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Tourism in Kenya
Introductory lesson to tourism in Kenya before moving onto ecotourism. A range of activities within this lesson, including a group decision-making exercise/role play. Students really got into this exercise and it helped them to formulate their own ideas around the advantages and disadvantages of mass tourism. Used with high-ability Year 8, but could easily be adapted for other year groups :)
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Climate Change - set of 14 lessons
A set of 14 fully differentiated lessons covering the topic of Climate Change:
L1: Intro to Weather & Climate - including climate graphs
L2: Climate Change & the Distant Past - types of evidence
L3: Climate Change in the Recent Past - types of evidence
L4/5 - Natural Causes of Climate Change
L6: The Little Ice Age & the Vikings
L7: The Little Ice Age & Europe - frost fairs
L8: The Little Ice Age & Ecosystems - the impact on the dinosaurs
L9/10: Air Masses & the UK Climate - includes ocean currents and the North Atlantic Drift
L11: The Greenhouse Effect
L12: The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect
L13: The UK's Future Climate
L14: The Impact of Global Warming on Egypt
A variety of activities have been included within these lessons to maximise engagement and cater for differing learning styles. Examples of activities include - card sorts, jigsaw teaching, storyboards, cartoon strips and talk4writing.
Every lesson has been fully differentiated - usually to at least 3 levels and all resources have been included.
Used with a mixed-ability Year 9 class, but can easily be adapted to fit other ages and abilities.
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Climate Graphs
A lesson for KS3 recapping the difference between weather and climate before moving onto climate graphs and using these to dress Joey Essex for particular climate zones across the world! This activity has been very popular and encouraged students to directly read from climate graphs.
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Small-scale water management strategies
This lesson explores how water can be managed on a small-scale in the developing world, and focuses on pumpkin tanks (rainwater harvesters) in particular. This lesson includes a range of activities for different learning styles, including composing their own rules for what makes small-scale strategies effective, annotating photos and a code breaker starter!
Used for mixed-ability Year 9 (Edexcel B GCSE specification), but could easily be adapted for other year groups and abilities.
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Population Explosion
This lesson explores world population growth and the idea of a population explosion. It also covers the factors that affect a country's birth rate and death rate. This lesson includes a range of activities for different learning styles, including a continuum line, card sort, diamond 9 and drawing emojis to represent the different factors!
Used for high-ability Year 8, but am also going to be using these activities with Year 10 so could easily be adapted for other year groups and abilities.
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World climate zones and their ecosystems
Full lesson and homework introducing the climate zones around the world and their associated ecosystems. Used for high-ability Year 7, but have also used some of these activities with lower ability Year 9 too, so can be easily adapted to suit your students :)
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Lagos: Urban Challenges Case Study (10+ lessons)
*NEW AQA GCSE GEOGRAPHY A SPEC*
These resources cover an in-depth focus on the urban case study of Lagos. I intend to use these resources to cover at least 10 lessons, with the students' aim to create a detailed A3+ academic poster by the end.
The PowerPoint includes all main activities and instructions, working through the research one stage at a time - covering:
- Background information/key facts about Lagos
- Challenges faced in Lagos
- Opportunities presented by urbanisation in Lagos
- How urban planning can be used to overcome particular challenges presented by urbanisation, e.g. Eko Atlantic and the Makoko Floating School
Used for high-ability Year 10, but can be easily adapted to any level. The controversial issues were particularly engaging for students.
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Large-scale water management strategies: Dams
Full lesson focusing on large-scale water management strategies, looking specifically at the Hoover Dam and the Three Gorges. This lesson includes a range of activities for different learning styles, including video clips, card sort of the costs and benefits and designing a poster/fact-sheet. Instruction sheets have been differentiated.
Used for mixed-ability Year 9 (Edexcel B GCSE specification), but could easily be adapted.
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Water in the World - part 2
These lessons cover the topic of Water:
L4: Climate Change & Water Supplies
L5: Living with Chronic Water Shortages - The Sahel
L6: Threats to Water Quality
PLEASE NOTE: this is part 2 of a set of 9 lessons. The full set can be purchased at a discounted bundle rate here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/water-in-the-world-set-of-9-lessons-11311849
Used with a Year 9 class, but can easily be adapted to fit other ages and abilities. Every lesson has been fully differentiated - usually to at least 3 levels and all resources have been included. Challenge activities (in pink bubbles) have also been included in each lesson, as well as homework.
