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. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 12 of 19: Cultural Erosion and Anti-Globalisation
Starter – video clip discussion
Definitions
Bhutan case study – Culture of Bhutan + impacts of globalisation (cultural erosion)
Assessment of cultural erosion – referring to Papua New Guinea for negatives and the Paralympics for positives
Anti globalisation and Pro globalisation
Attitudes of anti-globalisation groups: Occupy London 2011-12 and Extinction Rebellion
Plenary – 4 mark exam question with mark scheme
EXTRA word document with Bhutan article
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 14 of 19: Globalisation and the Development Gap
Group work starter based on prior knowledge of enquiry question 3
Indicators of development (economic - GNI, GDP, PPP) (social – HDI, GII)
Single and composite measures
The development gap
Command word practise – analyse (Paper 3 prep)
Written analysis of data sets to show change over time. Suggested answers provided.
Plenary – interpreting choropleth map
EXTRA word document – with data sets for HDI, GII and air pollution
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 8B: Migration, Identity and Sovereignty.
21-22 Challenges to National Identity (TNCs and foreign ownership, capitalism, westernisation, essay skills)
This is a double lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 34 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Answers for tasks are included to use for peer/self marking, to save teacher time.
Slides content:
• Starter mega knowledge quiz with answers
• TNCs – British and international
• Drawing proportional circles skills task
• Revision tips
• Lesson summary using the specification
• Capitalist Theory
• Westernisation
• Disney
• Wealth in London and Qatar
• Chiquita (bananas) and Tata (steel) – how they have altered national identities
• Advantages and disadvantages of foreign ownership
• Essay question (20 marks) with mark scheme and example plan
• Plenary – facts recall using specification
• Matched content from the specification
• Teacher’s information slides on text books and homework
HANDOUT 1 – Proportional circles skills task (from Oxford book)
HANDOUT 2 – Map of UK to add proportional circles
HANDOUT 3 – Chiquita and Tata case study
SUPPORTING RESOURCES: ‘Migration Resource Pack – Study notes, homework booklet, mark schemes, end of topic assessment and scheme of work with case studies list (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.
This is a resource pack to accompany lessons for:
Topic 8B: Migration, Identity and Sovereignty (Edexcel Pearson A Level Geography, 9GEO).
It contains:
• Study notes for students – 47 page booklet with detailed notes from every lesson, glossary and specification with case study list
• Homework – 7 page booklet with knowledge quiz information and past paper questions
• Mark schemes – 6 page booklet with all answers for homework booklet
• End of topic assessment and mark scheme
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 4 of of 18.
Includes:
Video starter
Causes of earthquakes
The Benioff Zone
P, S, Rayleigh and Love waves
Primary impacts of earthquakes
Secondary impacts of earthquakes
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 7 of 18.
Includes:
Class quiz
Skills question - referring to photo and quote
Two model answers for comparison
Diagrams/images of damage to buildings
Question and model answer
Plenary - what makes a mega disaster?
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 15 of 18.
Kashmir Earthquake
Includes:
Class quiz starter and mark scheme
Case study content on Kashmir with photos and a video. Causes, effects, responses.
Additional notes sheet with more detail on Kashmir
Plenary to compare Kashmir 2005 earthquake to Chile’s 2010 Illapel earthquake.
Extra practise question based on previous content (tectonic theory) with full model answer.
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
What Has Shaped the Characteristics of ‘Your Chosen Places’?
Lessons 4-5 of 21.
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Discussion of specification – ‘Your Chosen Places’
El Raval, Barcelona is the contrasting place used here (all case study content is provided), but teachers may prefer to choose a place in the UK.
Students are guided to choose and then research a local place (prompts and websites are suggested for student research)
Case studies cover: background of the place, economic activity and inequalities, functions and changes, regional, national, international and global influences, place representation, how the lives of students and others are affected by continuity and change, perception
8 mark exam question with half a model answer
Plenary – 12 mark exam question with table to suggest content, essay skeleton and half a model answer.
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 sheets: Double sided sheet to print in A3 for students (plus an extra version of the same sheet which has some of the case study notes on it)
This lesson promotes personal enquiry and helps to develop students’ internet research skills and their interpretation of complex, data which will be needed for the independent investigation.
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.
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. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
6-7 – Economic and Social Changes in ‘Your Chosen Places’
Lessons 6-7 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Place identity
El Raval, Barcelona is the contrasting place used here (all case study content is provided), but teachers may prefer to choose a place in the UK.
