What better way to end the year than a fun quiz.
7 interesting and fun rounds with a selection of different styles:
Lockdown - you were there, but what do you remember?
Biggest songs of 2021 - rank order from 1-10
Celebrity face mashup- can you identify the two people in the photos?
Technology - how much do you know about what we use daily?
Gaming - Consoles and characters
Randoms - fun and interesting questions to challenge the mind
Chocolate cross section - 20 bars to get your thought and taste buds moving.
Enjoy!
An hour long fun and engaging quiz for all ages that all can enjoy. I have played and honed these rounds over the year so that they are accessible to all but also epic and enjoyable.
The rounds included:
Guess that cracker joke punchline - truly awful, in a great way.
Quality Street or Roses? - you’ll be amazed what you don’t know!
Name the country (based on picture puns)
Christmas observation
Christmas Dingbats - a real brain stretcher
Christmas food general knowledge - who does have KFC for Christmas?
Chocolate bar cross section - a favourite finale
Here is a set of lessons and student resource booklet to guide teachers and students through this student led unit.
There are five lessons in total that accompany the booklet. Each aims to get students thinking about their project in a very guided, step by step manner to get the best results out of the action.
Active citizenship: This explores the unit, what it entails as well as different methods that can be used to affect change
Impact of social action: looking at previous action and how it affected change
Identifying an issue: this guides students through areas that they may wish to explore as well as looking at primary and secondary research.
Planning: here students are guided through the planning process of what they are going to do to formulate a well thought out action plan
Evaluation: looking at other social action as well as their own to evaluate how effective social action is.
I have the three other units for Citizenship so please do check those out as well. They have been rated 5 stars.
Something a little different but both engaging and foundational for introducing the themes in the GCSE course.
This is a full scheme of work that is ready to go and has been taught. It has a range of different pedagogical strategies throughout the scheme of work. It also builds skills around the describe, explain and evaluate command words needed for GCSE. This is suitable for Year 8 or 9.
Lesson Outlines
The geography of crime - exploration of crime and using the ‘explain’ command word
Crime and place - 4 mark exam question structure as well as evaluating a policing strategy in a specific place
Fear of crime - work on 4 and 6 mark exam question structures
Mapping crime - choropleth mapping exercise
Designing out crime - drawing exercise will need to be adapted to your location by changing the location)
Jack the Ripper - how human geography affected crime
Oceanic crime - modern day piracy, exploring development
Rainforest crime - group work task with evaluation
The heroin trail - atlas tasks as well as exploring development/GDP.
Civil war - explores Syria and the resulting migration
Assessment - full written assessment pro forma included
If you like this scheme of work, please do give it 5 stars and check out my other schemes of work as I have both KS3, KS4 and KS5 resources.
A full and engaging scheme of work for The Challenge of Natural Hazards GCSE.
12 lessons in total that include a variety of pedagogical tasks including videos, exam practice and interleaving of knowledge.
Supported by the Oxford Press textbook
Please check my other page for further 5* rated full schemes of work for the GCSE course.
Lesson breakdown:
Small scale ecosystems
Changes to ecosystems
Global ecosystems
Location and climate of rain forests
5.+6. Case study: Malaysia rain forest (2 lessons)
Managing rainforests
Hot deserts
Opportunities in hot deserts
Challenges to development in hot deserts
Causes of desertification
Exams skills
A scheme of work that lasts a half term which includes a diverse range of lesson activities from videos, group work as homework.
Lesson outlines
Ice and ice ages
Melting ice
Glacial landforms
Tourism in Antarctica
Living with ice
Glacial map skills
Mapping landforms
Mapping landforms 2
Tourism in the Alps
Protecting Antarctica
If you need any further KS3 or GCSE SOW please do check out my page for 5* rated resources.
An engaging scheme of work that lasts a half term which includes a diverse range of lesson activities. I have also included an optional set of lessons that links to the movie Avatar if you have the facilities to play the movie.
Lesson outlines
Location and features
Climate
Layers of the rainforest
Rainforest resources
Pressures on tribes
Rainforest adaptations
Malaysia case study
Managing rainforests (AQA textbook required)
Avatar based lessons
If you need any further KS3 or GCSE SOW please do check out my page for 5* rated resources.
All you need to teach the GCSE AQA! No planning or knowledge needed, you are good to go with all four units. This will save you hundreds of hours of preparation and work. This helps cover large elements of PSHEE and British values as well as giving stuents another GCSE. This can be taught in 2 years with 4 hours a fortnight.
Lessons have diverse pedagogical activities and styles that include group/independent work, think pair share, questioning, exam application and comprehension.
Some tasks are supported by the AQA Citizenship textbook.
Unit names:
Unit 1: Politics and Participation
Unit 2: Rights and Responsibilities
Unit 3: Life in Modern Britain
Unit 4: Active Citizenship
Unit Lesson Breakdown:
Unit 1: Politics and Participation
Citizenship and identity
Monarchy and rule
Local government
Voting and elections
Political parties
Government funding
Democracy and the UK constitution
Referendums
Review
Key structures and roles
Forming and structuring a government
How others govern themselves
How can people make a difference in society?
