees in the carbon cycle
Exam skills: Explain the significance vs assess the significance (with 3 model answers for comparison)
Two more practise exam questions with model answers and mark schemes
Plenary – draw a systems diagram
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Additional document with images to stick in and annotate
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 17 of 19: How Can Globalisation be Controlled?
Definitions quiz starter with mark scheme
Class collaboration task considering ways to prevent different types pf globalisation: economic, social, political, environmental. Hints are provided for students and some suggestions. Student examples also shown.
Censorship, limiting migration, trade protectionism – with named examples
Extension question and model answer
Jumbo Valley case study – Canadian wilderness region which was threatened with a large ski resort
Students analyse the proposal – threats, opportunities, stakeholders
Plenary – class hotseat debate
Update on the success of the campaign by local stakeholders to save Jumbo Valley!
EXTRA word document with content on Jumbo Valley case study
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 5 of 19: TNCs and Globalisation
Written starter using ‘extent’
Students take detailed notes on function of TNCs in globalisation. Suggested answers are provided.
Spatial division of labour and global production networks
Outsourcing
Glocalisation
Discussion based plenary with answers
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 8-9 of 19: Deindustrialisation – Mann Whitney
Definitions quiz starter and mark scheme
Impacts of deindustrialisation in the UK (dereliction, deprivation, depopulation, decay)
Deindustrialisation – Manchester’s story
Deindustrialisation in Redcar, UK
Mann Whitney U Test Enquiry – Is Redcar more deprived than Milton Keynes?
Index of multiple deprivation
Worked examples of statistical tests with written conclusion and evaluation of the enquiry
Plenary to summarise learning
EXTRA word document to be printed for students to complete their Mann Whitney enquiry
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 3 of of 18.
Physical Processes of Plate Tectonics
Includes:
Starter quiz
Recap from previous lesson
The Wilson Cycle
Features and processes at plate boundaries
Volcanic rocks
Moment Magnitude Scale
Mercalli Scale
Practise exam question with mark scheme
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 10 of 18.
Includes:
Written starter based on PAR model
Chile 2015 earthquake case study with maps, and photos
Google earth link, video link to drone footage
Development and governance
2 x recap quizzes
Link Chile to Pressure and Release (PAR) model
8 mark question for plenary, linking Haiti to PAR model. Start of a model answer shown.
Extra sheet containing content for plenary task
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 13 of 18.
Includes:
Starter quiz and mark scheme
Hazard management
Hazard management cycle model
The Park Model
Applying Haiti and Christchurch case studies to hazard management cycle and Park Model
6 mark exam question with level mark scheme and suggested points
Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience
Extension questions
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 11 of 18.
Includes:
Starter quiz with mark scheme
Recap task on vulnerability
Haiti 2010 case study (LIC)
Christchurch case study 2010 and 2011 (HIC)
Case study comparison table
12 mark exam question – group work task
Two example essays
Short practise question plenary with mark scheme
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Economic and Social Inequalities in the UK: Lesson 9 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Lived experience
Priorities for regeneration
Sink estate, declining rural settlement, gated community, commuter village
Comparing lived experience in places with significant variations in economic and social inequalities
Skills: Interpreting data to assess the need for regeneration in a sink estate and a declining rural village
Plenary – students write their own exam question and then answer another student’s question
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
The Need for Regeneration in Your Chosen Local Place: Lesson 12 of 21.
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Qualitative and quantitative sources of evidence
Contrasting views of regeneration in the media
Players and stakeholders
Skills: interpreting data to assess the need for regeneration
Student research task to gather evidence on their chosen local place to demonstrate the need for regeneration (Including: statistical quantitative data, qualitative data from different media sources, contrasting opinions from social media)
Verbal recap quiz
Summary questions plenary
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Extra sheet: Double sided sheet to print in A3 for students (or email to them so they can type their notes)
This lesson promotes personal enquiry and helps to develop students’ internet research skills and their interpretation of complex, data which will be needed for the independent investigation.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Rural Regeneration – The Players: Lesson 19 of 21
Discussion starter
Students will write their own 15 mark quiz, including a mark scheme.
Discussion on quiz question types including do’s and don’ts.
Time to revise and take notes
Students complete quizzes from two other classmates
Teacher collates scores and reveals the leaderboard
Plenary – Metacognition linked to revision and exam techniques. Link to ‘memory hacks’ video.
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheet: Case study content
This is a complete unit of work for the Year 11 students completing their Cambridge iGCSE geography course.
There are 7 sets of resources for each of the sections within Theme 3: Economic Development.
I have followed the specification carefully and all lessons are complete with suitable case studies, plus relevant exam questions with mark schemes.
Each resource has learning objectives, starters, main activities, and summaries.
Questions have model answers to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
Skills required for Paper 2 are embedded, which means there is more time for revision and less time spent on Paper 2 practise before the exam season begins.
Theme 3: Economic Development
3.1: Development
3.2 Food Production
3.3 Industry
3.4 Tourism
3.5 Energy
3.6 Water
3.7 Environmental Risks of Economic Development
Books which support these teaching resources:
Complete Geography for Cambridge iGCSE and O Level. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198424956.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
COMING SOON!
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 2 – Superpowers and Geostrategic Theory (Mackinder, Modernisation, Dependency, World Systems)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 20 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Recap starter
• Definitions
• Halford Mackinder’s Theory (1904)
• Changing Centre of Gravity
• Geopolitics
• Modernisation Theory (Walt Rostow 1960s)
• Dependency Theory (Andre Frank 1971)
• World Systems Theory
• Plenary questions
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 3 – Direct and Indirect Control (colonialism, neo-colonialism, China)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 22 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Definitions match up starter
• Patterns of power
• Geopolitical stability and risk
• Colonialism definitions
• Britain’s colonial power timeline
• Quiz recap
• Indirect control and neo-colonialism
• China’s neo-colonialism
• Frank’s Dependency Theory
• Optional VOX video
• Somaliland
• Plenary questions
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
