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.
This is a complete set of two double lessons in one powerpoint.
There are 34 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: pie charts, bar charts, systems diagrams, interpreting data and interpreting maps.
Questions have model answers to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
Theme 3: Economic Development
Section 3.5: Energy
Part A: Describe the importance of non-renewable fossil fuels, renewable energy supplies, nuclear power and fuelwood; globally and in different countries at different levels of development
Part B: Evaluate the benefits and disadvantages of nuclear power and renewable energy sources
Case Studies required for 3.5
• Energy supply in a country or area - Geothermal energy in Iceland
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.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
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This is a complete set of two double lessons in one powerpoint.
There are 54 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.
Includes past paper questions, which can be printed for students to write on.
Theme 3: Economic Development
Section 3.2: Food Production
Part A: Describe and explain the main features of an agricultural system: inputs, processes and outputs
Part B: Recognise the causes and effects of food shortages and describe possible solutions to this problem
Case Studies required for 3.2
• A farm or agricultural system - Cattle Farming in Brazil
• A country or region suffering from food shortages - Food shortages in Swaziland
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.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
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Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
What Has Shaped the Characteristics of ‘Your Chosen Places’?
Lessons 4-5 of 21.
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Discussion of specification – ‘Your Chosen Places’
El Raval, Barcelona is the contrasting place used here (all case study content is provided), but teachers may prefer to choose a place in the UK.
Students are guided to choose and then research a local place (prompts and websites are suggested for student research)
Case studies cover: background of the place, economic activity and inequalities, functions and changes, regional, national, international and global influences, place representation, how the lives of students and others are affected by continuity and change, perception
8 mark exam question with half a model answer
Plenary – 12 mark exam question with table to suggest content, essay skeleton and half a model answer.
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 sheets: Double sided sheet to print in A3 for students (plus an extra version of the same sheet which has some of the case study notes on it)
This lesson promotes personal enquiry and helps to develop students’ internet research skills and their interpretation of complex, data which will be needed for the independent investigation.
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.
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 10-11 of 19: Fossil Fuels (geology, energy pathways, chokepoints, proxy wars, tar sands)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Skills: Ranking data and justifying reasons
Geology of fossil fuels (geologic time scale, formation, folding and faulting)
Fossil fuel demand
Energy pathways
Maritime chokepoints
Political conflict and proxy wars
Skills: interpreting and evaluating maps
Unconventional fossil fuels (shale gas and oil shale)
Canadian tar sands analysis
Plenary: debate based on energy players + conflict matrix
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Additional document with blank conflict matrix
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 16-17 of 19: Degrading the Water and Carbon Cycles (Kuznet’s curve, climate change, Yukon)
Thoughtful discussion starter
Palm oil and forest loss impacts
Protecting forests: Indonesia’s forest moratorium, consumer pressure, forest recovery rates
Interpreting Kuznet’s curve
Climate change in the Yukon, impacts on water cycle
Skills: systems diagrams + Additional sheet for students to complete
Changing precipitation patterns
Climate change and coastal communities
Thoughtful written plenary
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 18-19 of 19: Responding to Climate Change (feedback mechanisms, adaptation and mitigation)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Deforestation and soil erosion
Kuznet’s curve recap
Projections of future emissions and surface temperatures
Feedback mechanisms
Future and uncertainty
Permafrost and peatlands
Tipping point and critical threshold
Forest dieback
Changes in thermohaline circulation system
Adaptation and mitigation strategies
20 mark ‘evaluate’ question + detailed essay scaffold for planning provided on an extra sheet for students to complete
Students unpick the themes of ‘scale, players, development’ in detail before attempting the essay
Mark scheme
Extra reading
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Additional sheet with breakdown of command terms – Assess and Evaluate
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 12-13 of 19: Alternatives to Fossil Fuels (nuclear power, biofuels, carbon capture)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Alternatives to fossil fuels
UK energy mix and energy security
Nuclear power (evaluating Hinkley Point C)
