Head of Humanities with 10 years of experience teacher Geography + additional subjects in the UK and Internationally.
GCSE/IGCSE/MYP/IBPS
Additionallal subjest:
3 years Business Studies
3 years Computer Science
3 years Gobal Perspectives
Head of Humanities with 10 years of experience teacher Geography + additional subjects in the UK and Internationally.
GCSE/IGCSE/MYP/IBPS
Additionallal subjest:
3 years Business Studies
3 years Computer Science
3 years Gobal Perspectives
This is a full set of high quality resources and includes power points, c resources, exam questions, skills questions (OS Maps). The lessons are varied with activities such as group work, pair work, research tasks etc. Ready to pick up and teach - no extra planning needed.
Covers:
3.1 Development
3.2 Food production
3.3 Industry
3.4 Tourism
3.5 Energy
3.5 Water
3.7 Environmental risks of economic development
Printable country top trump cards - great for a reward in class, or for fast finishers!
32 countries, the cards include the population, area, GDP, life expectancy, and HDI.
Print double sided for professional looking top trumps card your students will love!
You can print as many sets as you need!
These resources cover the entire Cambridge international GCSE paper 2 for map and graph skills.
It includes powerpoints, worksheets and exam practice. This is ready to download and teach - no extra planning needed.
A guided revision resource - blank knoweldge organiser covering earthquake formation, living near earthquakes and earthquake preparedness.
As this is a free resource, if you find it useful it would be a great help if you could leave me a review! Thanks!
A seven round quiz with 10 questions per round, and answers (70 questions total). The rounds are mixed difficulty so it is suitable for all ages.
Rounds:
Unusual Geography
World food
Cultural Geography
Currency
World landmarks
Artists and bands
Famous explorers
Cambridge IGCSE Geography Paper 1, Theme 2.
This is a full set of high quality resources - power points, print outs, exam questions, all case studies. The lessons include engaging and varied activities such as group work, pair work, student presentations, research tasks, videos, debates, card sorts and more. Ready to pick up and teach - no extra planning needed.
2.1 Earthquakes
2.2 Volcanoes
2.3 Earthquakes
2.4 Rivers
2.5 Coasts
2.6 Weather
2.7 Climate and Natural Vegetation
This booklet includes all of the case studies needed for CIE GSCE Geography theme 1. Includes all information needed to answer every 7 mark question.
A country which is over-populated.
A country which is under-populated
A country with a high rate of natural population growth.
A country with a low rate of population growth (or population decline)
An international migration.
A country with a high dependency ratio
A densely populated country or area (at any scale from local to regional).
A sparsely populated country or area (at any scale from local to regional).
Settlement and service provision in an area.
An urban area (including changing land use and urban sprawl).
A rapidly growing urban area in a developing country and migration to it.
Full set of high quality resources - powerpoints, print outs, exam questions, skills questions (OS Maps)
Covers:
-settlement patterns
site and situation
settlement heirarchy
Population threshhold/sphere of influence
Problems in urban areas
Urban Sprawl
Regeneration
Causes and impacts of urbanisation (push and pull)
Case studies: settlement heirarchy (manchester), problems in urban areas (manchester), urbanisation (Rio)
Two sided A3 knowledge organiser, partially completed for revision. Includes detailed diagrams. Complete GCSE rivers unit - CIE but suitable for AQA and edexcel.
Includes lessons, activties and exam practice questions for:
Describe and give reasons for the rapid increase in the world’s population.
Understand the causes and consequences of over-population and under-population.
Understand the main causes of a change in population size.
Know a country which is overpopulated and a country which is under-populated.
Give reasons for contrasting rates of natural population change
Know a case study of a country with high rate of natural population growth and a country with a low rate of population growth (or decline).
Full set of resources ready to pick and up and teach
A guided revision booklet covering Cambridge International GCSE Geography, Theme 1 Population and Settlement.
For each topic there are learning objectives, the ‘Bare Necessities’, key terms diagrams, and guided spaces to for students to complete.
This is a 37 page booklet covering:
1.1 population dynamics
1.2 Migration
1.3 Population pyramids
1.4 Population density and distribution
1.5 Settlement and service provision
1.6 Urban settlements
1.7 Urbanisation
Plus a list of all of the recent 7 mark questions for Theme 1.
This is a full unit of work, including any hand outs, for a year 7 or 8 unit of work on map skills. It covers one half term. It is based on the IB middle years programme framework, but it is suitable for any classroom. Includes assessments and marking rubrics.
Topics
compass directions
coordinates
scale (model building project)
relief
map symbols
fieldwork - conducting a school survey
critical thinking: can we trust maps?
Assessment: design a fictional map, with optional literacy link
Every case study for Cambridge GCSE Geography Theme 2, including all information needed to answer 7 mark questions.
An earthquake
A volcano
The opportunities presented by a river, the hazards associated with it and their management.
The opportunities presented by an area of coastline, the hazards associated with
An area of tropical forest
Deforestation of a tropical rainforest
An area of dry desert
Full set of high quality resources - powerpoints, print outs, exam questions, skills questions (OS Maps). Ready to pick up and teach - no extra planning needed.
