Differentiated resource to allow students to show what they know about the causes effects and solutions to climate change (global warming).\n\nThere is a level assesment criteria and a writing frame to help less able students.\n\nSuitable for years 7 and 8

I’m sharing this super-useful tool I have devised for getting feedback from your student’s on their confidence and understanding on your curriculum. This proforma has focussed on GCSE Geography Physical topics from paper 1 -UK physical landscapes, and Human paper 2 ’ Changing Economic World’. I have broken down each topic into 8 broad sections for ease, although you can alter the radial diagram if you wish. I used this for my year 11 classes to find out exactly where to focus my revision and intervention strategy for maximum impact. The segments that were less shaded/ left blank were areas of weakness. As it is visual feedback, you can almost instantly where gaps in knowledge are across multiple students, without the need for counting and data analysis. The added benefit is that student are learning about another data presentation technique for Paper 3 in the process! These can be stuck into student books/ revision folders as evidence of self assessment and used to set themselves appropriate target for revision also. This could be adapted for any subject or stage level.

Population refers to the total number of people living permenantly in one city of region. Populations rise and fall based on a number of external and internal factors; birth rates, disasters, health care access and so on. This game can be played in groups of any size at GCSE or key stage 3 and helps explain the impact of different factors on the total overall population of an area. All students start with a population of 500,00 and must roll the dice in turns to see what happens to their population size. For example; a famine might strike nd reduce numbers, or a government might incentivise young people to have children. They must calculate the increase or reduction of their population as they go along on a ’ score card’ .There are a small set of de-brief questions on their score card that they could write the answers to, or discuss in their groups to consolidate their understanding.

This brief PowerPoint presentation provides links to fee revision resources suitable for most GCSE Geography specifications. Pinterest is a large collection of ideas and productions that can be shared at a glance using eye catching images. Most students use social media so I printed this out and gave it my year 11 classes to inspire them revise in some alternative ways.

Bullet journals are a quick and creative way to track your actions, habbits and thoughts over time. This KS2 & KS3 bullet journal colouring exercise, encourages students to reflect on how sustainable they are in their day -to day habits. They are asked to colour in each vertical ’ strand’ of the rainbow to show whether they have completed any of the environmentally helpful actions on a daily basis, over a 25 day period. The students could do this just as a starter at the beginning of each each geography lesson, or consecutively as an ongoing homework task. The aim of the bullet journal is to develop student’s accountability as global citizens by teaching them to lead sustainable lives. This lesson/ worksheet would make a perfect addition to a SOW on sustainability or Earth Day theme. There is also a set of de-brief questions provided for students to answer in class, or as a discussion framework, for them to reflect on how well they have done after the 25 day period. These could be blown up onto A3 and made into colourful displays for the classrooms also.

This odd-one out grid tests the understanding of student’s vocabulary/ keywords for the paper 3 fieldwork and issue evaluation section of the GCSE examination specification for AQA curriculum. There are a full set of answers to explain which one does not fit the pattern- so students can self-assess (AFL) their knowledge. It’s makes them think about the connections between different concepts and ideas, and therefore helps to develop important synoptic links. There is also my Top-Tip’s for students on preparing them for their paper 3 exam, which may be useful. This worksheet task would make an ideal lesson starter, or revision intervention activity. Ideally, you should print out the slide, and ask students to circle and annotate the decisions with a brief explanation, so it can be stuck into their books for future reference.

This full lesson explores the producers, consumers and decomposers in a pond, aquatic ecosystem. Pond ecosystems are small, yet dynamic, and sensitive to change. It helps if you have access to a pond for sketching but it is not essential. Students will analyse a pond food web to pick out individual food chains. They will be able to identify producers, consumers and decomposers and explain how interdependance works in this ecosystem between the biotic and abiotic parts.

This is a great visual revision resource for GCSE AQA Spec, covering the basics on causes, effects and sustainable management strategies for the Amazon Rainforest case study. I initially gave students blank copies of a tree and asked them to fill in their own knowlege, then gave my filled out version to lower ability students. They then used this infomation to help answer a range of past paper questions on the case study. There are 2 exam questions below the work sheet to test their understanding.

This is a table designed to compare all major aspects of your chosen human/ physical fieldwork for GCSE Geography. Written specifically for AQA specification and filled in with examples from Urban regeneration and a coastal long-shore drift investigation, it can easily be adapted to suit your needs. Great revision tool for the paper 3 examination.

Many Northern UK towns and cities have fallen out of favour with shoppers due to deindustrialisation and the rise of out-of town shopping centres. As a result, local governments have been spending money on urban renewal programmes to encourage shoppers back into town centres to boost jobs and trade in the local economy. This has recently been done in Oldham, a satelite town within the Greater Manchester area. This is a comprehensive lesson ( may stretch to 2 lessons as originally devised for 100 minute lesson) on regenerating the town Hall in Oldham, which was completed in 2017. The lesson looks at reasons for Oldham’s decline and asks students where they normally do their shopping to pick out trends in retail moving away from city centres. They study images and videos of before and after pictures of the town hall. Link to the ’ before’ clips of the townhall on youtube clip is here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0sQtmrRcvI Students then have a choice of 2 worksheets to fill in: a copy of the slide or an easier annotation tasks with labels ready to select from. There are some suggested extension questions on the worksheet also. This lesson would be great for any schools in the Manchester region.

