I have been a Geography teacher for many years and enjoy reshaping schemes of learning and creating corresponding lessons. I hope to share these with others who need them! Please ask any questions and rate my resources for others to see! :)
I have been a Geography teacher for many years and enjoy reshaping schemes of learning and creating corresponding lessons. I hope to share these with others who need them! Please ask any questions and rate my resources for others to see! :)
Entire lesson for students to discover types of clouds and discover how clouds are formed.
Includes AfL tasks, videos, independent, pair and teacher led tasks.
Challenge tasks entered for higher ability and differentiation.
Can be used for KS3 or 4
Geography GCSE Lesson- Resource Management- Energy- Sustainability- AQA Paper 2 Section C- Singapore Gardens by the Bay case study.
Lesson addressing national sustainability- Singapore Gardens by the Bay case study.
Embedded videos and challenge tasks for PAH.
Structured exam question.
Homework option available on the website of the Gardens by the bay, instructions embedded.
Geography lesson- GCSE AQA Spec- can be used for higher ability KS3. - Sustainability in the home- sustainability- domestic usage. Paper 2 Section C.
Learning objectives: To know the term ‘sustainability.’
To understand how we can sustainably manage energy in our home.
Excellent if we are able to evaluate why changes in individuals’ actions are necessary if energy use is to become sustainable.
Key term defined- sustainability- with embedded videos to aid understanding.
Maths skill- graph- household energy usage
Interactive tasks.
Exam question with differentiation.
Whole lesson- GCSE Geography- AQA Paper 2- resource management- energy- global energy distribution.
Entire lesson with learning objectives, key words and differentiated tasks.
Nigeria case study- TNCs and energy distribution- looks at global energy consumption and supply.
Map skills, analysis and key words.
Whole lesson- resource management- AQA geography paper 2
Factors effecting energy supply: costs, physical factors, political, climate and technology.
Nigeria example embedded with video and interactive tasks.
Exam style questions differentiated.
Homework research task at the end of the lesson.
Please ask any questions.
Whole lesson around UK flooding- looks at causes, effects and responses to flooding.
Videos imbedded.
Stretch and challenges and sentence starters for differentiation.
Exam question to embed knowledge and check understanding + AfL tasks.
Entire lesson focusing on knowledge of coasts and applying it to map skills- grid references and identifying landforms on an OS map. Ideal for GCSE revision.
LOs: To name social and economic impacts of tropical storms and volcanic eruptions in the Philippines.
To be able to evaluate human responses to occupying places that experience a range of hazards.
Teaches the hazards that can occur in the Philippines and offers specific examples of significant events in history.
Applies knowledge to an exam question:
Question: Evaluate human responses to occupying places that experience a range of hazards. (9 marks)
How are they responding in the Philippines- long and short term?
Are these new strategies decreasing hazard risk? – compare to past and modern examples.
What are the limitations to current strategies?
LOs: To know the structure of the Earth.
To understand plate tectonic theory of crustal evolution: tectonic plates; plate movement; gravitational sliding; ridge push, slab pull; convection currents and seafloor spreading.
To understand magma plumes and their relationship to plate movement.
Utilises maps to show plates and boundaries.
Teaches 3 theories:
Convection Currents.
Slab Pull.
Ridge Push.
Students produce a fact sheet for the theories.
Addresses Iceland and its changing landscape with tectonics.
LOs: To know how we prepare, mitigate, adapt and prevent volcanic disasters.
To link these solutions to the New Zealand volcano to explain, assess and justify the response to the event – including the factors affecting this response.
Addresses how people can respond to volcanoes:
Responses can fit into three major categories:
Prevention.
Preparedness.
Adaptation.
Students need internet access to complete the task to research further response strategies.
Exam question at the end: ‘It is possible to manage the impacts of volcanic eruptions, but the impacts cannot be prevented.’
To what extent do you agree with this view? (20 Marks)
with a suggested structure.
First lesson for year 7 topic.
Asks questions such as : What is geography? What is human and physical geography? + In depth thinking about why we study it and why it is useful in the wider world.
Starts learning with the location of countries and capital cities in the British Isles and the UK.
Clear SOL embedded within + homework options.
Please ask if you have any questions.
Geography Lesson- Tornadoes. The formation of tornadoes, what they are, and the effects of the tornadoes- using Joplin, Missouri 2011 as an example case study.
Interactive tasks for students with diagrams and videos to aid learning. Stretch and challenge tasks for more able.
KS3 Geography Lesson.
Learning Objectives:
To know the population of India.
To understand how wealth varies across India.
Excellent if we are able to explain the population distribution of India.
Range of activities- lots of opportunity for numeracy and graphical skills + locational knowledge. (pie charts, chloropleth maps, population pyramids).
Lesson teaches students about the states and population of India- density and distribution.
Introduces students to religion and cultures in India and gets them thinking about opportunities and challenges for these areas of overpopulation.
Differentiated tasks.
Please ask for more info!