Creative and innovative resources that meet the needs of every learner in every lesson.
Why create numerous resources when one can do it all.
Most resources are for geography lessons, but many are for whole-school too and cross over into numerous subjects.
Creative and innovative resources that meet the needs of every learner in every lesson.
Why create numerous resources when one can do it all.
Most resources are for geography lessons, but many are for whole-school too and cross over into numerous subjects.
A lesson that explores how the Great Barrier Reef is useful for people, threats to the reef, species & how it is being sustainably managed…
Students use the information sheet (no need for books).
Promotes independent learning.
I would recommend printing the information sheet in colour & in A3 & laminating it, to be used again.
Links well to much of the new 1-9 specification and was used as part of the KS3 SOW.
My pupils loved doing this diary of a refugee.
Promotes a wider understanding of the issues.
Marking sheet included too. Just needs printing & cutting up.
A superb game that allows pupils to learn about the issues related to population in a fun, creative and engaging way.
This was used as part of our KS3 SOW.
Some coloured paperclips will be needed for the pupils to play this.
A lesson that explores why people migrate, problems caused & sustainable solutions.
Students use the information sheet (no need for books).
Promotes independent learning.
SPaG sheet included & quick test.
I would recommend printing the information sheet in colour & in A3 & laminating it, to be used again.
Links well to much of the new 1-9 specification and was used as part of the KS3 SOW.
A 57 page revision guide designed for OCR A, paper 1. All with a UK focus.
Areas covered are:
Coasts
Population
Energy
Modifying the landscape for food & water
Rivers
Industry
Urban geography
Upland, lowland & glacial areas
Climate of the UK
It differs from a conventional guide because on each page it provides students with actual tasks to complete. E.g. sorting, linking, drawing, SPaG, spot the mistakes etc.
At the back there are dozens of questions that pupils can use the guide to help answer.
I printed lots off in colour and charged students £2 as well as providing them with a copy on disc. Some students just wanted a free disc copy & printed it at home.
Please see my other guides for paper2 & 3.
Although designed for OCR, much of the content is the same for other exam boards and it is very easily amended.
This took dozens of hours to create and will be an superb time save resource that will really support students of all ability.
A lesson that explores the social, economic & environmental impacts of the Elan Valley to Birmingham water transfer scheme.
Students use the information sheet (no need for books).
Promotes independent learning.
Pupils have a choice of tasks.
Assessment task also provided.
I would recommend printing the information sheet in colour & in A3 & laminating it, to be used again.
Links well to much of the new 1-9 specification and was used as part of the KS3 SOW.
A lesson that gets pupils to calculate their own carbon footprint based on a series of life style questions.
There are lots of on-line versions, but I wanted one that didn’t need any IT access.
Pupils create a pledge that demonstrates ways that they will try to reduce their own carbon footprint.
There is also a more complex GCSE style question that promotes an understanding of the global picture & why more developed countries would have a larger carbon footprint than developing countries. Or this may be set to change in relation to (often more costly) energy saving devices.
Used as part of the KS3 SOW.
A simple but effective lesson that provides students to create a verbal powerpoint relating to India. They can only add pictures. This moves away from kids reading lots of text from each slide.
Understanding is then tested in the T&F test.
4 revision guides designed for OCR A geography 1-9 GCSE course.
A unique guide has been created for each paper & one for more complex case study questions.
Many of the activities can actually be used as teaching resources/activities.
Areas covered are:
Grid References.
Scale.
Distance.
Height.
Fieldwork.
Statistics.
Q & A analysis.
Synoptic Q & A.
Coasts
Population
Energy
Modifying the landscape for food & water
Rivers
Industry
Urban geography
Upland, lowland & glacial areas
Climate of the UK
Development
Ecosystems
Extreme weather
Climate change
They differs from a conventional guide because on each page it provides students with actual tasks to complete. E.g. sorting, linking, drawing, SPaG, spot the mistakes etc.
At the back there are dozens of questions that pupils can use the guide to help answer.
