This series of lessons was used by Year 8 students who had completed a few lessons about drugs and peer pressure in year 7 . In year 8 they built on this by carrying out their own research about drugs in french and designed a board game based on it . They used the theory of multiple intelligences which they acessed through an interactive quiz and then applied the learning to a board game . There is also the opportunity to discuss employment opportunities linked to multiple intelligences .There are key words links to playing the board game and self and peer assessment in French .

There are a few sections of this lesson as the files are large. The first part uses a living graph to show how people’s activities link to the climate of the island. There is also a brief lesson plan .There are cards to go with the living graph.

There are two powerpoints available . This one in part 2 has an introduction in english , the other one only contains French and is in part 3. There are cards to match explanations to the climate related observation. The idea of this lesson is that you have just arrived in Reunion and observe landscape and cultural clues all around you and you have to make sense of these features to explain them. This is a reat task to use to apply learning about climate concepts such as altitude , distance from the sea, albedo , rain shadows etc .

This lesson looks at the lead up to the decision to leave the EU and looks at the possible implications of Brexit

Students use their local OS map to research and design a tour for a German family. They need to carry out internet research to find out prices and details of the attractions . A key part of the assessment is the presentation at the end when students show their leaflet and describe how they coped with using German . There is therefore much metacognition which helps the others in the class to learn. Peer, self and teacher feedback strengthen the process. Students love this assessment .

This activity is shown in the video about Chenderit school in the pedagogy section of my resources shop . Who am I involves introducing the vocab that was included in the David Attenborough video and build on this . Then more details about rainforest structure are introduced .

Students map the location of tropical rainforests around the world

These resources don’t include a picture of a potato being used to demonstrate contour lines . However there are details of how to do this in the map skills scheme of work . Drawing lines on the potato to represent contours and then drawing a bird’s eye view of the concentric circles from above help the students to visualise the transition from 3 D to 2D .

Start with the concept of what a symbol is , then follow up with the activity where students identify the symbols . They can write the answers into the handbook. There is a video of this activity happening in a French Geog lesson in the resource in the pedagogy section of my shop. It is a video from Chenderit school. The cards for the card sort and bingo symbols cards are within the powerpoint . So they can be printed off.

This video links to all of the resources that have been uploaded by Judith Woodfield . You will see that many of the top tips described and explained in this video are used in the resources available .

This lesson followed the unit on quarry ridge settlement design. The aim was to look at biodiversity within an urban setting and garden design. It was part of a national competition in its first year but I repeated the task in subsequent years as the students loved it. It also fitted into the school site as we designed a wildlife friendly garden in the school site at the same time in honour of a retiring head teacher Mrs Westbook. Students develop mapwork skills of designing in plan view , on a grid where there is a scale . The students developed detailed colour coded keys which also helped with map drawing skills . I had a whole series of laminated cards with pictures of environmentally friendly artefacts such as insect hotels, bee houses, hedgehog houses, bird and bat boxes etc .

This lesson involves setting up the classroom with products which involve purchasing choices . For example washing up liquid which is environmentally friendly and that which is not. Different types of Tuna , line caught and others, fair trade chocolate , organic chocolate , supermarket basic brand . There is a form in the student handbook which can be used . Students go around the product and note the price (see page 84 of the student handbook) Students add up the prices of a fair trade , environmentally friendly products and those that are neither.They are given a budget and decide which products to buy There are powerpoints about fair trade to explain how it works. Students then justify the choices of product that they have decided to buy. There is an example of student writing

Scale is difficult conceptually. That is why students start by drawing a bird’s eye view of a bedroom . They then use OS maps and look at who may use each scale of map .

This lesson involves use of the student handbook. Students fill in a table to compare deserts around the world , using authentic text. This lesson is designed for independent study and can be left as a cover lesson if necessary .

This lesson uses statistics and authentic resources to determine the primary, secondary and tertiary industrial composition of Reunion island. Correct drawing of bar charts is a key skill that underpins this lesson.

This unit was part of a Year 8 year long course with lessons taught for an hour a week. It was the first unit of the year and followed on from the Tropical rainforest unit of Year 7 . This was a good follow on because the tropical rainforest unit contains links to climate and adapatation and so the students were familiar with some concepts and vocabulary . The unit consists of many interactive activities, video clips and two very motivating assessments , one where students produce a humourous leaflet about desert survival and the other where they design an imaginary desert animal to survive in a desert environment. Students are challenged by many thinking skills . There are exemplars of student work .

Students use the outline in the handbook and cut and stick the events that have occured throughout the history of the EU. They use the dates on the written bubbles and rectangles to work out where they go , then they get the gist of the events.

This unit was the second unit taught for one hour a week as part of a whole year course of geography in German in Year 7 . The first unit taught was mapwork. The rainforest unit build on the mapwork unit as it gradually build up more sentence construction . The first assessment on rainforest adapatation involves independent research skills, description and explanation but based on a A3 poster of rainforest structure . The second assessment is based on a group work activity to design a campaign to save orangutans . The French unit on tropical rainforests was more extensive and involved a trial followed by an essay on tropical rainforest deforestation. If you look at how these pieces of work are constructed it is possible to translate the materials used in the French CLIL to German if you wish to use the French materials for guidance . This unit on tropical rainforests was translated into German by Chris Scott and Maren Blume . The lesson plans to guide this unit are contained in the methodology booklet . There is a section in the second half of this booklet which describes how the unit is put together and how to teach it . The rainforest handbook is available here but sections from it which relate to each lesson are included to download . The handbook can be printed for students to annotate and use as a reference resource . There are video clips of the activities included in the rainforest unit being taught in french on the Chenderit DCSF video available in the predagogy section of my shop .

This is the first of four to five lessons which explore characteristics of relationships. This lesson identifies types of relationships and then looks at whether they are positive or negative . These lessons were used by Year 8 students who were taught for an hour a week.

Lesson 2 uses the genre of soap opera to explore emotions seen in relationships. Lesson 3 follows on with a look at fidelity and infidelity and what makes people be faithful or unfaithful and what the impacts of infidelity are.