I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront.
Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront.
Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on food insecurity in Africa. It focuses on what is meant by food insecurity, its causes and they create an awareness campaign to highlight the issue.
This contains a set of model essays that can be used to support the delivery of the OCR AS Philosophy syllabus. Students could highlight and annotate its strengths and make suggestions for improvements as a task, or alternatively simply use it as a revision aid.
This contains a fully resourced lesson with a clear set of activities on the definition and benefits of living in a multicultural society. Credit must be given to the user 'Owall' for some of his/her ideas. If you amend or add to this please do add to TES since it is an important topic that I feel is under-resourced on TES.
This is a lesson on how rocks shape the land, focusing on limestone and gritstone landscapes in the Peak District. Designed in support of the New GA unit 'The Role of Stones', so some of the images have had to be changed.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the challenges (problems) facing London as a world city in the 21st Century. The main part of the lesson involves students working in groups, using visual prompts, to discuss and explain how each challenge could affect residents, businesses and the environment, after which they draft a short email to the Mayor of London recommending which challenge they think should be addressed first and why.
Learning Objectives:
To explain the different challenges that London faces.
To assess the importance of these challenges.
To investigate how these challenges could be tackled.
This contains a fully resourced lesson towards the morality of abortion, aimed at KS4 students. It contains opportunities for class discussion, a video and a set of tasks in order for students to consider both pro-life and pro-choice viewpoints towards abortion. Learning Objectives:
To describe the different viewpoints towards abortion.
To explain the reasons for these viewpoints.
To express your personal view on the morality of abortion.
A group task where students have to decide on the right course of action presented to them during their stay on the island. A good way to introduce this task is to show the clip of the plane crash from the first season of LOST to get them emotionally involved within it.
This is a decision making exercise where students have to decide how they are going to protect the coastal settlement of 'Broadchurch'. Feedback on this particular task would be appreciated.
This resource can be used as a guide for students so they are clear in how to achieve full marks in the 12 mark evaluation questions or to help them peer assess another students answer.
Aimed at the new AQA GCSE Religious Studies B Specification.
A fully resourced lesson on the main problems associated with miracles, with particular reference to the Bible. Two key theistic responses are then analysed and considered in the plenary. I hope you find this helpful- any comments would be great!
This is an activity where pupils work out how a dam generates electricity, using a video as a source material. Use this link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnPEtwQtmGQ
A lesson which explores the concept of poverty and the reasons behind it, in particular focusing on the rural regions. This lesson was designed in addition to the GA China SOW.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the the difference between weather and climate. In the main part of the lesson students complete a range of short written and discussion exercises to understand this distinction, such as listing the different elements that comprise the weather using visual cues for assistance and writing a short paragraph to describe the weather outside using this terminology.
Learning Objectives:
To identify the elements that make up the weather.
To describe the current weather using geographical terminology.
To understand the difference between weather and climate.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how plants and animals have adapted to their physical environments - focusing on Africa. Following an extended starter activity where students design their own species of dog, the main part of the lesson involves students completing a table to explain how a variety of plants and animals have adapted to the landscape in which it resides, and a creative task where they design their own plant or animal that is adapted to living in a grassland landscape.
Learning Objectives:
To explain how plants and animals have adapted to the physical landscape of Africa.
To design your own plant or animal that is capable of surviving in this landscape.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the the water cycle. In the main part of the lesson students have to move around the room to gather information about different stages of the water cycle, and then writing a short story about a rain droplet’s journey around the water cycle.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the key processes associated with the water cycle.
To explain the stages of the water cycle.
To analyse factors that affect the water cycle.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the viewpoints different groups of people can have towards the use of coastal defences.
The main part of the lesson involves a discussion activity where students have to consider the potential views of a range of key stakeholders, a popcorn reading activity and follow-up written exercise where students use a textbook page to concisely explain the viewpoints of a range of key stakeholders (based upon a case study, Scarborough), finished by drafting a letter addressed to a newspaper outlining their views about the proposed coastal defence scheme.
Please note that the exact textbook page is not incorporated with this lesson, but it is believed to be a recent iteration of the Geog. 2 textbook.
Learning Objectives:
To identify different points of view towards sea defences.
To explain the reasons for these viewpoints.
To express a justified opinion towards the scheme.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on one way in which Africa’s physical environment is threatened by human activity, namely animal hunting for sport by tourists or wealthy individuals. The main part of the lesson consists of students having to use information cards placed around the room to organise the impacts of hunting (positive/negative for less able, with positive/negative alongside social/economic/environmental categories for more able), a continuum line where students position themselves according to their personal viewpoint on animal hunting in Africa, finished with students drafting a letter to the United Nations (could be amended to an entry in a School Newsletter) where they explain in extended writing form their viewpoint towards animal hunting.
Learning Objectives:
To explain the impacts of animal hunting in Africa.
To evaluate whether you believe animal hunting in Africa should be allowed.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on climate graphs. In the main part of the lesson students work produce their own climate graph aided by the written instructions and photographs on the Powerpoint Presentaton, with a written exercise at the end where they are required to extract information from the graphs including figures and trends.
Learning Objectives:
To be able to construct a climate graph.
To extract information from the graph and use it to explain climate.
To compare the climate of two locations using evidence.
This contains a presentation on the introduction of the Welfare State in the UK. It contains a series of information and questions alongside some discussion tasks. I used it with my tutor group, although it could be adapted into a lesson.