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Flooding DME
A decision-making exercise created for year 7, but could easily be used with other age groups too. Students work in groups, taking on the role of flood management response teams to make quick and effective decisions. All incoming messages are based on real-life news reports and tweets made during the 2013/14 Christmas floods in Kent.
Tropical Storms
3 lessons and homework (or an additional lesson) comparing tropical storms in an MEDC and LEDC (Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Nargis).
L1: introduces tropical storms, covering both their formation and main characteristics. This lesson includes a range of activities for different learning styles, including a 3D pop-up tropical storm.
L2: introduces the case studies and sets students up for their individual research. Students can either complete the research for HW or continue into another lesson.
L3: explores the responses to both storms and looking at the more controversial side of these examples, e.g. the Ninth Ward in New Orleans and Burma's refusal for help following Nargis.
Used for high-ability Year 9, but can be easily adapted to any level. The controversial issues were particularly engaging for students.
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Population - set of 11 lessons
A full set of 11 lessons covering the topic of Population:
L1: Intro to Population
L2: World Population Growth
L3: Components of Population Change - factors affecting the birth rate and death rate
L4: Where Do People Live & Why? - population density and distribution
L5/6: Population Pyramids
L7: Mid-Unit Test - including revision activity
L8/9: Pro-Natal Policies - France and Singapore
L10: Pro-Natal Policies - Kerala
L11: China's One Child Policy
A variety of activities have been included within these lessons to maximise engagement and cater for differing learning styles. Examples of activities include - sketch notes, role cards, emojis. I have also included a Mid Unit test that is ready to use, or a good starting point for you to create your own! Challenge activities (in pink bubbles) have also been included in each lesson.
Used with a GCSE Year 10 class, but can easily be adapted to fit other ages and abilities.
Some parts, i.e. information, have been taken from other resources, but most activities are my own.
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Development - set of 9 lessons
A set of 9 lessons covering the topic of Development, focusing in particular on the causes of the development gap:
L1: Intro to Development
L2/3: Measuring Development - including the Happy Planet Index!
L4/5: Theories of Development
L6: Global Players & Organisations (case study - Apple Inc. and the Foxconn Factory)
L7: The Millennium Development Goals
L8: The Role of Trade in Development (case study - Mali)
L9: Megacities (case study - Dhaka)
A variety of activities have been included within these lessons to maximise engagement and cater for differing learning styles. Examples of activities include - diamond 9 ranking, sketch notes, taboo, peer-teaching jigsaws and decision-making exercises. Challenge tasks and questions (in pink bubbles/squares) have also been included in each lesson, and homework tasks have been included throughout too.
These lessons have been designed for A-Level, but could easily be adapted to fit GCSE specifications.
Some parts, i.e. information, have been taken from other resources, but most activities are my own.
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Natural Hazards & Disasters - set of 15 lessons
A full set of 15 lessons covering the topic of Natural Hazards:
L1: Intro _ What is a Disaster? - natural vs. man-made
L2: Why is Indonesia such a dangerous place to live? - introducing the Boxing Day tsunami
L3: Where in the World? - distribution of volcanoes/earthquakes
L4: Inside the Earth
L5: Under Pressure - plate boundaries
L6: Earthquakes
L7: The Boxing Day tsunami
L8: Christchurch Earthquake
L9: Haiti Earthquake
L10/11: I Predict an Earthquake - earthquake-proof buildings
L12: Inside a Volcano
L13: Types of Volcanoes
L14: Mount St. Helens DME (ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY SEPARATELY)
L15: End of Topic Assessment - Mount St. Helens vs. Mount Pinatubo
A variety of activities have been included within these lessons to maximise engagement and cater for differing learning styles. Examples of activities include decision-making exercises, card sorts, photo analysis and designing your own earthquake-proof building.
