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 full scheme of work for Topic 7: Superpowers, that I have used for four years with great success. I have edited and improved it during that time. It includes model answers that I have written and various additional documents to supplement the lessons such as a homework booklet, practise exam questions, mark schemes, and scaffolded exam questions with essay plans.
The lesson slides are stimulating and the resources cover a variety of skills including those needed for Paper 3. There is a strong focus on exam question practice and knowledge retention.
The homework set for students is based on written answers to exam questions on content which the students have learned in previous lessons. There are also regular knowledge quizzes throughout the lessons.
To support the students’ studies, I have referred to the Oxford and Hodder text books in some of the lessons, where students can find additional notes.
Overall, most of the powerpoints are self contained and can be taught by a teacher at any level of experience and to students of varied ability.
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
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 16 – Superpower Futures (economic, social challenges, military strength, advanced technology)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 18 slides in total with varied activities to keep students’ attention.
Model answers for tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter - scenarios discussion
• Challenges to existing superpowers
• Economic challenges
• Debt
• Unemployment
• Economic restructuring
• Social costs
• How economic changes have undermined influence of superpowers – exam question
• Military strength
• Comparing quotes
• Advanced technology – space race
• Extension questions
• Opinion piece - Who Will Be the Next Superpower?’
• BBC Video link
• Cross curricular link – Trans-border water conflicts
• Teacher’s information slides
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 / 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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 14 – The Changing Economic Centre of Gravity (India, middleweight cities)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 12 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Model answers for tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – impact of superpowers on African countries – assess question with scaffolding
• McKinsey Report 2012 and map interpretation
• Middleweight cities
• The growing importance of India
• Annotating map
• India strengths table
• Plenary – graph trends
• Extension – China conflict recap
• Teacher’s information slides
Includes HANDOUT – Map to stick in
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 13 – Relationships with Developing Nations (China, Africa, Mozambique, land grabs)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 13 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter – recap quiz
• Demand for resources
• China’s interdependence with Africa
• Political cartoon interpretation
• Land grabs
• Case study – Mozambique resource boom
• Plenary questions – disucss and ‘to what extent’
• Teacher’s information slides
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 12 – South and East China Sea (tensions, disputes, escalation)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 8 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter – definition and questions
• Annotating a map – disputes and claims
• Case studies: causes, impacts, potential to escalate, managing the dispute
• Model answer
• Plenary quiz
• Teacher’s information slides
Includes HANDOUT – Map to stick in
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 11 – Disputes Over Resources (Arctic, tension over oil, counterfeiting, IPR)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 30 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter questions
• Dependency Theory and World Systems Theory recap
• Resources in the Arctic
• Interpreting map – competing claims in the Arctic – with model answer
• Tension over oil
• Intellectual property rights
• Counterfeiting
• Multiple choice quiz with answers
• Teacher’s information slides
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 10 – Global Environmental Concerns (rare earths, food supply, water supply)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 15 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter question
• The growth of the middle classes
• Rare earth elements
• The food supply
• The water supply
• Interpreting water consumption map
• Interpreting drought severity map
• Mind map task – impacts of rising demand
• Recap quiz
• Plenary – Interpreting map
• Extension questions
• Teacher’s information slides
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 9 – Global Environmental Concerns (landscape scarring, fossil fuels, oil spills, deforestation)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 14 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter – graph analysis
• Knowledge quiz
• Reading exercise
• Landscape scarring
• Fossil fuels
• Oil spills
• Deforestation
• Are superpowers willing to act?
