Universal and sustainable resources which can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and free up your energy to make teaching more fun.
Universal and sustainable resources which can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and free up your energy to make teaching more fun.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
What Has Shaped the Characteristics of ‘Your Chosen Places’?
Lessons 4-5 of 21.
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Discussion of specification – ‘Your Chosen Places’
El Raval, Barcelona is the contrasting place used here (all case study content is provided), but teachers may prefer to choose a place in the UK.
Students are guided to choose and then research a local place (prompts and websites are suggested for student research)
Case studies cover: background of the place, economic activity and inequalities, functions and changes, regional, national, international and global influences, place representation, how the lives of students and others are affected by continuity and change, perception
8 mark exam question with half a model answer
Plenary – 12 mark exam question with table to suggest content, essay skeleton and half a model answer.
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheets: Double sided sheet to print in A3 for students (plus an extra version of the same sheet which has some of the case study notes on it)
This lesson promotes personal enquiry and helps to develop students’ internet research skills and their interpretation of complex, data which will be needed for the independent investigation.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Urban Regeneration – The Players: Lesson 18 of 21.
Study a diagram and discuss perceptions
Quiz leaderboard
Instructions for ‘The Big Quiz’
Independent study focus with suggested note taking methods
30 mark class quiz with mark scheme for peer marking (based on content from Oxford text book)
Summary plenary – students list players
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheet: Blank conflict matrix for quiz
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Attracting Inward Investment: Lesson 14 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Regional enterprise zones
Science parks
The role of local interest groups
Cold spots
Range of regeneration strategies
Rural diversification
Plenary – students choose a question to answer in detail
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Economic and Social Inequalities in the UK: Lesson 9 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Lived experience
Priorities for regeneration
Sink estate, declining rural settlement, gated community, commuter village
Comparing lived experience in places with significant variations in economic and social inequalities
Skills: Interpreting data to assess the need for regeneration in a sink estate and a declining rural village
Plenary – students write their own exam question and then answer another student’s question
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
The Need for Regeneration in Your Chosen Local Place: Lesson 12 of 21.
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Qualitative and quantitative sources of evidence
Contrasting views of regeneration in the media
Players and stakeholders
Skills: interpreting data to assess the need for regeneration
Student research task to gather evidence on their chosen local place to demonstrate the need for regeneration (Including: statistical quantitative data, qualitative data from different media sources, contrasting opinions from social media)
Verbal recap quiz
Summary questions plenary
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Extra sheet: Double sided sheet to print in A3 for students (or email to them so they can type their notes)
This lesson promotes personal enquiry and helps to develop students’ internet research skills and their interpretation of complex, data which will be needed for the independent investigation.
This is a complete set of two double lessons in one powerpoint.
There are 27 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
It has learning objectives, starters, main activities, and summaries.
Skills required for Paper 2 are also included, and questions have model answers to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
Theme 3: Economic Development
Section 3.3: Industry
Part A: Demonstrate an understanding of an industrial system: inputs, processes and outputs (products and waste)
Part B: Describe and explain the factors influencing the distribution and location of factories and industrial zones
Case Studies required for 3.3
• An industrial zone or factory - Hi-tech industries in the USA (Silicon Valley)
These resources are for iGCSE specifications 0460 and 0978
Books which support this resource:
Complete Geography for Cambridge iGCSE and O Level. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198424956.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
COMING SOON!
This is a complete set of three double lessons in one powerpoint.
There are 48 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
It has learning objectives, starters, main activities, and summaries.
Skills required for Paper 2 are also included, and questions have model answers to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
I’ve added relevant past paper questions with mark schemes.
An accompanying word document includes diagrams to stick in.
Theme 3: Economic Development
Section 3.7: Environmental Risks of Economic Development
Part A: Economic activities pose threats to the natural environment
Part B: The need for sustainable development and management
Part C: The importance of resource conservation
Case Study required for 3.7
An area where economic development is taking place and causing the environment to be at risk - Soil Erosion and Desertification in Chad
These resources are for iGCSE specifications 0460 and 0978
Books which support this resource:
Complete Geography for Cambridge iGCSE and O Level. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198424956. Available on Kerboodle.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186. Available on Cambridge Go.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
COMING SOON!
This is a complete set of two double lessons in one powerpoint.
There are 31 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
It has learning objectives, starters, main activities, and summaries.
Skills required for Paper 2 are also included: Interpreting OS style maps, flow maps, pie charts, wind rose.
All questions have answers on the following slides to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
Theme 3: Economic Development
Section 3.4: Tourism
Part A: Describe and explain the growth of tourism in relation to the main attractions of the physical and human landscape
Part B: Evaluate the benefits and disadvantages of tourism to receiving areas
Demonstrate an understanding that careful management of tourism is required in order for it to be sustainable
Case Studies required for 3.4
• An area where tourism is important - Jamaica
Additional case study content - Ecotourism in Galapagos
These resources are for iGCSE specifications 0460 and 0978
Books which support this resource:
Complete Geography for Cambridge iGCSE and O Level. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198424956.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
COMING SOON!
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 10 of 18.
