I'm a Geography teacher with experience educating at various levels, ranging from mainstream schools, SEN and extra-curricular tuition. I also have experience in teaching humanities, English and PSHE topics. My resources are designed primarily as schemes of works for mainly Geographical topics with all levels considered
I'm a Geography teacher with experience educating at various levels, ranging from mainstream schools, SEN and extra-curricular tuition. I also have experience in teaching humanities, English and PSHE topics. My resources are designed primarily as schemes of works for mainly Geographical topics with all levels considered
This 17 page booklet allows students to investigate our National Parks. It covers a number of Geographical topics including map work, impacts of tourism and solutions to these and discussion on whether National Parks are still considered important.
Some of the titles included in this booklet are:
What Is A National Park?,
What Makes The New Forest National Park A Honey Pot Site?,
What Impacts Can Visitors Have On Our National Parks?,
Should The South Downs Have Been Included In Britain’s National Parks?
Do We Still Need National Parks?
This booklet looks primarily at the rainforest and covers how plants adapt to their environments, food webs, the water cycle, how humans us the rainforest and how it can be sustainable. Tasks include wordsearchs, word fills, match ups, comprehension and writing a report
This worksheet allows students to understand what is meant by onomatopoeia by highlighting terms within a poem, creating their own and identifying examples within the Noyes poem 'The Highwayman&' or a book they are studying.
These worksheets introduce students to the background and traditions of the Hindu ‘Festival Of Lights’, Diwali. The story of Rama and Sita explains why Diwali is celebrated and why Divas – small clay lamps – are an important part of this celebration. The students discover cultural and religious festivals where light plays an important role and discuss why these similarities have arisen.
To conclude the lesson the students can produce a collage or design a card depicting the beauty and wonderful colours of Diwali.
For resources looking at Hinduism or India more closely please visit:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hinduism-ks-3-and-4-10000468
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/india-ks3-and-4-11025616
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These worksheets help students to explore the fruits, vegetables, medicines, and other everyday objects found in the rainforest. Students are presented with a list of items commonly found at home to highlight how resourceful the rainforest is, and they can try five of these themselves (fruits and nuts). The worksheets conclude with descriptions of the properties of medicine plants with the students having to link these to the recommended symptoms.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this worksheet including food tasting, and annotating their thoughts and ideas.
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Eco-tourism refers to responsible travel to natural areas which conserves the environment and sustains the livelihood of the local people and their economy.
These worksheets look specifically at the Galapagos Islands and the Gorilla Safari Trekking Tours available there.
The students use a range of mediums including gathering their own research and research from video and print to produce a podcast about eco-tourism and create their own rules for eco-tourism.
Whether eco-tourism is always beneficial is discussed alongside whether the students would consider this when booking their next holiday.
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Living within the freezing Arctic Circle isn’t everyone’s idea of home, however about 4 million people do, with 400,000 of these having indigenous origins. These worksheets look specifically at the Inuit People’s homes, involving building a sugar cube igloo, their clothing, beliefs, and how to encourage future generations keep their traditions alive.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within these worksheets, including, gathering research from video, drawing a story board, annotating their thoughts, and ideas.
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Living in the rainforests and mountains of northern Brazil and southern Venezuela, the Yanomami are the largest relatively isolated tribe in South America. Today their population stands at around 32,000 and their territory covers 9.6 million hectares, twice the size of Switzerland.
These worksheets help the students to explore the set up of the Yanomami village, the daily lives and rolls of the girls/mothers and boys/fathers, as well as investigating the use of paint to decorate their faces and bodies.
This unit of work begins with how mountains are defined, where they are located and how they are formed. We look at the weather in mountainous areas and its effects on shaping mountains. We explore the human and physical influences on landslides, avalanches, and glaciers. An investigation delves into how we use mountainous areas, specifically The Alps and Atlas Mountains. This leads to exploring Everest Base Camp and the Chagga people who live on Mount Kilimanjaro.
The social, economic, and environmental impacts of visitors is discussed with a look at how negative impacts could be diminished within the Lake District. The foreign influence on the Sherpas way of life is studied. We see how plants and animals’ can adapt to life in the Andes which leads to the future of our mountains in terms of climate change and global warming.