I have also included an end of topic assessment. Challenge activities (in pink bubbles) have also been included in each lesson, as well as homework.
Used with a Year 9 class, but can easily be adapted to fit other ages and abilities.
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Introduction to Geography
Two lessons covering the first introductory lessons to Geography:
L1: What is Geography? - introduction to geography and allows students to consider how geography is all around us.
L2: Human & Physical Geography - introducing students to the differences between human, physical and environmental geography, before locating various human and physical features around the world.
Challenge activities (in pink bubbles) have also been included in each lesson.
Used with a new higher-ability Year 7 class, but can easily be adapted to fit other ages and abilities.
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The Greenhouse Effect & Global Warming
Two lessons cover the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases and the enhanced greenhouse effect. Also includes the impacts of global warming, leading onto the next lesson (case studies).
L11: The Greenhouse Effect
L12: The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect
PLEASE NOTE: this is part 5 of a set of 14 lessons. The full set can be purchased at a discounted bundle rate here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/our-changing-climate-set-of-14-lessons-11311826
A variety of activities have been included within these lessons to maximise engagement and cater for differing learning styles.
Used with a mixed-ability Year 9 class, but can easily be adapted to fit other ages and abilities. Every lesson has been fully differentiated, with challenge activities (in pink bubbles) included at various points.
Please rate my resources! Thank you and I hope your students enjoy these lessons as much as mine did :)
THE WATER GAME!
An interactive lesson focusing on how humans are disrupting and interfering with our water supplies. The main part of this lesson is the Water Game - like the jelly baby population game but for water, so you will need to buy sweets for this! I was intending to use blue millions for the water supply but had to resort to tallying on post-it notes instead. It can get quite loud, but students loved playing the game and were extremely engaged.
Following the game, students then take a look at Coca-Cola as a case study to stretch their learning further.
All resources are fully differentiated and include a support sheet with definitions of key words on for lower ability.
Used for mixed-ability Year 9 (GCSE), but could easily be adapted for other year groups too.
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Water in the World - part 3
These lessons cover the topic of Water:
L7: Disruption of Water Services (human interference) - THE WATER GAME! (ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY SEPARATELY)
L8: Large-Scale Solutions to the Water Crisis - the Three Gorges Dam and Hoover Dam
L9: Small-Scale Management Strategies - pumpkin tanks
PLEASE NOTE: this is part 3 of a set of 9 lessons. The full set can be purchased at a discounted bundle rate here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/water-in-the-world-set-of-9-lessons-11311849
Used with a Year 9 class, but can easily be adapted to fit other ages and abilities. Every lesson has been fully differentiated - usually to at least 3 levels and all resources have been included. Challenge activities (in pink bubbles) have also been included in each lesson, as well as homework.
Please rate my resources! Thank you and I hope your students enjoy these lessons as much as mine did :)
Water in the World - set of 9 lessons
A set of 9 fully differentiated lessons covering the topic of Water:
L1: Intro - The Blue Planet
L2/3: The Hydrological Cycle - creating a foldable (ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY SEPARATELY)
L4: Climate Change & Water Supplies
L5: Living with Chronic Water Shortages - The Sahel
L6: Threats to Water Quality
L7: Disruption of Water Services (human interference) - THE WATER GAME! (ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY SEPARATELY)
L8: Large-Scale Solutions to the Water Crisis - the Three Gorges Dam and Hoover Dam
L9: Small-Scale Management Strategies - pumpkin tanks
A variety of activities have been included within these lessons to maximise engagement and cater for differing learning styles. Examples of activities include - card sorts, jigsaw teaching, creating a foldable and THE WATER GAME!
Every lesson has been fully differentiated - usually to at least 3 levels and all resources have been included.
Used with a mixed-ability Year 9 class, but can easily be adapted to fit other ages and abilities.
Please rate my resources! Thank you and I hope your students enjoy these lessons as much as mine did :)
Mount St Helens - decision making exercise
A decision-making exercise created for 8th grade, but could easily be used with other grades too. Students work in groups, taking on the role of hazard management response teams to make quick and effective decisions. All incoming messages are based on what actually happened when Mount St Helens erupted in 1980.