Includes:
Written starter based on PAR model
Chile 2015 earthquake case study with maps, and photos
Google earth link, video link to drone footage
Development and governance
2 x recap quizzes
Link Chile to Pressure and Release (PAR) model
8 mark question for plenary, linking Haiti to PAR model. Start of a model answer shown.
Extra sheet containing content for plenary task
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 14 of 18.
Includes:
Discussion starter on media bias
Disaster trends and patterns
Comparing different graphs: reported disasters, deaths, economic damage, people affected
Divided bar charts and line graphs
Difference and similarities between trends
Political bias affecting disaster data
12 mark question with scaffold and suggested answers
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 11 of 18.
Includes:
Starter quiz with mark scheme
Recap task on vulnerability
Haiti 2010 case study (LIC)
Christchurch case study 2010 and 2011 (HIC)
Case study comparison table
12 mark exam question – group work task
Two example essays
Short practise question plenary with mark scheme
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 5 of 18.
Includes:
Class quiz
Case study map, images and captions
Primary and secondary effects
Recap quiz
Case study template suggestion
Thought-provoking plenary
Word document containing extra content to help students create a case study
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 2 of 19: The Development of Globalisation
Thought-provoking writing starter
Transport and Trade in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Time space compression and ‘shrinking world’
Skills: Isochronic maps
Growth of ICT and mobile use
Containerisation
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 14-15 of 19: Threats to the Carbon and Water Cycles (deforestation afforestation coral reefs)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Deforestation and soil erosion
Madagascar case study
Labelling blank tropical rainforest sketch to show impacts of deforestation (extra sheet included)
Impact of deforestation on carbon and water cycles
Afforestation
Ecosystem services
Other threats to carbon and water cycles
Coral reefs
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 16-17 of 19: Degrading the Water and Carbon Cycles (Kuznet’s curve, climate change, Yukon)
Thoughtful discussion starter
Palm oil and forest loss impacts
Protecting forests: Indonesia’s forest moratorium, consumer pressure, forest recovery rates
Interpreting Kuznet’s curve
Climate change in the Yukon, impacts on water cycle
Skills: systems diagrams + Additional sheet for students to complete
Changing precipitation patterns
Climate change and coastal communities
Thoughtful written plenary
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
6-7 – Economic and Social Changes in ‘Your Chosen Places’
Lessons 6-7 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Place identity
El Raval, Barcelona is the contrasting place used here (all case study content is provided), but teachers may prefer to choose a place in the UK.
Students are guided to choose and then research a local place (prompts and websites are suggested for student research)
Case studies cover: place identity, preserving the history, functional change and new developments, employment and population characteristics, inequalities, identity of local residents
Plenary considers human fieldwork titles and secondary data collection
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheets: Double sided sheet to print in A3 for students (plus an extra version of the same sheet which has some of the case study notes on it)
This lesson promotes personal enquiry and helps to develop students’ internet research skills and their interpretation of complex, data which will be needed for the independent investigation.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Players and Stakeholders EXAM PRACTISE: Lessons 20-21 of 21.
Revision mantra starter
Students link lesson content to four exam questions (12 and 20 marks) based on Enquiry Question 4.
Four different exam practise techniques are explained and students work in timed conditions to complete the questions. Each question has essay hints and a list of suggested content for marking. One full model answer is also provided. Skeleton structure and some suggested content is shown for the final 20 mark question.
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Rural Regeneration – The Players: Lesson 19 of 21
Discussion starter
Students will write their own 15 mark quiz, including a mark scheme.
Discussion on quiz question types including do’s and don’ts.
Time to revise and take notes
Students complete quizzes from two other classmates
Teacher collates scores and reveals the leaderboard
Plenary – Metacognition linked to revision and exam techniques. Link to ‘memory hacks’ video.
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheet: Case study content
This is a complete set of two double lessons in one powerpoint.
There are 34 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
It has learning objectives, starters, main activities, and summaries.
Skills required for Paper 2 are also included: pie charts, bar charts, systems diagrams, interpreting data and interpreting maps.
Questions have model answers to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
Theme 3: Economic Development
Section 3.5: Energy
Part A: Describe the importance of non-renewable fossil fuels, renewable energy supplies, nuclear power and fuelwood; globally and in different countries at different levels of development
Part B: Evaluate the benefits and disadvantages of nuclear power and renewable energy sources
Case Studies required for 3.5
• Energy supply in a country or area - Geothermal energy in Iceland
These resources are for iGCSE specifications 0460 and 0978
Books which support this resource:
Complete Geography for Cambridge iGCSE and O Level. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198424956.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
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This is a complete unit of work for the Year 11 students completing their Cambridge iGCSE geography course.
There are 7 sets of resources for each of the sections within Theme 3: Economic Development.
I have followed the specification carefully and all lessons are complete with suitable case studies, plus relevant exam questions with mark schemes.
Each resource has learning objectives, starters, main activities, and summaries.
Questions have model answers to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
Skills required for Paper 2 are embedded, which means there is more time for revision and less time spent on Paper 2 practise before the exam season begins.
Theme 3: Economic Development
3.1: Development
3.2 Food Production
3.3 Industry
3.4 Tourism
3.5 Energy
3.6 Water
3.7 Environmental Risks of Economic Development
Books which support these teaching resources:
Complete Geography for Cambridge iGCSE and O Level. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198424956.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
COMING SOON!