Short and engaging quick activity, for Human Evolution topics. Full of spelling errors and space for students to correct.

Template emotion slider, HP themed. Student should create this with their key person in school and adjust the colours/images.

Engaging Biology worksheet for those with alternative needs. Range of tasks and matched visuals.

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To work alongside this video- https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-population/ I regularly use resources from gapminder to facilitate a love of statistics and support cross-curricular learning. I created this to be used as a cover lesson, which the students really enjoyed as they were able to talk confidently about the wider topic, with the cover staff.

Visually engaging gap-fill worksheet for those with alternative needs.

This was created for a yr9 group, but could be easily adapted for different key stages and regions of the world. Great for assessing their research skills, understanding of place and how each place is shaped by the physical geography and historical events. Document includes clear success criteria, sample timeline & supporting images/links. Includes a peer assessment, if you choose for students to present/share their work. Students have really enjoyed the freedom of this activity and using gapminder. The task could cover 3 lessons, with the final lesson being the presentations and peer assessment.

Simple table used to confirm student understanding of weathering & erosion. Full of a variety of SPaG errors for students to find and correct. Print on coloured paper for ND students.

Designed for a some mixed ability year 8 groups with a vast academic gap and with no prior coasts knowledge. Lots of G+T prompts and SEN friendly scaffolding. Green pen task and a range of activities. The intro worksheets can be found in my shop- which the students engaged well with and enjoyed just going their own thing and then marking/discussing together during the next lesson. The PPT contains lessons covering all coasts basics with UK and Australia place knowledge and a range of engaging tasks matched with lots of visuals and games such as taboo to assist with the huge amounts of new vocab. Please review if you download! Thanks and happy teaching :)

I created this for cover work over two lessons. First the students were asked to mindmap in their books what they already knew about the Amazon and share their ideas. Then video was on (ALWAYS PUT THE SUBS ON) and the teacher wrote any specialist vocab on the white board and then paused regularly to check understanding and bounce ideas around the room. The tasks get more difficult as they go on and if I was running the session, tasks 1 & 2 would be done in the lesson and the third could be set for homework as it is well explained and parent friendly. Really good doc for when you just need a break! Enjoy!

Title- How does energy consumption affect the landscape? I had already completed the BP oil spill and traditional coal extraction when we completed this lesson. It begins with a GP activity to improve a previous exam Q and builds the Virginia case study through a short clip that I show twice and ends with a contrasting 6 marker. AFL and discussion opportunities throughout. Differentiated and SEN friendly. Thanks, please review if you download :)

I used this to finish the cryptography topic with SEN students- once they were practised in decoding and used staff members and humour to engage them in the mystery. I cannot stress how much fun the students had and I just watched them scramble around the room decoding and then moving on the the next clue I’d hidden. Easily adaptable to be longer/more difficult. Please review if you download :)

I have used this resource for years 7 and 8 many times. They absolutely love it! Depending on your students, this can be completed in one lesson but is better to use two so that they have time to be more creative and you can set up sound effects and background images for their scenes. The lesson can be part of a Rivers/Flooding topic and relies on the students having already been taught about the water cycle. It leads into comparing flooding in Bangladesh with flooding in a more economically developed country and to climate change/rising sea levels/global impacts of CC. The lesson includes peer assessment and and exit card which is differentiated. You will need Atlases and may need to adapt certain points of the ppt for your students needs. There are a range of video links included which I usually show a few mins of each to give the students as much visual information as possible before they create their scenes. The groupings are of 4 and the roles should be differentiated and chosen carefully by you- I wouldn’t advise letting them choose! 1/2- Actor roles- Best reserved for the outgoing and confident students- (can be 3 actors) 3- Narrator- Best reserved for students who are fairly shy but also want to participate in the scene but not act, has worked well with Autistic students who want to deliver the important factual information. 4- Director- Best reserved for the quiet/creative/highly academic students who understand the task very well but would never consider acting or narrating in front of the class. Teacher must ensure the rest of the group are listening well to the director and they know it’s their job to combine the rest of the groups ideas into one scene. I usually give out positive rewards for the groups working the best together. Due to the nature of the play structure, it is important that the groups do not kill off the main characters before the end!! The students will insist they need so much more time on this task so is important you are very strict on whatever timings you want them to achieve it in. 1 lesson to plan/rehearse, 1 lesson to rehearse and perform. I hope you enjoy what they come up with!

This lesson is always enjoyable as the students are fascinated by the content and are always up for debating each other! Depending on the group, this usually involves 1 prep lesson, with lots of videos (links in the ppt) and discussion and then the debate lesson 2- which I usually finish the biosphere/TRF topic with. Works really well if you choose the mediators/judges based on their personalties and abilities and ask senior staff to join you for it and be a part of one of the teams/judges. This lesson works for various ages as the question is very open to their own views and your role is to facilitate their ideas. Enjoy & please review if you download :)

Used as a joiner lesson between introduction to secondary industry and Nike Sweatshops. The student learn about what Ethical Shopping is and how they as consumers have the power to change industry. They really enjoyed designing their adverts and were very proud when I put them on display. They produced them on computers but some did them on paper, both work as long as it is heavily sampled as many struggle at first with an adverts purpose and layout. The students will have lots of questions and I usually spend 3 lessons on this in total- 1st- introduce term and explain and assess sample ads/start designing. 2nd- Complete design and finish for homework. 3rd- Peer assess each other’s and link it to the environment. They then go on to learn about Nike and their understanding of ethical examples really helped them engage and progress. Please review if you download, thanks :)

Lots of great videos on youtube to match with this. KS3 level understanding of hotspots, focusing on Hawaii.

Used with a GCSE class for them to understand how to structure their sentences and recognise which ones are Points/Evidence/Explanation. They found this quite tricky, especially linking up the sentences and finding the various SPaG errors but their written work has improved hugely since taking the time to go through these skills. Could be used for homework or in class as a main activity.