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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This is a set of four lessons with resources about the USA:
L8: location and physical features
L9: Cuba and the USA
L10: the Mississippi Rivers social and economic importance
L11: Alaska
The atlas that is mentioned in those lessons is the Collins Student Atlas but any other atlas can also be used.
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This lesson is a part of a Superpower unit made for Y9.
The lesson explains how and why Alaska ended up in the USA’s hands and why it wasn’t considered a great buy by Americans for a several decades.
All resources included in the PPT.
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This lesson is a part of the Superpower Unit made for my Y9.
The lesson covers the social and economic importance of the Mississippi River.
All resources are included in the PPT.
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This is lesson 9 in the Superpower unit I made for my Y9.
The lesson has a go at explaining why the USA has to keep an eye on Cuba and how easily Cuba could negatively impact US’s trade if powerful enough.
All resources are included. The atlas mentioned in one of the tasks is the Collins Students Atlas but can be easily exchanged with an atlas that your school has.
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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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Those lessons are part of the Superpower Unit made for Y9:
L1: Russia: location and physical features
L2: Russia: energy resources
L3: China: location and physical features
L4: China: population: research lesson
L5: China: Tibet
L6: China: the South China Sea
L7: China and the British Empire
Those lessons have a variety of tasks: map work, research, video, reading comprehension, explain, evaluate, describe questions.
My students loved them.
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A set of 5 lessons about China.
L3: Location and physical features
L4: Population: research lesson
L5: China’s relationship with Tibet
L6: The South China Sea
L7: Opium Wars: China and the British Empire
All resources are in PPTs, the atlas that is referred to in the Collins Student Atlas. Evaluate, explain and describe answered are practiced in those lessons.
My students enjoyed it, hope yours will too.
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The lesson covers the tense and unfriendly relationship between China and the British Empire that resulted in the two Opium Wars.
The lesson also explains how to answer an ‘explain’ question.
The lesson is a part of a Superpower unit designed for Y9 students.
All resources are in the PPT.
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The lesson is part of a Superpower unit made for Y9 students.
This lesson covers the importance of the South China Sea to China’s economy and teaches the kids how to answer and ‘evaluate’ 9 mark question.
The atlas that one task refers to is the Collins Student Atlas but any other with a map of the South China Sea will do.
All resources are included in the PPT and one is attached as a Word document.
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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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The lesson is based on research that students are completing. Based on the information they collected the final ‘evaluate’ question should be answered.
My Y9 students loved the lesson.
All resources are included in the PPT
The lesson is part of a Superpower unit that includes lessons about Russia, China, the USA, and the Middle East.
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The lesson was designed for Y9 students as part of the Superpower unit.
The atlas that is mentioned is Collins Student Atlas but any atlas with a political world map and physical map of China will work.
All resources needed are included in the PPT.
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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 designed for Y9 students to explain the changing relationships regarding energy sources in Europe and in the world.
The atlas that the slides refer to is Collins Student Atlas. The maps that were used from this atlas were about energy production and energy consumption around the world, and also a map showing main players in gas, coal and oil production.
The lesson has a variety of tasks designed to engage students of different abilities and fulfills the KS3 national curriculum.
All resources are in the PPT.
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This lesson was designed to introduce Russia to my Y9 students. The lesson covers the location of Russia in the world and physical features within Russia. There are variety of tasks: map, description, annotating, reading comprehension. For the map tasks any atlas that has political world map and physical map of Russia will do.
My students enjoyed the lesson, it stretched over two 60-minute lessons, with two middle and bottom set classes.
All resources needed are within the PPT. The lesson fulfills the KS3 national curriculum for England.
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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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The lesson concentrates on collecting, presenting and analysing infiltration data collected by students. Detailed instructions in the PPT. You will need to prepare some infiltration measuring equipment if your school lacks them, i.e.: funnels = cut a plastic bottle half and use the half part as a funnel.
All paper based resources are provided in the PPT.
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Students plan and conduct their own fieldwork based on what they have learned on our previous lessons. That lesson would take at least 2 teaching hours.
All resources attached or 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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