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I'm a Head of Geography at a 11-16 secondary school in Leicestershire, UK. I enjoy creating lessons that students enjoy - so you will not find reams of text on the board for them to read or for you to transmit. I believe in a range of engaging activities per lesson.

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I'm a Head of Geography at a 11-16 secondary school in Leicestershire, UK. I enjoy creating lessons that students enjoy - so you will not find reams of text on the board for them to read or for you to transmit. I believe in a range of engaging activities per lesson.
Sydney - What is a global city?
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Sydney - What is a global city?

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Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney. This lesson introduces students to the concept of global cities and megacities, including the criteria, classification of global cities and embeds global location knowledge through a mapping task.
Life in Dharavi
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Life in Dharavi

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Lesson 6 of my Mumbai GCSE unit. This lesson examines life in Dharavi, a Mumbai slum, it’s advantages and disadvantages. The lesson is fully resources and is a great introduction and examination of life in Dharavi.
Development: 5. Employment sectors
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Development: 5. Employment sectors

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This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box. This lesson introduces the concept of employment sectors and examines how we can use these to judge rates of develoment, or more accurately, how these affect levels of development. The lesson includes a step-by-step construction of the dreaded ‘triangular graph’ that Eduqas include in the specification.
3. What are the different types of map?
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3. What are the different types of map?

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Introducing different types of map from an atlas. This includes political, physical and choropleth. It includes an activity for pupils and an explanation of the etymology of the British Isles/UK/etc. The lesson is from a Y7 introduction to Geography skill-based unit. It is fully resourced with a range of engaging activities to introduce pupils to the subject and its core skills.
1. What are the basics of studying Geography?
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1. What are the basics of studying Geography?

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An initial Geography lesson to introduce Y7 to Geography, developing an understanding of human, physical and environmental Geography and looking at the various aspects of Geography that they will study over the KS3 National Curriculum. Ideally you would have the cover of the Hodder Progress in KS3 Geography so they could study the photo on the front more thoroughly but it is the cover photo of this lesson so you do have a copy in case you have not got copies of those books to hand. The lesson is from a Y7 introduction to Geography skill-based unit. It is fully resourced with a range of engaging activities to introduce pupils to the subject and its core skills.
5. What are latitude and longitude and how can we use them to locate places?
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5. What are latitude and longitude and how can we use them to locate places?

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A lesson (with activities) introducing hemispheres, latitude, longitude and What3Words. What are latitude and longitude and how can we use them to locate places. The lesson is from a Y7 introduction to Geography skill-based unit. It is fully resourced with a range of engaging activities to introduce pupils to the subject and its core skills.
6. How can we measure distance?
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6. How can we measure distance?

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Introducing ways to measure distance, including scale, route and ‘as-the-crow-flies’ direct measurement. The lesson is from a Y7 introduction to Geography skill-based unit. It is fully resourced with a range of engaging activities to introduce pupils to the subject and its core skills.
Assessment: Geographical skills
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Assessment: Geographical skills

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The assessment for my Geographical Skills unit. The lesson is from a Y7 introduction to Geography skill-based unit. It is fully resourced with a range of engaging activities to introduce pupils to the subject and its core skills.
How is Sydney divided socioeconomically?
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How is Sydney divided socioeconomically?

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Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney. This lesson introduces the concept of the ‘latte line’ - the divide between more prosperous, educated and health north/eastern Sydney and more ethinically diverse, less wealth and less educated western/southern Sydney. The lesson utilises an extensive selection of maps which students interrogate to judge socioeconomic differences in Sydney.
Aboriginal Sydney
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Aboriginal Sydney

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Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney. This lesson examines the history of aboriginal peoples in Sydney and provides a historical context for the growth of the city. It uses a carousel activity to develop an understanding of the challenges that aboriginal people have faced and encourages students to relate these to contemporary aboriginal experiences. It also seeks to challenge prejudices on this matter.
How is Sydney different to the rest of Australia?
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How is Sydney different to the rest of Australia?

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Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney. This lesson uses selected census data (presented in a variety of ways in a extensive resource booklet) to develop understanding about Sydney’s demographics in contrast to the rest of Australia. It takes two hour long lessons to complete.
Why does Sydney depend on the car?
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Why does Sydney depend on the car?

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Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney. This lesson outlines the reasons why travel in Sydney is dominated by motor transport and the problems and impacts this causes in the city. It also begins to look at how urban renewal has impacted Sydney.
Is Sydney a global city?
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Is Sydney a global city?

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Prepared for the Eduqas GCSE Geography B 9-1 specification (and applicable to all other boards), with all resources provided and ready to teach straight away. My lessons are interactive and provide a variety of teaching and learning activities. This lesson is part of the ‘HIC Global Cities: Sydney’ scheme of work (available as a bundle) of fifteen lessons about Sydney. This lesson allows pupils to identify whether Sydney qualifies as a global city and makes use of a newspaper article deconstruction and peer learning. It also includes low-tariff exam question practice.
Development: 16. Microfinance
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Development: 16. Microfinance

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This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box. This lesson uses the example of Kiva.com, a peer-to-peer microfinance lending platform to investigate the processes and impacts of microfinance.
Development: 14. Vietnam - a NIC
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Development: 14. Vietnam - a NIC

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This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box. This lesson deeply examines the positive and negative impacts of globalisation on Vietnam through graph analysis and the use of a ‘jigsaw’ activity where pupils deconstruct a series of “so what” chain of reasoning
Development 12: Patterns of trade HIC/NIC/LIC
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Development 12: Patterns of trade HIC/NIC/LIC

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This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box. This lesson examines the patterns of trade in the UK, Vietnam and Kenya (as our HIC/NIC/LIC) through a series of high-quality information sheets to guide research.
Development: 11. Globalisation & inequality
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Development: 11. Globalisation & inequality

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This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box. This lesson examines the issue of inequality in the context of globalisation. It examines how the countries we will study (specifically in this case, UK and Vietnam) have been affected by globalisation. It includes an exam question and map analysis.
Development: 17. Aid
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Development: 17. Aid

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This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box. This lesson examines the different types of aid, their intended use and includes a mini-decision making exercise.
Development: 15. Impacts on Kenya
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Development: 15. Impacts on Kenya

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This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box. This lesson examines the impacts of globalisation upon Kenya, an LIC.
Development: 4. Is HDI the best way?
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Development: 4. Is HDI the best way?

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This is part of a fully resourced scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. Each lesson has all materials provided (with YouTube links) and is ready to teach out-of-the-box. This lesson introduces HDI in the context of the enquiry process (specifically, developing a hypothesis and testing correlation on a scatter graph).