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I'm a teacher and the Author of the Amazon e-book;' Time Smart Teaching' and my mission is to create Geography resources to help teachers save time and reduce their workload. I am sharing additional time saving tips for teachers on my YOUTUBE channel ' Time Smart Teaching' if you fancy dropping by!

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I'm a teacher and the Author of the Amazon e-book;' Time Smart Teaching' and my mission is to create Geography resources to help teachers save time and reduce their workload. I am sharing additional time saving tips for teachers on my YOUTUBE channel ' Time Smart Teaching' if you fancy dropping by!
Tectonics, plate boundaries lesson
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Tectonics, plate boundaries lesson

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Full lesson looking at the different properties of tectonic boundaries. Students extend and finish the mind map example based on the information provided in the powerpoint. This resource has been brought to you by the author of the Amazon Kindle ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to reduce your workload that Schools don’t tell you!. 100% free for Amazon Unlimited subscribers and available to download at the following link; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=time+smart+teaching&qid=1577972903&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 The introductory chapters are FREE to read on my tes shop page.
Extreme weather lesson on Tornadoes
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Extreme weather lesson on Tornadoes

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This is a full lesson looking at trends in extreme tornadoes and where they occur. Activities include a mapping activity , analysing data and a group facts race exercise, followed by a journalistic report. designed for 100 minutes. This resource has been brought to you by the author of the Amazon Kindle ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to reduce your workload that Schools don’t tell you!. 100% free for Amazon Unlimited subscribers and available to download at the following link; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=time+smart+teaching&qid=1577972903&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 The introductory chapters are FREE to read on my tes shop page.
River landforms revision
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River landforms revision

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Revision slides recapping on how the following features are made: ox-bow lakes Delta’s River Cliffs Waterfall rapids Natural levees Task asks students to work in groups to produce a poster presentation to deliver to the class on one of the features. This resource has been brought to you by the author of the Amazon Kindle ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to reduce your workload that Schools don’t tell you!. 100% free for Amazon Unlimited subscribers and available to download at the following link; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=time+smart+teaching&qid=1577972903&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 The introductory chapters are FREE to read on my tes shop page.
climate Change Report assessment ks3
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climate Change Report assessment ks3

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Differentiated resource to allow students to show what they know about the causes effects and solutions to climate change (global warming). There is a level assesment criteria and a writing frame to help less able students. Suitable for years 7 and 8 This resource has been brought to you by the author of the Amazon Kindle ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to reduce your workload that Schools don’t tell you!. 100% free for Amazon Unlimited subscribers and available to download at the following link; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=time+smart+teaching&qid=1577972903&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 The introductory chapters are FREE to read on my tes shop page.
Benefits and problems of living near volcanoes
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Benefits and problems of living near volcanoes

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A consice text outlining the major positives and negatives of living with volcanoes. This resource has been brought to you by the author of the Amazon Kindle ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to reduce your workload that Schools don’t tell you!. 100% free for Amazon Unlimited subscribers and available to download at the following link; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=time+smart+teaching&qid=1577972903&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 The introductory chapters are FREE to read on my tes shop page.
Sikhism Golden Temple lesson
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Sikhism Golden Temple lesson

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Students use the powerpoint information and information sheet to create a tourist brochure on the pilgrammage site. This resource has been brought to you by the author of the Amazon Kindle ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to reduce your workload that Schools don’t tell you!. 100% free for Amazon Unlimited subscribers and available to download at the following link; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=time+smart+teaching&qid=1577972903&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 The introductory chapters are FREE to read on my tes shop page.
Monserrat 1997 Eruption case study
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Monserrat 1997 Eruption case study

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Case study lesson to explore the impacts and responses of the famous eruption. designed for GCSE set 1/2 level This resource has been brought to you by the author of the Amazon Kindle ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to reduce your workload that Schools don’t tell you!. 100% free for Amazon Unlimited subscribers and available to download at the following link; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=time+smart+teaching&qid=1577972903&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 The introductory chapters are FREE to read on my tes shop page.
European Flags hands-on learning
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European Flags hands-on learning

