Universal and sustainable resources which can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and free up your energy to make teaching more fun.
Universal and sustainable resources which can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and free up your energy to make teaching more fun.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 4 – The Emerging Powers (BRICs, MINTs, G7, G20, multipolar world)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 24 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Exam question starter with mark scheme
• The Emerging Powers – BRICs and MINTs
• Links to Rostow’s Modernisation Theory
• SWOT analysis of BRICs and ranking
• G7 and G20
• Plenary – multipolar world
• Extension task
• 2x TED talks
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 6 – Global Economic Systems (IMF, WTO, subsidies, Fairtrade)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 27 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Slides content:
• Starter questions
• IGOs and theories recap
• Knowledge retrieval quiz
• Case Study – IMF in Côte d’Ivoire
• World Trade Organisation (WTO)
• Subsidies
• Agreement on Agriculture
• Fairtrade
• Anti WTO Activism
• Plenary exam question
• Specification – key ideas and detailed content
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 8 – Cultural Superpowers (TNCs, imperialism, hegemony)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 16 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter questions
• Definitions
• Examples of cultural superpowers
• Brand names
• The movie industry
• Cultural imperialism
• Banal imperialism
• Hegemony
• Ranking and scaling using data from indices
• Plenary – culture and soft power
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCE AVAILABLE: ‘Superpowers Resource Pack - Homework, Assessment, Mark Schemes, Essays (Edexcel, Pearson, A Level)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
5 – Storm Hydrographs
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint, with two supporting documents.
There are 17 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – 12 mark essay with plan and mark scheme
• Storm hydrograph – definition, sketching, annotating
• Work sheet – Students draw a storm hydrograph, using data
• Excel task – students create a storm hydrograph on MS Excel using data
• Plenary – Labelling, annotating and interpreting line graphs.
• Extension – physical and human factors affecting hydrographs
• Summary – students write their own
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
Lesson 13 – Water Insecurity – The Causes
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint, with supporting documents.
There are 25 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – key words quiz
• Insecurity, stress and scarcity
• Regional issues
• Using data to predict future patterns of scarcity
• Interpreting water scarcity and water stress maps
• Role play: Regional expert in global water insecurity – students learn one region and then teach each other
• Physical causes: climate variability, saltwater encroachment
• Human causes: increasing population, improving living standards, industrialisation, agriculture
• Plenary – 20 mark exam question – students write a plan for the essay, add facts, then write a conclusion
• Summary
• Teacher’s information slides
• HANDOUT 1: Blank map for adding notes on regional insecurity
• HANDOUT 2: Notes for role play
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
3 – Factors Affecting Drainage Basins
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 27 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter
• Recap – the water cycle as an open system and key terms
• Evaporation, Transpiration, Evapotranspiration
• Physical factors – labelling a diagram task
• Interception and infiltration
• Past paper question (6 marks) with model answer
• Air masses in the UK
• Human disruption – cloud seeding, deforestation, dam construction, groundwater abstraction
• The Amazon – case study
• Plenary – explaining key terms in pairs
• Summary
• Teacher’s information slides
HANDOUT – with a diagram for students and cut/stick activity
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
2 - The Local Hydrological Cycle – Drainage Basins
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 28 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – key words quiz
• Features of a drainage basin – diagrams and notes
• Major U.S. watersheds
• Key processes in the drainage basin
• Systems
• Types of rainfall – frontal, orographic, convectional
• Rain shadow
• Infiltration and interception
• Overland flow, throughflow, percolation, groundwater flow, channel flow
• Past paper question (6 marks) with mark scheme.
• Summary
• Teacher’s information slides
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
4 – The Local Water Budget
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 23 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – key words quiz.
• The water budget – graph and equation
• Systems - inputs and outputs
• Seasons – graphs – deficit, surplus
• River regimes, simple and complex
• Case study - Murray Darling, Australia
• Comparing river regimes in Europe
• Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
• Plenary – discussing planners’ role in sustainability
• Summary
• Teacher’s information slides
HANDOUTS
1 - The water budget - diagram labelling task
2 - River regimes - blank table to complete
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
Lesson 15 – Conflict Case Studies
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint, with supporting documents.
There are 12 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – River Nile conflict - reading and discussions
• Students annotate a map of the Nile
• Students create a timeline to show history of conflict on the river
• Case Study: The Gilgel Gibe III Dam in Ethiopia - Local Water Conflict
• Students create cartoon strip using text
• Exam questions – students discuss how to answer
• Exam question – 12 marks, with mark scheme
• Plenary – explain the role of players in a conflict
• Extension: Additional exam question, with mark scheme
• Teacher’s information slides
• HANDOUT 1: Cartoon strip with text provided
• HANDOUT 2: Blank maps of River Nile
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
Lesson 14 – Water Insecurity – The Consequences
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint, with one supporting document.
There are 25 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – economic and environmental problems
• The importance of water supply: for economic development; for human wellbeing
• Millennium Development Goals
• Interpreting compound bar graph
• Recap - water scarcity
• Price of water
• Case Study: Water Privatisation in Bolivia
• Cost vs demand
• Water Poverty Index – radar chart
• Students draw and interpret radar chart
• Conflict and geopolitics
• Berlin Rules for governing fair use of rivers
• Summary
• Teacher’s information slides
• HANDOUT: Water Poverty Index activity sheet
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
Lesson 1 - The Global Hydrological Cycle
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 29 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are included, for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter question
• Audio explanation of hydrological cycle
• Processes which drive the system
• Simple and complex systems diagrams
• Water stores
• Water accessibility
• Changes to the cycle
• Residence times
• Polar regions vs tropical
• The global water budget
• Past paper question (6 marks) with mark scheme and model answer.
