This lesson is a shorter version of one of my previous lesson. The lesson contains:
knowledge rich quiz as a starter
reading and fill in activity
‘to what extent’ exam question with success criteria
end of lesson quiz
All resources included
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Lesson 11 focuses on the Five Year Flood plan for York following the 2015 flood.
Key ideas:
Geographical skills: selecting information, decision making
Exam skills: assessment type question ‘justify’, time management, knowledge recall, information selection from unknown source, reading comprehension, decision making
Knowledge: key terms definitions, the five-year flood plan for York
The lesson covers key idea 5.8 detailed content a, b and c of the Edexcel A level specification. The PPT is based on two textbooks:
Edexcel A level book 2 by Hodder Education referred to as ‘flags textbook’
Geography for Edexcel A level year 2 by Oxford University Press referred to as ‘dragon textbook’
The whole key idea is covered within one PPT, instructions and resources are withing the PPT, the lesson ends with an exam question taken from Edexcel A Level Geography past papers.
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The lesson was designed for KS3 students. All resources are in the PPT
The lesson covers the following aspects:
Key terminology: accumulation, zone of accumulation, ablation, zone of ablation, crevasses, snout
Ice shelfs and icebergs
resource based assessment type question
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This lesson covers urban sustainability section of the AQA 9-1 specification. East Village is used as a case study for sustainable community, waste management, sustainable water and energy use, green spaces; London is used as a case study for sustainable transport strategies. PPT and all resources needed are attached including answer sheets.
The lesson contains:
knowledge rich starter
meaning of social, economic and environmental opportunities
information sheets for: cultural mix, urban greening, integrated transport system, employment, recreation and entertainment
fill in gaps worksheet to cover all five opportunities
exam type question with success criteria: explain
knowledge application end of lesson quiz
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I have prepared this resource, after 2022 exam marking session for AQA, to help my students to understand exam answers’ structure even more and develop them further. I understand that not all of them will get the maximum marks but even if everyone of them can improve their answers to reach the next level then my job is done.
The resource has answer structures for 4, 6 and 9 markers for all command words I came across in the new specification past papers starting from 2018. The resource also has some connectives to help students to develop their answers.
Hope it helps you too.
The lesson is part of a Superpower unit made for Y9 students.
This lesson covers the importance of the South China Sea to China’s economy and teaches the kids how to answer and ‘evaluate’ 9 mark question.
The atlas that one task refers to is the Collins Student Atlas but any other with a map of the South China Sea will do.
All resources are included in the PPT and one is attached as a Word document.
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A set of 12 lessons (PPTs and worksheets within PPTs) and scheme of work on Glaciation aimed at KS3 students. All worksheets/ photos/ graph outlines are included within PPTs.
lesson 1: What are glaciers?
lesson 2: Ice age and the UK
lesson 3: How does glacier move?
lesson 4: What do glaciers do? erosion, transportation and deposition
lesson 5: Corrie: characteristics and formation
lesson 6: Arete and pyramidal peak: characteristics and formation
lesson 7: U-shaped valley: characteristics and formation; ribbon lake, hanging valley, truncated spur and misfit river are also mentioned
lesson 8: Depositional landforms: terminal, medial and lateral moraines, kames, eskers, drumlins and erratics
lesson 9: importance and results: why glaciers are important and what the potential results may be/are as they retreat
lesson 10: Lake District: economic opportunities and social, economic and environmental challenges
lesson 11: Lake District management: how the Lake District is managed to keep up with the ever growing tourists number
lesson 12: Svalbard: opportunities and challenges
Feel free to message me if you have any questions about these resources.
Lesson made for KS3. Covers definition of a glacier, examples of glaciers, map work to locate glaciers, assessment type question ‘describe’, assessment type question ‘explain’, factors needed for a glacier to form and sequence of a glacier’s formation.
All resources needed are in the PPT, all tasks have answers provided and the lesson starts with the knowledge rich quiz.
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The lesson is based on investigating land use around the school I teach in.
You will need tracing paper for this task.
Students start investigating the land use around the school using secondary data (Google maps), then they collect their own data using systematic sampling, then using stratify sampling. The lesson finishes with comparison of three overlays and discussion about the importance of sampling strategies in getting the most reliable data.
All resources are included apart from tracing paper, but you will have to change the satellite image of my school to a satellite image of yours.
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Lesson designed for KS3. All resources are in the PPT.
The lesson cover the following aspects:
importance of glaciers
results of melting of glaciers
assessment type question ‘explain’
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The lesson was designed for KS3 students. All resources are in the PPT
The lesson covers the following aspects:
Key terminology
Freeze-thaw weathering
Erosion
Transportation
Deposition
Long profile of a glacier
work with an OS map
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This PPT was prepared for KS4 AQA GCSE specification to cover comparison of effects of an earthquake in two contrasting areas.
All resources are included in the PPT.
Feel free to sent me a message if you are need more information.
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This lesson compares the responses to Japan’s earthqauke in 2011 and Haiti’s earthquake in 2010. It covers the AQA GCSE specification.
The lesson contains:
starter: knowledge quiz
task where students form their own hypothesis based on data shared with them in our previous lesson (Impacts comparison Japan and Haiti)
task where students differentiate between immediate and long term responses to Japan and Haiti’s earthqaukes
GCSE type task where students ‘examine’ their hypothesis that their formed in our first task using the information about responses
sample ‘examine’ answer
All resources needed are in the PPT.
All paper resources are provided
L1: question and hypotheses
L2: sampling and land use
L3: questionnaire
L4: transect line and litter pollution
L5: students own fieldwork
L6: infiltration fieldwork
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A set of lessons focusing on Russia, China and the USA.
L1: Russia: location and physical features
L2: Russia: energy resources
L3: China: location and physical features
L4: China: population: research
L5: China: Tibet
L6: China: the South China Sea
L7: China: Opium wars with the British Empire
L8: the USA: location and physical geography
L9: the USA: Cuba
L10: the USA: the Mississippi
L11: the USA: Alaska
Those lessons were designed for Y9 as part of the Superpower unit. My students greatly enjoyed them and I teach a mixture of abilities.
All resources needed are included in the PPTs, the atlas my department is using is Collins Student atlas but you can use any other one that your school uses. Some lessons last longer than one lesson. In my school a lesson lasts for 60 min and I had to use two to go through some of the lessons.
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Hope you will find this lesson useful and it will save you time :-) It is for new AQA specification for 9-1 grades. The homework is available in my paid resources. There will be more lessons following this one if it will be useful for other teachers.