The resources I produce are intended to be universal and sustainable and can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and make teaching more fun.
The resources I produce are intended to be universal and sustainable and can be picked up by a teacher at any level of experience. Each lesson has been tweaked over years of experience teaching at a sixth form college. Students have enjoyed the lessons and achieved amazing results. All of my powerpoints have a colour scheme, bold imagery and the same font throughout - because style is important!
I hope that these resources will save you time and make teaching more fun.
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 4-5 of 19: The Carbon Cycle (Gulf Stream, biological carbon pump, role of soil and trees)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Thermohaline circulation
The failing Gulf Stream
The biological carbon pump and the carbonate pump (Students use a writing frame to explain these processes and then design a diagram to represent this – 4 examples provided)
Terrestrial stores: producers, consumers, decomposers
Respiration and photosynthesis recap
The role of soil and trees in the carbon cycle
Exam skills: Explain the significance vs assess the significance (with 3 model answers for comparison)
Two more practise exam questions with model answers and mark schemes
Plenary – draw a systems diagram
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Additional document with images to stick in and annotate
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
UK Government Policy and Regeneration: Lesson 13 of 21.
Discussion starter with answers
Investment in infrastructure – HS2 and Heathrow airport
Planning laws, housing and fracking
Decisions on migration and deregulation
20 mark exam question. Paired activity with guidelines on how students can work together to create a plan, gather evidence, write an essay and then mark it
Plenary – Improve the essay based on peer feedback
Extension – extra comprehension questions
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheet: Student friendly mark scheme for essay question
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Changing Places - Manchester: Lesson 3 of 21
Discussion starter with re-photography
Changing functions (industry, administration, commerce, retail)
Changing demographic characteristics (Skills: analysing graphs and data)
Gentrification and studentification
Reasons for change
How is change measured (discussion of primary and secondary data collection)
Big data and GIS
Exam question plenary with extension task
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lesson 1 of 19: Introduction to Climate Change (Paris Agreement 2015, IPCC 2018, geographical scales)
Discussion starter
Paris Climate Conference and Agreement 2015
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2018
Questions to check prior knowledge
Fossil fuel production and consumption. Skills – interpreting graphs.
Scale: national, international and global
Answers to questions
Plenary discussion linking energy use and climate change
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 14 of 18.
Includes:
Discussion starter on media bias
Disaster trends and patterns
Comparing different graphs: reported disasters, deaths, economic damage, people affected
Divided bar charts and line graphs
Difference and similarities between trends
Political bias affecting disaster data
12 mark question with scaffold and suggested answers
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 2 of 19: The Development of Globalisation
Thought-provoking writing starter
Transport and Trade in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Time space compression and ‘shrinking world’
Skills: Isochronic maps
Growth of ICT and mobile use
Containerisation
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 4 of 19: Globalisation in Newly Emerging Economies
Definitions quiz starter with mark scheme
Special economic zones
Indonesia
Government subsidies
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
China and the 1978 Open Door Policy
Plenary to review enquiry question 1
EXTRA word document containing news article for extension task
Edexcel. Topic 3: Globalisation.
Lesson 8-9 of 19: Deindustrialisation – Mann Whitney
Definitions quiz starter and mark scheme
Impacts of deindustrialisation in the UK (dereliction, deprivation, depopulation, decay)
Deindustrialisation – Manchester’s story
Deindustrialisation in Redcar, UK
Mann Whitney U Test Enquiry – Is Redcar more deprived than Milton Keynes?
Index of multiple deprivation
Worked examples of statistical tests with written conclusion and evaluation of the enquiry
Plenary to summarise learning
EXTRA word document to be printed for students to complete their Mann Whitney enquiry
Resource includes:
End of topic assessment with past exam questions
Mark scheme for end of topic assessment
Homework tasks for carbon cycle topic with five exam questions from 8-20 marks
Mark schemes for homework tasks
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Understanding Your Place: Lesson 2 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Employment sectors
Clark-Fisher Model
Quinary sector
Social and economic variations in employment
Regional inequalities in the UK
Variations in quality of life
Skills: Using indices
Written summary plenary
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 7 of 18.
Includes:
Class quiz
Skills question - referring to photo and quote
Two model answers for comparison
Diagrams/images of damage to buildings
Question and model answer
Plenary - what makes a mega disaster?
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 10 of 18.