• Summary
• Teacher’s information slides
• HANDOUT – with extra information and a diagram for students to stick in.
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity.
Lesson 11 – Climate Change
This is a complete set of two lessons in one powerpoint, with supporting documents.
There are 24 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Answers for all tasks are on the following slides for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter – key words quiz
• The Greenhouse effect – natural and enhanced
• Impacts of Climate Change on the UK Water Cycle by 2050
• Water stress
• Agriculture
• Industry
• Household use
• Water sources
• Case study: Climate Change in California
• Band Aid song – interpretation of lyrics
• Re-Greening in the Sahel
• Stone lines
• El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO cycles)
• Hadley Cell vs Walker Cell
• Future and Uncertainty
• Exam question – 12 marks with mark scheme
• Summary
• Extension video: Al Gore – ‘The Case for Optimism on Climate Change’
• Teacher’s information slides
• HANDOUT: Water cycle diagrams for labelling impacts of climate change
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Water Cycle Resource Pack - Homework, Mark Schemes, Assessment (Edexcel, Pearson, A level, 9GEO)’
Books:
Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9781382014885
Edexcel A Level Geography 2016 Year 2 Student Book. Pearson. ISBN: 9781292139654.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Introducing ‘Place’: Lesson 1 of 21.
Discussion starter
Definitions
Sense of belonging
Spatial and social attachment
Physical and human characteristics of urban and rural areas
What is regeneration?
What is rebranding?
Summary questions
Creative plenary
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Criteria for Measuring the Success of Regeneration: Lesson 17 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Economic, social and environmental measures
LSOAs
Absolute and relative success
ONS survey on quality of life in the UK
Skills: Interpreting statistics to assess success for economic and social measures (with suggested answers)
Plenary – Index of Multiple Deprivation indicators
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheet: Criteria table with task for students to consider absolute vs. relative success
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Urban Regeneration – The Players: Lesson 18 of 21.
Study a diagram and discuss perceptions
Quiz leaderboard
Instructions for ‘The Big Quiz’
Independent study focus with suggested note taking methods
30 mark class quiz with mark scheme for peer marking (based on content from Oxford text book)
Summary plenary – students list players
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheet: Blank conflict matrix for quiz
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Attracting Inward Investment: Lesson 14 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Regional enterprise zones
Science parks
The role of local interest groups
Cold spots
Range of regeneration strategies
Rural diversification
Plenary – students choose a question to answer in detail
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
UK Government Policy and Regeneration: Lesson 13 of 21.
Discussion starter with answers
Investment in infrastructure – HS2 and Heathrow airport
Planning laws, housing and fracking
Decisions on migration and deregulation
20 mark exam question. Paired activity with guidelines on how students can work together to create a plan, gather evidence, write an essay and then mark it
Plenary – Improve the essay based on peer feedback
Extension – extra comprehension questions
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheet: Student friendly mark scheme for essay question
This is a complete set of two double lessons in one powerpoint.
There are 31 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
It has learning objectives, starters, main activities, and summaries.
Skills required for Paper 2 are also included: Interpreting OS style maps, flow maps, pie charts, wind rose.
All questions have answers on the following slides to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
Theme 3: Economic Development
Section 3.4: Tourism
Part A: Describe and explain the growth of tourism in relation to the main attractions of the physical and human landscape
Part B: Evaluate the benefits and disadvantages of tourism to receiving areas
Demonstrate an understanding that careful management of tourism is required in order for it to be sustainable
Case Studies required for 3.4
• An area where tourism is important - Jamaica
Additional case study content - Ecotourism in Galapagos
These resources are for iGCSE specifications 0460 and 0978
Books which support this resource:
Complete Geography for Cambridge iGCSE and O Level. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198424956.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
COMING SOON!
This is a complete set of two double lessons in one powerpoint.
There are 27 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
It has learning objectives, starters, main activities, and summaries.
Skills required for Paper 2 are also included, and questions have model answers to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
Theme 3: Economic Development
Section 3.3: Industry
Part A: Demonstrate an understanding of an industrial system: inputs, processes and outputs (products and waste)
Part B: Describe and explain the factors influencing the distribution and location of factories and industrial zones
Case Studies required for 3.3
• An industrial zone or factory - Hi-tech industries in the USA (Silicon Valley)
These resources are for iGCSE specifications 0460 and 0978
Books which support this resource:
Complete Geography for Cambridge iGCSE and O Level. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198424956.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
COMING SOON!
This is a complete set of two double lessons in one powerpoint.
There are 35 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
It has learning objectives, starters, main activities, and summaries.
Skills required for Paper 2 are also included: divided bar charts, choropleth maps, pie charts, interpreting maps, making synoptic links.
Questions have model answers to save teacher time and to make peer/self marking easier.
I’ve added relevant past paper questions with mark schemes.
Theme 3: Economic Development
Section 3.6: Water
Part A: Describe methods of water supply and the proportions of water used for agriculture, domestic and industrial purposes in countries at different levels of economic development
Part B: Explain why there are water shortages in some areas and demonstrate that careful management is required to ensure future supplies
Case Studies required for 3.6
• Water supply in a country or area - Highlands Water Project in Lesotho
These resources are for iGCSE specifications 0460 and 0978
Books which support this resource:
Complete Geography for Cambridge iGCSE and O Level. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198424956.
Cambridge iGCSE and O level Geography Coursebook. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781108339186.
Watch this space for other resources.
I have full schemes of work for Cambridge iGCSE geography.
COMING SOON!