<p>This booklet is aimed for those students following the Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Geography A specification- but can easily be adapted for AQA or OCR</p> <p>The booklet supports the post-field trip write up by students - and can be used in class or set as an extended piece of home learning.</p> <p>It covers each step of the the ‘route to enquiry’ and will help prepare students for their Paper 3 examination.</p> <p>There is a PDF version - and also a Word-version so that you can tweak it to suit you own fieldwork requirements i.e. adaptable for different specifications.</p>

<p>KS3 Geography - “It’s Your Planet”<br /> Lesson 2: Where are the world’s countries, continents and oceans? (part 1 of 2 lessons)<br /> Fully-resourced lesson that includes:<br /> • Starter activity - Either a GEOG your memory (retrieval practice) task or self-assessment of home-learning task set previously<br /> • Main tasks 1-2: Building up a world map to show the continents and oceans<br /> • Main task 3: Atlas skills - adding the names of selected countries to the world map.<br /> • Silent and Sustained task: 10 short questions that require students to apply their learning from the world map activities.<br /> • Home Learning task: ‘Continents and Oceans’ consolidation activities plus extension - opportunity for further research.</p>

<p>Edexcel A - Paper 2 : Changing Cities</p> <p>This is the first lesson of the depth study of a major UK case study (the city of Leeds).</p> <p>The lesson is fully resourced with editable worksheets and learning materials.</p> <p>Structured lesson with clear KLQ (Key Learning Question), starter activity, student tasks, maths skills activities and SAS (silent and sustained) task in the form of practice exam questions</p> <p>Based upon the Edexcel A specification, but suitable for any GCSE Geography specification that requires a case study of a UK city.</p>

<p>A fully resourced scheme of work titled Dynamic Landscapes designed for Year 7 (KS3) – and the lessons reflect the requirements for Key Stage 3 National Curriculum.</p> <p>The topic covers the NC core content for Coasts, Rivers and Glaciation (we currently deliver KS3 over 2 years, which means that we have re-written these topics so that all 3 can be covered in one half-term).</p> <p>Each lesson has a clear Key Learning Question and is fully resourced with a:<br /> • PowerPoint presentation, worksheets, and activity sheets<br /> • Silent Starter activity e.g. low stakes quiz / retrieval practice<br /> • ‘Road map’ placing the lesson into context<br /> • ‘Silent and Sustained’ task to allow students time to demonstrate K+U and apply what they have learnt<br /> • Home-learning tasks</p> <p>Every 5-6 lessons, there is a planned ‘Learning Checkpoint’ – 10-minute formative assessment designed to check progress.</p> <p>At the end of the topic, there is a planned revision lesson, followed by a summative assessment that is ramped in difficulty (with accompanying mark scheme).</p> <p>The final lesson in the topic is a ‘Reflection lesson’ where students complete a KS3-friendly ‘exam wrapper- ‘style sheet to evaluate their own performance – and think about areas for improvements going into the next topic.</p>

<p>A fully resourced scheme of work titled ‘It’s My Planet’ designed for Year 7 (KS3) – and the lessons reflect the requirements for Key Stage 3 National Curriculum.<br /> The topic begins with a sequence of lessons where students learn about what Geography is – and where the world’s continents, countries and cities are located (using various geographical skills, including atlas skills and longitude / latitude).</p> <p>Students then complete a series of mini case-studies, learning about different parts of the world – developing their understanding for the subject.<br /> Each lesson has a clear Key Learning Question and is fully resourced with a:</p> <p>• PowerPoint presentation, worksheets, and activity sheets<br /> • Silent Starter activity e.g. low stakes quiz / retrieval practice<br /> • ‘Road map’ placing the lesson into context<br /> • ‘Silent and Sustained’ task to allow students time to demonstrate K+U and apply what they have learnt<br /> • Home-learning task</p> <p>Every 5-6 lessons, there is a planned ‘Learning Checkpoint’ – 10-minute formative assessment designed to check progress.</p> <p>At the end of the topic, there is a planned revision lesson, followed by a summative assessment that is ramped in difficulty (with accompanying mark scheme).</p> <p>The final lesson in the topic is a ‘Reflection lesson’ where students complete a KS3-friendly ‘exam wrapper- ‘style sheet to evaluate their own performance – and think about areas for improvements going into the next topic.</p>

