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.
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.
Introducing the use of atlases and an atlas skills activity. 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.
This lesson revises development indicators and focuses on HDI to examine why there is a development gap in the Middle East. It also examines the corruption index in the region.
This is a part of a fully-resourced unit with a range of styles of activity and unashamedly embracing aspects of thinking skills (they still work) and dual coding. The unit was designed for Y9 and synoptically revises their KS3 course whilst using skills and concepts from their KS4 Geography studies (specifically, for Eduqas Geography B but relevant to all boards).
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 earnings/house price ratio. Pupils examine how economic prosperity has acted as a pull factor to international migrants, increasing Sydney’s population and increasing house prices. Students develop a chain of reasoning to explain this (and develop extended writing exam skills as a result). They then examine a range of attitudes held by different stakeholders to the impacts of the housing crisis in Sydney
Lesson 5 of my unit on Mumbai as a LIC city. This lesson investigates how Mumbai could be categorised as a global city / world city and involves a map from memory activity to develop knowledge about the various criteria that Mumabi fulfils in global city status. The map from memory base sheet itself it a valuable resource that can be easily adapted in a number of ways if you do not prefer active learning activities.
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 Chinese aid to Kenya by investigating the Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway project and its implications for Kenya development and debt
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.
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.
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 an extensive booklet of maps to examine the transport issues faced by Sydneysiders, including congestion, air pollution, commute time and pub transport infrastructure.
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 is a 30-minute assessment containing a mixture of GCSE questions (of varying tariffs). Take 20 minutes to peer-mark the questions, 10 minutes to mop up/for arrival. I then take the sheets and complete generic DIRT feedback to print on the back.
This is part of a scheme of work for the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Geography specification, although it is easily adaptable for other specifications. This lesson includes a short video from Pumpkin Interactive explaining the use of the Fairtrade Premium which is NOT included in this purchase. However, there is a YouTube link supplied to a similar video which will allow the lesson to be taught using this.
The lesson focuses on the key aspects of Fairtrade and the impacts and uses of the Fairtrade Premium. It also examines how Fairtrade can disadvantage non-Fairtrade farmers on the longer term and lead to embedded poverty.
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 drivers of globalisation:
Cultural exchange
Multi-national corporations
Migration
Technology
Geopolitics
Trade
…and examines the issues of containerisation and cultural harmogenisation.
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.
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 introduced the social development indicators and utilises the “so what” elaboration technique to ask pupils to interrogate what each might tell us. It also examines the concepts of relative and absolute poverty.
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 four ways that Sydney seeks to achieve water security (desalinsation, dams, efficiency, recycling) and students complete a high-tariff exam question (“To what extent do you agree…”) using a structured pro-forma to develop extended-answer skills.
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 requires access to a computer/tablet as pupils use a specified website to investigate the transport infrastructure improvements in Sydney (tunnels, light rail, rail extension, motorways, ring-roads, etc.)
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 issue of water supply in Sydney. Students complete a series of located pie charts to examine the capacity and actual volume of storage for each dam supplying Sydney, consider the role of rainfall and evaporation and the impacts of these on water supply.
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 3-Cities plan to divide Sydney into a harbour city, a river city and a parkland city and to achieve a “30-minute” lifestyle within each to solve the urban problems identified earlier in this unit.
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 resources is a two-lesson sequence introducing the concept of economic development and asks pupils to handle data and create a map of selected countries based upon their GNI per capita. It then asks pupils to draw conclusions about the method (i.e. is there sufficient evidence) and, once the full map has been provided, patterns of economic development around the world. The lesson also includes the visual schema for this unit.
Cover work for Geography, either KS3 or KS4. You will need to supply atlases (or a map on a PPT to be projected) and then pupils simply work through the tasks. Could not be easier - no more complaints from supply teachers or cover supervisors and no mores scratching aroundf at 7am when you are i ll - just set the worksheet and forget about it.
Cover work for Geography, either KS3 or KS4. You will need to supply atlases (or a map on a PPT to be projected) and then pupils simply work through the tasks. Could not be easier - no more complaints from supply teachers or cover supervisors and no mores scratching aroundf at 7am when you are i ll - just set the worksheet and forget about it.