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A great fun kinathstetic task for yr 7’s or 8’s. Students cut out and make a learning wheel to help them remember some of the European flags. There is a mini memory test to go with it. This resource has been brought to you by the author of the Amazon Kindle ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to reduce your workload that Schools don’t tell you!. 100% free for Amazon Unlimited subscribers and available to download at the following link; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=time+smart+teaching&qid=1577972903&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 The introductory chapters are FREE to read on my tes shop page.
12 Easy home-based Geography learning ideas
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12 Easy home-based Geography learning ideas

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During the nationwide corona virus lock-down this Spring I created this resource for fellow parents, struggling to home-tutor their kids whilst remotely working. Each of these Geography learning activities are simple, encourage a range of skills and does not require computer access. Most Primary school aged children should be able to complete relatively independently. please share widely.
Free Pond Ecosystem lesson
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Free Pond Ecosystem lesson

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A pond is an example of a small-scale ecosystem that we typically student at GCSE Geography. Pond ecosystems depend on balance and equllibrium of all the interdependant parts that make it up; both the living ( biotic) and non-living ( abiotic). This lesson presumes you are lucky enough to have a pond on, or close to your school site to visit and carry out the field sketching tasks. However, if not, there is a detailed picture of a pond ecosystem on the slide they can copy if needed. Students start with a discussions, recap on producers, consumers and decomposers ( this lesson assumes a base-line understanding on food chains). Students sketch the pond with guidance and label appropriately using the mini-beasts spotter card to help them identify animals found on the pond, or through pond-dipping There is an exit card/ small write up task at the end.
Earthday Gratitude Calendar Geography
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Earthday Gratitude Calendar Geography

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Earth day occurs in Spring, on April 22nd each year, however this lesson resource can be used all year round to encourage Primary and KS3 aged students to appreciate and show gratitude to our amazing world. There is a blank 28 day calendared worksheet that students fill in using the gratitude reflections and prompts on the accompanying sheet. It can be used during any month of the year. The tasks are varied between human and physical geography elements and also include active tasks and skills like Yoga, languages, field-sketching and describing landscapes. The daily tasks are in keeping with the earth day theme of ‘observing the need to protect the earth’s environment’. These calendars could be stuck into pupil workbooks and be used as a reference point for starters and plenaries to lessons. More able students could be challenged to create their own 28 plan for gratitude after completing the one given. The completed gratitude calendars could be photocopied and blown up onto A3 to make stimulating classroom displays for open-evenings or parents evening. etc. A couple of the daily ideas have weblinks attached, which are shown at the bottom of the resource.
understanding Pond Ecosystems
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understanding Pond Ecosystems

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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.
How have people adapted to the Tundra Biome
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How have people adapted to the Tundra Biome

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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.
Gegraphy Threats to Antarctica
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Gegraphy Threats to Antarctica

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In this 5th lesson in our cold climate series ’ Pol to Pole’ and following on from lesson 4 on extreme tourism in the Antarctic Cruise, learners examine human impacts on cold climates and Antarctica. Students main task is to evaluate which human threats are the most pressing and urgent, but completing a diamond 9 activity. Students could then follow this up by writing an international code of conduct for Antarctic scientists and visitors.
Geography : distribution of the tundra biome
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Geography : distribution of the tundra biome

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This full lesson gets students thinking about describing and explaining where most of the world’s ice is found. The Tundra biome is found at far north and south latitudes where the days are short and the winters are long. Permafrost and taiga forests are located here and only well adapted plants and animals survive, hence the name ’ treeless mountain tract’. The lesson has a differentiated map task where student must shade and label places within the tundra biome. There is also a match-up activity where they must link up definitions of icy landscape features with their pictures: glaciers, ice sheet, ice caps and snow patches.
climate change and arctic sea ice decline
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climate change and arctic sea ice decline

