This unit of work encourages students to appreciate the links between music and Geography, through traditional music and Eurovision. Why music is popular, the many genres and when music is used is studied and investigated for its links. Traditions from Brazil, China, England, India, and Russia are investigated for their similarities in instruments, dances, and festivals. Music as an economic activity is explored, in addition to festivals in the United Kingdom and why they maybe located where they are. Local venues to the students, both indoors and outdoors, are investigated for their suitability for hosting a music festival. The history and who participates in Eurovision is discussed with the positive and negative impacts of having such an event hosted in their country or town. How such an event can cause community conflict through economic, social, and environmental impacts, as well as how these events could be made more sustainable are explored. The unit concludes with the students designing a brand and logo for a sustainable music festival at their school. The final designs are then peer assessed. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print, annotating maps, their thoughts, and ideas, calling on their local knowledge and effectively assessing other work. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

The carving of giant horses (sometimes called leucipotomy), and figures (gigantotomy) in the British landscape, especially in chalk and limestone areas where the image contrasts with the darker surrounding soil or grass, has been carried out since ancient times – the Uffington White Horse may date back some 3,000 years. There are some 57 such figures in Britain, although without periodic maintenance and scouring, many others have vanished. These worksheets explain the purpose of some of these chalk drawings and takes the students through step-by-step on how to draw a field sketch.

Since spreading its wings in February 1998, Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North in Gateshead has become one of the most talked about pieces of public art ever produced. This worksheet helps students to find out about the Angel and its purpose.

This eight page resource helps students to understand the positioning of the population of England, how human and physical features can effect this and looks at why the south of England is growing in popularity. Activities include drawing graphs, interpreting these and cartoons, as well as wordfills and essay style questioning

This icon of Egypt is 756 feet long at the base of each side, 450 feet tall and made up of 2,3000,000 blocks of stone, each averaging a weight of two and a half tons! Considering the creators limited tools, no side is more than eight inches more than the others, and the whole structure is perfectly in line with the four points of the compass. At the grand age of 4,500 years old, it is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing. The purpose of the structure is believed to be the tomb of the Pharaoh Khufu. Egyptians at the time believed their Pharaohs to be a living god who linked them to immortals. The pyramid stood as an eternal tomb for the pharaoh’s body and encouraged their beliefs of his continuing influence with the gods. Not just seen as a symbol of regal power, it was also a visible link between heaven and earth. These worksheets, with resources provided, help your students to research the workers, their working conditions and how they fulfilled their mammoth task!

This worksheet helps students explore Hadrian’s Wall between England and Scotland through a simple word fill worksheet.

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, about eight miles north of Salisbury. It’s a world famous site of circular set large standing stones. It’s believed the stones were erected about 2200BC. In 1986 the site and it surrounding area were added to the UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) list of World Heritage Sites. Stonehenge itself is owned by the State and managed by English Heritage while the surrounding area is owned by the National Trust. These worksheets ask the students to discuss the impacts a popular tourist attraction can have on the surrounding area, they look into the different groups who would have a interest on how the problems could be managed and produce a comic strip describing the global issues surrounding Stonehenge.

Located in the heart of Beijing, The Forbidden City was once the palace of the Chinese emperors during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the largest ancient palace in the world. The Forbidden City was built between 1406 and 1420 under the order of Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. More than one million people were used to build the expensive palace. Materials where brought in from all-over China, including ‘golden’ bricks, logs of the rare Phoebe Zhennan trees, and blocks of marble made. The capital of the empire was moved to Beijing city when the palace was competed. The students task is to carry out research on the Forbidden City to discover what it has to offer and more about the city around the palace. They go on to design a slogan and logo for the ancient tourist attraction which will be used on all posters, adverts and merchandise.

Cheddar Gorge is the biggest in Britain, with its dramatic cliffs rising up to 45 0 feet and caverns deep below, it is a world famous beauty spot located in a National Nature Reserve which is also famous for its prehistoric discoveries. These worksheets help students to explore this beautiful area and develop a way to attract tourist to it.

These worksheets help your students to determine between the countries which make up the United Kingdom and the British Isles through a range of activities, including graphs, wordfills, venn diagrams and maps.

The Colossus of Rhodes is familiar to almost everyone. Its history begins with the siege of Demetrios Poliorketes, successor of Alexander the Great, in 305 BC. When Demetrios was defeated, he abandoned all his siege machinery on Rhodes. The Rhodians decided to express their pride by building a triumphal statue of their favourite god, Helios. The task was assigned to the sculptor Chares of Lindos, a pupil of Lysippos himself, and twelve years (from 304 to 292 BC) were needed to complete it. It has been proposed that a new statue should be erected to replace the lost Colossus, your students task is to discuss the pros and cons of this and what, if any, social, economic or environmental impacts this may have on the area, both in the long and short term. Your students shall then conclude whether they personally think a new statue is a good idea or not.

