I'm a Geography teacher with experience educating at various levels, ranging from mainstream schools, SEN and extra-curricular tuition. I also have experience in teaching humanities, English and PSHE topics. My resources are designed primarily as schemes of works for mainly Geographical topics with all levels considered
I'm a Geography teacher with experience educating at various levels, ranging from mainstream schools, SEN and extra-curricular tuition. I also have experience in teaching humanities, English and PSHE topics. My resources are designed primarily as schemes of works for mainly Geographical topics with all levels considered
This unit of work helps students to explore the Amazon Rainforest from the definition of what a rainforest is through to how we and others utilise it. The booklet begins by looking at the world’s biomes, their characteristics and where they are found. The difference between these and ecosystems is investigated, alongside the ecosystem diamond. What defines a rainforest is learnt through drawing and interpretating climate graphs and the nutrient cycle which runs the rainforest.
The structure of the rainforest is investigated through poetry before looking into how plants have adapted to thriving in the rainforest as well as its inhabitants, including animals and tribes’ people – The Kayapo Tribe, The Yanomami Tribe, The Matsés Tribe and The Awá Tribe. The students develop their fieldwork skills by field sketching the Iguazu Falls.
Some of the foods the rainforest provides us are explored through a taste session while other items which are commonly found at home are explored including medicines. Positive and negative impacts we have on tropical forests are discussed with the students debating which strategies would be best to use going forward.
The booklet concludes with the students being given background, the Brazilian governments plan and the effects on the areas environment for them to answer what the benefits there would be for developing the gas resources found at Urucu.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, interpretating poetry, drawing a storyboard, annotating maps, their thoughts, and ideas, drawing graphs and field sketches, completing word-fill paragraphs, asking and answering questions put to others, comparing lifestyles and the completion of an entertaining ‘could you survive in the rainforest?’ quiz.
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This 23 page booklets allows the students to explore and discover the Seven Original and New Wonders of the World and Natural World through a range of different activities including individual and group tasks. Wonders include:
The Seven Natural Wonders Of The World
Grand Canyon
The Great Barrier Reef
The Harbour At Rio De Janeiro
Mount Everest
Aurora Borealis
Paricutin Volcano
Victoria Falls
This 41 page booklets allows the students to explore and discover the Seven Original and New Wonders of the World and Natural World through a range of different activities including individual and group tasks. Wonders include:
The Original Seven Wonders Of The World
The Colossus Of Rhodes
The Great Pyramid Of Giza
The Hanging Baskets Of Babylon
The Lighthouse Of Alexandria
The Mausoleum At Halicarnassus
The Statue Of Zeus At Olympia
The Temple Of Artemis At Ephesus
The Seven Natural Wonders Of The World
Grand Canyon
The Great Barrier Reef
The Harbour At Rio De Janeiro
Mount Everest
Aurora Borealis
Paricutin Volcano
Victoria Falls
This sheet outlines for students how to carry out a comparative case study between countries by suggesting the basic knowledge they need as well as which statistics help to compare them best.
To help improve your coursework grade try investigating some of the underused icons found on Google Earth, including, place markers, recording a tour, historical imagery and sunlight on landscape, to name a few.
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These worksheets introduce students to the positive and negative impacts humans are having on the rainforests, and whether these are social, political, or economic. Strategies for lessening the impact on these vulnerable environments are discussed with the students debating which of these would be best going forward.
The worksheets conclude with the students being given the background context, Brazilian government’s plan, and environmental effect on the area. They then answer what benefits there could be for developing the gas resources found at Urucu.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this worksheet including gathering research from print, and annotating their thoughts and ideas.
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These worksheets introduce students to the positive and negative impacts humans are having on the rainforests, and whether these are social, political, or economic. Strategies for lessening the impact on these vulnerable environments is discussed with the students debating which of these would be best going forward.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this worksheet including gathering research from print and annotating their thoughts and ideas.
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This worksheet explains the rainforests unique nutrient and water cycles through completing a cycle chart for the nutrient cycle and using personification to move around the water cycle.
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This 22 page unit of work has students investigating some of Englands most visited tourist locations including the Angel Of The North, Cheddar Gorge, Sherwood Forest, Stonehenge, Handrien's Wall and the many chalk figures found on hill sides. They then have the opportunity to design their own weeks holiday itinerary for a visiting family in which they can include these locations or others they may discover along the way.
This is a fun end of term project or assessment project which can be adjusted to most abilities.
These worksheets help students to explore the fruits, vegetables, medicines, and other everyday objects found in the rainforest. Students are presented with a list of items commonly found at home to highlight how resourceful the rainforest is, and they can try five of these themselves (fruits and nuts). The worksheets conclude with descriptions of the properties of medicine plants with the students having to link these to the recommended symptoms.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this worksheet including food tasting, and annotating their thoughts and ideas.
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These worksheets briefly introduce the four types of rainforests and ask the students to use these descriptions to say which best describes the Amazon Rainforest and why.
Students draw their own climate graph from tabled information provided and interpret the material. The worksheet concludes with the students writing a weather report comparing the rainforests and their locations forecast.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within these worksheets including: gathering research from print, annotating their thoughts and ideas, and drawing and interpretating graphs.
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The Urucu gas project is one of the new ways that the government of Brazil is planning to tap the development potential of the Amazon. The students can debate as to whether they think this projects should go ahead or not
This worksheet helps students to understand the structure and layers of the rainforest through poetry and using their artistic skills. A wordfill is used to further explore the rainforest’s structure and the animals and ecosystems found there, concluding with questions explaining the high iron and aluminium contents in the soil.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this worksheet including interpreting poetry and using their knowledge to complete a wordfill paragraph.
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Your students get to prepend to work for a travel agents where they have been given a particular job to do. They need to plan a tour around England for a wealthy foreign family who want to see the best of England!
They will need to produce a booklet with all the information for travel arrangements, accommodation, places to see and things to do. Places to be included need to be: a major city, a seaside resort, historic town, countryside area and a special place of your own.
The South Downs National Park is the newest national Park in England. It became fully operational on 1st April 2011 and covers 628 square miles stretching for 87 miles across Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex. The park covers the chalk ridge of the South Downs and the Western Weald with its heavily wooded sandstone and clay hills and vales. The only National Trail that lies completely inside the national park is the South Down Way which spans the entire length of the park.
These worksheets highlight the purpose of national parks and the pros and cons put forward by different groups which the new status would effect. The students are then asked to weigh these opinions up and debate whether they think the South Downs should have been granted National Park status.
This booklet introduces students to the global links within sports, specifically rugby. The Six Nations Championships and the countries involved are looked at in terms of their location, flags, capitals, population, and currency. Rugby as an economic activity is discussed, with the unit concluding with the students designing a logo and brand for their school’s rugby competition.
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There are lots of reasons why for many centuries people have chosen to come to the England to live. These worksheets explore the different terms used to describe their reasons, it looks at a stowaways story and how the media portrays their stories.
With a history as varied as England’s it’s not surprising to find it has quite a diverse and complicated culture. This activity looks at England's Royal family, fashion, music, sport amoung other aspects
This six page worksheet helps students to understand how plants and animals adapt to living in mountainous areas. The activities include research, designing their own plants and animals as well as peer assessment
The Alps are used in many ways, these worksheets have the students study these and discuss the environmental impacts these activities can have on the mountains