Universal and sustainable resources which can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and free up your energy to make teaching more fun.
Universal and sustainable resources which can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and free up your energy to make teaching more fun.
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 7 of 18.
Includes:
Class quiz
Skills question - referring to photo and quote
Two model answers for comparison
Diagrams/images of damage to buildings
Question and model answer
Plenary - what makes a mega disaster?
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 14 of 18.
Includes:
Discussion starter on media bias
Disaster trends and patterns
Comparing different graphs: reported disasters, deaths, economic damage, people affected
Divided bar charts and line graphs
Difference and similarities between trends
Political bias affecting disaster data
12 mark question with scaffold and suggested answers
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 5 of 18.
Includes:
Class quiz
Case study map, images and captions
Primary and secondary effects
Recap quiz
Case study template suggestion
Thought-provoking plenary
Word document containing extra content to help students create a case study
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 18 of 18.
Spearman’s Rank Statistical Test
Starter quiz and mark scheme
Correlation and spearman’s rank definitions task
Scattergraphs showing positive, negative and no correlation
Reading and note taking on use of Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient in geography
Worked example using river case study. Students start by describing and explaining pattern on scatter graphs
Next, students work through the whole statistical test, arriving at a conclusion based on Rs value. Answers and justification are shown for each stage.
Finally, students will use excel data to complete a spearman’s rank test based on comparing earthquake deaths and magnitude.
Excel document is included plus answers on a separate document demonstrating more complex ranking system.
Final slide lists all case studies used in the whole scheme of work to aid revision for end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Understanding Your Place: Lesson 2 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Employment sectors
Clark-Fisher Model
Quinary sector
Social and economic variations in employment
Regional inequalities in the UK
Variations in quality of life
Skills: Using indices
Written summary plenary
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Changing Places - Manchester: Lesson 3 of 21
Discussion starter with re-photography
Changing functions (industry, administration, commerce, retail)
Changing demographic characteristics (Skills: analysing graphs and data)
Gentrification and studentification
Reasons for change
How is change measured (discussion of primary and secondary data collection)
Big data and GIS
Exam question plenary with extension task
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Engagement, Lived Experience and Attachment: Lessons 10-11 of 21.
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Engagement and elections
Engagement and community
Case study: Grampound Village Shop
Conflict over regeneration: waste incinerator, wind turbines
Plenary – Link to previous lesson – studentification
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
This is a complete set of three double lessons in one powerpoint.
There are 48 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
It has learning objectives, starters, main activities, and summaries.
Skills required for Paper 2 are also included, and questions have model answers to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
I’ve added relevant past paper questions with mark schemes.
An accompanying word document includes diagrams to stick in.
Theme 3: Economic Development
Section 3.7: Environmental Risks of Economic Development
Part A: Economic activities pose threats to the natural environment
Part B: The need for sustainable development and management
Part C: The importance of resource conservation
Case Study required for 3.7
An area where economic development is taking place and causing the environment to be at risk - Soil Erosion and Desertification in Chad
These resources are for iGCSE specifications 0460 and 0978
Books which support this resource:
Complete Geography for Cambridge iGCSE and O Level. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198424956. Available on Kerboodle.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186. Available on Cambridge Go.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
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Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
Lesson 13 – Water Insecurity – The Causes
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint, with supporting documents.
There are 25 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – key words quiz
• Insecurity, stress and scarcity
• Regional issues
• Using data to predict future patterns of scarcity
• Interpreting water scarcity and water stress maps
• Role play: Regional expert in global water insecurity – students learn one region and then teach each other
• Physical causes: climate variability, saltwater encroachment
• Human causes: increasing population, improving living standards, industrialisation, agriculture
• Plenary – 20 mark exam question – students write a plan for the essay, add facts, then write a conclusion
• Summary
• Teacher’s information slides
• HANDOUT 1: Blank map for adding notes on regional insecurity
• HANDOUT 2: Notes for role play
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
Lesson 16-17 – Management of Water Supplies
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint, with one supporting document.
There are 29 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – key words quiz
• Managing conflict
• Hard engineering – water transfer project, desalination
• China’s north-south water transfer scheme
• Recap: Facts from The Gilgel Gibe III Dam Case Study
• Sustainable water supply schemes
• Sustainable water management schemes
• Case study: Water management in Israel
• Comparing management schemes
• Integrated drainage management
• Players in water management
• Attitudes and actions
• Student summary
• Exam question – 12 marks, with mark scheme
• Plenary - debate
• Summary
• Teacher’s information slides
• HANDOUT 1: South-North Water Transfer Project notes
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
Lesson 15 – Conflict Case Studies
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint, with supporting documents.
There are 12 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – River Nile conflict - reading and discussions
• Students annotate a map of the Nile
• Students create a timeline to show history of conflict on the river
• Case Study: The Gilgel Gibe III Dam in Ethiopia - Local Water Conflict
• Students create cartoon strip using text
• Exam questions – students discuss how to answer
• Exam question – 12 marks, with mark scheme
• Plenary – explain the role of players in a conflict
• Extension: Additional exam question, with mark scheme
• Teacher’s information slides
• HANDOUT 1: Cartoon strip with text provided
• HANDOUT 2: Blank maps of River Nile
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
Lesson 11 – Climate Change
This is a complete set of two lessons in one powerpoint, with supporting documents.
