This is a 2-part lesson which can be used briefly as a 1 hour lesson or spaced out into a 2 hour lesson.
This lesson features case studies from MEDCs and LEDCs on how they have dealt with, and responded to, tectonic activity - with a specific focus on earthquakes and volcanoes.
It offers some activities as a ‘recap’ for example, recalling the types of volcanoes and severity of seismic activity on the Richter scale, so it assumes some prior knowledge. However, it builds on this through sorting information into primary/secondary effects, and local/national/international responses.
Intended for KS3 mid to high ability.
Resource has adapted material from BBC Bitesize.
A 1 hour lesson on Volcanoes. This lesson is appropriate for GCSE students as it relies heavily on resources from BBC Bitesize. The lesson is also appropriate for higher-ability KS3 students. Suitable for students on the AQA, OCR, and WJEC exam boards.
Featured content:
Types of volcanoes
Magma & lava
Key terminology match-up
Types of plate margin
Hotspots
Internal structure of a volcano
Volcanic arcs and belts
Volcanic activity
This lesson could be aimed at a high-ability KS3 group, or a KS4/GCSE group.
This lesson covers a wide range of information that students will need to know for the earthquakes topic. It includes:
Earth’s layers (for example, the crust and plate margins)
Wegener’s theory of continental drift
Key words and definitions
Different types of plate boundary
How earthquakes are measured
Effects and human responses to earthquakes
Case studies from an MEDC and an LEDC
Human solutions to earthquakes
There is a section at the bottom where you could add in your own exam style question (depending on your exam board) to the end of the lesson.
There is also a quiz at the bottom which you could set for homework or as an exit ticket consolidation activity.
(This lesson includes material from BBC Bitesize and Google Images)
A 1 hour lesson designed for KS3 on weather - with a specific focus on UK weather. Contains a range of activities.
Some images and text taken from BBC Bitesize and MetOffice.gov.uk
An ideal lesson for revision after teaching the content within the textbook geog.1
This lesson covers the topics:
Planet Earth
Map Skills
The UK
Glaciers
Rivers
Africa
It does not come with printable worksheet resources as it is designed for use as an online lesson.
Images are taken from Google and the geog.1 textbook.
PowerPoint designed for a 1 hour lesson on map skills at KS3 level. This lesson is best taught in an online tutorial session as it does not come with resources. However, the presentation is interactive and students could possibly do the match up activity, the globe labelling, the consolidation quiz, and the OS map analysis in their exercise books if the teacher using this lesson were to print them out.
This lesson covers map skills in the form of:
How to read a compass
How to interpret an OS map
How to infer the format of an atlas map and how to label a 3D atlas map
Resource designed to help contextual understanding on the Edexcel GCSE Geography B specification (Development).
This lesson covers the demographic transition model, and illustrates to the student how development and population structure are inextricably linked. It then moves on to population pyramids, and how these look different depending on the development level of the country.
The lesson then explores the reasons for high fertility and mortality. Finally, the lesson finishes with a consolidation activity in which it asks students to apply this knowledge to practice questions taken from previous Edexcel GCSE Geography B exams.
This lesson was designed as a 1 hour tutorial lesson, but the slides on the DTM could be printed off as a match-up student-led activity.
Images taken from Google, Cambridge iGCSE Geography textbook, and BBC bitesize website.
An overview quiz to be used in conjunction with the topics studied in the geog.1 textbook (Gallagher, Parish, & Williamson)
Quiz includes 5 questions on each of the following topics:
Planet Earth
Map Skills
The UK
Glaciers
Rivers
Africa