I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront.
Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront.
Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
This lesson focuses on the different ways in the mass media influences our values, whether that be in a positive or negative manner. This is designed to take place over two 50-minute lessons.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson towards one ultimate question: What is the meaning of life? In the main part of the lesson students have to use information cards to describe a range of philosophical views (e.g. Nihilism, Materialism, Religious...) towards the meaning of life and explain how it might affect the way they live their lives, and then conclude the lesson by completing a written task evaluating which viewpoint they agree and disagree with the most and why.
Learning Objectives:
To describe different philosophical views about the meaning of life.
To explain how these philosophies can shape a persons’ life.
To evaluate your personal viewpoint towards them.
This lesson covers why cities grow and some of the problems it can cause.
Urbanisation, push factors, pull factors, urban areas, urban problems, growing cities
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Hindu funerals. In the starter students have to use two images to draw out initial observations about Hindu funerals. In the main this leads to an information gathering task and a symbolism task, with a GCSE style question included to assess understanding of the material. Plenary is also included.
Learning Objectives are:
To describe the key features of a Hindu funeral service.
To explain how these features reflect their beliefs about life after death.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson which acts as an introduction to the idea of 'Ultimate Questions'. The main part of the lesson involves students working in pairs to generate their own examples of ultimate questions (using stimuli to help), a class viewpoint sharing task (which could be done as a silent conversation), and a written reflection task at the end where they evaluate various viewpoints towards one ultimate question.
Learning Objectives are as follows:
To describe examples of ‘ultimate questions’.
To explain different viewpoints towards some of these questions.
To express a reasoned and balanced viewpoint to one of these questions.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the causes and effects of poverty in the UK. In the main part of the lesson students have to use a set of images to describe the impacts of poverty and then use annotate an A3 sheet with the different reasons why poverty exists in the UK today. Finally students have to come up with their own suggestions as to how poverty in the UK could be tackled. Learning Objectives:
To describe the impacts of poverty in the UK.
To explain the reasons why we see poverty in the UK.
To begin to suggest your own solutions to poverty in the UK.
Students use the information cards to add at least three facts about the Day of The Dead Festival using the 6W's. A set of SEN cards are available for less able students. This task can then be used as a base for students to create their own illustrated posters about the Day of the Dead Festival.
This is a simple task where students have to classify features into physical or human categories. A simple starter designed for my less able students, it can also be used as a re-cap or introductory activity.
This powerpoint contains a range of starter activities when teaching the topic of settlement hierarchies. Includes written and kinaesthetic activities.
This lesson explores the proposal to build Norfolk's largest solar farm at Bridgham, South Norfolk.
Solar energy, solar photovoltaics, green energy, renewable, renewables, solar power.
This contains a fully resourced lesson on Plato's analogy of the cave. It contains a set of activities to meet the following objectives:
To describe the story of Plato’s cave.
To explain how the story questions our idea of reality.
To understand the symbolism of Plato’s ideas in The Matrix.
Has worked very well with my classes. It is ideally aimed at KS4, but can easily be adapted for KS3.
This is an active starter for pupils when introducing the topic of sustainability.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Walk around the room finding students who match up to one of these sustainability statements, and then get their signature in the square
The first one to get BINGO (horizontal, vertical, diagonal) wins!
FEEDBACK:
What have you learnt about yourself or other people from this experience?
What do all these statements have in common?
Why are these things important?
Suggest what you think the word ‘sustainability’ means
This information pack contains a set of arguments for and against gun control in the United States. It can be used in a multitude of ways e.g. writing a speech where they have to support one particular viewpoint.
A set of simple information sheets regarding different views towards life after death including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Atheism and Spiritualism. Was used as part of a lesson where students constructed fact files on the different views, commenting on their overall opinion towards them.
This is a lesson on how rocks shape the land, focusing on limestone and gritstone landscapes in the Peak District. Designed in support of the New GA unit 'The Role of Stones', so some of the images have had to be changed.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on food insecurity in Africa. It focuses on what is meant by food insecurity, its causes and they create an awareness campaign to highlight the issue.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the world’s growing urban population (urbanisation). The main part of the lesson involves drawing a line graph to show the increase in the world’s urban population (based on World Bank Data Set) and describing the pattern using data, an interactive peer sharing task on the reasons for the growth in the urban population (they do this by explaining one reason they are allocated in the grid, with pointers to help them, and then share the information with their peers, big emphasis is placed on helping each other to develop their explanations), and lastly a written exercise assessing how influential they believe these reasons have been.
To describe how the world’s urban population is growing.
To explain the reasons for the growth in the urban population.
To assess the importance of these reasons.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the arguments for and against religious experiences proving the existence of God. The main part of the lesson involves some note-taking, class discussion and written tasks to explain scholarly views for and against religious experiences, followed by an extended written reflection considering whether they believe religious experiences prove the existence of God (with focus on what makes these scholarly arguments strong or weak).