• Practise 6 mark questions in pairs
• Exam question battle – with essay scaffolding and instructions
• Extension question
• Teacher’s information slides
Includes HANDOUT – Exam question battle instructions
Includes a word document of examples of STUDENT MODEL ANSWERS
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 8 – Cultural Superpowers (TNCs, imperialism, hegemony)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 16 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter questions
• Definitions
• Examples of cultural superpowers
• Brand names
• The movie industry
• Cultural imperialism
• Banal imperialism
• Hegemony
• Ranking and scaling using data from indices
• Plenary – culture and soft power
• Teacher’s information slides
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 7 – TNCs and Trade (westernisation, intellectual property rights, patents, The United Nations)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 21 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter questions
• Knowledge quiz
• History of trade
• TNCs as global players
• Forbes top ten
• Westernisation
• Intellectual property rights and patents
• International decision making – crisis responses, conflict prevention, climate change mitigation
• Global geostrategy and NATO
• The United Nations – security council and court of justice
• Plenary – ‘Patents – right or wrong?’
• Extension – soft power index
• Extra reading for paper 3 – TNCs as players
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
Includes HANDOUT – with extra information on intellectual property rights and patents
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 6 – Global Economic Systems (IMF, WTO, subsidies, Fairtrade)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 27 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Slides content:
• Starter questions
• IGOs and theories recap
• Knowledge retrieval quiz
• Case Study – IMF in Côte d’Ivoire
• World Trade Organisation (WTO)
• Subsidies
• Agreement on Agriculture
• Fairtrade
• Anti WTO Activism
• Plenary exam question
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 5 – The IMF and the World Bank (Bretton Woods, IGOs, BRICs, SAPs)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 24 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Answers for tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – comparing key terms
• IMF and Africa video
• Malawi case study
• IMF and the World Bank video
• Bretton Woods, IGOs, BRICs
• Other IGOs – UN, NATO, WTO, OECD, NAFTA
• Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs)
• Multiple choice quiz
• Extension exam question
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
Include HANDOUT – with extra information on BRICs for students to stick in
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 4 – The Emerging Powers (BRICs, MINTs, G7, G20, multipolar world)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 24 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Exam question starter with mark scheme
• The Emerging Powers – BRICs and MINTs
• Links to Rostow’s Modernisation Theory
• SWOT analysis of BRICs and ranking
• G7 and G20
• Plenary – multipolar world
• Extension task
• 2x TED talks
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 3 – Direct and Indirect Control (colonialism, neo-colonialism, China)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 22 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Definitions match up starter
• Patterns of power
• Geopolitical stability and risk
• Colonialism definitions
• Britain’s colonial power timeline
• Quiz recap
• Indirect control and neo-colonialism
• China’s neo-colonialism
• Frank’s Dependency Theory
• Optional VOX video
• Somaliland
• Plenary questions
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 2 – Superpowers and Geostrategic Theory (Mackinder, Modernisation, Dependency, World Systems)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 20 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Recap starter
• Definitions
• Halford Mackinder’s Theory (1904)
• Changing Centre of Gravity
• Geopolitics
• Modernisation Theory (Walt Rostow 1960s)
• Dependency Theory (Andre Frank 1971)
• World Systems Theory
• Plenary questions
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
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 / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 1 – Characteristics of Power (Emerging superpowers, hard and soft power)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 19 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter question
• Definitions
• Past and modern superpowers
• Characteristics of Superpowers
• Case Study – the USA – current hegemon
• Soft power
• Hard power
• Emerging superpowers
• Retrieval Practice questions
• Plenary questions
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
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.
This is a full scheme of work for Topic 5: ‘The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity’, that I have used for four years with great success. I have edited improved it during that time. It includes model answers that I have written and various additional documents to supplement the lessons such as a homework booklet, practise exam questions, mark schemes, and a case study list, linked to the specification.
The slides are stimulating and the lessons cover a variety of skills including statistics. There is a strong focus on exam question practise and knowledge retention.
The homework set for students will be based on revision for class quizzes (which you can run as a competition) and also longer written answers to exam questions based on content which the students have learned in previous lessons.
To support the students’ studies, I have referred to the Oxford and Hodder text books in some of the lessons, where students can find additional notes. Overall, most of the powerpoints are self contained and can be taught by a teacher at any level of experience and to students of varied ability.
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.