I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront.
Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
I am a teacher specialising in Geography and Religious Studies with over 4 years experience to date. I pride myself on designing lessons that engages students in their learning, with an enquiry-based focus being at the forefront.
Any lesson that you download is fully resourced and differentiated ready to use in a flash. I hope they make a real contributing to your own classroom like they have done to mine.
This resource consists of a series of fact sheets detailing the causes and effects of modern conflicts, including the Syria and Libya Civil war alongside the conflict in Ukraine.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on food insecurity in Africa. It focuses on what is meant by food insecurity, its causes and they create an awareness campaign to highlight the issue.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on coastal erosion. The main part of the lesson involves students producing their own labelled diagrams to show the different ways in which the waves erode the coastline, then do a class quiz-quiz trade (QQT) activity on the factors that affect coastal erosion then complete a written exercise afterwards.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the different ways in which the coastline is eroded.
To explain the different factors that can affect the rate of coastal erosion.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the types and actions of waves in coastal environments. The main part of the lesson involves a simple matching-up exercise of key terms, a self-imagining and written task on the difference between swash and backwash, and lastly producing a set of diagrams on the differences between constructive and destructive waves.
Learning Objectives:
To define key terms related to waves.
To describe how waves breaks and exits on a typical coastline.
To explain the differences between constructive and destructive waves.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Christian Creation Story from Genesis. The main part of the lesson involves drawing a storyboard to show the key parts of the story, a pair discussion task on how Fundamentalist and Liberal Christians might view the story (leading to a card sorting task of the reasons behind the views), and finally a written reflection evaluating how they believe the story is best understood.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the Christian Creation Story.
To explain how this story is viewed by different Christians.
To evaluate how you personally believe it is best understood.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the theory of evolution. In the main part of the lessons students complete a gap-filling exercise in order to understand how the basic theory works, work in pairs to rank different arguments (religious and scientific) on the 'Layers of Inference' grid, and finally complete an extended writing task on how convincing they find the theory based on the evidence and argument provided.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the theory of evolution.
To explain the arguments for and against the theory of evolution.
To evaluate how convincing you find the theory.
This is a fully resourced, introductory lesson on how people go about making moral decisions. The main part of the lesson mostly focuses on a case study to consider the effects of our moral actions, namely that the minerals from our mobile phones can be sourced (on occasion) to war zones. It contains a written task, peer discussion task and evaluation task.
To describe what moral decisions are.
To explain the effects of our moral decisions.
To evaluate the morality of our moral decisions.
This contains a fully resourced set of activities that focus on the impact of bullying. This was used during form time, but could easily be adapted into say a Citizenship lesson as well. Learning Objectives:
To understand what bullying is and its different forms.
To explain the emotional impacts that bullying can have.
To analyse the ways in which bullying can be tackled.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how theists claim that God can be revealed to humanity (this includes general revelation and special revelation). The main part of the lesson consists of a class discussion task on the two groups of revelation (general and special), a picture sorting task where they sort different types into general revelation or special revelation, a written task where they become an 'expert' on one type of revelation, a peer teaching task and an exam question plenary.
This lesson is aimed at the new 2016 AQA Religious Studies unit. It does require reference to the old AQA Philosophy textbook for the written task.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the different types of revelation.
To explain their key characteristics.
To analyse the validity of these types of revelation.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated scheme of work on ‘Energy’. All lessons contain a set of clear activities to meet a set of differentiated learning objectives. They should be taught in the following order:
Where Does Our Energy Come From?
Why Is Using Renewable Energy Important?
Are Biofuels Really A Good Source of Energy?
What Are The Problems With Using Fossil Fuels?
Is Wind Power A Good Source of Energy? (Two Lessons)
What Makes A Good Site For A Wind Turbine?
Wind Turbine Data Collection
Wind Turbine Report (Two Lessons)
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the instruments that are used to measure the weather. In the main part of the lesson students have to work in pairs to try and work how two instruments (rain gauge, wind sock) using visual cues, compiling a fact file with how a set of instruments work to measure different elements of the weather, and a final written exercise where students have to consider the level of accuracy of these instruments.
