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
Brazil’s cities are renowned for their rich/poor divide. Favelas, the term used in Brazil for the shanty towns, have grown up on the outskirts of urban areas since the late 19th century.
The people who arrive in the city are usually very poor. They have come from the countryside believing the city will be a better place to live providing them with jobs, money and a brighter future for their families.
These worksheets put the students in these people shoes and have them try to make the difficult decisions poor people in Brazil, as well as other countries, have to make about moving, once moved and dealing with their choices.
Not many of us consider where our early morning cup of tea comes from, or at least no further than the kitchen cupboard or local supermarket, but the humble tea leaf has been on quite a journey. There was a time when it was all quite simple and it all came from China, however today there are thousands of tea estates across the world.
These worksheets look at where our tea originates from, how it was discovered and how it transfors fron a green leaf to the bag we pop into our mug.
Destructive waves erode the coastline in four ways. This worksheet looks at these, their descriptions and uses ‘kung fu’ moves to help them remember the key terms as a bit of added fun.
In the past China’s population grew extremely slowly compared to its rapid increase in recent years. For the population to double from 50 million to 100 million it took China nearly a thousand years, however it took only forty years to double from 500 million to 1000 million!
These worksheets look at population graphs, China' One-child policy, population pyramids and how to draw and interperate these.
Everyone knows what a beach is but can you descibe on ein geographical terms? Beaches are made up of sand, pebbles, shingle and boulders formed by the processes of waves. The combination of these are in no way constant and contain a verity of types, shapes and sizes.
This worksheet helps students to define a beach using geographical terms and explain how the materials size and shape change as they near the sea, and how this could have occurred
This coastal assessment is made up of two parts:
Part One - Produce an educational leaflet for the Dorset Tourist Board to give to secondary school teachers who bring school groups to the Swanage Bay area.
Part Two - Decision Making Exercise - The Swanage Borough Council is considering a proposal to build a marina across a part of Swanage Bay.
The culture of a group of people is their way of life. It includes their customs, hobbies, foods, fashions, beliefs and traditions; these are dependent of the country they live in, family background, sex and age. Many parts of the world are multicultural which means many different groups of people live alongside one another as a result of moving to new areas to live ad bringing their cultures with them.
This is a chance for your students to get out of your seats and, sensibly, move around the classroom gathering evidence with their classmates to learn about China's culture.
As China is such a large country it’s not surprising to find that the climate varies from place to place and that these variations have different impacts of people’s lives.
These worksheets help students to understand climate graphs, how to read ad draw them. They also give them a chance to develop their own graph and peer mark eachothers ideas with supporting comments.
The sea, action of waves and their processes are what shape our coastlines, with their power being the most significant force of coastal change. These worksheets look at the swell, the fetch and how tides are formed.
Sand dunes are created by the wind usually along a beach or in a desert. When the wind blows sand into an area behind an obstacle, such as a rock, bush or skeleton, where it is sheltered, dunes begin to grow as grains of sand accumulate.
This worksheets helps students to understand how sand sunes are formed, their make up and the eight different types of dunes and where they are found around the world.
Believed to have been living in the Kalahari Desert for over 80,000 years, the San People are thought to be the world’s most ancient race. This independent research-based lesson helps the students to develop their understanding of life and surviving in a harsh environment.
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Tourism within deserts is an increasing economic activity with many positive and negative impacts on those tribes people who call these areas home. These worksheets have the students disgussing these impacts and go on to develop a logo and slogan for a company which advertises that it takes these impacts into consideration while promoting tourism activities within deserts.
Spits are extended stretches of beach material, such as sand and shingle which project out to sea, joined to the mainland at one end. A spit is formed due to the coastline changing direction – Longshore drift is the main source of material build up as it brings materials up from further down the coastline.
These worksheets look at how spits are formed and the processess, inputs and outputs of spits.
Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya, which translates to ‘Smoke that Thunders’ is found on the Zambia River between Zambia and Zimbabwe. They are thought to be the largest in the world in terms of the volume of water that passes through it. It is neither the highest nor widest fall in the world but it is the largest sheet of falling water.
This worksheet helps your students to understand the dos and don’ts of field sketching. Victoria Falls is used as an example to help practice this important skill
This unit of work encourages students to appreciate the links between music and Geography, why it is popular, the many genres it entails and how it is used around the world.
Traditions from Brazil, China, England, India, and Russia are investigated for their similarities in instruments, dances, and festivals. Music as an economic activity is explored, in addition to festivals in the United Kingdom and why they may be located where they are. Local venues to the students, both indoors and outdoors, are investigated for their sustainability for hosting a music festival.
The unit concludes with the students designing a brand and logo for a sustainable music festival at their school. The final designs are then peer assessed.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print, annotating maps, students own thoughts and ideas, calling on their local knowledge and effectively assessing other work.
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This 32 page booklet gives students the opportunity to explore the FIFA World Cup, Russia and their connections to geography using different Geographical themes and skills. Chapters include:
Why Is Football So Popular?
How Is Football Linked To Geography?
Who Are FIFA?
Who’s Taking Part In 2018?
Friendly Rivals
We Are Number One!
Football As An Economic Activity
Flag Crossword
Getting The Vote
What Do You Know About Russia?
Where In Russia?
Population And Nationality
Country Climate
Seeing The Sites
What Have We Borrowed?
Build A Brand
Knowing The Neighbours
Football Acrostic
How Is This Omar Linked To Football?
As one of the first medical missionaries to arrive in southern Africa, the first in central Africa, Dr Livingstone was frequently the first European the tribe’s people met. Their trust was won as he was a healer and medicine man and his reputation spread so far he had to restrict himself to treatment of those with only serious illnesses.
These worksheets look at Dr Livingstone travels to Africa, the students discuss what they would have packed to take with them, how they would have traveled there and the discoveries made there and how they would have helped the British Empire.
For more than four thousand miles The Great Wall of China winds across the Chinese countryside. The Wall is listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the World and is the longest structure made by man. It stretches across the mountains of north China, traveling north and northwest Beijing. Constructed of masonry, rock and packed earth the thickness of the Wall ranges from four and a half meters to nine meters and is up to seven and a half meters tall. Today it’s a famous tourist attraction and important symbol of China.
These worksheets help your students develop their field sketching skills by explaining the dos and don’ts and using the Great Wall of China as an example