Believed to have been living in the Kalahari Desert for over 80,000 years, the San People are thought to be the world’s most ancient race. This independent research-based lesson helps the students to develop their understanding of life and surviving in a harsh environment. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 18 page booklet is designed to help students and parents with mathematical questions within their class and homework be it in Maths, Science, Geography, etc.. Topics Include: Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division Order Of Calculation (BIDMAS) Estimating Time Distance, Speed, Time Fractions Percentages Ratio Proportion

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!

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.

This worksheet introduces students to the legend of how the Chinese calendar is named after twelve animals. How the Chinese prepare for New Years is explored and used to compare the similarities and difference of the students New Years preparations. A range of activities are incorporated within this worksheet, including, drawing a storyboard, gathering research from written text and using their own thoughts and ideas to compare information. 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 cycle of poverty is a phenomenon where poor families, more severely in LEDCs, become trapped in poverty for generations due to limited or no access to fundamental resources such as education, financial and subsequent generations also being underprivileged. These worksheets look at the devision of wealth within India and has the students look at life through the eyes of a poor family as to whether they should move from the country to the city, where they should move to and how to make money. One way of making money in the city is by making paper bags, they are sold to shop and stall holders who sell rice and spices. Ten bags will earn them 1 rupee (1p)! In groups they make as many bags as they can in thirty minutes…

A staggering 650 million people live in deserts across the world. These worksheets look at the lives of The San People and The Matmata People and how they have perfected ways to keep cool and find water where there seemingly isn’t any. The San People live in the Kalahari Desert and some archaeologists believe they have done for over 80,000 years. Your students will learn about the life and expertise of the San People, their gender roles, diet, housing, and skills for finding and storing water as well as keeping warm during the freezing nights. The Matmata People live in southern Tunisia and gathered world-wide fame when their town was used in the 1976 Star Wars film: A New Hope. The impacts of the increased tourism have had their positive and negative impacts on the town. These are discussed with your students considering whether the good outweighs the bad in term of social, economic, and environmental impacts, and if the town should continue to advertise its notoriety. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within these worksheets, including, gathering research from print, annotating their thoughts, and ideas and reading graphs. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

The Pitcairn People live on the island of Pitcairn, a small landmass which together with Henderson, Ducie and Oeno, make up the Pitcairn Islands Group in the South Pacific. 250 people once inhabited this picturesque island, but this has dwindled to around 50 today, and it is predicted by 2045 only three people of working age will live on the island. The students discuss why they think the populous is leaving the island and what impacts this may have on those remaining. The students learn about the successful beekeeping and honey production on Pitcairn and examine what this could mean for the island’s future. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within these worksheets, including, gathering research from print and video, annotating their thoughts, and ideas and drawing and interpretating graphs. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

Shanty towns are found on the outskirts of many large cities especially in LEDCs. The people living here must contend with harsh environments with little access to clean water, electricity, and struggle to get jobs and capital. These worksheets look at the push and pull factors surrounding relocating, and the advantages and disadvantages of different residential locations within cities. The materials to build homes are examined alongside discussing the common issues found within shanty towns, their priorities, and the costs to moderate these to better their lives. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within these worksheets, including, drawing, annotating their thoughts, and ideas and developing arithmetic skills. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

Sherpa are an ethnic group from the most mountainous region of Nepal, high in the Himalayas. They are often employed by foreigners to help them to navigate the mountains, most famously Mount Everest. Using the information sheets the students fill out the answers on the Sherpas way of life and how foreign visitors may have impacted this both positivly and negatively.

This PowerPoint lesson plan introduces the students to what an avalanche is, the categories and their triggers – both physical and human. During the lesson the students have the opportunity to demonstrate an avalanche using flour and instant mash potato! The lesson concludes with a choice of activities including a cartoon style answer, comic strip, information sheet or blog for tourists, newspaper article or short essay answering why avalanches happen and their impacts. Want to receive credits for future purchases? Please go to ‘My Purchases’ and select ‘Provide Feedback,’ fill out the quick form and each time you leave feedback, TPT will give you credits towards your future purchase. We really value your comments to help us create products to help you in the classroom – Thank you in advance. Please follow us on TPT by clicking on the green star next to our store name, and like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This booklet introduces students to the global links within sports, specifically the Six Nations Rugby tournament. They explore the six countries who play in the competition, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Italy, and France through topics of weather, population, cuisine, coastal landforms, tourism, and multinational companies. Rugby as an economic activity is explored. We also look at the various aspects of our cultures we have ‘borrowed’ and adapted from our neighbours including language, traditions food, fashion, music, and sports. The unit concludes with the students designing a brand and logo for a sustainable rugby competition at their school. The final designs are then peer assessed. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet including map reading and annotating, gathering research from print and video, with students drawing their own conclusions from materials gathered. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

