A simple worksheet to familiarize students with scale. Questions ask students to write down the distance between certain points on the map above. There is also an open ended extension task that can be done on the sheet.
An extensive key of OS map symbols for students to stick into the front cover of their book. The sheet has two purposes, one is to provide an activity in which students name the map symbols, the other is for students to keep this in their book as a reference for later lessons.
A simple worksheet to familiarize students with 6-figure grid references. Questions ask students to write down the grid reference of certain symbols on the grid above. There is also an open ended extension task that can be done on the sheet.
A simple worksheet to familiarize students with using an atlas. Questions ask students to search their atlas for answers that each start with a different letter of the alphabet. (*Atlas needed for this task to work).
A worksheet that will allow students to use an OS Map of Sheffield to practice their use of 6 figure grid references.
*(Sheffield OS map/map section needed)
A simple worksheet to familiarize students with 4-figure grid references. Questions ask students to write down the grid reference of certain symbols on the grid above. There is also an open ended extension task that can be done on the sheet.
A collection of resources for students that have mastered basic maps skills and are ready to move on to contours, scale and 6 figure grid references or revise with a quiz.
Take your class on a virtual tour of one Asia’s largest slums. With photos taken from inside the slum, videos, sound effects and easy to use navigational arrows, you’ll feel like you are actually there!
Some simple notes have been added and can easily be deepened to suit study of a developing country for various GCSE specifications.
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10 simple to use worksheets that cover a range of basic maps skills including:
Grid references
Compass directions
OS map symbols
Atlas use
Measuring distance
Contours
A hand made A3 resource activity on threats to the Great Barrier Reef. Students can fill in the boxes provided describing any threats that they can see against the reef and its health.
A simple worksheet to familiarize students with contours. Questions ask students to write down where letters are positioned on the map according to the contours.
An exciting mystery-lesson on the ‘Day Zero’ event in South Africa. (When reservoirs fall below 13% and water is shut off to homes. Powerpoint presentation and card sort included.
A student-friendly resource booklet from the 2020 AQA Paper 3
A student activity booklet to scaffold and support annotation/study of the resource booklet
Google Slides presentation to match (With answers popping up)
A series of 10 extreme weather-based questions that can be used in a number of formats.
Question race - Multiple copies of these questions are printed on different coloured paper, teams collect each question in turn, answer it and hand their answer in for checking. They race through all the questions in this way until one teams answers them all and in doing so finishes the race.
Quiz, quiz, trade - Each student holds a question, they all circulate around the room and upon meeting someone else person A quizes person B using their own question followed by person B quizing person A and then they swap questions (trade) and move on to repeat the process.