All paper resources are provided
L1: question and hypotheses
L2: sampling and land use
L3: questionnaire
L4: transect line and litter pollution
L5: students own fieldwork
L6: infiltration fieldwork
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A set of lessons focusing on Russia, China and the USA.
L1: Russia: location and physical features
L2: Russia: energy resources
L3: China: location and physical features
L4: China: population: research
L5: China: Tibet
L6: China: the South China Sea
L7: China: Opium wars with the British Empire
L8: the USA: location and physical geography
L9: the USA: Cuba
L10: the USA: the Mississippi
L11: the USA: Alaska
Those lessons were designed for Y9 as part of the Superpower unit. My students greatly enjoyed them and I teach a mixture of abilities.
All resources needed are included in the PPTs, the atlas my department is using is Collins Student atlas but you can use any other one that your school uses. Some lessons last longer than one lesson. In my school a lesson lasts for 60 min and I had to use two to go through some of the lessons.
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The lesson includes:
knowledge rich starter quiz
task based on a graph to point out the differences in the growth of London’s population in the last 50 years (exam skills: graph reading, annotate, suggest)
definitions of national and international migration
three causes of national migration (exam skills: knowledge application)
three causes of international migration (exam skills: knowledge application)
exam question: explain
end of lesson quiz
All resources are in the PPT
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This lesson covers the whole 5.2abc of the Edexcel specification for A level Geography. Resources are included, lesson is based on two textbooks Edexcel A level book 2 by Hodder Education and Geography for Edexcel A level year 2 by Oxford.
The worksheets are in the PPT and the extract from the Geography Review and Nasa is attached.
KS3 Geography: 11 lessons on rivers with all resources and detailed scheme of work. Specialists and non-specialist friendly.
Lesson 1: Importance of rivers
Lesson 2: How does water flow into rivers?
Lesson 3: Erosion, transportation, deposition
Lesson 4: Long and cross profile (River Tees)
Lesson 5: Waterfall formation (the High Force Waterfall)
Lesson 6: Meander and ox-bow lake
Lesson 7: Floodplain and levees
Lesson 8: Causes of flooding (York, River Ouse, 2015 flood)
Lesson 9: Flooding: impacts and responses (York, River Ouse, 2015 flood)
Lesson 10: Management strategies
Lesson 11: DME on Five-year flood plan in York
The scheme of work provides a clear description of what needs to be done by teachers and students for each lesson to be successful. Lesson 4 requires a textbook ‘Progress in Geography KS3’ by Hodder Education and lesson 7 ‘AQA GCSE 9-1 Geography’ by Hodder Education. Each lesson provides students with knowledge and helps them developing their assessment skills. If you requiring any more information please feel free to contact me.
Lesson 4 focuses on long and cross profiles of the River Tees. This lesson requires ‘Progress in Geography KS3’ textbook by Hodder Education. Key ideas: drawing a long profile using data and cross profile using an OS map (geographical skills), key terminology and characteristics of upper, middle and lower course of a river (knowledge), using resources, i.e.: OS maps (application of knowledge), assessment type questions ‘describe’ and ‘compare’ (exam skills), knowledge recall (knowledge).
The lesson contains:
knowledge rich quiz for a starter
causes of erosion in Mappleton
reasons for hard engineering strategies used in Mappleton
Justify question with an answer outline
Oak Academy quiz for a plenary
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The lesson covers key idea 5.9 detailed content a, b and c of the Edexcel A level specification. The PPT is based on two textbooks:
Edexcel A level book 2 by Hodder Education referred to as ‘flags textbook’
Geography for Edexcel A level year 2 by Oxford University Press referred to as ‘dragon textbook’
The whole key idea is covered within one PPT, instructions and resources are withing the PPT, the lesson ends with an exam question taken from Edexcel A Level Geography past papers.
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The lesson was designed for Y7 and covers the three most common rainfalls that take place in the UK:
frontal
relief
convectional
All resources are within the PPT.
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The lesson introduces fieldwork to students. Focuses on setting the enquiry question and hypotheses.
All resources are included in the PPT.
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The lesson concentrates on collecting data using a transect lines and then comparing different areas of school. The lesson is based on my school but that can be quickly changed into yours.
Students present data using scatter and radar graphs.
All resources needed are included in the PPT or attached.
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Those two lessons were prepared for Y9 as part of a Superpower Unit to introduce Russia’s location, physical features and dominance on the sources of energy market.
They fulfill the aspect of Russia in the national curriculum.
All resources and complete PPTs are included. The atlas that the instruction refer to is Collins Student Atlas.
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The lesson was made for Y9. It is part of a Superpower unit.
The lesson covers the history of Tibet and explanation of its relation with China.
All resources are in the PPT.
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This lesson is part of the Superpower Unit made for Y9. It is L8 in the series of 18 lessons.
The lesson covers the USA’s location in the world, physical geography, great lakes and ends up with a 9 mark ‘evealuate’ question.
All resources are included, the atlas that the lesson refers to is Collins Students Atlas but any atlas with a political map of the world and physical map of the USA will do.
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Lesson designed for KS3. All resources are in the PPT.
The lesson cover the following aspects:
types of moraines
drumlins
kames
eskers
erratics
assessment type question ‘label’
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KS3 lesson. All resources are in the PPT.
The lesson covers the following aspects:
Reasons why areas like the Lake District should be managed
Strategies used to manage the challenges in the Lake District
Evaluation of management strategies
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Lesson designed for KS3, worksheets are in the PPT. The lesson starts with a knowledge rich quiz and then introduces terminology related to glaciation.
Aspects covered within the lesson:
Key terminology: glacial period, glacial time, interglacial period
Temperature fluctuation in the last 400 000 years
Glacial advance and retreat
Key facts about the last ice age
Ice coverage in British Isles and Europe in the last ice age
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This lesson covers:
knowledge rich quiz at the start
key terminology
differences between continental and oceanic crust
conservative, constructive, collision and destructive plate boundaries
processes operating at those plate boundaries
landforms created at each type of plate boundary
hazards presents at each plate boundary
exam type questions: ‘outline differences’ and ‘explain’
All resources are in the PPT.
The lesson contains the following:
knowledge rich quiz as a starter
definition of meanders and ox-bow lakes
characteristics of both
sequence of formation
progress check
cross section of a meander
GCSE type question ‘explain’
end of lesson quiz
All resources are in the PPT.
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The bundle contains three knowledge tests, two for rivers (case study of a river valley and river processes) and one for urban challenges related to megacities. Each knowledge test has a feedback PPT for self or peer-assessment to save you time and at the same time check students knowledge.