There are 24 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – key words quiz
• The Greenhouse effect – natural and enhanced
• Impacts of Climate Change on the UK Water Cycle by 2050
• Water stress
• Agriculture
• Industry
• Household use
• Water sources
• Case study: Climate Change in California
• Band Aid song – interpretation of lyrics
• Re-Greening in the Sahel
• Stone lines
• El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO cycles)
• Hadley Cell vs Walker Cell
• Future and Uncertainty
• Exam question – 12 marks with mark scheme
• Summary
• Extension video: Al Gore – ‘The Case for Optimism on Climate Change’
• Teacher’s information slides
• HANDOUT: Water cycle diagrams for labelling impacts of climate change
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Changing Perceptions Through Rebranding: Lessons 15-16 of 21.
Discussion starter
Re-imaging vs. rebranding
Rebranding using place identity
Case study: Glasgow (deindustrialisation, strategies for rebranding, perceptions and judgements of success)
Rural rebranding and the new rural economy
Case studies: Kielder Water and Forest Park, Haworth, Brontë Country
Strategies for rural rebranding
Extension questions and suggested answers
Plenary – students list words in the topic beginning with ‘Re’ (There are >20!)
Skills: Students interpret promotional videos
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheet: Glasgow regeneration news article
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Urban Regeneration – The Players: Lesson 18 of 21.
Study a diagram and discuss perceptions
Quiz leaderboard
Instructions for ‘The Big Quiz’
Independent study focus with suggested note taking methods
30 mark class quiz with mark scheme for peer marking (based on content from Oxford text book)
Summary plenary – students list players
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheet: Blank conflict matrix for quiz
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Attracting Inward Investment: Lesson 14 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Regional enterprise zones
Science parks
The role of local interest groups
Cold spots
Range of regeneration strategies
Rural diversification
Plenary – students choose a question to answer in detail
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 15 – Tensions in the Middle East (Israel, Palestine, Arab Spring, sanctions, political stability)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 25 slides in total with varied activities to keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter – partner task
• Israel and Palestine overview
• The Arab Spring overview
• ICT task - create a ‘Dummies Guide to…’ a conflict of the student’s choice
• ICT task competition
• History of tensions in the middle east
• The Ottoman Empire
• Sykes Picot Agreement and post war state divisions
• US Sanctions in Iran – political stability
• Climate change and political stability
• Plenary - students choose one exam question from a list
• Teacher’s information slides
Includes HANDOUT – Conflict ICT task
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 2-3 of 19: The Carbon Cycle (stores, fluxes, geological and bio-geochemical carbon cycles)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Questions to check prior knowledge
What is carbon?
Recap: The Global Hydrological Cycle (Systems)
Stores and fluxes
The long term geological carbon cycle (students add labels to a hand drawn blank sketch)
Skills: Ranking carbon stores and fluxes
Bio-geochemical carbon cycle (students design their own diagram)
Explain and discuss questions with model answers
Comparison of factors which affect the carbon cycle
Extension question
Photosynthesis and respiration
Exam question and mark scheme
Plenary to summarise learning (with answers)
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Additional document with blank carbon cycle sketch
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 4-5 of 19: The Carbon Cycle (Gulf Stream, biological carbon pump, role of soil and trees)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Thermohaline circulation
The failing Gulf Stream
The biological carbon pump and the carbonate pump (Students use a writing frame to explain these processes and then design a diagram to represent this – 4 examples provided)
Terrestrial stores: producers, consumers, decomposers
Respiration and photosynthesis recap
The role of soil and trees in the carbon cycle
Exam skills: Explain the significance vs assess the significance (with 3 model answers for comparison)
Two more practise exam questions with model answers and mark schemes
Plenary – draw a systems diagram
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Additional document with images to stick in and annotate
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 17 of 19: How Can Globalisation be Controlled?
Definitions quiz starter with mark scheme
Class collaboration task considering ways to prevent different types pf globalisation: economic, social, political, environmental. Hints are provided for students and some suggestions. Student examples also shown.
Censorship, limiting migration, trade protectionism – with named examples
Extension question and model answer
Jumbo Valley case study – Canadian wilderness region which was threatened with a large ski resort
Students analyse the proposal – threats, opportunities, stakeholders
Plenary – class hotseat debate
Update on the success of the campaign by local stakeholders to save Jumbo Valley!
EXTRA word document with content on Jumbo Valley case study
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 7 of 19: Impacts of the Global Shift on the Developing World
Discussion starter based on comparison of photos
Global outsourcing in China – Pros and Cons
Honda strikes in China
The world’s changing economic centre of gravity
The history of the global shift
Case study of the global shift in China – Costs and benefits
EXTRA word document for students to sketch diagrams of impacts