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I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront. Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.

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I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront. Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
Scale and Distance
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Scale and Distance

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A fully resourced lesson where students are introduced to the skill of measuring scale. It also includes an idea for a class practical on scale, where they have to measure out and scale the classroom itself!
Charities
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Charities

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on charities. This contains a set of activities to meet the following objectives: To describe what a charity is. To explain the reasons why people give money to charity. To evaluate whether it is any less moral to give money to charities abroad than at home. This resource has been adapted from an excellent resource by 'Charity Choice' which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/charity-choice-1-hour-citizenship-lesson-plan-6051322
The Simpsons Grid References Worksheet
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The Simpsons Grid References Worksheet

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This worksheet requires pupils to give four-figure and six-figure grid references on various locations featured in the Simpsons. It also includes a section on describing routes between places. Feedback is always appreciated.
How the Media influences our ideas
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How the Media influences our ideas

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This lesson focuses on the different ways in the mass media influences our values, whether that be in a positive or negative manner. This is designed to take place over two 50-minute lessons.
Coastal Map Skills
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Coastal Map Skills

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on map skills aimed at a GCSE class, namely four-figure grid references and scale. The main part of the lesson involves students annotating an O.S. map with its physical and human features, and then carrying out a range of exercises to practice the use of four-figure grid references and scale. Although this lesson is aimed to be included within the unit ‘Distinctive Landscapes’, it can be easily adapted to suit the needs of any Geography GCSE specification. Learning Objectives: To identify a range of physical and human features from an Ordnance Survey map. To demonstrate a range of map skills.
The Four Noble Truths
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The Four Noble Truths

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A lesson on the Four Noble Truths that aims to take a different direction to other lessons posted on TES. It focuses on whether they adequately explain why there is suffering in the world. Please comment for feedback.
Climate Graphs
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Climate Graphs

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how to construct climate graphs. The instructions contained on the slides are from another user on TES, so I simply adapted a starter activity and added pictures and a guide sheet to further support students in this process. Feedback is always appreciated. Learning Objectives: To be able to construct a climate graph. To extract information from the graph and use it to explain climate.
What Are Religious Experiences
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What Are Religious Experiences

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on religious experiences aimed predominantly at KS3 students. I have adapted previous material uploaded onto TES and included some of my own also. Learning Objectives: To describe the different types of religious experience. To assess the evidence for religious experiences. To evaluate whether or not they provide convincing proof for the existence of God.
The Via Negativa
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The Via Negativa

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the via negativa. The main part of the lesson involves a set of discussion tasks and short written tasks to understand how the via negativa works, from which they then produce fact files on how three different scholars (including Aquinas) have contributed to the argument, leading to an evaluation task where students generate their own arguments for and against the via negativa 'providing the only the true way to understand God'. Some ideas have been borrowed from other contributions on TES, to whom I am very grateful. Learning Objectives: To describe how the Via Negativa approach works. To explain how scholars have supported this approach to describing God. To evaluate the effectiveness of this approach.
Aquinas and Analogy
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Aquinas and Analogy

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on why and how Aquinas believed analogy provided the only meaningful way to describe God. It contains a series of short discussion and written exercises to meet the following objectives: To outline why Aquinas rejected the use of using univocal and equivocal language to describe God. To explain why Aquinas believed analogy could help us to describe God. To evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
Sustainability Starter
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Sustainability Starter

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This is an active starter for pupils when introducing the topic of sustainability. INSTRUCTIONS: Walk around the room finding students who match up to one of these sustainability statements, and then get their signature in the square The first one to get BINGO (horizontal, vertical, diagonal) wins! FEEDBACK: What have you learnt about yourself or other people from this experience? What do all these statements have in common? Why are these things important? Suggest what you think the word ‘sustainability’ means
Religious Experience Revision Lesson
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Religious Experience Revision Lesson

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated observation revision lesson on religious experiences, aimed at the new OCR AS Religious Studies A-Level. Learning Objectives: To explain philosophical viewpoints towards religious experiences. To assess the strengths and weaknesses of their views. To evaluate whether God provides the best explanation for religious experiences.
How successful is the verification principle?
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How successful is the verification principle?

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This 50 minute lesson addresses A.J. Ayer's response to criticism from his strong and weak verification in the form of direct and indirect verification, then explores the strengths and weaknesses of the verification principle. In the plenary an evaluation of its relative success is discussed. Constructive feedback would be a bonus.
What are your attitudes to money
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What are your attitudes to money

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This lesson focuses on people's attitudes to money, then explores their own. It is a lesson that can be taught on its own, or as part of a wider unit on wealth and poverty.
Rock Cycle
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Rock Cycle

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This is a fully resourced and differentiated lesson on the Rock Cycle for KS3. It is a combination of adapted resources and some of my own. In particular, it includes several back-up activities due to the difficulties that some students can have grasping the topic
How Is London Managing Traffic Congestion
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How Is London Managing Traffic Congestion

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how London is addressing the challenge (problem) of traffic congestion in the 21st Century. The main part of the lesson involves an information hunt where they complete a grid on the different techniques the city uses to manage traffic congestion, then they get creative designing their own invention that will help London reduce traffic congestion in the future (a video is included to help scaffold this task). Learning Objectives: To describe the different approaches London uses to manage traffic congestion. To explain their advantages and disadvantages. To explore how traffic congestion could be managed in the future.
London Terror Attacks
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London Terror Attacks

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A simple presentation used in my tutor group to explore what happened during the London terror attacks and how the UK government and the international community responded. It could easily be adapted to be used as an assembly.
Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP)
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Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP)

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This contains a full lesson on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project for WJEC Syllabus. Includes content on what makes a good area for a dam.\n\nWater project, water management, dams, hydroelectricity.
Volcano Worksheet
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Volcano Worksheet

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This worksheet covers the basics behind a volcano, namely covering its main components and key definitions.\n\nVolcano, Components, Magma Chamber, Lava, Magma