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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.

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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.
Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP)
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Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP)

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This contains a full lesson on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project for WJEC Syllabus. Includes content on what makes a good area for a dam. Water project, water management, dams, hydroelectricity.
Rock Cycle
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Rock Cycle

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This is a fully resourced and differentiated lesson on the Rock Cycle for KS3. It is a combination of adapted resources and some of my own. In particular, it includes several back-up activities due to the difficulties that some students can have grasping the topic
Aquinas and Analogy
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Aquinas and Analogy

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on why and how Aquinas believed analogy provided the only meaningful way to describe God. It contains a series of short discussion and written exercises to meet the following objectives: To outline why Aquinas rejected the use of using univocal and equivocal language to describe God. To explain why Aquinas believed analogy could help us to describe God. To evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
What Are Religious Experiences
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What Are Religious Experiences

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on religious experiences aimed predominantly at KS3 students. I have adapted previous material uploaded onto TES and included some of my own also. Learning Objectives: To describe the different types of religious experience. To assess the evidence for religious experiences. To evaluate whether or not they provide convincing proof for the existence of God.
Scale and Distance
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Scale and Distance

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A fully resourced lesson where students are introduced to the skill of measuring scale. It also includes an idea for a class practical on scale, where they have to measure out and scale the classroom itself!
The Via Negativa
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The Via Negativa

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the via negativa. The main part of the lesson involves a set of discussion tasks and short written tasks to understand how the via negativa works, from which they then produce fact files on how three different scholars (including Aquinas) have contributed to the argument, leading to an evaluation task where students generate their own arguments for and against the via negativa 'providing the only the true way to understand God'. Some ideas have been borrowed from other contributions on TES, to whom I am very grateful. Learning Objectives: To describe how the Via Negativa approach works. To explain how scholars have supported this approach to describing God. To evaluate the effectiveness of this approach.
How Can The Impacts Of Earthquakes Be Mitigated
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How Can The Impacts Of Earthquakes Be Mitigated

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how the impacts of earthquakes can be mitigated. Focused on the 3Ps, the main part of the lesson involves a discussion task on the difference between the three approaches and the techniques it might involve, leading up to an extended note taking task on how the different techniques can help to mitigate the impacts of an earthquake. Learning Objectives: To describe the different approaches to mitigating the impacts of earthquakes. To explain how these approaches work in practice. To evaluate the effectiveness of these approaches.
Climate Graphs
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Climate Graphs

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how to construct climate graphs. The instructions contained on the slides are from another user on TES, so I simply adapted a starter activity and added pictures and a guide sheet to further support students in this process. Feedback is always appreciated. Learning Objectives: To be able to construct a climate graph. To extract information from the graph and use it to explain climate.
The effects of volcanic eruptions
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The effects of volcanic eruptions

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A fully resourced lesson on the effects of volcanic eruptions. It focuses on the types of volcanic hazard, how they threaten people and how its effects vary with different levels of economic development. Aimed at KS4 classes, in support of AQA Geography B syllabus.
The Beatitudes
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The Beatitudes

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Beatitudes. In the main part of the lesson students have to write a modern day translation for each one, explain why they are important in pairs and write an extended analysis of how they could be applied in someone's life. Learning Objectives: To describe the meaning of the Beatitudes. To explain why they are important for Christians. To analyse how these could be followed by people in their own lives.
The Simpsons Grid References Worksheet
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The Simpsons Grid References Worksheet

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This worksheet requires pupils to give four-figure and six-figure grid references on various locations featured in the Simpsons. It also includes a section on describing routes between places. Feedback is always appreciated.
Push and Pull Factors
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Push and Pull Factors

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This contains a fully resourced lesson on push and pull factors.In the starter students analyse a cartoon, then work in pairs to work out push and pull factors and test that knowledge with a kinaesthetic activity. Next students look at a case study of rural-urban migration in cities (China) and apply their knowledge by creating their own immigration story.
Coastal Map Skills
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Coastal Map Skills

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on map skills aimed at a GCSE class, namely four-figure grid references and scale. The main part of the lesson involves students annotating an O.S. map with its physical and human features, and then carrying out a range of exercises to practice the use of four-figure grid references and scale. Although this lesson is aimed to be included within the unit ‘Distinctive Landscapes’, it can be easily adapted to suit the needs of any Geography GCSE specification. Learning Objectives: To identify a range of physical and human features from an Ordnance Survey map. To demonstrate a range of map skills.
Volcano Worksheet
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Volcano Worksheet

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This worksheet covers the basics behind a volcano, namely covering its main components and key definitions. Volcano, Components, Magma Chamber, Lava, Magma
Climate of the British Isles
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Climate of the British Isles

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This lesson focuses on the climate of the British Isles, including the difference between weather and climate. Weather, climate, British Isles.
Boxing Day Tsunami
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Boxing Day Tsunami

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Please find attached numerous resources for the Boxing Day (2004) tsunami. Boxing Day Tsunami, Indian Ocean Tsunami, Indonesian Tsunami, Asian Tsunami
Quality of Life in Shanty Towns
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Quality of Life in Shanty Towns

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This is a lesson on the quality of life in shanty towns, and the ways in which it can be improved. There is a big focus on independent learning in this lesson. Shanty town, problems in shanty towns, solutions, quality of life.
Charities
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Charities

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on charities. This contains a set of activities to meet the following objectives: To describe what a charity is. To explain the reasons why people give money to charity. To evaluate whether it is any less moral to give money to charities abroad than at home. This resource has been adapted from an excellent resource by 'Charity Choice' which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/charity-choice-1-hour-citizenship-lesson-plan-6051322
Modern Conflict Fact Files
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Modern Conflict Fact Files

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This resource consists of a series of fact sheets detailing the causes and effects of modern conflicts, including the Syria and Libya Civil war alongside the conflict in Ukraine.