Resources for teaching map skills to year 7 covering a range of skills Activities have been collated from a variety of free resources over the years - I'm sharing this SoW to help others with planning and resourcing. If there is work of yours I will happily credit it in the resource description, just let me know. Topics covered Longitude and latitude 4 and 6 figure grid references (some resources adapted from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/4-and-6-figure-grid-references-6373196) Map symbols Scale (some resources adapted https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/what-is-scale-6169040 and https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/scale-drawing-and-maps-6280918) Height

An atlas based lesson to develop the use of an atlas for finding information. The lesson was created for a high abiity year 7 set and I have therefore also attached an atlas challenge for lower ability/younger groups.

Resources for discovering physical and human features of Britain. Sort and map the features of our landscape.

Lesson 1 - What is Brazil like? Lesson 2 - Main physical features of Brazil Lesson 3 - Climate of Brazil Lesson 4 - Ecosystems of Brazil Any references to books will be to Geog.2 For any mentioned video either the word 'video' will be hyper-linked or the picture on the slide will be. PM me if you would like more of the resources for this scheme of work.

Powerpoint and card sort on the different types of pollution. This was designed for a Set 3 group with a wide range of abilities (right from 2a to 5c) and they loved the Simpson theme throughout the lesson. The card sort was given to the pupils as just the images, types of pollution and the sources then as the higher ability completed it they were given the effects to sort. The lower ability students were given very simple effect cards with two or three words on each but I'm unable to find that document to add to the resource

A sentence starter and connectives mat to support learners with literacy. Created in particular for KS3 but could be used with a variety of year groups.

This is a work in progress and has been created through collaboration with a number of teachers from both geography and history as part of online collaboration. Criteria may well change once the new GCSE grade descriptors are produced fro Geography and History but this is a starting point for others in the blue. This isn't definitive and is just an outline for assessment until greater detail has been provided by exam boards.

Mini-test on rivers with answer sheet to aid self or peer assessment. River Features Key Processes Types of Erosion Long Profile Transportation Processes

A simple grid to provide feedback to students on a piece of work or work from several lessons. I use two highlighters - one for successes and another for next steps. How to use Change the topic title. Work out the success criteria for the work and fill in the successes section. Use the success criteria to create next steps criteria. Provide students with the marking and feedback grid as success criteria for the task or series of lessons. As students work have discussions with them on what they've achieved so far and what they could do to improve. At this stage I tend to highlight the successes and put an asterisk in the box of successes that they should try and do next. Mark the remainder of the work, highlighting successes in one colour and the 'next steps' in another. DIRT - give students an opportunity to complete the 'next steps' you've highlighted. I tend not to give out the merits or grade until DIRT has been undertaken. Students can use the marking and feedback grid to self and peer assess as well.

A selection of cards for positive and negative behaviour. I print the positive behaviours on green and the ones for negative behaviour on red. The negative behaviour cards rather than tell the pupil what they are doing wrong give the instruction for the alternative action that is expected. e.g. If they are talking over the teacher, card says listen when others speak. If a pupil recieves 3 red cards a sanction is issued. If a pupil recieves 3 green cards a reward is issued.

A complete the table activity on the passage of a depression. Ideally used after watching a video. Pupils given the worksheet with the table and the diagram. They must then place the cards onto the table to complete it. Some parts of the table have been filled in but you could remove these or change the words on the cards for differentation purposes.

18 ideas for marking, feedback and DIRT #FeedbackNOTmarking Clearly presented and ready for a CPD session. Lots of ideas to improve feedback and reduce time spent marking.

Fully resourced Humanities Scheme of Work on the Romans and Pompeii. Differentiated resources included. Not all my resources - they've been collected over the years. Please feel free to claim credit and I will add credit for resources here.

A lesson on characteristic features of Britain and the British culture. Differentiation - Card sort activity with characters to stretch and challenge the more able.

This is a fully resourced scheme of work adapting resources from variety of freely shared sources. The majority of resources were adapted from AllyUganda's fantastic Adventure and Exploration SoW - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sow-geography-and-adventure-6434814 I am sharing these lessons and resources to help others with their planning. Learning Matrix - I currently use these to record student progress over the term. Students put them in the front of their books and the criteria is highlighted yellow as they achieve it. If I'd like them to try and do a particular criteria it is highlighted pink, once achieved it is ticked off. Set 1 completed the SoW as a project, they used the learning matrix as a guide and provided feedback to one another at the end of the term using the project feedback sheet.

A 6x6 grid for encouraging students to get to know one another. Great for year 7 forms or new form groups. How to use Students need dice. In pairs they roll the dice to determine the cell coordinates. A student then asks the question in the cell and the other/s answer it. It could be printed off and laminated or simply displayed using a projector.

This is a lesson I did for year 6's during transition week to help develop atlas skills and knowledge of places. Pupils used the atlas to create a fact file on the country of their choice on the back of the balloon outline. They then drew the flag on the balloon. Once complete they cut them out and hung them on a 'washing line&' in alphabetical order. This required them to look at the factfile to find out the country represented by each flag.

Resource to help students understand and create a climate graph for Manaus, Brazil. Differentiated for lower ability students. Choice of extension task to develop interpretation and description of climate graphs.

This lesson works on encouraging pupils to think about what the world would be like if we ran out of fossil fuels. When I taught this most pupils thought about the problems that would arise from reduced fossil fuel availability but some started to discuss the positive options and future developments that might occur. Some of the ideas were inspiring. The pupils clearly understood the issues surrounding fossil fuels and the need for renewable energy. They really enjoyed the creative side of this.

Introduction unit of work to introduce year 7 to geography - looks at locating places, personal identify, scale of place & maps skills. Ideal for finding starting points of year 7 in their geographical knowledge. Can be used with lower year groups as well.