Learning Objectives:
To describe the equipment used to measure different weather types.
To explain how the accuracy of this different piece of equipment may vary.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the Beatitudes. In the main part of the lesson students complete a think-pair-share exercise to define air pressure, use one of two sources to create their own diagrams to explain the processes involved in low and high pressure systems, and colour code a table with whether each weather element is typically associated with low or high pressure systems.
Learning Objectives:
To describe what air pressure is.
To explain the movement of air in a low and high pressure system.
To analyse their associated weather conditions.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated scheme of work on ‘Weather and Climate’. All lessons contain a set of clear activities to meet a set of differentiated learning objectives. They should be taught in the following order:
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What factors influence climate?
What is the climate of the UK like?
How do we use climate graphs?
How does the water cycle work?
What are the causes of rain in the UK?
What are the different types of cloud?
How does air pressure affect weather?
How do we measure the weather?
How do different factors affect microclimate?
How do we measure school microclimates?
School microclimate survey
School microclimate report
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on how we can we protect communities from coastal erosion. The main part of the lesson involves a fact-hunting exercise where students compile a table with how each methods works as well as its advantages and disadvantages, followed by a a written exercise where students rank each defence in terms of its percieved effectiveness and justify their choices.
Learning Objectives:
To explain how various defences protect the coast.
To assess the effectiveness of different forms of coastal defences.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the sequence of events that leads to the formation of stumps. The main part of the lesson contains a critical thinking exercise where students have to indicate what order they believe the images should be organised in (leading to the formation of a stump), a statement ordering task, and a small group exercise where students construct a model coastline out of plasticine showing how a stump forms.
Learning Objectives:
To explain the sequence of formation leading to a stump.
To recreate this process through the construction of a labelled model.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on the three types of weathering that can affect coastal environments. The main part of the lesson involves a teacher-led introduction on the definition of weathering using visual images to promote whole class discussion, a card sort activity on how each type of weathering works, and a photo analysis activity where students have to justify the type(s) of weathering they believe are operating in each image.
Learning Objectives:
To identify what is meant by weathering.
To describe the different ways in which the coastline is weathered.
To interpret signs of weathering from the physical landscape.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated scheme of work on ‘Coasts’. All lessons contain a set of clear activities to meet a set of differentiated learning objectives. They should be taught in the following order:
Why Are Coastlines Important?
How Is The Coastline Weathered?
How Is The Coastline Eroded?
What Causes Waves?
How Do Headlands and Bays Form?
How Does a Stump Form?
What Is Longshore Drift?
How Do Spits, Bars and Tombolos Form?
How Can We Protect The Coast?
How Do Coastal Defences Affect People?
Should Happisburgh Be Protected From Coastal Erosion?
A fully resourced lesson on meditation in Buddhism. It includes a starter where they list their life worries and how they deal with them, in the main section a task on describing the story behind Siddhartha's enlightenment and a set of meditation exercises. In the plenary they then explain why meditation is important.
This contains a fully resourced lesson which explores the characteristics of urban areas, and how they change from the urban fringe to the central business district. This uses Ipswich as an example, although it could be easily adapted to study other cities.
This contains a fully resourced, differentiated lesson on one way in which Africa’s physical environment is threatened by human activity, namely animal hunting for sport by tourists or wealthy individuals. The main part of the lesson consists of students having to use information cards placed around the room to organise the impacts of hunting (positive/negative for less able, with positive/negative alongside social/economic/environmental categories for more able), a continuum line where students position themselves according to their personal viewpoint on animal hunting in Africa, finished with students drafting a letter to the United Nations (could be amended to an entry in a School Newsletter) where they explain in extended writing form their viewpoint towards animal hunting.
Learning Objectives:
To explain the impacts of animal hunting in Africa.
To evaluate whether you believe animal hunting in Africa should be allowed.