These worksheets help your students to learn about the history of how Machu Picchu was discovered by the Western World and how it is used today as a tourism destination. The Inca Trail is also discussed. Please email me at willswoneducation@hotmail.co.uk for the two videos to go with this lesson

The Hanging Baskets of Babylon conjure up romantic images of lavish, luxurious and colourful flowers cascading down over light brick walls. The awe-inspiring sight must have been why Herodotus included it in his list of Seven Wonders. However, they are not standing today and there is a distinct lack of their documentation in Babylonian history, so have evoked debates as to whether they existed at all. These worksheets aid your students in carrying out research into the Hanging Gardens as well as being able to examine and analyse a sources reliability. The difference between fact and opinion is explored to help the students answer whether they thought the Gardens actually existed. The worksheets conclude with a discussion about our beliefs, how we develop them and whether having different beliefs effects our world

The Lighthouse of Alexandria was built on the small island of Pharos as a beacon for sailors having to navigate the tricky harbour. At the time the lighthouses were built this was considered one of the centers of civilisation. Unfortunately the lighthouse no longer stands, it is thought it stood for 1,500 years and survived a tsunami in 365 AD but succumbed to an earthquake in 1303 AD and now lies at the bottom on the Mediterranean where piece are still being found today. Imagine you are a news reporter and you have had the opportunity to do one of the following: ◊ You have been invited to be one of the first people to climb the lighthouse to the observation level ◊ You have been invited along to a dive to recover some of the statues which lay under the Mediterranean – Report what you see under the water and what it’s like to be recovering a piece of history – Report what you see and how you feel

The stepped pyramids, temples, columned arcades, and other stone structures of Chichén Itzá were sacred to the Maya and a sophisticated urban centre of their empire from 750 to 1200 AD. Viewed as a whole, the incredible complex reveals much about the Maya and Toltec vision of the universe—which was intimately tied to what was visible in the night skies of the Yucatán Peninsula. The most distinguishable structure is the Temple of Kukulkan, also known as El Castillo. This step pyramid shows the accuracy and importance of astronomy to the Maya – This influence came primarily from the Toltecs who invaded around 1000 AD and who merged their two cultural traditions. This lesson gives your students the chance to build their own Temple Of Kukulkan and test the shadow produced to see how successful the Maya People were at producing an accurate calendar.

This booklet introduces students to the global links within sports, specifically tennis. Wimbledon is studied in reference to where food and drink are sourced and how its 2013 ‘Master Plan’, launched in 2013, aims to make the competition more sustainable, from reducing landfill waste, advertising recyclable bottles, serving vegan options and reducing the tennis balls air miles! How tennis balls are made, and by whom, is looked at in addition to Wimbledon working with Water Aid and tennis as an economic activity. The unit concludes with the students designing a logo and brand for their school’s tennis competition. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, drawing a story board, annotating maps, their thoughts, and ideas, drawing graphs and completing choropleth maps. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was built for Mausolus, the second ruler of Caria from the Hecatomnid dynasty who died in 353 BC. As the man who refounded Halicarnassus, Mausolus was entitled to receive cultic honours and a tomb on the central square of his city, in accordance with Greek custom. The person in charge of this project was Mausolus’ grieving widow, Artemisia II, who, incidentally, was also his sister. These worksheets asks the students to use a discription to draw their own interpretation of how the Mausoleum once looked as well as discuss whether treasures found by a British Museum team should be returned to Turkey or remain in London.

The Temple of Artemis was thought to be three to four times as large as the Parthenon in Athens, it was once described as the largest temple and building of antiquity and served as a place of worship to the Greek Goddess Artemis. Home to both Greeks and Romans, the grand temple was destroyed and rebuilt many times over the course of its long history. The Antipater of Sidon, who compiled and visited all the seven wonders, said the temple was more marvellous than any of the other six wonders. The site of the temple was rediscovered in 1869 by an expedition sponsored by the British Museum led by John Turtle Wood, and while several artefacts and sculptures from the reconstructed temple can be seen there today, as for the original site, only a single column remains from the final reconstruction of the temple itself. These worksheets help your students understand what can be gained from a single photograph as well as develop from their own research a TripAdvisor review for this famous landmark.

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was completed in 435 BC and stood as an inspiration and destination for thousands for many years. The temple and statue survived earthquakes and other natural disasters, however many visitors and conquerors tried to destroy it but failed. The Roman Emperor Caligula was so jealous of its power over his new defeated subjects he ordered the statue be moved to Rome. The scaffolding used to do this collapsed, it’s said accompanied by a loud laughing noise… Your students task is to imagine they are guides at the site of the ruin of the Statue of Zeus. One of their jobs is to help the tourists choose an appropriate ‘talking tour’. Their boss has decided it’s time to update the recordings on these ‘talking tours’ and it has fallen to them to do this! After writing their tour your students need to let the tourists know of the update and design a poster to attract people to the ruin site. This will then be peer marked using a provided scoring table.

I was challenged by my sister to produce a resource about socks, challenge accepted and here it is! :-D This booklet takes the students through how their simple socks are related to geography and the world. After a brief history of socks, they investigate where and how cotton is produced, and the production line from farmer to customer. Focusing primarily on factories in LEDCs and the working conditions, Fairtrade is examined to see how farmers are being helped with their cotton crops and how cotton works as an economic activity. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, drawing a story board, annotating maps, their thoughts and ideas, choropleth maps and word fills. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.