I'm a Head of Geography at a 11-16 secondary school in Leicestershire, UK. I enjoy creating lessons that students enjoy - so you will not find reams of text on the board for them to read or for you to transmit. I believe in a range of engaging activities per lesson.
I'm a Head of Geography at a 11-16 secondary school in Leicestershire, UK. I enjoy creating lessons that students enjoy - so you will not find reams of text on the board for them to read or for you to transmit. I believe in a range of engaging activities per lesson.
A lesson (with activities) introducing hemispheres, latitude, longitude and What3Words. What are latitude and longitude and how can we use them to locate places. The lesson is from a Y7 introduction to Geography skill-based unit. It is fully resourced with a range of engaging activities to introduce pupils to the subject and its core skills.
Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney.
This lesson outlines the reasons why travel in Sydney is dominated by motor transport and the problems and impacts this causes in the city. It also begins to look at how urban renewal has impacted Sydney.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson uses Nike as an example of a MNC, the issue of out-sourcing and the advantages/disadvantages of MNCs for the company, the worker and the host-country.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson deeply examines the positive and negative impacts of globalisation on Vietnam through graph analysis and the use of a ‘jigsaw’ activity where pupils deconstruct a series of “so what” chain of reasoning
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson introduces the concept of trade and the multitude of keywords associated with it. It then moves on to examine the some of the impacts of trade upon development using cocoa as an example. The lesson introduces the UK, Vietnam and Kenya as the HIC/NIC/LIC to be used for the remainder of this unit.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lessons examines the impacts of trade (using chocolate as an example). inequalities in the states of production and issues of protectionism.
The fifth lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson introduces the threats to coral reefs due to climate change and examines some possible solutions.
The seventh lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson leads on from the previous lesson (production of palm oil) the further examine the threats to orangutans. It also covers a range of other threats to this species.
This lesson introduces the a wide range of graph types to support the Eduqas B Geograph 9-1 specification, although it is directly transferable to all specifications. It introduces the graph types and asks students to select appropriate types based upon certain criteria. The lesson covers:
Axis
Bar, line and pie charts
Pictographs
Histographs
Divided bar charts
Scatter graph
Population pyramid
Flow line graph
Located bar chart
Kite diagrams
Star or radial diagrams
This lesson supports students’ wider global knowledge about geopolitics and international relations, why some countries cooperate and how political systems differ. This is designed to support their knowledge of issues such as aid and trade later in the Development unit. The lesson is fully resourced with engaging developmental activities.
This lesson revises ‘Rivers’ and ‘Water Resources’ aspects of KS3 by examining the issue of river management in Turkey and Syria and its impacts on Iraq. The question of how this may lead to conflict in the future is discussed.
This is a part of a fully-resourced unit with a range of styles of activity and unashamedly embracing aspects of thinking skills (they still work) and dual coding. The unit was designed for Y9 and synoptically revises their KS3 course whilst using skills and concepts from their KS4 Geography studies (specifically, for Eduqas Geography B but relevant to all boards).
Introducing the use of atlases and an atlas skills activity. The lesson is from a Y7 introduction to Geography skill-based unit. It is fully resourced with a range of engaging activities to introduce pupils to the subject and its core skills.
A lesson revising coastal management strategies and evaluating the effectiveness and impacts of the defences adopted in Dubai.
This is a part of a fully-resourced unit with a range of styles of activity and unashamedly embracing aspects of thinking skills (they still work) and dual coding. The unit was designed for Y9 and synoptically revises their KS3 course whilst using skills and concepts from their KS4 Geography studies (specifically, for Eduqas Geography B but relevant to all boards).
This lesson examines ethincity and the development of faiths in the region, including the Sunni/Shia divide and the impacts this has today. A compound bar chart activity is used to examine faith groups in each country in the region.
This is a part of a fully-resourced unit with a range of styles of activity and unashamedly embracing aspects of thinking skills (they still work) and dual coding. The unit was designed for Y9 and synoptically revises their KS3 course whilst using skills and concepts from their KS4 Geography studies (specifically, for Eduqas Geography B but relevant to all boards).
A lesson examining oil dependency and uses a range of types of map, including flow-line (desire) maps. The lesson introduced Dubai and examined how Dubai has diversified its economy.
This is a part of a fully-resourced unit with a range of styles of activity and unashamedly embracing aspects of thinking skills (they still work) and dual coding. The unit was designed for Y9 and synoptically revises their KS3 course whilst using skills and concepts from their KS4 Geography studies (specifically, for Eduqas Geography B but relevant to all boards).
A lesson examining a range of impacts of climate change on the region, possible consequences and “so what” reasoning to examine the scale and wider impacts.
This is a part of a fully-resourced unit with a range of styles of activity and unashamedly embracing aspects of thinking skills (they still work) and dual coding. The unit was designed for Y9 and synoptically revises their KS3 course whilst using skills and concepts from their KS4 Geography studies (specifically, for Eduqas Geography B but relevant to all boards).
Intended forY9, this is a fully-resourced synoptic unit about international relations designed to support pupils as they move towards GCSE Geography. The unit examines international relations and the factors that affect these, superpowers, alliances, trade, hard- and soft-power, Belt and Road Initiative/debt-trap diplomacy, the causes, consequences and solutions of war and the role and efficacy of the UN. There is an optional final series of lessons to allow pupils to watch Hotel Rwanda to support their learning and provide a but of light relief at the very end of the year - the film is not provided and you should be sure to examine the accompanying PowerPoint that explains the premise to pupils and also states the exact time where the “N” word is used in the film so you can mute it.
Intended for Y8 but suitable for Y9, this is a fully-resourced synoptic unit about Asia designed to draw together pupils’ learning from the past two years in Geography. The unit includes elements of coasts, rivers, climate change, development, urbanisation and looks at more challenging and contemporary issues such as the roots of the development gap between North and South Korea and also the abuse of Uighers in China.
Includes a cover lesson in the event of absence.
Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney.
This lesson introduces the concept of earnings/house price ratio. Pupils examine how economic prosperity has acted as a pull factor to international migrants, increasing Sydney’s population and increasing house prices. Students develop a chain of reasoning to explain this (and develop extended writing exam skills as a result). They then examine a range of attitudes held by different stakeholders to the impacts of the housing crisis in Sydney
This is a fun starter or plenary activity based upon the Blockbusters TV show. Two teams (usually boys vs girls) complete to win hexagons by answering questions. The winning team makes a complete chain of hexagons across the board. This is a very dynamic version of this classic activity and can be edited to change all questions. The questions animate in with the intro theme and this has proven to encourage pupils to work on recall before they have even answered the questions.
This is ideal for an observed lesson.