Extended writing assessment on the factors that affect development in Africa.
Files include:
Question: Outline and explain three reasons why many countries in Africa are experiencing extreme poverty (15 marks)
Modelled paragraph
Facts which students can use to support their points.
Answer sheet
Marking Grid
The aim is to get students to match the facts to the factors affecting development e.g. conflict, colonialism, physical geography and then thoroughly develop their explanations.
Includes:
Success Criteria for Students
Marking Grid for ease of marking for teachers
Feedback sheet with differentiated DIRT activities to be selected by teacher.
Used as a half term homework project alongside a unit on Africa but could be used with any region as success criteria is not specific to a continent.
Complete data collection work booklet for students with 4 data collection methods:
Pedestrian counts
EQIs
Questionnaires
Land use surveys
Includes background information on Brighton and map of sites visited- Sydney Street, Royal Pavilion Gardens, Pier, i360 and Clock tower.
Staff book includes detailed itinerary, space for student details which can be edited to fit, train times (from Purley- this can be edited to suit), detailed maps and routes and information on each site.
Can easily be followed by non-specialists and is an easy day trip to run from London with costings working out at £6.50 per student. This included train tickets and entrance to the pier. The entrance fee is only 50p per person if you contact them ahead of time and make a group booking!
Used with year 7 but could be edited to suit GCSE specifications.
An activity which gets students to develop their 4 mark answers for the AQA A Level Geography topic Changing Places.
I have often found students lack enough detail or fail to include examples in 4 mark answers.Therefore, I have developed this worksheet to help them revise key terms and link each to examples and theories they have learned about over the course. It also then gets them to create a 4 mark question which includes each of the key terms.
Useful as revision/consolidation
Instructions included
Example past exam questions included
Over 40 key terms included over 5 pages.
One page completed with model answers.
AQA A Level Changing Places: The impact of TNCs on Place.
A lesson looking at the impact of Tata Steel on Port Talbot, Wales.
Causes of job losses
Importance of steel works to community and identity
Role of UK government
Impacts of job losses
Video links, questions, news articles and other sources included for students to complete a case study sheet.
Homework task on deindustrialisation and the cycle of deprivation
A follow up from lesson on the North South Divide which looks more closely at the causes and effects of decline.
Photo analysis of representations
Video
Reading with questions (answers provided)
Analysis of socio-economic profile for Blackpool
A lesson looking at the causes and effects of social and spatial exclusion. Examples of Palestine and North Kensington.
AQA A Level Geography Spec Link:
4.1 The importance of the meanings and representations attached to places by people with a particular focus on people’s lived experience of place in the past and present.
4.2 How humans perceive, engage with and form attachments to places and how they present and represent the world to others, including the way in which everyday place meanings are bound up with different identities, perspectives and experiences.
Links to videos, extra reading, questions, model answers all included. Also includes a workbook for answers.
Consolidation question:
Explain how a place can be interpreted differently by different groups of people and how this can lead to conflict. Use examples.
A secondary data geographical enquiry whereby students explore the demographic characteristics of their local area using census data.
Includes:
Key term list for the lesson
Web links and step by step instructions to source sites e.g. ONS website and Datashine
Modelled examples of how to describe data
Extension questions embedded throughout
Conclusion structure
Template for students to complete on google classroom.
Lesson will require individual laptop/computer access. Should cover 2-3 lessons.
Unit of lessons covering a range of contemporary human geography issues in the UK including…
Population distribution and cities
Ethnic diversity
Windrush migration
Changing Economy
The impact of austerity, cost of living crisis and the COVID pandemic on the population (Global)
North south Divide (National)
Inequality in London- Grenfell Tower (Regional)
Secondary data enquiry using census data (Local)
Differentiated learning objectives, tasks, scaffolding, stretch and challenge and model answers included.
Comprehensive key term list
Work book pages are included for all lessons apart from the secondary data enquiry as this needs to be completed on computers. These can be copied at pasted together along with the key terms to make a complete booklet.
Fully resourced lesson with differentiated learning objectives and model answers. Includes work book to complete tasks in.
Activities include
Describe wealth distribution in London
Explain reasons for links between life expectancy and wealth
Analysis of causes and effects of Grenfell tower and whether or not is is a symbol of inequality in London- video clips, questions, photos.
Differentiated extended writing questions
Differentiated Planning sheet
Model paragraph
Geography in the news
A fully resourced and differentiated lesson about how the Covid pandemic, cost of living crisis and austerity have impacted upon the life expectancy of the UK. Included work book to complete tasks in.
Includes differentiated reading activities, video links, activity looking at national and international causes of the cost of living crisis and activity where students rank the factors and justify their top choice.
Full lesson with differentiated tasks and work book.
Includes
What are the 4 employment sectors?
A look at how the economy has changed by watching segments of the Olympic opening ceremony
Video clips
Analysis of Clarke Fisher model and Pie charts to describe changes
Consolidation- explaining the changed
Extension- predicting future changes and suggesting advantages and disadvantages.
A lesson which introduces the Windrush generation.
Contains guidance for a research project including sources such as videos, books, podcasts and museums.
Taught as part of a geography SOW on the UK which coincides with Black History Month.
Full lesson with workbook and differentiated tasks.
Activities include:
Recap questions (starter)
Video on the census with multiple choice questions
Skills- activity to draw pie charts based on 2021 census data.
Activity to compare and contrast different regions of the UK
Extension: reading and questions on why London is so diverse.
First lesson in a SOW on the geography of the UK.
Fully differentiated with extension activities.
Includes-
Workbook to complete tasks in
Activity identifying the differences between the UK, GB and British Isles
Activity locating major cities in the UK
Extension activities
Choropleth actvity mapping population density of different regions of the UK
Extension activities
Two self marking, multiple choice Google Form quizzes on key terms and theories associated with the globalisation and global systems sections of the topic.
Editable.
16 questions in quiz 1
20 questions in quiz 2