Includes:
Written starter based on PAR model
Chile 2015 earthquake case study with maps, and photos
Google earth link, video link to drone footage
Development and governance
2 x recap quizzes
Link Chile to Pressure and Release (PAR) model
8 mark question for plenary, linking Haiti to PAR model. Start of a model answer shown.
Extra sheet containing content for plenary task
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 11 of 18.
Includes:
Starter quiz with mark scheme
Recap task on vulnerability
Haiti 2010 case study (LIC)
Christchurch case study 2010 and 2011 (HIC)
Case study comparison table
12 mark exam question – group work task
Two example essays
Short practise question plenary with mark scheme
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 5 of 18.
Includes:
Class quiz
Case study map, images and captions
Primary and secondary effects
Recap quiz
Case study template suggestion
Thought-provoking plenary
Word document containing extra content to help students create a case study
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Lesson 16 of 18.
**Development and Governance **
Includes:
Definitions starter with answers
Lesson summary
Contrasts between developed and developing countries
Aid – NGOs, IGOs and government
Global actions – local, regional, national, global
Hyogo Framework 2005-15
Sendai Framework 2015
Plenary questions
Practise 12 mark question with mark scheme and essay plan
Recap quiz
Link to TED talk for extension
Edexcel. Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards.
Included:
End of topic test (based on past paper questions)
Mark scheme for end of topic test
Homework questions for 6x homework tasks (all based on practise exam questions)
Mark schemes for all homework tasks
Markbook for all class quizzes
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 8-9 of 19: A Balanced Carbon Cycle (energy mix, security, consumption, energy players)
Discussion starter
The Energy Mix
Skills: interpreting satellite maps
Energy Security
Urban vs rural energy
Energy consumption trends (GDP per capita)
Skills: interpreting graphs and proportional circles
Primary and secondary sources of energy
Non-renewable, renewable, recyclable
UK energy mix compared to Norway energy mix
Energy players
Skills: conflict matrix (plus additional sheet to print)
Exam question (12 marks) with mark scheme and two model answers using alternate data sets.
Discussion plenary
Key content from the lesson
Notes for teachers
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
What Has Shaped the Characteristics of ‘Your Chosen Places’?
Lessons 4-5 of 21.
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Discussion of specification – ‘Your Chosen Places’
El Raval, Barcelona is the contrasting place used here (all case study content is provided), but teachers may prefer to choose a place in the UK.
Students are guided to choose and then research a local place (prompts and websites are suggested for student research)
Case studies cover: background of the place, economic activity and inequalities, functions and changes, regional, national, international and global influences, place representation, how the lives of students and others are affected by continuity and change, perception
8 mark exam question with half a model answer
Plenary – 12 mark exam question with table to suggest content, essay skeleton and half a model answer.
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheets: Double sided sheet to print in A3 for students (plus an extra version of the same sheet which has some of the case study notes on it)
This lesson promotes personal enquiry and helps to develop students’ internet research skills and their interpretation of complex, data which will be needed for the independent investigation.
Edexcel. Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security.
Lessons 12-13 of 19: Alternatives to Fossil Fuels (nuclear power, biofuels, carbon capture)
Key words quiz starter with mark scheme
Alternatives to fossil fuels
UK energy mix and energy security
Nuclear power (evaluating Hinkley Point C)
Mid lesson summary
Quiz to recap last lesson content (with mark scheme)
Biofuels (evaluating their effectiveness and impacts)
Wind and solar power case studies
Radical alternatives to fossil fuels (carbon capture and storage)
20 mark essay and plan suggestions
Written plenary (choice of two questions)
Key content from the lesson
Additional 20 mark exam question
Extra reading links
Notes for teachers
Additional document with criticisms on Hinkley
Additional document with breakdown of Assess vs Evaluate command words
Edexcel. Topic 4A: Regenerating Places.
Successful and Unsuccessful Places: Lesson 8 of 21
Knowledge quiz starter with mark scheme
Successful places and perception
Case study: Sydney – a successful urban place
Case study: The Sun Belt, USA – a successful rural place
Unsuccessful places and the spiral of decline
Case study: Detroit – an unsuccessful urban place
Case study: Beattyville, USA – an unsuccessful rural place
8 mark exam question with full model answer
4 mark exam question plenary with full model answer/mark scheme
Extension task
Summary plenary
Slide linking content to the specification
Teacher’s notes slides covering text book references, revision for class knowledge tests, assessed homework and end of topic test.
- Extra sheet – Diagrams to stick in