I am a secondary school Head of department and I love to teach engaging, vibrant and interesting lessons. I try to inspire students with what greets them when they come into my classroom and try to move away from the chalk and talk teacher at the front lessons and make learning interactive and fun!
I am a secondary school Head of department and I love to teach engaging, vibrant and interesting lessons. I try to inspire students with what greets them when they come into my classroom and try to move away from the chalk and talk teacher at the front lessons and make learning interactive and fun!
This lesson considers how Climate change is impacting small island developing nations (SIDS) as a detailed case study. Students follow the lesson to understand the key terms and then apply their knowledge to a case study on a summary sheet with additional notes to assist them in their answer. The case study sheet is structured to encourage students to complete a variety of exam skill such as explain and justify as well as basic AO1/4 skills.
There is also an examination question which can be used as a shared planning exercise or as a homework activity.
This lesson covers the reasons why some areas and people are more vulnerable to coastal hazards. There are a variety of activities such as a concept map and then students move on to the Thames Gateway.
There is an examination question that can be used for retention at he end of the lesson or homework, all print outs have been attached.
This is the second lesson in contrast to the Medmerry Hard Engineering lesson that follows a similar format for the students to compare.
Students have a starter match up activity followed by looking at the case study in detail and applying information from their resource packs to complete a variety of AO1-3 questions.
Homework is an exam question to check their understanding. All resources attached and lesson. The case study sheets always work best on A3 so there is more space for students to complete extended writing.
This lesson introduces what a vulnerable coastline is and the types of management that maybe used at coast lines such as hard and soft engineering examples with key word prompts.
Lesson 1
There is some interactive board work to develop map skills including use of scale and annotation and then there is a case study task sheet to complete using a selection of resources from the revision guide (see TES shop) and an article.
There is a consolidation homework activity too with an exam question. All resources are attached and this is a the first in a sequence of lessons for this topic.
This literacy mat breaks down the assessment objectives for students for Eduqas Geography (but is similar to AQA and EdExcel AO's so would need a slight tweak). There are suggestions of how students answer each command words and how to respond to different question types.
On the back of the mat there are the key words associated with Theme 1 but this is adaptable for the unit that is being delivered.
There is also a course overview. Students should have these sheets A3 on their desk ideally laminated so that they can be used with whiteboard pens when completing exam questions as a class or as a walking talking mock.
This lesson can be used as a stand alone lesson or a continuation from the previous lesson on evidence and natural causes of climate change.
Students have the opportunity to complete an A04 examination question in addition to looking at a variety of research such as the carbon cycle, the transfers within the cycle and the Keeling Curve.
There is also a homework consolidation activity included.
This revision guide covers the following:
- River processes and landforms including erosion, transportation, deposition, meanders and waterfalls etc)
- Coastal processes and landforms including erosion, transportation, deposition, wave cut notches, platforms, headlands, bays, slumping, sand dunes, etc,
- Flooding including; causes, effects, responses, hydrographs and case study with management techniques
- Population in the UK including; ageing, rural, urban, commuting, issues in urban and rural areas.
- Sustainability in urban areas including; Egan's wheel, BedZED, green belts, urban renewal, case study on regeneration, changes to UK retail including online and out of town.
- Global cities and Mega Cities with case studies.
- Managing coastal areas including assessing vulnerability, hard and soft engineering, rising sea levels, coastal flooding, case studies (UK and international) and management strategies.
The revision guide largely follows the component 1 of the Eduqas course but the themes and topics are applicable to AQA and EdExcel too. The guide also runs alongside the lessons that can be found in my shop.
The price point reflects that multiple copies will be distributed and to your class and it took a long time to make, so far my classes have found it beneficial.
This lesson covers an overview to changing global temperatures where students describe the data on the graph. This is then followed by looking at the various sources of evidence for climate change and students evaluate each and consolidate this with an examination question.
Students then move on to look at natural causes of climate change and consider the validity of the theories.
Students then consolidate their learning with a series of examination questions.
These lessons all have the activities, lesson power points, homework and assessment opportunities in the form of exam questions, nothing for you to do but print.
The topics covered in this unit are:
- Drought (California)
- Hurricanes (Katrina)
- High and low pressure systems
- Microclimates
- Air masses that impact the UK
- Depressions and anticyclones
- Aspect and altitude
- Understanding Climate Change
- Natural evidence for climate change
- Greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle
- natural Theories of climate change
This is a two sided homework sheet with a research link to help students answer the material and stretch and challenge for additional reading matter.
There are a variety of tasks including map and photograph comparison exercises in addition to two short exam style questions.
Lesson, resources and homework all included. This is a double lesson that has a range of activities with all resources attached in addition to homework tasks that cover exam technique and retention.
Students learn and apply their understanding of anticyclones and depressions with application to real life examples.
This is lesson is in a sequence of lessons for this topic so please see other resources in the series.
This lesson covers the different air masses that affect the UK as well as key terms students have to decipher between weather and climate so that they understand the differences.
Students have to use the information cards to locate the air mass and its features and then apply this information to summary reports that can be peer mark. This is the first part in the lesson of what impacts weather and climate in the UK.
All resource are contained in addition to worksheets that can be adapted and all lesson and teaching materials.
This lesson contains the full planned lesson (covers two lessons) to explain the cause of droughts in California with a series of resources and activities for students to complete.
There is also a clip to show and a variety of map and data handling exercises including the homework activity. There is also a case study task sheet that works best with the information resources and printed as A3.
All resources are included.
As part of the extreme weather sequence this lesson covers the formation of hurricanes/cyclones and follows on from the work on the ITCZ in the previous lesson. Students complete activities including information extraction and a storyboard.
There is a homework on hurricane formation and the following lesson in the sequence will focus in on the case study of Hurricane Katrina.
This is a 22 page booklet summarising the Eduqas course from September that supports all of the Eduqas lessons (see shop) that I have published. The booklet is self contained as a revision document and there is also the addition of case study summary sheets included.
The Urban-Rural links, distinctive landscapes and extreme weather sections are all covered and the activities are varied throughout.
This booklet has the hypothesis, method, geographical application of a transect, instructions, equipment list and recording charts for students to complete this task in the field.
Students can use this for any suitable location where there are sand dunes and there is also a vegetation analysis chart that has been added for species identification purposes.
This is the first lesson in the sequence on extreme weather. The first lesson is looking at what the global patterns are, understanding key terms, developing understanding about the ITCZ using diagrams and flowcharts in addition to a homework consolidation exercise.
This bundle contains all of the lesson power points, activities, homework's, exam practice and all you need to do it print and go!
Lessons can all be purchased individually however he bundle is a bargain and all planning is done for a full unit of work!
Each of these packs attached contain one or two lessons worth (there are 14 lessons in total but some of them are both lessons on one power point) and all of the resources that go with that lesson are attached to that download link so it makes it easier to prepare.
This would cost £31.50 purchased as individual lessons!
This pack spans over two lessons, there are several different resources to be printed and all contained in the pack in addition there is a homework task that has structure of an examination style question writing frame.
There are a variety of activities and skills needed that follow the specification and cover the last part in the sequence of lessons (see other lessons or bundle) for Population and Urban change.
This document covers all of the skills as specified in the examination for the Unit 2 and 4a examinations, it gives examples, visuals descriptions and evaluates the use and suggests an application for each of the presentation methods.
Really good as a revision took for skills as students struggle to apply revision to these examinations. The skills and statistical techniques for A2 only are highlighted on the grid.