The 2 statistic pages were printed on A3, laminated & provided to the pupils as last minute revision, whilst they were waiting to go into the exam hall.
I printed lots off in colour and charged students £2 as well as providing them with a copy on disc. Some students just wanted a free disc copy & printed it at home.
Although designed for OCR, most of the content is the same for other exam boards and it is very easily amended.
These took dozens of hours to create and will be an superb time saving resource that will really support students of all ability.
3 revision guides designed for OCR A geography 1-9 GCSE course.
A unique guide has been created for each paper.
Many of the activities can actually be used as teaching resources/activities.
Areas covered are:
Grid References.
Scale.
Distance.
Height.
Fieldwork.
Statistics.
Q & A analysis.
Synoptic Q & A.
Coasts
Population
Energy
Modifying the landscape for food & water
Rivers
Industry
Urban geography
Upland, lowland & glacial areas
Climate of the UK
Development
Ecosystems
Extreme weather
Climate change
They differs from a conventional guide because on each page it provides students with actual tasks to complete. E.g. sorting, linking, drawing, SPaG, spot the mistakes etc.
At the back there are dozens of questions that pupils can use the guide to help answer.
The 2 statistic pages were printed on A3, laminated & provided to the pupils as last minute revision, whilst they were waiting to go into the exam hall.
I printed lots off in colour and charged students £2 as well as providing them with a copy on disc. Some students just wanted a free disc copy & printed it at home.
Although designed for OCR, most of the content is the same for other exam boards and it is very easily amended.
These took dozens of hours to create and will be an superb time saving resource that will really support students of all ability.
A 42 page revision guide designed for OCR A, paper 2.
Areas covered are:
Climate change.
Development.
Extreme weather (tropical storms, El Nino & drought).
Aid
Ecosystems.
It differs from a conventional guide because on each page it provides students with actual tasks to complete. E.g. sorting, linking, drawing, SPaG, spot the mistakes etc.
At the back there are dozens of questions that pupils can use the guide to help answer.
I printed lots off in colour and charged students £2 as well as providing them with a copy on disc. Some students just wanted a free disc copy & printed it at home.
Please see my other guides.
Although designed for OCR, much of the content is the same for other exam boards and it is very easily amended.
This took dozens of hours to create and will be an superb time save resource that will really support students of all ability.
A full lesson that helps pupils to develop the skills needed to create work that is not simply copied out.
This is not an I.T. lesson.
Designed as a part of year 7 scheme of work and based on the rainforest.
Also includes a printable feedback sheet to speed up marking.
A geography skills games used to teach grid references in the form of the battleships game.
Each slide of the powerpoint is the teachers turn. This means that no cheating can take place.
Pupils use the blank grid to draw on their ships and marks off eack of the teachers turns (which is also shown on the powerpoint).
Once the first player has all of their ships sunk, the teacher loses.
Each student takes it in turn to read out their coordinates to try and sink the teachers ship.
A single hit sinks the entire ship.
It works incredibly well for all age groups.
A great activity that uses the fortnite base map to allow students to firstly describe a pre-plotted journey and then to create their own journey.
The journey is divided up into kilometer sections to make understanding scale more straight forward.
Task includes a success criteria that allows pupils to calculate their success.
A simple activity that creates understanding of the water cycle by the completion of an acrostic poem.
All elements of the sheet are laid out.
Works well with a visualiser to talk kids through each step.
A simple lesson that helps students to understand the meanings of social economic and environmental.
Cover meanings.
Create an emoji for each one.
Create a made up text message between student & parent/carer.
Add the emoji face to each text.
S&C is to link social, economic & environmental understanding to other areas that they have studied.
A collection stem question tests that allow pupils to demonstrate understanding through a series of multiple choice (5 possible answers) tests.
At the bottom of the sheet pupils can instantly demonstrate an understanding of misconceptions.
These are not designed to give a score (although you can score it), but are more about a demonstration of understanding of key understanding.
Each one (with feedback) takes roughly 10 minutes.
