I'm a Head of Geography at a 11-16 secondary school in Leicestershire, UK. I enjoy creating lessons that students enjoy - so you will not find reams of text on the board for them to read or for you to transmit. I believe in a range of engaging activities per lesson.
I'm a Head of Geography at a 11-16 secondary school in Leicestershire, UK. I enjoy creating lessons that students enjoy - so you will not find reams of text on the board for them to read or for you to transmit. I believe in a range of engaging activities per lesson.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson examines the different types of aid, their intended use and includes a mini-decision making exercise.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson uses the example of Kiva.com, a peer-to-peer microfinance lending platform to investigate the processes and impacts of microfinance.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson examines the impacts of globalisation upon Kenya, an LIC.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson deeply examines the positive and negative impacts of globalisation on Vietnam through graph analysis and the use of a ‘jigsaw’ activity where pupils deconstruct a series of “so what” chain of reasoning
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson uses Nike as an example of a MNC, the issue of out-sourcing and the advantages/disadvantages of MNCs for the company, the worker and the host-country.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson examines the patterns of trade in the UK, Vietnam and Kenya (as our HIC/NIC/LIC) through a series of high-quality information sheets to guide research.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson examines the issue of inequality in the context of globalisation. It examines how the countries we will study (specifically in this case, UK and Vietnam) have been affected by globalisation. It includes an exam question and map analysis.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson examines the drivers of globalisation:
Cultural exchange
Multi-national corporations
Migration
Technology
Geopolitics
Trade
…and examines the issues of containerisation and cultural harmogenisation.
This is part of a scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. This lesson includes a short video from Pumpkin Interactive explaining the use of the Fairtrade Premium which is NOT included in this purchase. However, there is a YouTube link supplied to a similar video which will allow the lesson to be taught using this.
The lesson focuses on the key aspects of Fairtrade and the impacts and uses of the Fairtrade Premium. It also examines how Fairtrade can disadvantage non-Fairtrade farmers on the longer term and lead to embedded poverty.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lessons examines the impacts of trade (using chocolate as an example). inequalities in the states of production and issues of protectionism.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson introduces the concept of trade and the multitude of keywords associated with it. It then moves on to examine the some of the impacts of trade upon development using cocoa as an example. The lesson introduces the UK, Vietnam and Kenya as the HIC/NIC/LIC to be used for the remainder of this unit.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson introduced the sustainable development goals and asks how they can be used to improve living conditions and quality of life around the world. It also includes the cycle of poverty and structured practice at an extended-answer 8-mark question.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson introduces the concept of employment sectors and examines how we can use these to judge rates of develoment, or more accurately, how these affect levels of development. The lesson includes a step-by-step construction of the dreaded ‘triangular graph’ that Eduqas include in the specification.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson introduces HDI in the context of the enquiry process (specifically, developing a hypothesis and testing correlation on a scatter graph).
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This lesson introduced the social development indicators and utilises the “so what” elaboration technique to ask pupils to interrogate what each might tell us. It also examines the concepts of relative and absolute poverty.
This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box.
This resources is a two-lesson sequence introducing the concept of economic development and asks pupils to handle data and create a map of selected countries based upon their GNI per capita. It then asks pupils to draw conclusions about the method (i.e. is there sufficient evidence) and, once the full map has been provided, patterns of economic development around the world. The lesson also includes the visual schema for this unit.
This is a set of 15 lessons designed for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification easily adapted for all other specification. Students are introduced to Sydney as a global/world city and take an enquiry-based approach to each lesson. The unit covers the growth of Sydney, the aboriginal population, socioeconomics (Sydney vs. the rest of Australia, also divergence within Sydney), the transport issues and solutions, the water supply issues and solutions, an environmental issue and solutions, the housing issues and outcomes (increased density) and finally the proposed 3-Cities plan to divide Sydney into three seperate cities, each with a “30-minute lifestyle”.
My lessons are ready to teach and fully resources, including video links. There is a range of teaching and learning activities so students will not get bored.
Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney.
This lesson examines the 3-Cities plan to divide Sydney into a harbour city, a river city and a parkland city and to achieve a “30-minute” lifestyle within each to solve the urban problems identified earlier in this unit.
Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney.
This lesson introduces the concept of earnings/house price ratio. Pupils examine how economic prosperity has acted as a pull factor to international migrants, increasing Sydney’s population and increasing house prices. Students develop a chain of reasoning to explain this (and develop extended writing exam skills as a result). They then examine a range of attitudes held by different stakeholders to the impacts of the housing crisis in Sydney
Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney.
This lesson examines the four ways that Sydney seeks to achieve water security (desalinsation, dams, efficiency, recycling) and students complete a high-tariff exam question (“To what extent do you agree…”) using a structured pro-forma to develop extended-answer skills.