Covers:
Reasons for the rapid increase in the world’s population.
Causes and consequences of over-population and under-population.
Understand the main causes of a change in population size.
A country which is overpopulated and a country which is under-populated.
Reasons for contrasting rates of natural population change
Case study of a country with high rate of natural population growth and a country with a low rate of population growth (or decline).
Population policies (one child policy)
Population structure and population pyramids
Migration
A case study of international migration
settlement patterns
site and situation
settlement hierarchy
Population threshold /sphere of influence
Problems in urban areas
Urban Sprawl
Regeneration
Causes and impacts of urbanisation (push and pull)
Case studies: settlement hierarchy (Manchester), problems in urban areas (Manchester), Urbanisation (Rio)
This is a stand alone lesson, or can be used as part of a SOW on oceans or sustainability.
It covers:
An introduction into what plastic is.
True or false for surprising facts.
A card sort to show a time line of how single use plastic ends up in the oceans.
The impacts of plastic in the Oceans.
Extended writing: persuasive piece.
Full power point and resources ready to pick up and teach.
Powerpoint and worksheet (with 20 questions) to teach binary to denary conversions.
Introduces base 10 and base 2 number systems.
Worksheet with 20 questions (answers provided).
Ready to pick up and teach.
This is a three lesson project perfect for year 6, 7, 8 or 9 Geography. It includes a powerpoint with all of the needed instructions for each lesson, and a planning document for students to use.
Entire unit of work for Environmental systems and societies topic 8.2: resource use in society. Full lessons ready to teach: no extra planning needed.
This resource covers:
Renewable natural capital can be generated and/or replaced as fast as it is
being used. It includes living species and ecosystems that use solar energy
and photosynthesis, as well as non-living items, such as groundwater and the
ozone layer.
• Non-renewable natural capital is either irreplaceable or can only be replaced
over geological timescales; for example, fossil fuels, soil and minerals.
• Renewable natural capital can be utilized sustainably or unsustainably. If
renewable natural capital is used beyond its natural income this use becomes
unsustainable.
• The valuation of natural capital can be divided into the following two
main categories.
• The impacts of extraction, transport and processing of a renewable natural
capital may cause damage, making this natural capital unsustainable.
• Natural capital provides goods (such as tangible products) and services (such
as climate regulation) that have value. This value may be aesthetic, cultural,
economic, environmental, ethical, intrinsic, social, spiritual or technological.
• The concept of a natural capital is dynamic. Whether or not something has
the status of natural capital, and the marketable value of that capital varies
regionally and over time and is infuenced by cultural, social, economic,
environmental, technological and political factors. Examples include cork,
uranium and lithium.
Entire planned unit of work for Environmental systems and societies, ready to pick up and teach - no extra planning needed.
Covers:
Demographic tools for quantifying human population include crude birth
rate (CBR), crude death rate (CDR), total fertility rate (TFR), doubling time (DT)
and natural increase rate (NIR).
• Global human population has followed a rapid growth curve, but there is
uncertainty as to how this may be changing.
• As the human population grows, increased stress is placed on all of the
Earth’s systems.
• Age–gender pyramids and demographic transition models (DTM) can be
useful in the prediction of human population growth. The DTM is a model
that shows how a population transitions from a pre-industrial stage with high
CBRs and CDRs to an economically advanced stage with low or declining CBRs
and low CDRs.
• Infuences on human population dynamics include cultural, historical,
religious, social, political and economic factors.
• National and international develo
Entire unit of work for Environmental systems and societies topic 1.3: energy and equilibria. Full lessons ready to teach: no extra planning needed.
Covers:
The first law of thermodynamics is the principle of conservation of energy,
which states that energy in an isolated system can be transformed but cannot
be created or destroyed.
• The principle of conservation of energy can be modelled by the energy
transformations along food chains and energy production systems.
• The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a system
increases over time. Entropy is a measure of the amount of disorder in a
system. An increase in entropy arising from energy transformations reduces
the energy available to do work.
• The second law of thermodynamics explains the in efficiency and decrease in
available energy along a food chain and energy generation systems.
• As an open system, an ecosystem will normally exist in a stable equilibrium,
either in a steady-state equilibrium or in one developing over time (for
example, succession), and maintained by stabilizing negative feedback loops.
• Negative feedback loops (stabilizing) occur when the output of a process
inhibits or reverses the operation of the same process in such a way as to
reduce change—it counteracts deviation.
• Positive feedback loops (destabilizing) will tend to amplify changes and drive
the system towards a tipping point where a new equilibrium is adopted.
• The resilience of a system, ecological or social, refers to its tendency to avoid
such tipping points and maintain stability.
• Diversity and the size of storages within systems can contribute to their
resilience and affect their speed of response to change (time lags).
• Humans can affect the resilience of systems through reducing these storages
and diversity.
• The delays involved in feedback loops make it difficult to predict tipping
points and add to the complexity of modelling systems.