This lesson is part of a series of lessons on the Development Gap. Students already know the causes and consequences of the development gap. In this lesson they are presented with FOUR strategies to address the development gap - Eploiting raw materials, investing in industrial development, Tourism and Fairtrade. The lesson starts with an oral activity - HOTSEAT. Students have a reading activity and a table to complete to address the good and bad points of each strategy. They then RANK the strategies and make a decision on which one they think is best. The lesson ends with a discussion.

The lesson is part of a series of lessons that I teach in Year 8 on Global Development. This lessons follows a Top Trumps lesson on Development Indicators, so my students already have some knowledge of different indicators. The focus of this lesson is using maths skills such as RANGE, MEDIAN, MEAN and MODE alongside Scattergraphs. The lesson starts with the factfulness quiz to challenge misconceptions. There are two levels of worksheet, one for mainstream and one for LAPS. There is also a ‘Moving On’ activity for HAPS students.

This lesson compares life in 5 different countries at different income lessons. It is a practical lesson where students work in pairs with an envelope of images. For each location there is a GNI figure and 4 pictures ( the home, toilet, a plate of food and a possession) students need to work out which pictures match up together. My students have LOVED this - it really challenges stereotypes. There is a bit of preparation needed - all the images and information are on the last 2 slides, but each pair will need a complete set cut up, in an envelope. I have found laminating them and doing this once works best and now I am just reusing. Included resources are the powerpoint and an oral activity called Talk Development. For Talk Development - one student has the sheet and asks the other student the questions in order, if they get an answer wrong they are told the correct answer, then they switch places and repeat.

This lesson is part of our Year 7 topic - Our Changeable Weather. Following lessons on high and low pressure weather. Students learn the meaning of the term ‘extreme weather’ by first exploring our usual pattern of weather and then examining the impacts of the 2018 Heatwave using a ArcGIS Storymap that I created, Resources attached are - a skills activity using climate data, a powerpoint for the lesson and the AcrGIS Story map which has maps, news resports and images of the Saddleworth Moor Fire.

I designed this lesson for our Year 7 students. It is a basic introduction to using basemaps, the measuring tool and mapnotes in ArcGIS. I use this in our Mapskills topic. Students will need a laptop or PC each or one between two.

Students learn about the location, causes and impacts of the River Severn flood in 2020 through a Guided Reading actvity. There is a mainstream activity and a version with more accessible questions for lower ability students on slide 2. The lesson begins with an oral activity and ends with a whiteboard Q&A.

This lesson is part of a scheme of work on designing cities for the future. In this lesson, students examine the pro’s and con’s of alternative energy choices. Using an information sheet, students complete an evaluation sheet before concluding on which energy source they think is best.

Students explore the concept of sustainability using a talking activity, cloze exercise and an around the clock activity. There is a lower ability version of the ‘round the clock’ activity with prompts on.

This is part of a scheme of work on designing cities for the future. Students learn about potential solutions to traffic congestion through a Guided Reading Activity. There is a mainstream version on the first slide, the second slide has more accessible questions for lower ability students.

Students are shown different designs from around the world that have sustainable features and then design their own homes.

Students watch a video on Ethiopia and complete a note taking activity, they then read through an A3 information sheet on how Ethiopia is overcoming it’s challenges to become the fastest growing African economy. For our students this lesson is part of a scheme of work on ‘Africa is not a country’ and i created this lesson as an example case study.

Lesson 1 is a lesson about Micro-climate, what it means and how we could conduct a fieldwork around school. Lesson 2 is the fieldwork lesson Lessons 3-5 are the write-up lessons (this may take less or more lessons dependent upon ability) There is a write-up booklet for Lower Ability Pupils and an instruction sheet for everybody else. We have taught this to years 7,8 and 9 over the last few years and found it equally appropriate for all year groups.

I designed this activity around the Netflix Documentary Chasing Coral. The lesson starts with a Disciplinary Literacy strategy on synonyms and antonyms. Students spend the first lesson using an Atlas to locate Coral reefs and then watch clips of the film and complete the worksheet. The Clips are noted on slide 6. For the follow up lesson students brought in some of their own research to complete their own information leaflet OR a display piece. Our students really enjoyed this topic and we ended up creating a whole department display on this issue.

This lesson involves using Gapminder to work through a series of activities that will help learners to appreciate where HICs, LICs and NEEs are located and how they have changed over time. There are TWO levels of worksheet, one for the core and one for Lower Ability Pupils (LAPS sheet). My students really enjoyed this activity as they are actively learning for themselves throughout. The plenary asks students how relevant the Brandt line is today.

Three lessons which could take four on the Geography and future of Antarctica. These lessons were designed as an example/case study for a wider topic on Sustainability. They have been used with mixed ability year 9 boys with success. There are LAPS and HAPS sheet to ensure that the learning is accessible to all.

This resource is also in my POPULATION scheme of work. This is one lesson that I designed from a news article that featured in the Times. Students unravel a mystery to discover why a mother lost her son. It also covers the positive and negative impacts of migrants to the countries they move to. The lesson was designed for a mixed ability boys class and has LAPS sheets to make it accessible to lower ability students.

Two lessons on how India has developed since 1990 - present day and the impact of TNCS with the example of Coca Cola. Topics covered by the lessons are; employment sectors, development indicators, what a TNC is and how TNCs impact on places, how Coca Cola has impacted India. The lessons have been designed as part of a Year 8 topic on World Development for mixed ability boys. The are LAPS sheets for lower ability students and ‘moving on’ tasks /HAPS sheets for higher ability students.

A new scheme of work on population including all resources. Each lesson has been designed with activities for mixed ability classes, with lower ability activities (LAPS) and ‘moving on’ tasks/HAPS within the same class. The unit starts off with investigating population distribution and density, population pyramids and then explores patterns of birth and death rates around the world. There is a GIS lesson using Datashine to explore Cultural Diversity and a Mystery activity designed to teach students about migration. The unit ends with the challenges and opportunities in Jakarta. There is a test at the end of the unit that has been written in a GCSE format with a markscheme and a feedback lesson.

A lesson to revisit the concept of place. Slide 11 was blown up to A3 and students completed individually.

This is a revision activity on Changing Places. It took my class 2 lessons to complete and they found it very useful in tying all their ideas together. Students complete the mind map at the start in pairs and then discuss as a group. This is related to exam questions from Sample Papers. The exam answer document is based around the first question and on our local study area. Slides 5&6 are about how local people can instigate change in an area. The Hyperlink is to a documentary on Detroit Soup. After this we discussed how influential local people can be. Slide 7 was blown up to A3 and students then spent the second lesson filling this in with examples and impacts of the changes that have taken place. The Regeneration Document is a supporting document about how National governments can influence change in places.