I'm a Head of Geography at a 11-16 secondary school in Leicestershire, UK. I enjoy creating lessons that students enjoy - so you will not find reams of text on the board for them to read or for you to transmit. I believe in a range of engaging activities per lesson.
I'm a Head of Geography at a 11-16 secondary school in Leicestershire, UK. I enjoy creating lessons that students enjoy - so you will not find reams of text on the board for them to read or for you to transmit. I believe in a range of engaging activities per lesson.
The tenth lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson introduces the threats to native species posed by introduced species, focusing on the cane toad in eastern Australia. This is a very fun lesson that students enjoy.
The fifth lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson introduces the threats to coral reefs due to climate change and examines some possible solutions.
The sixth lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson introduces the threats to to species caused by deforestation for palm oil plantations. It includes the palm oil production and distribution cycle, uses of palm oil and leads onto the following lessons concerning threats to orangutans.
The eighth lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson introduces the threats to a range of species used in traditional Chinese medicine, the ethical issues surrounding the use of these animals and the cultural issues involved in dismissing their efficacy to protect species.
The fourth lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson is guided ICT research about the 8 different ways that humans may be causing mass extinction events. Students are introduced to the concepts and then guided to research specific species at risk and possible solutions.
The final lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson provides an exam-style assessment including multiple choice, extended answer and use of a resource paper. Examination and mark scheme are included.
The seventh lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson leads on from the previous lesson (production of palm oil) the further examine the threats to orangutans. It also covers a range of other threats to this species.
This is a set of 15 lessons designed for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification easily adapted for all other specification. Students are introduced to Sydney as a global/world city and take an enquiry-based approach to each lesson. The unit covers the growth of Sydney, the aboriginal population, socioeconomics (Sydney vs. the rest of Australia, also divergence within Sydney), the transport issues and solutions, the water supply issues and solutions, an environmental issue and solutions, the housing issues and outcomes (increased density) and finally the proposed 3-Cities plan to divide Sydney into three seperate cities, each with a “30-minute lifestyle”.
My lessons are ready to teach and fully resources, including video links. There is a range of teaching and learning activities so students will not get bored.
This lesson introduces the a wide range of graph types to support the Eduqas B Geograph 9-1 specification, although it is directly transferable to all specifications. It introduces the graph types and asks students to select appropriate types based upon certain criteria. The lesson covers:
Axis
Bar, line and pie charts
Pictographs
Histographs
Divided bar charts
Scatter graph
Population pyramid
Flow line graph
Located bar chart
Kite diagrams
Star or radial diagrams
This lesson supports students’ wider global knowledge about geopolitics and international relations, why some countries cooperate and how political systems differ. This is designed to support their knowledge of issues such as aid and trade later in the Development unit. The lesson is fully resourced with engaging developmental activities.
A 13-lesson KS3 unit on endangered species. This unit introduces the concept of extinction and the related categories, mass extinction events, the historical precedents, the overview of human causes of extinction then individual lessons to fully explore these causes. Each lesson is fully resourced and has a range of engaging activities, research, active learning, etc. The unit includes a revision lesson and an exam-style assessment with mark scheme and resource booklet. I created this because I could find no other decent unit about endangered species - I hope you are find it really useful.
This lesson develops an understanding of infrastructure, an oft-named element of GCSE Geography but one which is rarely explained properly to allow students to access higher-level explanations of, for example, differing levels of development. This lesson introduces the concept of infrastructure, explains the difference between hard and soft infrastructure then investigates how infrastructure may affect development (and vise versa). The lesson is fully resources with engaging developmental activities.
This lesson supports understanding of the concept of sustainability, a core component of all GCSE Geography specifications. It leads from the sustainability of different types of infrastructure (leading on from the previous lesson in this series) to investigate public investment in infrastructure (and how sustainable this may be), then leads onto core components of a GCSE course and examines the concept of sustainability in those contexts. It is fully resourced with engaging developmental activities.
The twelfth lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson revises the key concept studied during this unit ready for a test the following lesson.
Introducing different types of map from an atlas. This includes political, physical and choropleth. It includes an activity for pupils and an explanation of the etymology of the British Isles/UK/etc. The lesson is from a Y7 introduction to Geography skill-based unit. It is fully resourced with a range of engaging activities to introduce pupils to the subject and its core skills.
A lesson examining what actually constitutes a country by examining Kurdish separatism and its impacts in Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Pupils use pie charts to examining the size of Kurdish populations and the amount of land potentially lost to a proposed Kurdish country.
This is a part of a fully-resourced unit with a range of styles of activity and unashamedly embracing aspects of thinking skills (they still work) and dual coding. The unit was designed for Y9 and synoptically revises their KS3 course whilst using skills and concepts from their KS4 Geography studies (specifically, for Eduqas Geography B but relevant to all boards).
An assessment lesson for the Middle East unit. This includes 30 minutes of assessment, 25 minutes of peer marking and the teacher collects the extended answer question to mark. You can add a DIRT sheet on the back, if you wish. Answers PPT included.
This is a part of a fully-resourced unit with a range of styles of activity and unashamedly embracing aspects of thinking skills (they still work) and dual coding. The unit was designed for Y9 and synoptically revises their KS3 course whilst using skills and concepts from their KS4 Geography studies (specifically, for Eduqas Geography B but relevant to all boards).
This lesson revises ‘Rivers’ and ‘Water Resources’ aspects of KS3 by examining the issue of river management in Turkey and Syria and its impacts on Iraq. The question of how this may lead to conflict in the future is discussed.
This is a part of a fully-resourced unit with a range of styles of activity and unashamedly embracing aspects of thinking skills (they still work) and dual coding. The unit was designed for Y9 and synoptically revises their KS3 course whilst using skills and concepts from their KS4 Geography studies (specifically, for Eduqas Geography B but relevant to all boards).
A lesson introducing the Israel-Palestine issue and examining its roots and impacts through a mystery activity.
This is a part of a fully-resourced unit with a range of styles of activity and unashamedly embracing aspects of thinking skills (they still work) and dual coding. The unit was designed for Y9 and synoptically revises their KS3 course whilst using skills and concepts from their KS4 Geography studies (specifically, for Eduqas Geography B but relevant to all boards).
An initial Geography lesson to introduce Y7 to Geography, developing an understanding of human, physical and environmental Geography and looking at the various aspects of Geography that they will study over the KS3 National Curriculum. Ideally you would have the cover of the Hodder Progress in KS3 Geography so they could study the photo on the front more thoroughly but it is the cover photo of this lesson so you do have a copy in case you have not got copies of those books to hand.
The lesson is from a Y7 introduction to Geography skill-based unit. It is fully resourced with a range of engaging activities to introduce pupils to the subject and its core skills.
