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Outstanding Lesson: What are hazards?
Learning Objectives:
To identify a range of natural hazards
To describe how people and places are affected by them
Includes a great starter, learning tasks and research activity.
Excellent activity booklet: Guide to rivers, flooding with key terminology
Great introduction to river studies and the water cycle.
Includes activities looking at:
World famous rivers
Flooding Case Study
Key terminology
Crosswords
Wordsearch
River run-off
Infiltration cartoons
Outstanding: How can the rich help the poor? (TES Pick)
Title: How can the rich help the poor?
Learning Objectives:
To identify the different types of aid
To justify the reasons for giving international aid
Include activity sheet, tasks, video clip, range of famous quotes and discussion points.
Comprehensive lesson
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.
Brilliant: 10 World Landmark Jigsaws
Supurb end of term challenge activity. Students to highlight, cut, assemble,paste, name, locate and research each of the ten famous landmarks ! Good fun !
Also great to use as a introductory and transition lesson activity to introduce the skills, spatial awareness 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.
Should TNCs’ use child labour? (TES Pick)
Title - Should TNCs’ use child labour?
Learning Objectives:
To describe why children are employed
To evaluate the role that they have within manufacturing
Includes hyperlinks to appropriate videos, extension activities, discussion points, tables for students to complete as well as an assessment task marking rubrics to consolidate 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.
Outstanding Lesson - Coastal Landforms & processes
This lesson has been used and accredited as outstanding within many observations and interviews.
This alternative to a carrousel task allows student to stay in their seat yet rotate the resources as it introduced them to coastal landforms and processes. It allows teachers to judge prior knowledge, learning and misconceptions students may have. This is combined with excellent starter and plenary resources that consolidate learning objectives and helps teachers plan for the next lesson on this current important theme of geographical study.
Has been used at KS3, GCSE, IGCE, KS4, MYP and A Level standards.
Title: What processes happens along the coast?
To identify examples of erosional landforms
To explain how the sea shapes the coast
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.
Excellent: Geography Base Line Assessment Test 1 hour Comprehensive - World and British
A fantastic resource that is an efficient to mark. This assessment will gauge current Geographical knowledge of Y6 students entering KS3. Can also be used as assessment tool for new GCSE/KS4 students and also students preparing for A Level/KS5.
Capitals cities of Europe
Rivers
Volcanoes
UK Counties
British cities
Geographical Vocabulary
Earthquakes
weather and climate
People and population
Food and farming
Mountains and highlands
Pollution
European countries
Continents of the world
Seas and oceans of the world
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
Excellent Map of Africa atlas exercise
A comprehensive mapping activity to introduce and consolidate the human and physical geography of Africa.
Looks at the countries, main cities, rivers, islands, capes, deserts, seas and oceans.
Fun and challenging !
How can we reduce the effects of flooding?
A research based lesson reviewing the strategies to reduce the effects of flooding - including soft and hard engineering techniques.
Outstanding Lesson - Sources of energy, Green, renewable, wind energy
Title: How can wind power be used create renewable energy?
Learning objectives:
•To identify examples of renewable and non-renewable energy
•To list the costs and benefits of wind power
•To look at a Case Study
A great lesson that reviews the many variety of energy sources and focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy.
Includes a useful case study for application of skills, knowledge and understanding.
Outstanding Lesson: Brazil's Amazon Rainforest (TES pick)
A fantastic lesson reviewing the environmental conditions, characteristics and human pressures found within this fragile biome. Involves kinaesthetic collaborative class group task, analysis and evaluation. Includes pit stop plenaries and free plenary placemat.
Great for an introduction to this popular case study and theme of biomes.
Demographics - UK - ageing population
An activity booklet with 7 fantastic tasks that review:
Statistical analysis calculations
Population pyramids
Dependency ratios
Population management
Predictions for the future
Creative task
Critical thinking and speculation related to current population patterns
Excellent starter - Identification of Coastal Erosion Landforms
Excellent starter and introduction to further research
Outstanding lesson on Introduction to Climate Change & Global Warming (TES Pick)
This lesson has been used and accredited as outstanding within many observations and interviews.
This alternative to a carrousel task allows student to stay in their seat yet rotate the resources as it introduced them to Climate Change and Global Warming. It allows teachers to judge prior knowledge, learning and misconceptions students may have. This is combined with excellent starter and plenary resources that consolidate learning objectives and helps teachers plan for the next lesson on this current important theme of geographical study.
Has been used at KS3, GCSE, IGCE, KS4, MYP and A Level standards.
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
Airline ticket boarding pass – Earthquakes
Interactive, great and fun ‘ticket to learning’ starter activity.
Adaptable for ANY lesson!
This focusses on earthquakes and has different levels of questioning - ideal for a mixed ability class.
Allows students to reflect, peer mark and use images/drawings for show their comprehension. Good fun!