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This 6th lesson in our cold climate series aimed at year 7 / 8 examines why Arctic sea ice is reducing year on year due to climate change. Students develop their timeline skills to collect information on how ice cores show changes in air quality over time. Students then utilise their completed time line on sea ice to answer questions to test their understanding of the issues presented in the lesson.
Geography Trans Siberian Express - Russia, map skills, creative writing ks3
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Geography Trans Siberian Express - Russia, map skills, creative writing ks3

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Creative Travel Writing Adventure - Exploring Siberia on the Trans-Siberian Railway Description: Embark on an imaginative journey across the vast and enchanting landscapes of Siberia, Russia, as students dive into our captivating lesson, a part of our ‘Pole to Pole’ unit. Tailored for year 7 and adaptable for other KS3 classes, this lesson invites students to unleash their creativity through travel writing on the renowned Trans-Siberian Railway. Key Features: Geographical Exploration: Delve into the cold and sparsely populated region of Siberia, showcasing its breathtaking beauty and important landmarks such as the iconic River Ob and the stunning Lake Baikal. Map Integration: Students utilize maps to anchor their writing, seamlessly incorporating geographical features into their narratives. Differentiation: Abundant writing frames and resources cater to diverse abilities, ensuring an inclusive and enriching experience for all students. Literacy Skills Focus: Elevate literacy skills as students are encouraged to write in a compelling travel-journalism style, transporting readers on an imaginary adventure through Siberia. Why Choose This Resource? Immersive Learning: Engage students in a hands-on exploration of geography and creative writing, fostering a deep connection to the subject matter. Differentiated Approach: Cater to various learning styles and abilities with tailored resources, making the lesson accessible and enjoyable for every student. Cross-Curricular Integration: Seamlessly integrate geography and language arts, promoting a holistic approach to learning. Ideal for: Geography teachers seeking an interdisciplinary lesson plan. Educators focusing on creative writing skills development. Elevate your geography class with this exciting lesson. Download now and guide your students on a captivating journey through Siberia’s wonders!
Discovering Antartica - extreme tourism
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Discovering Antartica - extreme tourism

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This 4th lesson in our cold climate series ’ Pole to Pole’ allows students to discover Antarctica through a virtual Antarctic cruise. They will learn to annotate the Antarctic icy landscape and discover what tourist activities away those on the cruise. We also compare how the Arctic is different from the Antarctic using a true or false quiz- the students find the answer by studying and comparing the 2 maps of the poles.
Ecosystem changes in a pond
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Ecosystem changes in a pond

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This resource builds on students prior understanding of the biotic and abiotic parts of the pond ecosystem, to develop critical thinking skills or thunks. This resource present series of scenarios where man-made or natural actions cause an element of change in the pond ecosystem and food chain. Students must annotate their blank pond diagram, like the example shown, in order to likely or possible changes that happen as a direct or indirect result. This flexible activity could be done as a starter, in pairs or larger groups. Possibly as a carousel revision activity, or as a stimulus for an exam response. I would encourage students to share their annotations with the class and explain why they think these things will happen. Links with the ‘Living World’ aqa GCSE Geography specification.
Manchester: a developed global city
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Manchester: a developed global city

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Manchester is a rapidly growing economic centre in the heart of Northern England. It is therefore an appropriate case study example to study for the GCSE Geography ‘Urban Issues & Challenges’ topic for the AQA spec. This internet research and study lesson focuses on 6 key characteristics of Manchester ( tourism, education, culture, Industry, Transport & religion), and how they come together to build the city as an important both nationally and globally. There are website links for each of these factors, so this lesson is suitable for home-study if needed. There is a grid for students to make notes on all 6 key areas. This lesson was originally designed so that small groups could each take a factor, and go away and build a presentation to bring back to the rest of the group. In that way, they become experts on one specific facet of the city. This framework could easily be adapted for a different HIC case study, if desired.