Universal and sustainable resources which can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and free up your energy to make teaching more fun.
Universal and sustainable resources which can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and free up your energy to make teaching more fun.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 1 – Characteristics of Power (Emerging superpowers, hard and soft power)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 19 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter question
• Definitions
• Past and modern superpowers
• Characteristics of Superpowers
• Case Study – the USA – current hegemon
• Soft power
• Hard power
• Emerging superpowers
• Retrieval Practice questions
• Plenary questions
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 6 – Global Economic Systems (IMF, WTO, subsidies, Fairtrade)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 27 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Slides content:
• Starter questions
• IGOs and theories recap
• Knowledge retrieval quiz
• Case Study – IMF in Côte d’Ivoire
• World Trade Organisation (WTO)
• Subsidies
• Agreement on Agriculture
• Fairtrade
• Anti WTO Activism
• Plenary exam question
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 8 – Cultural Superpowers (TNCs, imperialism, hegemony)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 16 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter questions
• Definitions
• Examples of cultural superpowers
• Brand names
• The movie industry
• Cultural imperialism
• Banal imperialism
• Hegemony
• Ranking and scaling using data from indices
• Plenary – culture and soft power
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 16 – Superpower Futures (economic, social challenges, military strength, advanced technology)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 18 slides in total with varied activities to keep students’ attention.
Model answers for tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter - scenarios discussion
• Challenges to existing superpowers
• Economic challenges
• Debt
• Unemployment
• Economic restructuring
• Social costs
• How economic changes have undermined influence of superpowers – exam question
• Military strength
• Comparing quotes
• Advanced technology – space race
• Extension questions
• Opinion piece - Who Will Be the Next Superpower?’
• BBC Video link
• Cross curricular link – Trans-border water conflicts
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 14 – The Changing Economic Centre of Gravity (India, middleweight cities)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 12 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Model answers for tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – impact of superpowers on African countries – assess question with scaffolding
• McKinsey Report 2012 and map interpretation
• Middleweight cities
• The growing importance of India
• Annotating map
• India strengths table
• Plenary – graph trends
• Extension – China conflict recap
• Teacher’s information slides
Includes HANDOUT – Map to stick in
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 10 – Global Environmental Concerns (rare earths, food supply, water supply)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 15 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter question
• The growth of the middle classes
• Rare earth elements
• The food supply
• The water supply
• Interpreting water consumption map
• Interpreting drought severity map
• Mind map task – impacts of rising demand
• Recap quiz
• Plenary – Interpreting map
• Extension questions
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 9 – Global Environmental Concerns (landscape scarring, fossil fuels, oil spills, deforestation)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 14 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter – graph analysis
• Knowledge quiz
• Reading exercise
• Landscape scarring
• Fossil fuels
• Oil spills
• Deforestation
• Are superpowers willing to act?
• Practise 6 mark questions in pairs
• Exam question battle – with essay scaffolding and instructions
• Extension question
• Teacher’s information slides
Includes HANDOUT – Exam question battle instructions
Includes a word document of examples of STUDENT MODEL ANSWERS
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lesson 1 of 19: Introduction to Climate Change (Paris Agreement 2015, IPCC 2018, geographical scales)
Discussion starter
Paris Climate Conference and Agreement 2015
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2018
Questions to check prior knowledge
Fossil fuel production and consumption. Skills – interpreting graphs.
Scale: national, international and global
Answers to questions
Plenary discussion linking energy use and climate change
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 2 of 19: The Development of Globalisation
Thought-provoking writing starter
Transport and Trade in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Time space compression and ‘shrinking world’
Skills: Isochronic maps
Growth of ICT and mobile use
Containerisation
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 4 of 19: Globalisation in Newly Emerging Economies
Definitions quiz starter with mark scheme
Special economic zones
Indonesia
Government subsidies
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
China and the 1978 Open Door Policy
Plenary to review enquiry question 1
EXTRA word document containing news article for extension task
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 11 – Disputes Over Resources (Arctic, tension over oil, counterfeiting, IPR)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 30 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter questions
• Dependency Theory and World Systems Theory recap
• Resources in the Arctic
• Interpreting map – competing claims in the Arctic – with model answer
• Tension over oil
• Intellectual property rights
• Counterfeiting
• Multiple choice quiz with answers
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.