Creative and innovative resources that meet the needs of every learner in every lesson.
Why create numerous resources when one can do it all.
Most resources are for geography lessons, but many are for whole-school too and cross over into numerous subjects.
Creative and innovative resources that meet the needs of every learner in every lesson.
Why create numerous resources when one can do it all.
Most resources are for geography lessons, but many are for whole-school too and cross over into numerous subjects.
A simple school grounds based project in a self-contained booklet.
The project looks at the best location on the school grounds to build a picnic site.
It involved data collection, presentation, analysis and evaluation. All crucial geographical skills.
It outlines hypotheses and students complete a conclusion based on their findings.
A great end of year activity when the weather improves a little.
Takes about 5-6 lessons to complete.
Small (mini) projects designed to be conducted around your school grounds.
They require students to conduct data collection, presentation, methods, evaluate and create conclusions.
The maps used will need changing for your school, but this is simply just a matter of copying it from Google maps.
This will save you a lot of time and effort.
I have included one PowerPoint to enable you to amend it as you see fit.
My kids loved doing these and we schedule them in for the end of the year.
All the resources needed to deliver a fantastic lesson about how geography helped to sink the Titanic. My kids love this one.
Students use the all info sheet to access the learning. This provides them with all of the information needed. They then complete the A3 mindmap.
There is a mini sorting activity that enables pupils understanding to be tested (once the mindmap is complete).
I have included a simple teacher feedback sheet too. To save time in marking.
This is a really fun & engaging lesson that the kids love doing.
This is a series of lessons that takes roughly 4 or 5 to complete.
A lesson that allows pupils to identify where their waste goes and the issues relating to landfill sites.
I used this as a two part lesson on My World.
A 57 page revision guide designed for OCR A, paper 3 (Skills, Statistics & Fieldwork).
Areas covered are:
Grid References.
Scale.
Distance.
Height.
Fieldwork.
Statistics.
Q & A analysis.
Synoptic Q & A.
It differs from a conventional guide because on each page it provides students with actual tasks to complete. E.g. sorting, linking, drawing, SPaG, spot the mistakes etc.
At the back there are dozens of questions that pupils can use the guide to help answer.
The 2 statistic pages were printed on A3, laminated & provided to the pupils as last minute revision, whilst they were waiting to go into the exam hall.
I printed lots off in colour and charged students £2 as well as providing them with a copy on disc. Some students just wanted a free disc copy & printed it at home.
Please see my other guides.
Although designed for OCR, most of the content is the same for other exam boards and it is very easily amended.
This took dozens of hours to create and will be an superb time save resource that will really support students of all ability.
A lesson on the human impacts upon a river system.
All resources needed to deliver great learning.
Resources are structured to support the needs of all learners, from grade 9-1.
Links to mst geography GCSE specifications.
My pupils loved doing this diary of a refugee.
Promotes a wider understanding of the issues.
Marking sheet included too. Just needs printing & cutting up.
A 37 page revision guide for OCR GCSE Geography.
Has command word breakdown & exemplar answer sections along with higher level detail needed for longer answer success.
Lots of detail to allow pupils to access the learning needed for the more complex and longer mark questions.
Although created for OCR A & B, it can easily be amended for Edexcel & AQA.
I used it as a revision tool before the mock & final examinations.
A bank of low stakes tests that relate to Paper 1 (Physical environment) for AQA GCSE geography.
These can easily be edited to link to your current schemes of learning, but are a fantastic starting point.
This lesson is designed to give students all of the understanding needed relating to how rivers transport material.
In a perfect world you will have a clear plastic bottle filled with larger stones, sand, salt & gravel. You would then use this to demonstrate each process that they need.
A wide and varied selection of resources that allow pupils to cover a broad depth of statistical and mapping skills related to geography.
Each resource promotes independent learning whilst learning about data presentation, analysis and evaluation and map skills.
They are pitched at both KS3 & 4.
This will save you hours of work.
This is just an outline of possible lessons and it the actual lessons themselves.
A full year 7 or 8 scheme of work.
Most lessons in it are available to download separately.
It is a fun and engaging geography scheme of work that promotes a real love of the subject.
All the resources needed to teach pupils about geomorphic processes linked to rivers & coasts. (chemical weathering, mechanical weathering, sliding, slumping, freeze thaw weathering, abrasion, hydraulic action etc).
This really supports pupils working independently and the A3 worksheet provides all of the ingredients needed for all levels of pupil to access the information.
Suitable for all age groups & easily amended to suit all GCSE geography specifications.
A lesson that covers the different weather cells, high & low pressure & how it creates droughts & tropical storms.
This is a simple lesson, but one that covers many of the key areas relating to the new gcse 1-9 specification.
A superb game that allows pupils to learn about the issues related to population in a fun, creative and engaging way.
This was used as part of our KS3 SOW.
Some coloured paperclips will be needed for the pupils to play this.
A lesson that gets pupils to calculate their own carbon footprint based on a series of life style questions.
There are lots of on-line versions, but I wanted one that didn’t need any IT access.
Pupils create a pledge that demonstrates ways that they will try to reduce their own carbon footprint.
There is also a more complex GCSE style question that promotes an understanding of the global picture & why more developed countries would have a larger carbon footprint than developing countries. Or this may be set to change in relation to (often more costly) energy saving devices.
Used as part of the KS3 SOW.
3 revision guides designed for OCR A geography 1-9 GCSE course.
A unique guide has been created for each paper.
Many of the activities can actually be used as teaching resources/activities.
Areas covered are:
Grid References.
Scale.
Distance.
Height.
Fieldwork.
Statistics.
Q & A analysis.
Synoptic Q & A.
Coasts
Population
Energy
Modifying the landscape for food & water
Rivers
Industry
Urban geography
Upland, lowland & glacial areas
Climate of the UK
Development
Ecosystems
Extreme weather
Climate change
They differs from a conventional guide because on each page it provides students with actual tasks to complete. E.g. sorting, linking, drawing, SPaG, spot the mistakes etc.
At the back there are dozens of questions that pupils can use the guide to help answer.
The 2 statistic pages were printed on A3, laminated & provided to the pupils as last minute revision, whilst they were waiting to go into the exam hall.
I printed lots off in colour and charged students £2 as well as providing them with a copy on disc. Some students just wanted a free disc copy & printed it at home.
Although designed for OCR, most of the content is the same for other exam boards and it is very easily amended.
These took dozens of hours to create and will be an superb time saving resource that will really support students of all ability.
A quick activity that tests pupils knowledge on prior learning.
Very simple to do, with instant gad closing and misconception addressing.
Questions can be very easily adapted and it takes about 15 minutes to do.
This resource can be easily adapted for any unit of study or linked to prior learning.
A fantastic purple pen activity.