<p>A fully resourced scheme of work titled Being A Geographer designed for Year 7 as a bridging unit between KS2 and KS3, covering a number of the geographical skills-based requirements for Key Stage 3 National Curriculum.<br /> The topic covers the content for atlas maps, OS maps, mental maps etc and a consideration of the different ‘strands’ of Geography.<br /> Each lesson has a clear Key Learning Question and is fully resourced with a:<br /> • PowerPoint presentation, worksheets, and activity sheets<br /> • Silent Starter activity e.g. low stakes quiz / retrieval practice<br /> • ‘Topic/Road map’ placing the lesson into context<br /> • ‘Silent and Sustained’ task to allow students time to demonstrate K+U and apply what they have learnt<br /> • Home-learning tasks<br /> Every 5-6 lessons, there is a planned ‘Learning Checkpoint’ – 10-minute formative assessment designed to check progress.<br /> At the end of the topic, there is a planned revision lesson, followed by a summative assessment that is ramped in difficulty (with accompanying mark scheme).<br /> The final lesson in the topic is a ‘Reflection lesson’ where students complete a KS3-friendly ‘exam wrapper- ‘style sheet to evaluate their own performance – and think about areas for improvements going into the next topic.</p>

<p>GCSE Geography - Edexcel A <strong>“Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Management”</strong></p> <p>Lesson 2: How does climate, soils and altitude influence the distribution of large-scale ecosystems?</p> <p>Fully-resourced lesson that includes:<br /> • Silent starter activity - map interpretation activity<br /> • Main task 1: Completion of a mind map about how different physical factors affect the distribution of large-scale ecosystems<br /> • Main task 2: Photo/Fact-file carousel activity where students work in pairs/independently to complete an information table<br /> • Silent and Sustained task: Exam-style ‘maths’ questions linked to climate data for a Tropical Rainforest, followed by the setting of a home learning task that requires studesnts to compare climate graphs for different forest biomes.</p>

<p>A set of 8 manage mats (for a class of up to 32 students). Each mat has a different combination of colours, letters and numbers to facilitate the selection f different groupings of students.</p>

<p>Curriculum intent statement for Geography - fits on one side of A4.</p> <p>This resource is written for an 11-16 secondary with a 3-year KS4, but can easily be tweaked to suit an 11-18 institution and/or 2-year KS4.</p> <p>It is divided up into ‘curriculum vision’ and ‘curriculum rationale’, with footnotes of links to key documentation (e.g. D of E’s National Curriculum and the GCSE specification).</p>

<p>Aimed at students following teh Pearson Edexcel GCSE Geography (9-1) specification.</p> <p>Homework activity linked to Key idea 1.1: &quot;There are geological variations within the UK’.</p> <p>All resources for this activity are included - can be set as a stand-alone activity</p>

<p>GCSE Geography - Edexcel A<br /> “<strong>Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Management</strong>”<br /> Lesson 1: Where are the world’s large-scale ecosystems and what are they like?</p> <p>Fully-resourced lesson that includes:</p> <ul> <li>Silent starter activity - key word match-up</li> <li>Main task 1: Describing a choropleth map that show sthe global distribution of large-scale ecosystems (differentiated - ‘fill in the gaps’ sheet included)</li> <li>Main task 2: Create a factfile about each large-scale ecosystem</li> <li>Silent and Sustained task to apply learning: 3 x exam-style questions (+answers / students to self- or peer-asses)</li> </ul>

<p>KS3 Geography - “It’s My Planet”</p> <p>Lesson 3: Where are the world’s countries, continents and oceans? (lesson 2 of 2)</p> <p>Fully-resourced lesson that includes:<br /> • Silent starter activity - RAG-rated retrieval quiz or self-assess Home Learning<br /> • Teacher-led introduction into latitude and longitude<br /> • Main task 1: Check on understanding (using mini-whiteboards)<br /> • Main task 2: Students use an atlas to locate 24 countries using lines of latitude and longitude<br /> • Silent and Sustained task: application of K+U (self- or peer-marking)<br /> • New Home Learning set - atlas skills crossword</p>

<p>Starter / plenary activity that may be used to recap key terms used in the GCSE Geography ‘Changing Cities’ topic</p>

<p>Learning and development statements of progress based upon the standard expected at the end of Key Stage 3</p>