Key terms quiz
Unit 2: Rights and Resonsibilities
Laws
Why Laws?
International Law
Rights and Responsibilities
Rights and Responsibilities lesson 2
Rights and Responsibilities lesson 3
Rights and Responsibilities lesson 4
Change in Citizen’s Rights
Trade Unions
Employers Associations
Industrial Action
Dealing with Crime
Youth Sentencing
Universal Human Rights
Universal Human Rights lesson 2
Unit 3 Life in Modern Britain
Principles and Values
British Values
British Identity
Identity and Migration
Identity and Multiculturalism
Assessment
Media and Free Press
Free Press
Free Press and Censorship
International Organisations
BREXIT
International Disputes
NGOs Responses to Humanitarian Issues
Assessment
Making a Difference to Society
Issues of Voter Turn Out
MPs and How to Make a Difference
Assessment/Peer marking
Unit 4 Active Citizenship
Active citizenship: This explores the unit, what it entails as well as different methods that can be used to affect change
Impact of social action: looking at previous action and how it affected change
Identifying an issue: this guides students through areas that they may wish to explore as well as looking at primary and secondary research.
Planning: here students are guided through the planning process of what they are going to do to formulate a well thought out action plan
Evaluation: looking at other social action as well as their own to evaluate how effective social action is.
All lessons have diverse pedagogical techniques and activities. These include: Do it Now tasks, video tasks, independent work, group work, quizzes, maths skills, leaflet creation. There are key links to the GCSE specification - skills, fossil fuel case study, hot deserts and adaptations.
There is also a short written assessment included as part of the scheme of work.
Lesson 1: Countries
Lesson 2: Climate of the Middle East
Lesson 3 Adaptations
Lesson 4 Population distribution
Lesson 5: Oil
Lesson 6: How has the UAE developed?
Lesson 7: Why is Yemen so poor?
Lesson 8 Conflict in the Middle East
Lesson 9: Assessment
This is a full scheme of work for the ‘Resource Management’ unit. After this unit, teachers/students have a choice of specialising in Food/Water/Energy for questions 4/5/6. I have included my SOW lessons for Energy at no extra cost in case this is useful.
Lessons include starters, a range of learning exercises supported with exam application, as well as learning checks.
Resource management lessons.
Lesson 1+2 Essential resources
Lesson 3 UK demanded for food
Lesson 4 UK demand for water
Lesson 5 Water pollution
Lesson 6 UK energy
Lesson 7 Energy debate
Lesson 8 Exam practice
Energy lessons:
Lesson 1 Energy insecurity
Lesson 2 Impacts of energy insecurity
Lesson 3 Strategies to increase energy production
Lesson 4 Fossil fuel case study
Lesson 5 Sustainable energy use
Lesson 6 Micro hydro scheme: Chambamontera
Make revision more diagnostic and allow it to show progress.
These revision checklists can have a significant effect on your results.
They can be regularly RAG rated to show progress - this could be in class or set as homework
They ensure students revise all parts of the specification
They can be delivered either through printing, electronically or as a live document via Google classroom.
They are a student friendly version of the GCSE specification ensuring that all content is covered in revision.
If you use the Oxford Press textbook, there are links to the page numbers as well.
Topics covered:
Paper 1
Tectonic and weather hazards
Living world
River environments of the UK
Coastal environments of the UK
Paper 2
Urban issues and challenges
The changing economic world
Resource management
Energy
Please check my page for other resources such as a condensed presentation of all case studies as well as entire SOW.
A complete set of lessons with varied pedagogical methods and learning tasks. It also includes skills based work. Lessons have ‘Do it Now’ starter activities. I have numerous 5 star reviews on other SOW, so please do check them out.
I have also included an assessment with potential targets to make marking easier.
Lesson 1+2 Introduction to Russia - mapping and physical features
Lesson 3: Russia’s climate
Lesson 4: Russia’s population
Lesson 5: Russia’s natural resources
Lesson 6: Reflection and mini assessment
Lesson 7: Where is the Middle East
Lesson 8: Climate of the Middle East
Lesson 9: Adaptations
Lesson 10: Oil
Lesson 11: Revision and assessment
In this amazing bundle is all that you need to teach the AQA GCSE in Geography and more. This will save you hundreds of hours of preparation (which is what it took to make). Many reviews are 5 star and I have used and adapted these resources over the years to achieve consistently positive progress figures. Buying this bundle will save you over £20.
Lessons have diverse pedagogical techniques and link to numerous past question applications. Lessons include exam structures for 4, 6 and 9 mark questions, videos, group work, individual focused work, questioning and application.
The units are:
Paper One:
The challenge of natural hazards
The living world
UK Landscapes: River landscapes
UK landscapes: coastal landscapes
Paper Two:
Urban issues and challenges
The changing economic world
Resource management
Energy
There are also other materials include.
Case study overview for revision
Learning checklists for revision
Revision booklets for some topics.
Lessons can utilise the textbook pictured. Enjoy!