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Eyewitness Accounts of the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
Journey Back in Time: Witness the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius!
Bring history to life for your Year 8 class!
Uncover the drama and devastation of 79 AD with this Mount Vesuvius Eruption Resource
Walk in the footsteps of:
Pliny the Elder, the curious scholar: Witness the eruption through the eyes of a renowned scientist!
Gaius, the brave slave: Experience the chaos and fear from the perspective of a Roman citizen!
Livia, the noblewoman: Feel the loss and devastation suffered by the wealthy elite!
Maximus, the gladiator: Learn about the raw power of nature from a fearless warrior!
Engaging first-hand accounts: Each character brings their unique perspective to the event.
Vivid descriptions: Feel the tremors, smell the ash, and witness the fiery destruction!
Interactive activities: Analyze primary sources, create timelines, and explore the impact of the eruption.
Teacher’s guide: Packed with lesson plans, extension activities, and assessment materials.
LGBT Outstanding lesson PSHE: Modern family structure (TES Pick)
A supurb lesson that reviews how changes in the modern family unit and structure is changing. Student and teachers will gain insight, empathy and understanding of the challenges faced by different families in the 21st Century.
Objectives:
To describe how the modern family has changed
To review why these structural changes are important in the 21st Century
Both students and teachers can predict and prepare themselves for the social, cultural, religious and economic impact that this may have in society at local, national and international scales.
AQA - Measuring development
Chapter 17: Economic Development & quality of life
Learning objectives:
To describe how social development is measured.
To explain why the human development index is important.
Compliments Textbook - AQA GCSE (9-1) Geography Second Edition
ByJohn Widdowson (Author)
Workbooklet containing:
Starter
Key words
Sample GCSE Question
10 Tasks
Student checklist
Superb Geography ice breaker
Creating a climate for learning in Geography: Set the right collaborative atmosphere in your class room by using this Geography themed ice breaker. Great fun. Ideal for the start of term and new teachers.
British Culture: icons
A great fun activity involving a treasure hunt style challenge around the school followed by a research activity and group presentation.
Outstanding lesson: How can the environment be polluted?
How can the environment be polluted?
Learning objectives:
To identify different types of pollution
To describe how they can harm the environment
A stimulating interactive lesson that encourages students to identify a range of pollution types.
Students will also consider how environmental concerns can be categorised on a variety of scales.
Outstanding lesson: Sustainable development and obstacles
Title: Sustainable development
To describe what sustainable development is
To suggest how an LEDC could improve
To identify at least 4 obstacles to development
An outstanding comprehensive kinaesthetic group task based lesson covering all aspects of sustainable development. Encourages higher order thinking skills, application of logic, transferable skills, debatable issues and includes:
• Key terminology
• Country Case study
• Solutions
Student friendly: Latitude and Longitude activity sheet
An easy and accessible activity sheet to explain and practice locating places with lines of longitude and latitude.
Great for lower ability students.
Geography transition lesson for Y6 and Y7 students
A proven great introductory and transition lesson activity to introduce the skills and global knowledge needed for Geography!
This has proved very successful for Y6 students entering KS3
It can be used as an independent, paired or group task. Fantastic if used as a competition.
Air pollution - Is a car free world possible?
Title: Is a car free world possible?
Learning Objectives:
To review the development and impact of cars
To consider how their environmental impact could be managed using an international strategy
Perfect for Criterion C - Communicating
Fantastic lesson assessing the possibility of reducing traffic to improve the urban environment and reduce both air and noise pollution.
Includes reading tasks, comprehension questions and assessment.
Outstanding Lesson: Hurricanes, Typhoons & Cyclones
Title - What are Hurricanes?
Learning Objective:
To describe how they form using keywords
To map their global distribution
*** A comprehensive introduction to the natural hazard referred to as hurricanes – areas of intense low pressure. This has an excellent starter, main and plenary. It covers mapping global distribution, key words & terminology, the Saffir-Simpson scale measurement and tidal surge. It also has extension higher order thinking question for more ale students.**
Outstanding Lesson - Weather and Climate
Title: Weather and climate
To identify the how weather is described and measured
To suggest a range of weather hazards experienced in the UK
Rated outstanding - A fantastic lesson reviewing the environmental conditions caused by weather and climate factors and their influence on human activity. Involves kinaesthetic collaborative class group task, analysis and evaluation. Includes pit stop plenaries and free plenary placemat.
Great for an introduction to this popular theme and ideal for a lesson observation.
How safe is nuclear energy?
Learning Objectives:
To evaluate the use and growth of nuclear energy
To discuss the social risks linked to this energy choice
Environmental systems & Societies: Unit 1.1 - What are Environmental Value Systems (EVS)?
Title: Environmental systems & Societies: Unit 1.1 - What are Environmental Value Systems (EVS)?
Learning Objectives:
● To identify the factors that affect different EVS
● To explain the different environmental philosophies
Great lesson that introduces students to the first unit, also incorporates some excellent video clips for discussion and a Homework task to consolodate learning.
Outstanding Lesson - What is ecotourism? (TES Pick)
Title: What is ecotourism?
Objectives: To describe how ecotourism has developed
To look at strategies that help conserve the natural environment
Contains a review of mass tourism, sustainable strategies, annotated example and a range of video clip hyper links. Ideal for GCSE and International Baccalaureate.
ESS - How does Global atmospheric circulation work? Environmental Systems and Societies
Learning Objectives:
To describe the processes of atmospheric circulation.
To explain how the circulation of air within the atmosphere causes areas of high and low pressure
Comprehensive and easy to follow guide. Contains -
extension question task, for advanced learners
a template sheet asking students to add information on global atmospheric circulation
writing activity, consolidating all their knowledge
hyper-links to video clips
fantastic general knowledge starter
Fantastic lesson - Photochemical smog
Learning Objectives:
To outline the formation of photochemical smog.
To distinguish between primary and secondary air pollutants
Contains:
Fantastic science clips to illustrate how human health is impacted and the chemical reactions that form secondary air pollutants.
Includes news reports for Case studies.
Exam question
Research task.
Live links to air pollution models - in London and across the World.
Great Lesson - Introduction to the Renaissance
A great and useful lesson that introduces this important period in time. Encourages student to research independently.
Lesson Objectives:
To practice researching and presenting information
To assess how these changes have helped progress
River Landscapes in the UK
Learning objectives
To identify a variety of river landforms.
To work as a team to assess how rivers shape the land through erosion and deposition.
Comprehensive, interactive lesson that promotes collaboration.
Why live in the USA? (America Mexico Migration Case study)
Learning objectives:
To outline the reasons why Mexico migrants want to live in the USA.
To review some population issues caused by mass migration.
Comprehensive lesson including map activities of the USA/Mexico border, crossword suing key words and places, locational knowledge questions and matching exercises reviewing different perspectives of the migration issues.