Alongside the many animals which call the rainforest home, there are about 1.5 million people who also live there. They are able to get everything they need to survive from the forest and in return, the rainforest is treated with respect, making sure no harm comes to it. These worksheets look at four specific tribes: The Kayapo Tribe, The Yanomami Tribe, The Matsés Tribe, and The Awá Tribe. The students learn how the Kayapo Tribe believe they came to live in the rainforest, compare their own lives to that of the tribespeople, and learn how illegal gold prospectors have threatened the tribespeople. The lives and gender roles of the Yanomami Tribe are studied through the narrative of a ten-year-old tribe member, who explains the use of face and body paint in their culture. The Matsés Tribe is explored through its many uses of the acate green tree frog and their continuing threat from oil companies who wish to drill within their land. The Awá Tribe is investigated through a video entitled ‘The Earths Most Threatened Tribe.’ The worksheets conclude with the students being given the opportunity to study and present their findings of one of the many other tribes, up to an additional fourteen tribes, believed to be living within the Amazon Rainforest. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within these worksheets including: gathering research from print and video; drawing a story board; students annotating their thoughts and ideas; students comparing their own lives with others, and illustrating empathy and support. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This powerpoint looks at how those with a disability need to negotiate the everyday world which those who are able bodied may take for granted. The term ‘disability’ is discussed, as well as restricted power and space, the built environment, accessibility to public and private transport as well as jobs and housing. Disability in the arts, perception in the media and political correctness is also looked at. Slide Eleven refers to the scene near the end of the film Notting Hill when William is trying to locate the conference Anna is in. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This booklet introduces students to the global links within sports, specifically football. We investigate the origin of top players and how these have changed over twenty years. Child labour, shanty towns and The Atlanta Agreement are discussed in relation to Brazil readying itself to host the 2014 Word Cup. The unit concludes with the students considering whether they think Brazil should have held the World Cup having considered the social economic and environmental impacts. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet including map reading and annotating, gathering research from print and students drawing their own conclusions from materials gathered. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

One aspect of teaching we will all need to tackle at some point will be an angry or annoyed parent or guardian. By being open, inviting and personable your students’ parents will be impressed with you and the way you manage your classroom. A miscalculated response can backfire, fan the flames of an upset parent and burn the bridges between home and school. This in turn can cause a lot of damage whether there was a basis for the anger or not. So this encounter needs to be turned into an opportunity for everyone – parents, student and teacher. Although much of this is common sense I have pulled together this ten page booklet with some suggestions for successfully defusing such a meeting before, during and after it arises.

This worksheet booklet begins by looking at the statistics of bullying and asking the students whether anything surprises them. They are asked to identify what they believe a bully looks and sounds like, which can spark an interesting discussion. We debate what is considered bullying as well as the primary types of bullying; physical, verbal, indirect and more commonly today, cyber. Why people bully and who they target is considered in conjunction with how a bully could be helped, and whether being a bystander makes them as responsible as the bully. Following on from discussing where to go for help and advice both in and outside of school, the students take part in a group project to act out a television or radio advert to give advice to these being bullied, these are then peer assessed. The booklet concludes in a class debate as to whether head teachers should be able to discipline students for cyber crimes which occur outside of school. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including sharing their own thoughts and ideas from their own experiences, comparing their own ideas with others, working as a group on a collective task and assess these in an appropriate manner. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 22 page unit of work has students investigating some of Englands most visited tourist locations including the Angel Of The North, Cheddar Gorge, Sherwood Forest, Stonehenge, Handrien's Wall and the many chalk figures found on hill sides. They then have the opportunity to design their own weeks holiday itinerary for a visiting family in which they can include these locations or others they may discover along the way. This is a fun end of term project or assessment project which can be adjusted to most abilities.

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.