The students build on the fieldwork techniques of interpretating photographs and field sketches with Sugarloaf Mountain and Table Mountain. This concludes with asking: “are there monsters in our mountains?” looking at evidence for and against the existence of The Yeti…
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet including annotating maps, completing flow diagrams, gathering research independently and from provided print, hands on experiments, case studies, and a peer assessment task.
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This unit of work introduces students to the significance of water from its source through to it being bottled and being a course of conflict. The features of rivers are explored along with the hydrological cycle and how rivers are used. The students carry out and write up an investigation studying how different surfaces react to water which leads into the human and physical causes of flooding, looking specifically at the Queensland Floods and the social, economic, and environmental impacts. Hard and soft engineering techniques are discussed within a ‘decision making exercise.’
Water as a right and conflict is debated. Drawing upon The Ilisu Dam, Turkey, the students debate from various countries points of view its construction. This leads to the debate around bottled water and how fact and opinion can sway viewpoints. The human and physical impacts of shortage of water are reviewed in addition to short and long-term aid.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, annotating maps, students thoughts and ideas, drawing graphs, participating in group investigations and discussions, and writing up their findings appropriately.
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Every good fairy tale needs a setting, a goodie, a baddy and a few magical objects thrown in. Roll the dice and see where your classes or tutor groups imagination takes you…
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This booklet introduces and teaches the students how to read longitude and latitude, as well as help students develop their descriptive, sensory and research skills. The students investigate the two teams who raced to the poles in in 1911 and study the problems caused by the increasing number of tourists visiting Antarctica. Ways to reduce these impacts are discussed in addition to whether the students think Antarctica should be protected or not. The booklet is concluded with the students designing a leaflet to help promote funding to preserve the huts used by Robert Scott’s Antarctic Exhibition team.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, annotating thoughts, and ideas, and using senses to describe their findings.
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When looking at maps we can find it difficult to imagine what the landscape looks like if we were actually there. This worksheet explains how to draw a cross-section of Jeju Island, South Korea, by using the contours on a map and following a simple flow diagram.
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Nine quick multiple choice questions covering the history of Halloween and why it’s celebrated. Perfect for a lesson or assembly introduction, or for tutor time.
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This lesson allows students to identify different fruits and vegetables which originate from India. They sample the foods and give a detailed description of specific fruits. They also have the opportunity to compare differences between ours and traditional Indian meal times
The Kayapo are the indigenous people of Brazil. They live in the plains of the Mato Grosso and Para south of the Amazon Basin and along the Rio Xingu and its tributaries. They call themselves ‘Mebengokre’, which translates to ‘people of the wellspring’.
These worksheets have the students explore the Kayapo’s beliefs, examine the differences and simalarities between us and them, as well as giving them an opportunity to research the tribe by answering their peers questions about them
This booklet introduces students to the essential graphs used in most subjects including Maths, Science and Geography, and how to draw them.
Graphs discussed are:
Line Graphs
Bar Graphs
Divided Bar Graphs
Pie Charts
Pictograms
Proportional Arrows
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This 30 page booklet is designed to help students and parents when with mathematical questions within their class and homework be it in Maths, Science, Geography, etc.. Topics Include:
Key Terms
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Order Of Calculation (BIDMAS)
Estimating
Time
Distance, Speed, Time
Fractions
Percentages
Ratio
Proportion
Information Handling With Graphs
Coordinates And Bearings
Perimeter
Area
Circles
This 50 page booklet allows students to explore China through a variety of activities both students and teacher lead. Chapters include, amongst others:
Where Are We Talking About?
What Do You Know About China?
Why Travel to China?
What Is The Climate Like in China?
What Is our Population Like?
What’s Happening To China’s Population?
What’s Happening To The Age Of China?
China’s Culture
A Taste Of China
Gung Hey Fat Choy!
Playing With Paper
Britain’s Best Beverage
China’s Threatened Wildlife
The Great Wall
The Terracotta Army
The Forbidden City
Tiananmen Square
Three Gorge Dam
Transnational Companies In China