KS3 unit test from the Africa Unit

An opinion based lesson in which student learn the facts regarding big ape tourism in Bwindi national Park and come to a decision whether ecotourism is a sustainable model to develop and protect the area. Activities include a mind mapping exercise, gap fill, YouTube video, and a stakeholder carousel activity, these are then presented to other students.

This lesson focuses on the process of urbanisation and the resulting slums it produces focusing on Makoko in Nigeria. Activities include reading a diary entry, answering questions about it, pushes and pull table, key term check, video links and student opinion writing base dupon the conditions in Makoko.

This lesson focuses on Africa’s mineral wealth and how that doesn’t always translate to financial wealth. This includes an image analysis task, gap fill, categorising factors in terms of social, economic and environmental factors.

A lesson to fight the stereotype that all of the continent is poor. This includes an image analysis using 8 way thinking, data comparison table and the use of GapMinder’s Dollar Street to look at real families.

A brief history of Africa focusing on colonialism. Image analysis focusing on the scramble for Africa, a tarsia of key terms, a reading activity with comprehension questions and a modern focus on the DRC and how colonialism is still impacting it today.

This lesson focuses on the reasons for the climate of Africa (Hot & dry and hot & wet). This is followed by climate graph interpretation questions. The difficulties of living in a hot and dry and environment and animal adaptations.

The introductory lesson for the KS3 unit on Africa. this starts with a quiz in which all answers are Africa. Students then complete Atlas work, graph continent sizes, work out population density and compare continents focusing on sentence structures.

6 Knowledge Organisers for AS Geography (Cambridge Curriculum). Units include: Population Migration Settlement Rivers Atmosphere & Weathering Rocks and Weathering All Knowledge Organisers come in Publisher and PDF formats and have duplicate pages with gap fills and chunks removed for revision practice.

CIE syllabus resources of A2 Geography, units include: Hazardous Environments Coastal Environments Economic Transition Global Interdependence Each Knowledge Organiser includes a duplicate page with gaps missing and another with chunks of text removed which can be used for revision practice. Knowledge Organisers arep posted in PDF and Publisher formats.

Knowledge Organisers for 11 units for IGCSE Geography, these could eaily be used for GCSE too. I have posted both Publisher and PDF files. All Knowledge Organisers come with a copy with gaps to fill and another copy with large chunk missing for revision practice.

This lesson investigates the collapse of civilization on Easter Island. It starts with a structured activity describing the location of the island and its physical geography using maps as source material. Some key terms are then introduced and ideally added to their glossary (if they have one). A short YouTube video is watched and a text is read providing information on the collapse of civilization, students then answer 5 questions. They then complete a table in which they explain how each different factor made life more and more difficult for people to live on the island. Finally as an extension tasks students apply the lesson learned from Easter Island to our modern day way of life and the way we are exploiting our resources.

This lesson investigates food webs through various activities starting with a think, pair, share activity then a gap fill activity of trophic layers and terminology followed by a table with trophic layers in which students are given species which they must then place in the correct column, a key terms matching exercise, 4 questions about food webs, students then draw their own food web with given organisms and then finally answer the inquiry question.

This lesson uses GIS with step by step instructions so that students can measure the erosion of the coast and then plot this on a graph using Google Sheets. This is done by overlapping a historic map with current satellite imagery and measuring the difference. This can be attempted by a student who has never used ArcGIS before.

This lesson goes through the basics; including a gapfill on background information, comprehension questions related to the gapfill worksheet and a YouTube video, latitud i s explained through diagrams and then there is a plotting exercise in which natural disasters of the 21st Century and major news stories are plotted on a map also includes answers.

This years competition title is ‘The World Beyond My Window’. This resource was taught through online teaching to KS3 & KS4 but can easily be set as a task on Google Classroom or any equivalent. It includes a planning sheet, step by step instruction, examples, a mark scheme and checklist. There is a simple and a more comprehensive set of instructions depending upon the level of the students.

A Geographer’s look at the virus which should take 2 periods, it includes: A gap fill activity on zoonotic diseases. Nine question sin response to a short reading activity and 8 minute YouTube video. Plotting Countries with former outbreaks of zoonotic diseases on a world map. Discussion question related to globalisation and viruses. Describing the distribution of Covid-19 in Europe with peer assessment guide. Preventing further outbreaks questions in response to a series of GIFs showing different approaches countries can take to an outbreak. Final question directed at could this kind of outbreak occur in the UK?

This lesson investigates how farming has modernised. The lesson starts by looking at the 3 sectors; primary, secondary and tertiary and students plot data onto triangular graphs. Students look at the use of fallow land and how and why it should be used. Students then have a range of images on the slides which can be printed off and then they explain how farming has changed over time.