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! :)
KS3 Geography Lesson.
Learning Objectives:
To know the population of India.
To understand how wealth varies across India.
Excellent if we are able to explain the population distribution of India.
Range of activities- lots of opportunity for numeracy and graphical skills + locational knowledge. (pie charts, chloropleth maps, population pyramids).
Lesson teaches students about the states and population of India- density and distribution.
Introduces students to religion and cultures in India and gets them thinking about opportunities and challenges for these areas of overpopulation.
Differentiated tasks.
Please ask for more info!
Whole lesson and study of extreme weather in the UK. Heatwave 2018 example.
Includes causes, effects and responses.
Sentence starters and challenge tasks to meet all abilities.
Videos embedded to aid learning and visualisation.
CPD presentation on utilising and enhancing feedback in the classroom and in marking.
Tips, resources and reasons why feedback is so important in and outside of the classroom. Many examples of feedback given in the slides.
Please ask if you have any questions.
Why is Antarctica threatened?
You will be able to use this to:
Describe Antarctica’s unique environment.
Outline the four main threats to Antarctica.
Explain how international laws are directed to protect Antarctica. (Antarctic Treaty)
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- resource management- AQA geography paper 2
Factors effecting energy supply: costs, physical factors, political, climate and technology.
Nigeria example embedded with video and interactive tasks.
Exam style questions differentiated.
Homework research task at the end of the lesson.
Please ask any questions.
AQA A Level Geography- Contemporary Urban Environments
Lessons include the following content: Urban form, world cities, Urban waste, Urban Climate, precipitation and drainage, megacities, Air quality and river restoration.
Discussion and research tasks which engage students about current issues in our cities- UK and global.
Key case studies include: Birmingham and Mumbai (social and environmental sustainability and regeneration) and the Cheonggyecheon River Restoration Project in Seoul. Emphasis on current global challenges and solutions to them.
Exam questions embedded and structured in most lesson to ensure progress is made towards the exams.
Any questions, please ask.
Weather and climate- lessons to teach Ks3.
Focus on many types of weather: clouds, extreme weather, heatwaves, hurricanes, UK flooding, tornadoes, thunderstorms.
Lesson titles are:
-Clouds- Types and Formation.
-Extreme weather in the UK- heatwave 2018.
-Hurricane formation and Hurricane Katrina.
-UK Flooding- Boscastle 2004.
-Tornadoes- Joplin.
-Thunderstorms.
Case study lessons included: UK heatwave 2018, Hurricane Katrina, UK Flooding- Boscastle, Joplin (Missouri) tornado.
Plus an assessment based on the lessons.
All lessons include differentiated tasks, learning objectives and key words.
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.
Whole Geography lesson- The Chambamontera Micro-Hydro Scheme- Geography GCSE- AQA Spec- Paper 2- Resource Management - Energy- Sustainability and energy production.
Topics- Peru and energy supply- ‘bottom-up’ schemes and productivity.
Uses interactive and differentiated tasks to look at subsistence farming and micro-hydro energy schemes.
Videos embedded about the case study to aid understanding- looks at how the scheme works in Chambamontera and how it benefits the community.
Whole Lesson- GCSE AQA Geography- Paper 2- Resource Management- Energy
Strategies to increase energy supply- evaluating and comparing renewable energy and fossil fuels.
Exam question with sentence starters at the end of the lesson to consolidate learning: Explain why the contribution of renewable energy to world energy production is likely to remain less than fossil fuel production.
literacy and numeracy opportunities.
Focus on renewable energy after teaching a lesson on fossil fuels before. Looks at the global energy mix and evaluates whether we should use and rely on renewable energy.
What are the aims and roles of global institutions?
You will be able to use this to:
Outline the roles and differences between International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Describe how one of the institutions above can increase unequal power relations between countries.
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).
AQA A Level Geography- Contemporary urban environments- urban form- whole lesson
Lesson includes key ideas around urban form, CBD urban models, how land-use patterns differ between the developed and developing world and how cities are evolving to become post-modern.
Tasks are interactive and challenging. Differentiated plenary of exam questions allows you to check understanding of the lesson.
Plenary links to learning objectives:
LO: To understand the definition of urban form.
To be able to assess how far traditional urban forms are being challenged by new urban forms in the developed world.
Any questions, just ask.
Full Lesson looking at the formation of tropical storms and the effects- Hurricane Katrina used as a case study.
Key words and clear learning objectives.
Videos embedded.
Clear tasks- differentiated- stretch and challenge for higher ability.
Homework task included.
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?
Gives students scope to plan their own presentation on a natural hazard case study of their choice.
Gives a mark scheme that teachers and peers can use.
Fits in with my A Level natural hazards scheme of learning.
Assessment for geography topic ‘population’ with the challenges and opportunities of a growing population in India.
Questions ranging in marks 1-6. Comes with boxes for EBI/WWW and an option for students to rewrite and improve questions.
Please ask questions for more information.
