Powerpoint and worksheets looking at the relief and geology of the UK's landscapes Starter: video and dice-rolling activity about the rock cycle main activities: 'Classifying rocks' worksheet (comparing formation, Moh's hardness and human uses) filled in as the pupils read and discuss the Powerpoint slides. Discussions to analyse a variety of linked physical maps. Mapwork to colour areas of granite and chalk, then to add the Tees-Exe Line (including the pattern of the age of rocks from the Grampians to the South Coast). Differentiated questions about the links between geology/UK landscapes and how the Tees-Exe Line can help describe landscape distribution. Plenary: further locational knowledge of UK upland landscapes

Henry VIII: The start of a new era Wolsey as Chief Minister- Church and State England's relations with foreign powers, 1509-1529 Henry's quest for a divorce colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates

Health impacts of global environmental change Prospects for global population change Population revised estimates Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates

Population ecology + growth dynamics Population ecology applied to the human population The balance between population + resources Carrying capacity + ecological footprint Positive + negative feedback mechanisms Challenges driven by human population growth Malthus and Boserup Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates

Environment, health and well-being Economic and social development Environmental variables + their links to disease Malaria Heart disease The role of the World Health Organisation The role of other international organisations Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates

Population change Models of natural population change- the demographic transition model Britain’s demographic transition Demographic transition model applied to countries with contrasting physical + human settings Population structure Migration European migrant crisis 2015 Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates

Elements in the physical environment Role of development processes Food production and consumption Polar and tropical monsoon climates Climate change and agriculture Soils Food security Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates

PLCs modified from the OCR B Enquiring Minds syllabus

Powerpoint and worksheet where pupils find out how various problems on Planet Earth link together and have climate change as a common thread Starter: label a temperature graph of the past 1000 years with major events that added pollution to the atmosphere Students then answer a series of differentiated questions after reading and discussing different aspects of our changing climate: sea level rise + migration + starvation + drought + extreme weather + disease + extinction

Powerpoint and worksheets covering constructive plate boundaries, collision zones and volcanic hot spots. Starter is an odd-one-out game involving keywords and place names linked to tectonics. Constructive margins focuses on the Galapagos Islands (Nazca and Cocos Plates) where pupils draw a cross section of the boundary then use clues to annotate key features. Hot spots and magma plumes are then introduced, linking to the African Rift Valley as a land-based plate boundary above a magma plume. A half-time Plenary looks at the importance of the Rift Valley to human evolution. Then pupils find the answers to questions about the San Andreas Fault through a comprehension exercise and report back to the class. The final piece of work is an A3 worksheet which combines constructive, destructive and collision boundaries. Pairs of pupils try to remember as much as they can by summarising their recent learning. The Plenary returns to the Galapagos and the islands' importance in Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Includes video links and differentiated questions. Enough for two lessons...

Powerpoint and worksheet where pupils work together to find links between climate change, human health, animal habitats and water supplies Starter looks at pupils' opinions of greatest threats to humanity, then statements from major organisations as a comparison Students then swap info (from fact sheets) so that each can complete their own set of links Differentiated questions: 1-3: How will climate change affect the World? 4-6: What are the social and economic effects of climate change? 7-9: What are the possible political effects of future climate change? Plenary: discussion of pupils' concerns for the future, then a video of Leonardo DiCaprio's speech at the United Nations

I use this layout to train pupils from KS3 how to put added detail into their answers The first cloud is for the initial idea that starts of their answer The following clouds (because, and so, Therefore) make them explain and then expand on their answer The final cloud (For example) makes them give place specific info (eg data, placename, quote) needed for higher level answers After using the 'clouds' a few times, the pupils become used to the layout/technique and can write their answers as more detailed paragraphs

Wall display to remind pupils of the order for Geography projects

Covers some of the main settlement topics from the OCR B syllabus

Powerpoint and worksheets explaining the Milankovitch Cycles, obliquity, precession and eccentricity. Starter covers the Greenhouse effect. Then goes onto volcanic and sunspot activity. Differentiated questions about sunspots: 1-3: How does the Sun’s energy affect the Earth’s climate? 4-6: How do sunspots affect climate change on Earth? 7-9: What is the correlation between sunspot activity and climate change? Also, differentiated questions about the Greenhouse Effect. Links to videos showing computer simulations of glaciation and the Greenhouse Effect. Enough for two lessons

Colourful and illustrated keywords for classroom display

A decision making exercise (set up as a lesson) looking at future options for protecting New Orleans from hurricanes/flooding New Orleans lies below sea level with a levee system that was designed for hurricanes of no greater intensity than Category 3. The city’s natural defence of the surrounding marshland has been drained, built on or eroded away. A computer model predicted that up to 250,000 people could die in the next Category 5 storm. The US Government has four options for the 21st Century… Option 1: Regenerate the wetlands of the Mississippi Delta Option 2: Maintain and heighten the existing levées Option 3: Do nothing, let nature take her course Option 4: Evacuate the people of New Orleans in hazardous times

Colourful and illustrated keywords for classroom display

Powerpoint and worksheets covering Rostow's Model and the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Starter involves fitting countries onto an A3 version of the model by comparing socio-economic data. Nigeria is used as a Case Study for the MDGs. Pupils assess the success of Nigeria in working towards those Goals and suggest further improvements. Written conclusion: F: Describe how Nigeria is improving her level of development H: Explain how well Nigeria is meeting her Millennium Development Goals G&T: Is Nigeria ready to move up on the Rostow Model? Explain your answer

A thoughtful powerpoint looking at extremism, islamophobia and tolerance