I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront.
Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront.
Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated introduction lesson on coasts. In the main part of the lesson students use a stimulus image to generate their own definition of what a coastline is, carry out a image analysis of different coastlines around the room (open-ended but focused questions for students to generate their ideas) and lastly a ranking exercise on different reasons why the coastline is important for people.
Learning Objectives:
To identify what a coastline is.
To describe the key features that make up a coastline.
To explain why coastlines are important.
A fully resourced lesson on the popualtion density of the UK. The lesson is as follows:
* Starter- They imagine McDonalds want to open a new store, but only in areas with the greatest concentrations of people. What factors might they look for?
*Main- A class demonstration on what we mean when we talk about population density.
*Main- Produce a chloropleth map on the UK's population distribution.
*Main- Answer a set of questions examining why people choose to live in certain locations.
*Plenary- Pass the ball!
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how babies are welcomed into the Islamic faith, otherwise known as the Aqiqah Ceremony. The main part of the lesson contains an information hunt on the different practices followed by pair-work where students have to compare the similarities and differences with Christian Baptism.
Learning Objectives:
To describe how Muslims welcome newborns into the Islam.
To explain why these practices are important to Muslims.
To compare this ceremony with the Christian tradition.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how headlands and bays form. The main part of the lesson involves a critical thinking exercise where students have to theorise how headlands and bays form from the diagram provided, then following a class discussion/teacher explanation they produce to a labelled diagram to explain how they form, which is followed by a group activity where students have to use a set of clues to assess in detail the influence of geology which leads to their formation.
Learning Objectives:
To explain how headlands and bays form.
To assess the importance of geology in its formation.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on consolidating map skills, including compass directions, scale, symbols, and four/six-figure grid references. This is done by students having to create their own treasure islands with a hidden treasure that can only be found by carefully following their designed set of instructions.
Learning Objective:
To apply map skills learned so far to produce a treasure map.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on why light is important to people and world faiths. The main part of the lesson consists of a spider diagram task on things that brings 'light' (happiness) into their lives, a worksheet task explaining how light is used by two worldwide faiths (Christianity and Hinduism), and finally a Venn diagram to compare their views.
To understand why light is important to humans.
To explain how light is used by worldwide faiths.
To compare and contrast their beliefs about light.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on whether miracles prove the existence of God. In the main part of the lesson students use visual prompts to discuss the different types of miracles, then work in groups to discuss and make notes on the strengths and weaknesses of two miracle case studies (Biblical - Raising of Lazarus from the dead, Modern - Miracles at Lourdes), explain two philosophical views towards miracles (linking them back to the case studies), and then finally complete a 12-mark evaluation question.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the different types of miracles.
To explain the arguments for and against miracles.
To evaluate whether miracles provide convincing proof for the existence of God.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Beatitudes. In the main part of the lesson students have to write a modern day translation for each one, explain why they are important in pairs and write an extended analysis of how they could be applied in someone's life.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the meaning of the Beatitudes.
To explain why they are important for Christians.
To analyse how these could be followed by people in their own lives.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on whether Happisburgh should be protected from coastal erosion - forming an end-of-unit assessment for a Coastal Environment Scheme of Work. The main part of the lesson is split into two parts: firstly, a short written exercise describing the location of the settlement and an information hunt to obtain the viewpoints of different stakeholders on whether the settlement should be protected from coastal erosion (with a grid extension task evaluating the strengths/weaknesses of these arguments); secondly, designing a newspaper article which answers the question ‘Should Happisburgh be protected from coastal erosion?’.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the location of Happisburgh.
To explain the arguments for and against protecting Happisburgh.
To evaluate whether you ultimately believe Happisburgh should be protected from erosion.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how Hindus worship, focusing on the items used in a typical puja tray. The main part of the lesson involves students firstly drawing their own puja tray and making their own suggestions as to what it might symbolise, after which they use information sheets from around the room to annotate their actual meaning to their earlier drawings, and finally complete a written reflection on how useful they believe puja trays are for Hindus in helping them worship.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the items used on a Puja tray.
