8 lesson unit on the Middle East:
Includes:
Introduction
Physical Geography
Biomes and climates
Where do people live?
Who are the people of the Middle East
The Arabian Peninsula
Conflicts of the Middle East
Israel and Palestine
9 rounds with 100 questions on countries, flags, catchphrase puzzles, country outlines, animal geography,silly UK place names, European capitals famous landmarks, silly UK place names true or false and hidden countries. Each round has the answers provided as well as blank templates for student answer sheets.
The quiz is designed to be accessible by students of all abilities, with some more straight forward questions and others set o challenge the most able.
Unit of work comprising of 12 lessons. Starting off with what is a resource, looking at the issue of electricity generation, fossil fuels, renewable and non renewable energy sources and climate change.The unit contains an enquiry assessment task on wind farm location. Other ares included in the unit include the exploitation of Antarctica, endangered species and plastics in the oceans.
Each lesson has a lesson launch activities, success criteria and a variety of task. Where appropriate hyperlinks to video clips are included within the powerpoints.
6 lessons starting with the distribution of population and the major cities of the UK. Five lessons that focus on Manchester as a case study looking at social, economic and environmental challenge and opportunities, finishing with urban sustainability in Manchester. All lessons have imaginative lesson launches, activities, information, census data and maps, together with a number of hyperlinks to relevant you tube clips to support learning.
My attempt to put together a series of exemplar or model answers for the key topics that will come up on the Paper 1 Physical Geography examination. I have highlighted in the script of each answer how marks may be allocated for AO1, AO2 and AO3.
The booklet also includes a glossary of terms students could use as starter, connective and summary statements when answering this type of question. Also includes a few 6 mark topics too.
Bundle of four lessons looking at examples of extreme weather in the UK and then a detailed case study of the Somerset levels floods of 2014. The lesson include differentiated starter, success criteria, information, activities, hyperlinks to video clips and examples of examination questions and model answers.
A lesson I have used as a geography taster day activity for Year 5 or Year 6, but has also been used in primary school and in problem solving activity days. This resource has a lesson launch, homemade support video and playing cards. Students work in groups to decide how certain resources can be used to aid their survival chances on a desert island, and eventually assist in their escape or rescue. There is also a complete lesson plan and suggested answers to support the teacher.
14 lesson bundle that includes work on ecosystems such as ponds and hedgerows, Biome examples are of the Tropical rainforest and Hot desert. Rainforest lessons include case studies on Malaysia and Ecuador, whilst the hot desert case studies cover Sahel, Thar desert and Las Vegas. Each lesson includes lesson launch, success criteria, information, activities, hyperlinks to video clips and examples of extended writing question preparation. I have also added a past paper question homework booklet that supports the lessons.
A collection of 12 lessons introducing map skills. These include continents and oceans, latitude and longitude, OS map symbols, direction, four and six figure grid references, relief and contour lines and the use of scale. The unit includes work on the major countries of the worls and Europe, as well as human and physical features of the UK.
Each lesson has starter activities and success criteria, and is supported by activities and video clips.
10 lesson bundle to teach this section of Physical Landscapes in the UK. Includes lesson launches, success criteria, presentations, tasks and hyperlinks to video resources.
AQA GCSE (New spec) Changing economic world The changing UK economy. Unit of work.
8 lessons included in this unit of work. Includes lesson presentations, resources, activities and questions along with video hyperlinks examining many of the current issues covered.
10 lessons that cover the topic of Tectonic hazards in detail. Includes case study work on Nepal, Chile,Iceland, California, Montserrat and the Indian Ocean tsunami. All lessons have starters, information and questions or activities. Includes hyperlinks to video clips where appropriate, and includes some specimen examination questions with mark schemes.
AQA GCSE (New spec) The development gap. 15 lessons in this unit of work. Includes power point lessons, activities and questions, video hyperlinks and a past paper homework booklet to support the unit.
GCSE unit of 8 lessons covering urbanisation, Megacities and the Rio de Janeiro case study in full.
The presentations include, starter activities, success criteria, original activities and others adapted from the text. The presentation also includes a number of hyperlinks to video clips. If you don't want to have to plan your own lessons, these presentations are ready to be used in the classroom.
Twenty lesson unit of work, covering erosion and weathering, glaciation, rivers and coasts. Designed to support the delivery of these topics at GCSE by laying sound foundations of key aspects of those units.
Lessons all have a lesson launch, success criteria, a variety of activities and some hyperlinks to useful video clips.
A 20 lesson bundle covering all aspects of the AQA River landscapes unit of work. Lessons include starter activities, success criteria, information, activities, video clip hyperlinks and examples of extended 9 point questions. Case studies include: Banbury, Cumbria floods of 2009 and 2015, River Severn and the River Tees. Relevant skills activities are also included in a number of the lessons.
15 lessons included in this unit, which looks at the colonial past of Africa, political and physical geography. The unit Introduces the topic of biomes in the continent, before looking at the topic of development and inequality. Lessons include the DTM, population pyramids, development indicators game, employment stuctures and touches on the issue of health with a lesson on Malaria. Case study focus is on Kenya, which again looks at physical and human geography, urbanisation and settlement.
There is also a homework booklet included.
Series of 7 lessons that looks at ice ages, glaciers, glacial processes, erosional features, OS map work of glaciated landscapes and conflicts in glaciated landscapes.
The lessons include starter activities with answers, information slides, a variety of activities, video hyperlinks and plenary tests.
Lesson that includes a lesson launch on the factors that can increase the risk of flooding, plus a stickability exercise on extreme weather in the UK.
Tasks include questions responding to text about the storm, questions relating to maps of the area along the River Severn hit by flooding from the storm. A number of video clips and questions relating to these that help to build up a case study of causes, effects and responses.