A River long profile shows the changes to the river channel, valley and land use as it travels downstream. All GCSE Exam boards require in depth knowlege of the river long profile and require students to demonstrate proficient map skills. This worksheet based activity combines both knowlege and skills effectively and engages student with maps! Teaching River profiles no longer has to be dull and dry. I created this resource for year 9 in their first GCSE year and wanted to engage them in their learning. This activity works well in small groups huddled round and OS map- all the maps can be different, that’s the beauty of the questions, they are left open-ended. Hints and help are given on the worksheet and an OS water map symbols guide is included for reference. There are a variety of challenging extention activities for the more able. It could be the perfect task to do in association with a river based fieldwork trip, to familiarise students with their chosen river location and drainage basin.

This worksheet guides students through annotating photographs in order to answer exam questions. In the GCSE geography examinations, students are often asked questions worth 3 or 4 marks which require precise labeling on maps or photographs. It is an easy way to pick up marks in the exam once you have mastered this skill. There are web links above each photograph to guide students to relevant learning sites or videos to help them answer the question set. The questions asked range from Tropical Rainforests, hot deserts, to Tourism and natural hazards.

Landforms along the coast that form as a result of deposition include beaches, spits, bars, salt marshes and sand dunes. This differentiated grid has a higher and middle ability version to allow students a head start if they need it. The sheet is deisgned to be used with ICT / internet so students can follow the weblinks on the sheet to get the required information of landform characteristics and and how they form. This would make an ideal revision/ intervention task for paper 1 ’ UK Physical Landscapes’.

A greater revision or starter resource to recap on the meanings of keywords from the AQA specification A GCSE curriculum. Students must select the odd word out from sets of 4 to identify differences between types of aid, causes of inequality etc. Answers/ justifications are also provided. Great revision tool for the paper 2 examination. Keywords could also be cut out and used in a ‘pass- the parcel’ revision game- this worked well with my year 11’s.

A useful revision homework where students pick and annotate photographs/maps of coastal landforms. A peer assessment and feedback grid is included.

Made for a year 7 Manchester SOW, this promoted numeracy, literacy and independant research skills. Student pick 10 key historical events that shaped Manchester and present them in a timeline format. Help given to ensure students draw accurate and appropiate scales for their work. Can easily be adapted for another named city.

Threats to the tropical rainforest stem from population pressure and climate change. This fragile biome is used for subsidence farming mineral extraction and hydro-electric power. This code breaking resource can be used to introduce threats for the first time, or as a revision activity. This worksheet is designed for Edexcel B specification, however it is suitable for AQA also/ The completion requires access to the textbook 'Edexcel geography B - pages 270-271 in the Pearson Textbook by John Hopkin et al ISBN: 9781446927762. ( page copy available with this resource) The resource is a reading comprehension exercise where they find relevant information from the 2 page of text and images.

This building-off-grid project is ideal for delivery in the classroom for years 8 through to 11 or set as an independent task for distance-learning or home-based study. Also suitable for celebrating ’ Earth Day’ in April with a focus on reducing carbon footprint. Since being stuck on lock-down I have been binge-watching episodes of USA based TV-series like ’ last of the Alaskans’ and ’ Building off Grid’ which follow families as they design and self-build their own cabins and earth-ship style homes in remote areas of Arizona and Alaska. The aim is to live sustainably and in harmony with the landscape and ecosystem around them. This lesson / project will help GCSE/ KS4 students make connections in their learning with the Geography ’ Living World’ topic, especially around explaining how humans have adapted to the opportunities and challenges of living in extreme conditions such as the Tundra Biome and the Hot Desert regions. Students could easily talk about home design and crop growing/ subsistence farming in their examinations following the AQA spec A curriculum. The students must choose where they want to live their off grid lifestyle; either Arizona or Alaska, and the Power Point goes through the benefits and drawbacks of doing so in each ecosystem. There are video links to relevant video content showing some aspects of cabin-building in both of these environments. Then students enlist 3 helpers to help build their cabin, and roll a dice to determine their allocated budget they can use to buy materials for the cabin project. Using this budget, they can chose from a ‘menu’ worksheet of construction options to custom-build their cabin. They have a choice of sketching out their design with a floor plan, or actually building a model of their cabin from lego/ cardboard/ paydough etc. If submitted as a distance learning activity it would be great to make it into a competition, and invite students to submit pictures of their designs electronically for display. There are some ideas for follow-on activities on the slides.

In this 3rd lesson on our cold environments series ’ Pole to Pole’ we explore how the resourceful and hardy ’ Nennet’ tribe have made a lifestyle herding reindeer throughout Siberia, Russia. Students must use their geographical enquiry skills to gather information about the tribe through an information hunt activity, building in kinathstetic learning experiences into the classroom. There is a link to video content from Simon Reeve’s 'Russia ’ series in which he faces frost nip whilst travelling with the tribe.

This full lesson and accompanying graded homework sheet explore the characteristics of the world’s most populated urban areas; megacities. Those places with a population of 10 million inhabitants or more are becoming increasingly common in the developing world. The lesson includes a starter, video question sheet for Andrew Marr’s Megacities series, episode 1 Link below; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USktb5cXdRs There is a full answer sheet given for the video questions. The homework sheet asks students to analyse the proportional symbols megacities maop, and has a 6 mark exam style question and mark scheme. This should be done after watching the video and completing the lesson, but could also serve as a stand-alone revision activity.