To explain their symbolism.
To examine how useful they are in helping Hindus to worship.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on Hindu funerals. In the starter students have to use two images to draw out initial observations about Hindu funerals. In the main this leads to an information gathering task and a symbolism task, with a GCSE style question included to assess understanding of the material. Plenary is also included.
Learning Objectives are:
To describe the key features of a Hindu funeral service.
To explain how these features reflect their beliefs about life after death.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how the impacts of earthquakes can be mitigated. Focused on the 3Ps, the main part of the lesson involves a discussion task on the difference between the three approaches and the techniques it might involve, leading up to an extended note taking task on how the different techniques can help to mitigate the impacts of an earthquake.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the different approaches to mitigating the impacts of earthquakes.
To explain how these approaches work in practice.
To evaluate the effectiveness of these approaches.
This worksheet covers the basics behind a volcano, namely covering its main components and key definitions.
Volcano, Components, Magma Chamber, Lava, Magma
This resource consists of a series of fact sheets detailing the causes and effects of modern conflicts, including the Syria and Libya Civil war alongside the conflict in Ukraine.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the viewpoints different groups of people can have towards the use of coastal defences.
The main part of the lesson involves a discussion activity where students have to consider the potential views of a range of key stakeholders, a popcorn reading activity and follow-up written exercise where students use a textbook page to concisely explain the viewpoints of a range of key stakeholders (based upon a case study, Scarborough), finished by drafting a letter addressed to a newspaper outlining their views about the proposed coastal defence scheme.
Please note that the exact textbook page is not incorporated with this lesson, but it is believed to be a recent iteration of the Geog. 2 textbook.
Learning Objectives:
To identify different points of view towards sea defences.
To explain the reasons for these viewpoints.
To express a justified opinion towards the scheme.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated set of lessons in order to carry out a microclimate survey around a school environment, although it could be adapted to suited others.
The first lesson helps students to prepare for their microclimate survey, paying particular attention to how two major pieces of equipment work and to construct hypotheses for their survey.
The second lesson involves students going around a school environment, in groups, collecting their microclimate data. Differentiated recording sheets are provided for students.
The third lesson involves students writing up their report to show the results of their survey.
I hope you find these resources helpful.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on global poverty. In the main part of the lessons students have to consider a range of definitions to decide what they believe is the best one, use a range of pictures to explain the impacts of global poverty, and finally complete a written evaluation as to whether they believe it is possible to end global poverty. Learning Objectives:
To describe the meaning of poverty.
To explain the impacts of global poverty.
To speculate whether it is possible to end global poverty.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the causes and effects of poverty in the UK. In the main part of the lesson students have to use a set of images to describe the impacts of poverty and then use annotate an A3 sheet with the different reasons why poverty exists in the UK today. Finally students have to come up with their own suggestions as to how poverty in the UK could be tackled. Learning Objectives:
To describe the impacts of poverty in the UK.
To explain the reasons why we see poverty in the UK.
To begin to suggest your own solutions to poverty in the UK.
This lesson focuses on how belief can affect people's actions, focusing on Desmond Doss, a soldier from WWII who refused to fire a single bullet. They explain how his belief affected his action, consider and analyse different viewpoints and evaluate how strictly one should follow their actions. Was designed for an observation lesson.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson towards one ultimate question: What is the meaning of life? In the main part of the lesson students have to use information cards to describe a range of philosophical views (e.g. Nihilism, Materialism, Religious...) towards the meaning of life and explain how it might affect the way they live their lives, and then conclude the lesson by completing a written task evaluating which viewpoint they agree and disagree with the most and why.
Learning Objectives:
To describe different philosophical views about the meaning of life.
To explain how these philosophies can shape a persons’ life.
To evaluate your personal viewpoint towards them.