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A selection of Geography lessons. I'm a Geography teacher originating from the Lake District currently teaching at an International School in Bangkok with experience teaching Geography, Global Perspectives and English.

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A selection of Geography lessons. I'm a Geography teacher originating from the Lake District currently teaching at an International School in Bangkok with experience teaching Geography, Global Perspectives and English.
Life in a Slum Dharavi, India
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Life in a Slum Dharavi, India

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This lesson should take at least 2 lessons and looks Dharavi, the slum where Slumdog Millionaire was filmed and set in. The lesson investigates push and pull factors involved in rural to urban migration, the results of this, the conditions in a slum and then students research the history of Dharavi to produce a storyboard. the 2nd part to the lesson looks at how Dharavi can be improved.
Shark Fin Soup
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Shark Fin Soup

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This lesson focuses on the issues surrounding shark fin soup, there is a question sheet to accompany the Gordon Ramsey documentary on it (easily found on YouTube) following this there are two tasks both with mark schemes and set instruction; making a poster writing a letter to restaurants urging them to take it off their menu. To teach everything in this lesson it should take 3-6 lessons depending on which tasks and the age/ ability of your class.
Ecosystems
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Ecosystems

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This contains 9 lessons aimed at GCSE and/ or Year 9. It includes ecosystem basics, reasons for variations in climate in the tropics, rainforest plant & animal adaptations, tropical desert plant & animal adaptations, coral reefs, mangroves and a case study on deforestation and restoration of tropical rainforests in Thailand.
India Global Interdependence
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India Global Interdependence

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This lesson investigates India’s role in the world and how the world needs India. It looks at economic, social and environmental factors and how India has become successful.
Industry Introduction
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Industry Introduction

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The first lesson in the unit of Industry involves looking at industrial sectors, plotting information on pie charts and triangular graphs.
In the News Geography Quiz 2018
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In the News Geography Quiz 2018

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This contains 2 PowerPoints containing 60 questions (mostly about world events), one multiple choice and one without. 30 questions on big news events of 2018, 10 questions one famous people who passed away in 2018, 10 questions on 2018’s sporting events and 10 questions on pop culture in 2018. An answer sheet is also included. I have used this with Yr7-Yr13, generally the multiple choice one is more accessible for the students. Feel free to chop and change, Year 7 tend to get through 40 questions in a 50min period whereas Year 11+ tend to get through everything. The lowest score for a team of 4 in Year 7 was about 50%.
How do we use the Ocean
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How do we use the Ocean

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This lesson investigates the many ways we use the oceans, territorial water, oil drilling, fishing transport many others. Students complete several tasks including labeling images of varying ocean uses and describing ocean uses using a table which can be differentiated in terms of how many factors (slide 6) they look at.
Tiger Eco-tourism India
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Tiger Eco-tourism India

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This lesson investigates the benefits of eco-tourism to India but also the problems it causes uses a real story of a man eating tiger. Students carry out a carousel activity to find out different people’s views on the tiger and then come to a conclusion in regards to what the solution should be. this lesson should take 2 periods.
How has our energy consumption changed?
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How has our energy consumption changed?

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This lesson looks at how energy consumption has increased over time and where energy consumption is highest making links to income using data from Gapminder. There are skills tasks involving describing graphs and makes with peer assessment guides. Links are provided to a website so students can find out their own carbon footprint and questions to go along with Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Before the Flood’ documentary.
The Oceans
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The Oceans

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This lesson looks at place specific location of oceans and seas involving Atlas/ Google Maps work in labeling their own map. Further questions involving locational knowledge, sea routes and some questions on plate tectonics (sea floor spreading etc).
Sustainable Oceans/ Seas
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Sustainable Oceans/ Seas

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This lesson investigates how to make our seas more sustainable, one worksheet is questions that accompanies Blue Plant 2 episode 7 “Our Blue Planet”, another worksheet provides solutions and students have to explain explain hwo that particular solution would make teh seas sustainable and then can add their own solutions to problems.
Ocean Pollution
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Ocean Pollution

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This lesson investigates the effect of various types of pollution on the ocean; light, noise, plastic and the process of eutrophication. Sources includes readings, diagrams and Youtube clips
How place influences Industry
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How place influences Industry

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A lesson that investigates the different factors that influence where industry should be set up with different scenarios proposed such as clothes manufacturing and R&D.
Fishing & Whaling
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Fishing & Whaling

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This lesson investigates our effect on the oceans in terms of fishing and whaling by looking at overfishing, fishing methods, the growth of fishing, history of whaling, bioaccumilation and biomagnification of toxins.
China development
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China development

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This lesson investigates how China became the development country it is today, it looks at the Great leap Forward through a reading and YouTube video and how it failed and looks at a BBC article on the modern economic transformation of the country with questions to accompany it.
China Introduction
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China Introduction

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This lesson is an introduction to a unit of China and goes through students adding key information to a graph using Atlases or Google Maps; rivers, cities, ecosystems etc, they then look at the varying climates using climate graphs and then work in graphs to create presentations on different ecosystems which they then present to the rest of the class who add information to a table so they have information on varying aspects from 5 different locations. The aim of this lesson is to understand just how vast and variable China is. This lesson should take 2 periods.
India's Future
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India's Future

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This research based lesson gets students to use the internet to research different indicators and to look at trends to predict the future. There is graph analysis at the beginning and then students make conclusions at the end. I would recommend students use Hans Roslings’ Gapminder website to access information