I have been a Geography teacher for many years and enjoy reshaping schemes of learning and creating corresponding lessons. I hope to share these with others who need them! Please ask any questions and rate my resources for others to see! :)
I have been a Geography teacher for many years and enjoy reshaping schemes of learning and creating corresponding lessons. I hope to share these with others who need them! Please ask any questions and rate my resources for others to see! :)
LOs: To name social and economic impacts of tropical storms and volcanic eruptions in the Philippines.
To be able to evaluate human responses to occupying places that experience a range of hazards.
Teaches the hazards that can occur in the Philippines and offers specific examples of significant events in history.
Applies knowledge to an exam question:
Question: Evaluate human responses to occupying places that experience a range of hazards. (9 marks)
How are they responding in the Philippines- long and short term?
Are these new strategies decreasing hazard risk? – compare to past and modern examples.
What are the limitations to current strategies?
Entire lesson for students to discover types of clouds and discover how clouds are formed.
Includes AfL tasks, videos, independent, pair and teacher led tasks.
Challenge tasks entered for higher ability and differentiation.
Can be used for KS3 or 4
Assessment from year 8 Geography- Weather and climate- suitable for KS3 mostly.
Topics: weather and climate, tropical storms, extreme weather, UK flooding, clouds, measuring weather.
Entire lesson focusing on knowledge of coasts and applying it to map skills- grid references and identifying landforms on an OS map. Ideal for GCSE revision.
Updated unit of work- Where in the World?
Clear Sequencing of learning suited to the new Ofsted Framework.
SOL attached within. Clear homework opportunities and opportunities for public speaking and oracy.
Theses lessons are aiming to welcome and introduce year 7 students into geography. They look at key skills such as location, maps, grid referencing, current events analysis and more…
Tasks are all differentiated, lessons are engaging and many have videos and animations embedded into them.
Challenges misconceptions about location and countries within the British Isles and UK.
Includes two current event lessons from the Summer of 2019- Brexit and Whaley Bridge Dam.
Any Questions, please ask.
Lesson teaching the continents + a focus on European countries within. Key map skills embedded.
Briefly looks at current events and importance of knowing about the continents- links to new Ofsted framework.
Clear differentiated tasks and plenary.
Homework and SOL clearly embedded.
Please ask if you have questions.
How does globalisation cause economic and political interdependence?
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
Includes information about the World Bank, IMF and WTO
Why does globalisation make some countries more powerful than others?
Wise: You will be able to use this to:
Using the Human Development Index (HDI), identify the richer and poorer countries.
Explain why globalisation can be seen to make some countries more powerful than others.
Using the example of China’s expansive foreign policy, explain how they are exerting their political and economic power to influence geopolitical
This is part of a sequence of lessons for the AQA topic- Global Systems and Governance.
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
Whole lesson- GCSE Geography AQA Paper 2- Resource Management- Energy
Energy insecurity- key terms and solutions.
Drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic- case study- economic, social and environmental impacts of exploiting resources.
Embedded videos and differentiated tasks.
Entire Unit for KS3 Geography- Brazil- human and physical features. Set includes the lessons and assessment.
Topics of the lessons: The location of Rio, Poverty and Population of Rio, Opportunities and challenges in Brazil, Favelas, Tourism and Christ the Redeemer, the Amazon Rainforest- layers of the tropical rainforest + opportunities and challenges.
Please ask any questions.
AQA A Level Geography- Urban Air Quality- Contemporary Urban Environments- whole lesson.
LO: To understand the causes of poor air quality in urban areas.
To be able to assess the extent to which solutions can improve urban air quality.
Content- what is air pollution + photochemical smog- definition, causes and impacts. - Links to London Smog event.
Solutions- congestion charge, pedestrianisation, pubic transport, car sharing, legislation etc.
Students must gather knowledge on the solutions using an attached worksheet- aims, successes and limitations to then apply it to an exam question.
Exam question is differentiated with sentence starters for lower ability students.
Please ask if you have any questions.
LOs: To know the structure of the Earth.
To understand plate tectonic theory of crustal evolution: tectonic plates; plate movement; gravitational sliding; ridge push, slab pull; convection currents and seafloor spreading.
To understand magma plumes and their relationship to plate movement.
Utilises maps to show plates and boundaries.
Teaches 3 theories:
Convection Currents.
Slab Pull.
Ridge Push.
Students produce a fact sheet for the theories.
Addresses Iceland and its changing landscape with tectonics.
