Powerpoint and worksheet about the causes of Hurricane Katrina. Worksheet diagram to be completed through the lesson. Animations and videos. Differentiated question to check overall understanding.
Stalin’s record as a revolutionary before 1924
The power struggle within the Communist Party
‘Permanent revolution’ versus ‘socialism in one country’
Stalin’s defeat of Trotsky and the Left
Stalin’s defeat of the Right
Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates
Powerpoint and worksheets looking at the relief and geology of the UK's landscapes
Starter: video and dice-rolling activity about the rock cycle
main activities: 'Classifying rocks' worksheet (comparing formation, Moh's hardness and human uses) filled in as the pupils read and discuss the Powerpoint slides. Discussions to analyse a variety of linked physical maps. Mapwork to colour areas of granite and chalk, then to add the Tees-Exe Line (including the pattern of the age of rocks from the Grampians to the South Coast).
Differentiated questions about the links between geology/UK landscapes and how the Tees-Exe Line can help describe landscape distribution.
Plenary: further locational knowledge of UK upland landscapes
Eight page booklet : define rivers keywords, comparison of the Rivers Severn and Nile; a SPAG exercise about the Humber Estuary; a page to annotate a map of the Colorado to show the importance of the river basin; a moral dilemma based on the water conflict between the USA and Mexico; a look at the holiness of the Ganges; and finally research to find the etymology of British river names
Eight page booklet : define tectonic keywords, complete a fact file about the Tohoku Tsunami; SPAG exercise about Japan's seismicity; empathise with a parent, a businesswoman and a farmer from Japan after the disaster; a moral dilemma about the continued use of nuclear energy; a question about God's role in natural disasters; draw your own version of The Great Wave by Hokusai
Eight page booklet : define Geographical keywords; complete data file on China's Last Emperor; SPAG exercise about China's pollution; draw and analyse a graph of China's population; Moral decision comparing Communism and Capitalism; Cultural: copying Chinese characters for some Geographical words; drawing/colouring Chinese dragon and lion
A Level revision notes about ‘Top Girls’ by Caryl Churchill
Context
Feminism
Motherhood
The female body
Religion
Rebellion
Women’s roles
The state
Freedom
Hope
A Level revision notes
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Systems framework and their application
Water on planet Earth, Atmospheric water
Factors driving the change in magnitude of water stores
Drainage basin systems
Water balance
The storm (flood) hydrograph
Examples of how land use changes can affect the water cycle
The carbon cycle
Case study of a tropical rainforest setting- water and carbon in the Amazon
A Level revision notes
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Stalin’s economic aims after 1929: the great turn
Collectivisation and the war against the peasantry
Industrialisation: the first three Five-Year Plans
A Level revision notes
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The purges and the mechanisms of control
Soviet totalitarianism and its impact on culture and society
Stalin’s cult of personality
Stalin’s foreign policy 1933-41
A Level revision notes
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Nature of ecosystems
Food chains, trophic levels and food webs
Succession
Example of a terrestrial ecosystem in the UK- The chalk downlands of the South Downs
Climate change
Human exploitation of the global environment
Global trends in biodiversity
An example of a tropical coral reef system, the Jamaican coral reef
Biome 1- Tropical evergreen forest
Biome 2- The savannah grassland biome
Case study of a specified ecosystem at a local scale- The Sefton Coast sand dunes
A Level revision notes
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Regency of Somerset, 1547-49
Rule of Northumberland, 1549-53
Reign of Mary Tudor, 1553-58
Eight page booklet : define Geographical keywords; map countries and name their main exports; SPAG exercise about consumerism; find job titles to fit the four industrial sectors; moral dilemma about buying resources from developing countries; give own opinions about religious quotes regarding the environment; a question about our disposable society and new technology
Powerpoint and worksheets covering destructive plate margins and collision zones
Starter looks at the highest and tallest mountains on Earth, then compares them with Mons Olympus on Mars .
Destructive margins activity is a mystery, answering the question "Why are there a line of volcanoes down the western coast of South America?"
Collision zones activity answers the question "Why are there marine fossils on top of Mount Everest?"
Plenary looks at how the African-Eurasian margin has created the hills and valleys of south-east England
Includes video links and differentiated questions
Powerpoint and worksheets introducing the causes of tectonic movement.
Starter reviews pupils' prior knowledge of the structure of the Earth and then builds on this with an annotated divided bar graph of the Earth's layers.
Goes on to look at the role of convection, ridge push and slab pull using the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Iceland as Case Studies.
Includes video links and differentiated questions.
40 mark SDME assessment in the form of a Powerpoint with associated resources
Background: Why does Holderness suffer from severe coastal erosion? What are the advantages and disadvantages of halting erosion?
Options: Why has hard engineering used to defend Hornsea? Why is soft engineering gaining popularity?
Decision: Do nothing, retreat the line, hold the line or advance the line