This is a lesson looks at Chamonix as a case study for tourism in the alps.
Students carry out a carousel to build up information on the fact file before doing a card sort of the social, economic and environmental factors.
The tourism management pdf can be used to give students more detailed information about how the area is managed.
This is an introduction lesson to the idea of Fracking.
The lesson starts with a brainstorm of what the word/process could mean. This is followed by highlighting the need for a new source of energy supply within the UK - Energy Handout.
A video/teachers explanation/questions and card sort, then talk through the process of Fracking.
This is a lesson that looks at different Hard and Soft Engineering Coastal Defences.
The information provided can be delivered in a pass the card format or as a poster activity.
The attached worksheet can be easily differentiated by adding or taking away the scaffolding
This lesson has been created for the new AQA GCSE SPEC
This lesson teaches the effects climate change will have on the earth.
It includes a card mystery and then 8 different ideas (this can be reduced for lower ability students) as to the impacts of climate change
This is a revision sheet designed for the AQA A Syllabus.
It goes through every detail required to learn for the Changing Urban Environments spec and works best when printed double sided onto A5 paper.
The page numbers refer to the AQA A Text Book
This lesson is for the new AQA Geography SPEC
This lesson looks at the consequences for uneven development
All resources are found within the powerpoint
This lesson teaches the students how the Earth’s climate has changed throughout history. Students start by creating a graph that shows how the climate has increased during the last few hundred years. They then investigate 4 different factors that have shaped the Earth’s climate through time (learnt through the card sort and card sort hand-out).
The homework gets students to investigate the key words that they will come across during this topic.
This is the final lesson on fracking. This lesson gets students to express their opinion on the issue of fracking via the creation of a newspaper front page.
Resources:
News Paper Earthquake - Easy/Normal: A news article report looking at earthquakes caused by fracking. This has been differentiated for people with low literacy.
News Paper Water - Easy/Normal: A news article report looking at water contamination caused by fracking. This has been differentiated for people with low literacy.
Newspaper Guide: This is a template for students to set out their newspaper front page.
This is a lesson and resource that can be used when teaching developmental indicators. The main part of the lesson is built around playing a game of developmental top trumps. This is followed up by a series of questions based around measuring development.
Top Trumps: A set of 30 countries using information taken from the CIA world fact book. Works best when printed in colour and laminated
This lesson looks at what can is considered to be effective AID. It asks the students to think about the idea that AID is not always best for the recipient country.
Resources:
Different types of AID - This gets students to read through the key words on the board and match up to what they think is the correct definition.
Evaluation Information Hand-out - Students need to read through the three different case studies about different types of AID around the world. They then use the 'Evaluation Hand-out&' to answer the questions about each project.
This is a lesson that gets students investigating coastal defences.
This lesson requires the use of a 'mini beach&'. Students were given a plastic box that contained water, sand and rocks. They were also given playdough and other materials that they had to fashion into sea defences found on the worksheet.
The lesson can be a bit messy but the students had great fun!
This is a topical lesson focusing on the current situation in the Ukraine.
Students carry out a Carousel activity that looks at a time line of the events leading up the current situation. They then further investigate the the reasons for Russia's involvement before being asked to form their own opinions on the situation.
This lesson teaches students about population pyramids. Students are required to produce their own population pyramid for Ethiopia and be able to identify key features of both LEDC and MEDC country's population pyramids.
Recourse:
Key information: Highlights the main parts and features of population pyramids.
Population information: This is used to create a population pyramid for an LEDC country.
This lesson has been created for the new AQA GCSE SPEC
This lesson focuses on ways to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Students are put into groups are given websites in which to research before presenting the data back to the rest of the class.
The four areas of focus are:
Alternative energy production
Carbon Capture
Planting Trees
Deforestation
This is a lesson that teachers students about ways to combat climate change. It focuses around 5 central ways to reduce climate. Students start by looking at the 5 options and asks them to rank and explain what they think are the best ways of combating climate change. They then investigate each of the themes further by using the information (carousel activity) to fill in the differentiated work sheet. This is then followed up by group work looking at negatives of 1 option which the can lead into a debate. Students then use all this information to form their own opinions.