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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.

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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.
Solar Energy in Norfolk
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Solar Energy in Norfolk

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This lesson explores the proposal to build Norfolk's largest solar farm at Bridgham, South Norfolk. Solar energy, solar photovoltaics, green energy, renewable, renewables, solar power.
What Challenges Does London Face
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What Challenges Does London Face

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the challenges (problems) facing London as a world city in the 21st Century. The main part of the lesson involves students working in groups, using visual prompts, to discuss and explain how each challenge could affect residents, businesses and the environment, after which they draft a short email to the Mayor of London recommending which challenge they think should be addressed first and why. Learning Objectives: To explain the different challenges that London faces. To assess the importance of these challenges. To investigate how these challenges could be tackled.
Space Tourism: The Final Frontier
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Space Tourism: The Final Frontier

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This contains a fully resourced lesson on space tourism. It involves watching Gravity as a starter, drawing information from newspaper sources, debating whether space tourism should be allowed, and creating their own booklet to advertise people to go on holiday in space. The plenary includes encouraging students to reflect on what they might say if recording a message back to earth from onboard a space shuttle.
The Maasai Tribe
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The Maasai Tribe

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This contains a full lesson on one of the indigenous tribes of Kenya, the Maasai Tribe. Maasai Tribe, Kenya.
Climate Graphs
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Climate Graphs

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how to construct climate graphs. The instructions contained on the slides are from another user on TES, so I simply adapted a starter activity and added pictures and a guide sheet to further support students in this process. Feedback is always appreciated. Learning Objectives: To be able to construct a climate graph. To extract information from the graph and use it to explain climate.
Coastal Map Skills
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Coastal Map Skills

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on map skills aimed at a GCSE class, namely four-figure grid references and scale. The main part of the lesson involves students annotating an O.S. map with its physical and human features, and then carrying out a range of exercises to practice the use of four-figure grid references and scale. Although this lesson is aimed to be included within the unit ‘Distinctive Landscapes’, it can be easily adapted to suit the needs of any Geography GCSE specification. Learning Objectives: To identify a range of physical and human features from an Ordnance Survey map. To demonstrate a range of map skills.
How Is London Managing Traffic Congestion
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How Is London Managing Traffic Congestion

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This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how London is addressing the challenge (problem) of traffic congestion in the 21st Century. The main part of the lesson involves an information hunt where they complete a grid on the different techniques the city uses to manage traffic congestion, then they get creative designing their own invention that will help London reduce traffic congestion in the future (a video is included to help scaffold this task). Learning Objectives: To describe the different approaches London uses to manage traffic congestion. To explain their advantages and disadvantages. To explore how traffic congestion could be managed in the future.
How do rocks shape the land
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How do rocks shape the land

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This is a lesson on how rocks shape the land, focusing on limestone and gritstone landscapes in the Peak District. Designed in support of the New GA unit 'The Role of Stones', so some of the images have had to be changed.
The effects of volcanic eruptions
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The effects of volcanic eruptions

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A fully resourced lesson on the effects of volcanic eruptions. It focuses on the types of volcanic hazard, how they threaten people and how its effects vary with different levels of economic development. Aimed at KS4 classes, in support of AQA Geography B syllabus.
Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP)
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Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP)

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This contains a full lesson on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project for WJEC Syllabus. Includes content on what makes a good area for a dam. Water project, water management, dams, hydroelectricity.
Scale and Distance
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Scale and Distance

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A fully resourced lesson where students are introduced to the skill of measuring scale. It also includes an idea for a class practical on scale, where they have to measure out and scale the classroom itself!
Boxing Day Tsunami
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Boxing Day Tsunami

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Please find attached numerous resources for the Boxing Day (2004) tsunami. Boxing Day Tsunami, Indian Ocean Tsunami, Indonesian Tsunami, Asian Tsunami
Urban Processes
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Urban Processes

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This contains a full lesson on urban processes with resources attached. Urban processes, Settlements, Urbanisation, Counter-urbanisation, centralisation, suburbanisation, gentrification.
Rock Cycle
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Rock Cycle

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This is a fully resourced and differentiated lesson on the Rock Cycle for KS3. It is a combination of adapted resources and some of my own. In particular, it includes several back-up activities due to the difficulties that some students can have grasping the topic
Shanty Town
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Shanty Town

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This contains a full lesson on Shanty Towns. Shanty town, Slums, Nairobi, Kenya.
Megacities
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Megacities

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This is an independant learning lesson which might be useful as a useful introduction to megacities. It involves a wonder starter, main activity watching the first episode of Andrew Marr's megacities and a differentiated plenary.
How a dam generates electricity
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How a dam generates electricity

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This is an activity where pupils work out how a dam generates electricity, using a video as a source material. Use this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnPEtwQtmGQ