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 lesson allows students to understand how African children games are invented and gives them the opportunity to come up with their own version and peer assess them
This lesson allows students to identify different fruits and vegetables which originate from Africa. They sample the foods and give a detailed description of specific fruits. They also have the opportunity to compare differences between ours and traditional African meal times
This lesson allows students to think about what we recycle and of these we actually personally reuse. The students watch a video showing how people in Africa reuse water bottles and are given the chance to make their own toy from a water bottle
This assessment tests students baseline understanding of Geography. It questions description of location, geographical questions, similarities between places and being able to argue their side of a debate with examples
This booklet allows student to work together to form their own countries. By look at British law, human rights, elections and government as well as research country's names, flags and national anthems
Using the lyrics to ‘Do they know its Christmastime?’ by Band Aid, your students look at whether the descriptions in the song are correct in referring to Africa. They go on to explore the human and physical effects of lack of water, examine some long and short term solutions to desertification and put forward their own ideas and opinions of short term solutions offered by Water Aid.
This booklet helps students to understand where we are located within the UK and what factors influence this. Locations with significant increasing and declining populations are explored with a look into immigration and the medias influence on our views of this
This booklet allows students to discover how to ask the correct questions to find out about a place. They then discover about Iceland and its rift and volcanoes with why its an ideal filming location. Dubai is also discovered by looking into its environment and whether its sustainable. Finally the students look at Stonehenge and discover how they can improve its surrounding environment by keeping several conflicting groups happy.
This unit of work introduces students to the significance of water from its source through to it being bottled and being a course of conflict. The features of rivers are explored along with the hydrological cycle and how rivers are used. The students carry out and write up an investigation studying how different surfaces react to water which leads into the human and physical causes of flooding, looking specifically at the Queensland Floods and the social, economic, and environmental impacts. Hard and soft engineering techniques are discussed within a ‘decision making exercise.’
Water as a right and conflict is debated. Drawing upon The Ilisu Dam, Turkey, the students debate from various countries points of view its construction. This leads to the debate around bottled water and how fact and opinion can sway viewpoints. The human and physical impacts of shortage of water are reviewed in addition to short and long-term aid.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, annotating maps, students thoughts and ideas, drawing graphs, participating in group investigations and discussions, and writing up their findings appropriately.
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This printable booklet helps students to understand what an ecosystem is, where the world deserts are and their climates. They also look at life in the desert through plants, animals and the San People
This booklet allows students to independently investigate climate change and how we can help by looking at the greenhouse effect, their carbon footprint and producing an action plan for practical change
This booklet allows students to investigate settlements in LEDCs, why people move to the towns and cities, choosing a place to live when there and how to improve a shanty town
This booklet looks at fossil fuels and a world without energy. It looks at hoe fossil fuels have damaged the environment and whether there is an alternative