Welcome to my shop. My aim is to provide high quality teaching, learning and assessment resources. In the case of GCSE and A Level resources I am adding examination questions to my resources as more become available. Please come in and browse. Feel free to contact me about any of the resources that you buy or if you are looking for something in particular.
Welcome to my shop. My aim is to provide high quality teaching, learning and assessment resources. In the case of GCSE and A Level resources I am adding examination questions to my resources as more become available. Please come in and browse. Feel free to contact me about any of the resources that you buy or if you are looking for something in particular.
This is part of a series of lessons on ecosystems available as a bundle. The lesson starts by defining biomes. The students next task is to take part in a carousel. It sets out expectations for the quality of the notes and provides an easy and a hard note taking sheet. The resources contain a variety information including maps, graphs, diagrams, photos and text. They resources are differentiated with black writing for everyone to take notes from, black and purple for slightly more able and black, purple and green for the most able. When note taking has been completed there is a modelled opportunity for peer/self assessment. Finally, there is an examination question with mark scheme and suggestions for other ways in which the students could be questioned. This provides the opportunity for undertaking examination question next lesson, after the students have learned the information for homework.
This lesson introduces the students to a charity - Riders for Health who have tried to improve health care provision in Kenya. It contains a video clips, story telling activities, with character cards. There are note taking sheets and discussion activities. This is a really good case study of an affective aid project in Kenya.
Starter: river map quiz
Main: reading photos and maps to identify the characteristics of the different courses of a river. Note taking and photo/map information sheets included.
Plenary: which course quiz - with answers.
This is a carousel activity consisting of 7 activities that can be put together in a booklet and answer sheets for each activity. At each of the 7 stations place a question sheet and the answer sheet for the previous station. Pupils should spend 5 minutes at each station then go on to the next station and mark and grade their work. Repeat for next 6 stations. this tasks gets pupils to identify precisely gaps in their knowledge and puts the onus on the students during revision, rather than the teacher.
This lesson is designed to be used with the new A2 syllabus. This lesson includes:
Why water is important in supporting life on our planet.
The use of water by flora, fauna and people.
The size of stores and flows in the water cycle.
Within the lesson are all the worksheets that the pupils will need. there is also a recap activity with answers for you to display on the whiteboard.
This lesson includes a wide range of diagrams and maps to help pupils identify convergent, divergent, conservative and collision plate margins and their characteristics. It also includes a plate margin card sort for use in lessons to help pupils to consolidate their knowledge of plate margins.
This lesson incorporates a range of resources designed to develop the students knowledge and understanding of waves. the lesson includes parts of a wave, how a wave breaks, constructive and destructive waves, fetch, LSD, ocean currents and tides. There are a range of activities included in the lesson and opportunity to use some of these in subsequent lessons to reinforce the terminology.
This lesson introduces the key coastal terminology and is supported by photos to help develop the pupils understanding. At the end there is a glossary, which the pupils can complete throughout the lesson. there is also an activity to encourage the students to apply their new understanding to different cliff geology and lithology. This will help them to hone their understanding of coastal processes before beginning landform work.
This lesson starts with a coasts taboo game to reinforce coastal terminology. It uses diagrams, animations and photos to allow students to firstly describe and then explain how a wave cut platform is created. There is a mark scheme for teach / peer / self assessment. There are also model answers (of differing grades), which students can apply the mark scheme to and critique.
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 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.
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 lesson starts with a video clip about how wind energy is produced followed by a map description activity. There are the two symbol / image cards one containing advantages and another disadvantages, both incorporating factual information. A PEE paragraph is modelled and then students are asked to produce their own. The next activity is a decision making activity using OS maps to choose where a wind farm should be located. the plenary consists of an examination question, with a mark scheme.
This lesson builds up the students knowledge of beach features using diagrams and photos. It also ensures that they understand the processes operating to change to shape of the beach. Towards the end of the lesson there is an examination question on the location of beach features, with structured plans for answering this question.
This lesson includes details of the Mercalli and Richter scale, with activities including ranking, living graph, map analysis, seismic trace analysis and table analysis. the lesson updates both scales, with current scales being widely used nationally and globally including the Moment magnitude scale, the JMA seismic intensity scale and PAGER. The lesson also incorporates faulting and examination questions.
This lesson allows pupils to develop their understanding of headland and bays formation. It incorporates photos, geology maps and writing frames. There is a mark scheme for students to peer / self assess their answers. the plenary is a Swanage OS map quiz with answers.
This lesson enables students to develop an understanding of how island arcs form from ocean trenches. It incorporates a wide range of photos and diagrams. It also includes note taking sheets with key terminology that the pupils need to include when explaining.
The lesson includes information on all elements of prediction, prevention and responses. The main focus is on Haiti and Sendai earthquakes but there is additional information about other earthquake areas. There is a note taking sheet and information sheets, which the pupils can use to take notes.
The next activity is a recall activity. Pupils are asked to recall what Haiti and Sendai do to modify losses and vulnerability.
Finally there is an essay question and plan which the students can edit and improve on in order to plan their answers.
This lesson is a thinking skills DME activity. It involves pupils identifying the characteristics of an ageing population and the speed at which the population is changing in the UK. They then have to implement a plan to tackle the problems in a local area. It is designed to get the students to learn more and think more deeply about the solutions available and to categorise and prioritise these solutions. at the start these is a quiz on population pyramids. All resources are included in the PowerPoint.