Mid lesson summary
Quiz to recap last lesson content (with mark scheme)
Biofuels (evaluating their effectiveness and impacts)
Wind and solar power case studies
Radical alternatives to fossil fuels (carbon capture and storage)
20 mark essay and plan suggestions
Written plenary (choice of two questions)
Key content from the lesson
Additional 20 mark exam question
Extra reading links
Notes for teachers
Additional document with criticisms on Hinkley
Additional document with breakdown of Assess vs Evaluate command words
6-7 – A Balanced Carbon Cycle (The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security, Edexcel, A level)
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 6-7 of 19: A Balanced Carbon Cycle (greenhouse effect, soil, sequestration, carbon pathways)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
The natural and enhanced greenhouse effect
Solar insolation
Photosynthesis, phytoplankton, ecosystems, sequestration
Carbon balance in soil (‘soil from memory’ game)
Healthy soils
Practise questions, model answers and a mark scheme
Impacts of fossil fuel consumption (student choice to study two from: equilibrium, climate map, arctic amplification, links to the water cycle)
Carbon pathways
Positive and negative feedback loops
Thoughtful discussion plenary
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 8-9 of 19: A Balanced Carbon Cycle (energy mix, security, consumption, energy players)
Discussion starter
The Energy Mix
Skills: interpreting satellite maps
Energy Security
Urban vs rural energy
Energy consumption trends (GDP per capita)
Skills: interpreting graphs and proportional circles
Primary and secondary sources of energy
Non-renewable, renewable, recyclable
UK energy mix compared to Norway energy mix
Energy players
Skills: conflict matrix (plus additional sheet to print)
Exam question (12 marks) with mark scheme and two model answers using alternate data sets.
Discussion plenary
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
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 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 14-15 of 19: Threats to the Carbon and Water Cycles (deforestation afforestation coral reefs)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Deforestation and soil erosion
Madagascar case study
Labelling blank tropical rainforest sketch to show impacts of deforestation (extra sheet included)
Impact of deforestation on carbon and water cycles
Afforestation
Ecosystem services
Other threats to carbon and water cycles
Coral reefs
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Includes:
Regeneration Exam Questions
Regeneration Figures Booklet
Regeneration Mark Schemes
Regeneration Homework
Regeneration Homework Mark Schemes
Regeneration Knowledge Organiser
Regeneration Specification and Case Studies List
Class quiz spreadsheet
(For use with Topic 4A: Regenerating Places, Edexcel, A level)
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. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Players and Stakeholders EXAM PRACTISE: Lessons 20-21 of 21.
Revision mantra starter
Students link lesson content to four exam questions (12 and 20 marks) based on Enquiry Question 4.
Four different exam practise techniques are explained and students work in timed conditions to complete the questions. Each question has essay hints and a list of suggested content for marking. One full model answer is also provided. Skeleton structure and some suggested content is shown for the final 20 mark question.
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.
6-7 – Economic and Social Changes in ‘Your Chosen Places’
Lessons 6-7 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Place identity
El Raval, Barcelona is the contrasting place used here (all case study content is provided), but teachers may prefer to choose a place in the UK.
Students are guided to choose and then research a local place (prompts and websites are suggested for student research)
Case studies cover: place identity, preserving the history, functional change and new developments, employment and population characteristics, inequalities, identity of local residents
Plenary considers human fieldwork titles and secondary data collection
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 sheets: Double sided sheet to print in A3 for students (plus an extra version of the same sheet which has some of the case study notes on it)
This lesson promotes personal enquiry and helps to develop students’ internet research skills and their interpretation of complex, data which will be needed for the independent investigation.
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
These resources accompany the scheme of work for Globalisation available in my shop.
Included are:
50 page student study notes booklet with content from all 19 lessons and a definitions organiser
Homework booklet
Homework mark schemes
End of topic test
End of topic test mark scheme
Past paper exam questions
Past paper exam question resource booklet
Past paper exam question mark schemes
Extra practise questions document
Excel document for recording class test scores
This is a resource pack to accompany lessons for:
Topic 7: Superpowers (Edexcel Pearson A Level Geography, 9GEO).
It contains:
Homework Booklet - Past paper questions
Mark schemes for homework booklet.
Practise test for students with answer scaffolding
Lesson for essay skills with scaffolding and model answer
End of topic assessment
Mark scheme for end of topic assessment