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.
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.
A fully-resourced GCSE Geography lesson exploring the push and pull factors leading to the growth of Mumbai. Pupils complete a classification activity to identify push, pull, obstructions and problems for Mumbai factors. There is an extension/homework activity where students create a scatter graph to test a hypothesis about rural poverty driving migration to Mumbai. Part of a wider unit but a standalone lesson.
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.
Lesson 7 in my GCSE Geography unit - Mumbai. This lesson examines formal and informal employment in Mumbai. The lesson utilised hyperlinked videos, a sorting activity, graph analysis and photo reading to develop understanding. A homework is included that could also be an extension activity.
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 a fun starter or plenary activity based upon the Blockbusters TV show. Two teams (usually boys vs girls) complete to win hexagons by answering questions. The winning team makes a complete chain of hexagons across the board. This is a very dynamic version of this classic activity and can be edited to change all questions. The questions animate in with the intro theme and this has proven to encourage pupils to work on recall before they have even answered the questions.
This is ideal for an observed lesson.
A bit of background information about Ukraine and the conflict, a proportional flow line map, a push/pull factor card sort and a light decision making task. All designed to inform pupils about Ukraine and the conflict. Will be out of date soon so use ASAP.
13 rounds of flags, maps, capital buildings, country shapes, former flags, guess the ocean, landmarks, etc. An easy way to kill an hour! Animated answer slides included.
Update - error where the leader of North Korea was shown as the leader of China has now been amended.
The third lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson introduces the history of extinction on Earth and the concept of ‘mass extinctions events’.
The first lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson introduces the concept of endangered species by looking at the Tasmanian Tiger and busting some myths about the reasons for its extinction. Students are led to the standard conclusion that humans precipitated extinction of this species then presented with evidence through a card sort that will lead them to examine the role of climate change and biology in this case of extinction.
The second lesson in a 13-lesson KS3 Geography unit about Endangered Species. All lessons are fully resourced with a range of engaging activities. This lesson introduces the various categories of extinction and prompts students to consider the basis requirements of a species in order to survive.
A bundle of 13 lessons designed for end -of-Y9 KS3 Geography pupils. The unit reinforces learning from the KS3 course, including skills, locational knowledge and key concepts, as well as introducing pupils to some of the content of the KS4 courses and skills (especially Paper 2 DME/problem solving). The unit introduces the location and physical geography of Africa, biomes and climate, its development (historical and current), patterns of population change, urbanisation, land use (focusing on agriculture and desertification) and future opportunities for the continent.