This is the third of three themed lessons supporting the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. This final lesson considers the sustainability of the Olympics. It involved information about how the Paris Olympics will attempt to be sustainable. There are links to short clips, a student handout, information sheets and an interactive pollster plenary activity (runs in Microsoft Excel).
The lesson aims are:
To define sustainability and use key terms associated with sustainability
To identify sustainability strategies used in the Paris Summer Olympics
To evaluate sustainability strategies used in the Paris Summer Olympics
A collection of 20 NEA titles and key questions used over several years. These can be used for students who are struggling to think of what to study. The resource is very focused on Changing Places so there are many place study titles.
Includes 3 lessons:
Medals - looks at the success of countries and compares this with level of development.
Venues - uses maps to look at where the Summer Olympic venues will be located.
Sustainability - evaluates the attempts at sustainability for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
All resources included. There is at least one handout for each lesson, links to relevant video clips and a Microsoft Excel interactive pollster for lesson 3.
2 x hour long lessons based on Race Across the World. The lessons develop geographical skills in a fun way. All of the resources you need are included:
2 x PowerPoints to guide through the lessons, with answers in the notes section
2 x sets of job adverts with answers in the notes section
2 x student printable worksheets
All instructions are on the slides, so it should be super-easy to manage.
Two lessons around the theme of Channel 4’s Hunted series. Can be used as end of term or skills based activities. All resources are given, including three worksheets, all answers to activities and several embedded video clips. The two lesson PowerPoints are provided as links to files on a cloud as they contain several clips so are too large for TES file size restrictions.
This is the second of three themed lessons supporting the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. This second lesson analyses the location of the Olympic venues. It involves analysis and interpretation of maps. There is a student information sheet and student handout to support the lesson.
The lesson aims are:
To locate the Summer Olympic venues on maps of France
To describe the distribution of the Summer Olympic venues.
To explain opportunities and challenges associated with the Summer Olympic Venues
This is the first of three themed lessons supporting the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. This first lesson analyses the countries that have won Olympic medals in the past. It involves analysis of data and graphs. There is a student handout to support the lesson.
The lesson aims are:
To identify patterns within the Summer Olympics medal counts.
To evaluate different types of graphs.
To explain why new sports are being introduced into the Summer Olympics and how this might affect some countries.
A tick sheet designed to allow students to self and peer assess their NEA prior to the teacher marking the work. The list has been written to align with the mark scheme.
Complete lesson on mangroves. The lesson looks at:
What are mangroves?
What is the global distribution of mangroves?
Why have mangroves been destroyed?
Why are mangroves important?
It then finishes with a decision-making exercise, where students are given information about mangrove restoration in Indonesia, and they must plan a strategy for restoring areas of mangrove.
There is a true/false plenary quiz at the very end.
The lesson will easily last for 1 hour, and could be made to last longer.
Complete pack for 3 day residential fieldwork to Blackpool.
Contains student sheets for each day, teacher guidance for each day, driver information, even which activities to undertake whilst there.
AQA A Level Changing Places and Coasts.
Year 11 to 12 summer bridging pack. Contains activities to set up the AQA A Level Changing Places module. Resources created by AQA CUP textbook author.
Accompanying video found here: https://youtu.be/NlfH8-GV0Zw
KS3 Mystery Series - complete lesson.
You’ll also need the following PowerPoint, which is too big to upload here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Pa5ccxhAWCqHRNCyAoPzZnp3Gx7nTOoJ/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=112920825410690375694&rtpof=true&sd=true
KS3 Geography mystery. Complete lesson.
You need the main lesson, which is too big to upload here. Download from: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gylr10xWQhkWiQ8MD-TPql3gzI92WKEt/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=112920825410690375694&rtpof=true&sd=true
Set of 40 quick-response questions, linked to the different sections of the A Level spec, plus answers. Can be used for independent or in class revision.
Set of 72 quick-response questions, linked to the different sections of the A Level spec, plus answers. Can be used for independent or in class revision.
KS3 Geography mystery. Complete lesson.
You need the main lesson, which is too big to upload here. Download it from: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MWVoHLAFC9DI0jSmaBzg4oZMpU9_YIVP/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=112920825410690375694&rtpof=true&sd=true
KS3 Ocean Life Adaptation - Complete lesson and handout.
This lesson looks at how different species have adapted to life in the ocean. It contains a starter, 2 mains tasks (one to match up adaptations with species and photos, and another to design an ‘ultimate ocean species’, and a plenary, which uses a clip from Blue Planet II.
All answers are in the PowerPoint footnotes. Lesson will easily last for an hour, but can be extended much longer due to the nature of the second task.