Students are guided to choose and then research a local place (prompts and websites are suggested for student research)
Case studies cover: place identity, preserving the history, functional change and new developments, employment and population characteristics, inequalities, identity of local residents
Plenary considers human fieldwork titles and secondary data collection
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 sheets: Double sided sheet to print in A3 for students (plus an extra version of the same sheet which has some of the case study notes on it)
This lesson promotes personal enquiry and helps to develop students’ internet research skills and their interpretation of complex, data which will be needed for the independent investigation.
Edexcel / Pearson. Topic 7: Superpowers
Lesson 13 – Relationships with Developing Nations (China, Africa, Mozambique, land grabs)
This is a complete lesson in one powerpoint.
There are 13 slides in total with varied activities keep students’ attention.
Skills required for Paper 3 are embedded.
Slides content:
• Starter – recap quiz
• Demand for resources
• China’s interdependence with Africa
• Political cartoon interpretation
• Land grabs
• Case study – Mozambique resource boom
• Plenary questions – disucss and ‘to what extent’
• 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. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 14-15 of 19: Threats to the Carbon and Water Cycles (deforestation afforestation coral reefs)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Deforestation and soil erosion
Madagascar case study
Labelling blank tropical rainforest sketch to show impacts of deforestation (extra sheet included)
Impact of deforestation on carbon and water cycles
Afforestation
Ecosystem services
Other threats to carbon and water cycles
Coral reefs
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 16-17 of 19: Degrading the Water and Carbon Cycles (Kuznet’s curve, climate change, Yukon)
Thoughtful discussion starter
Palm oil and forest loss impacts
Protecting forests: Indonesia’s forest moratorium, consumer pressure, forest recovery rates
Interpreting Kuznet’s curve
Climate change in the Yukon, impacts on water cycle
Skills: systems diagrams + Additional sheet for students to complete
Changing precipitation patterns
Climate change and coastal communities
Thoughtful written plenary
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 18-19 of 19: Responding to Climate Change (feedback mechanisms, adaptation and mitigation)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Deforestation and soil erosion
Kuznet’s curve recap
Projections of future emissions and surface temperatures
Feedback mechanisms
Future and uncertainty
Permafrost and peatlands
Tipping point and critical threshold
Forest dieback
Changes in thermohaline circulation system
Adaptation and mitigation strategies
20 mark ‘evaluate’ question + detailed essay scaffold for planning provided on an extra sheet for students to complete
Students unpick the themes of ‘scale, players, development’ in detail before attempting the essay
Mark scheme
Extra reading
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Additional sheet with breakdown of command terms – Assess and Evaluate
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 2-3 of 19: The Carbon Cycle (stores, fluxes, geological and bio-geochemical carbon cycles)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Questions to check prior knowledge
What is carbon?
Recap: The Global Hydrological Cycle (Systems)
Stores and fluxes
The long term geological carbon cycle (students add labels to a hand drawn blank sketch)
Skills: Ranking carbon stores and fluxes
Bio-geochemical carbon cycle (students design their own diagram)
Explain and discuss questions with model answers
Comparison of factors which affect the carbon cycle
Extension question
Photosynthesis and respiration
Exam question and mark scheme
Plenary to summarise learning (with answers)
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Additional document with blank carbon cycle sketch
6-7 – A Balanced Carbon Cycle (The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security, Edexcel, A level)
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 6-7 of 19: A Balanced Carbon Cycle (greenhouse effect, soil, sequestration, carbon pathways)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
The natural and enhanced greenhouse effect
Solar insolation
Photosynthesis, phytoplankton, ecosystems, sequestration
Carbon balance in soil (‘soil from memory’ game)
Healthy soils
Practise questions, model answers and a mark scheme
Impacts of fossil fuel consumption (student choice to study two from: equilibrium, climate map, arctic amplification, links to the water cycle)
Carbon pathways
Positive and negative feedback loops
Thoughtful discussion plenary
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 5 of 19: TNCs and Globalisation
Written starter using ‘extent’
Students take detailed notes on function of TNCs in globalisation. Suggested answers are provided.
Spatial division of labour and global production networks
Outsourcing
Glocalisation
Discussion based plenary with answers
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 8-9 of 19: Deindustrialisation – Mann Whitney
Definitions quiz starter and mark scheme
Impacts of deindustrialisation in the UK (dereliction, deprivation, depopulation, decay)
Deindustrialisation – Manchester’s story
Deindustrialisation in Redcar, UK
Mann Whitney U Test Enquiry – Is Redcar more deprived than Milton Keynes?
Index of multiple deprivation
Worked examples of statistical tests with written conclusion and evaluation of the enquiry
Plenary to summarise learning
EXTRA word document to be printed for students to complete their Mann Whitney enquiry