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I am a secondary school Head of department and I love to teach engaging, vibrant and interesting lessons. I try to inspire students with what greets them when they come into my classroom and try to move away from the chalk and talk teacher at the front lessons and make learning interactive and fun!
Climate change - Maldives (SIDS) Eduqas and AQA Vulnerable coasts/ coastal hazards
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Climate change - Maldives (SIDS) Eduqas and AQA Vulnerable coasts/ coastal hazards

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This lesson considers how Climate change is impacting small island developing nations (SIDS) as a detailed case study. Students follow the lesson to understand the key terms and then apply their knowledge to a case study on a summary sheet with additional notes to assist them in their answer. The case study sheet is structured to encourage students to complete a variety of exam skill such as explain and justify as well as basic AO1/4 skills. There is also an examination question which can be used as a shared planning exercise or as a homework activity.
Coasts (sand dunes and transects) field work booklet Eduqas and AQA
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Coasts (sand dunes and transects) field work booklet Eduqas and AQA

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This booklet has the hypothesis, method, geographical application of a transect, instructions, equipment list and recording charts for students to complete this task in the field. Students can use this for any suitable location where there are sand dunes and there is also a vegetation analysis chart that has been added for species identification purposes.
Weather & climate, aspect, altitude, depressions and anticyclones (Eduqas and AQA)
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Weather & climate, aspect, altitude, depressions and anticyclones (Eduqas and AQA)

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Lesson, resources and homework all included. This is a double lesson that has a range of activities with all resources attached in addition to homework tasks that cover exam technique and retention. Students learn and apply their understanding of anticyclones and depressions with application to real life examples. This is lesson is in a sequence of lessons for this topic so please see other resources in the series.
Rocks, Geological Timescale and the Rock Cycle
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Rocks, Geological Timescale and the Rock Cycle

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This lesson is the first lesson in the series that covers the rocks and geology lessons for the introduction to the scheme of work published on TES for 'Rocks, resources and tectonics'. Students explore the timescale and the formation of rocks in addition to using several geographical skills. Students can use the self assessment grid to track their progress for this lesson and subsequent lessons in the series.
Revision strategies for memory
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Revision strategies for memory

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Students are increasingly finding it difficult in a digital age to retain information. Students rarely know their own mobile numbers as the brain no longer needs to retain this information in a digital era where your memory is in your smartphone. For exams however students cannot rely on their smart phones and need to be using their memories. This is a good session to get students to think about their revision and how they can revise. The session is interactive and there are lots of activities to try. It works best to use your own subject however the information in this one is generic so students can collectively try the techniques. I use it a lot for Geography case studies for key facts and have had good success. Students sometimes want to revise but struggle to know how they can make their revision more accessible.
Sustainable communities, BedZED and Egan's wheel (includes homework) - Eduqas WJEC GCSE (Theme 2)
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Sustainable communities, BedZED and Egan's wheel (includes homework) - Eduqas WJEC GCSE (Theme 2)

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This lesson follows on in the sequence of Theme 2 regarding population and urban change. Student consider what a sustainable community is with a mini revision picture task and then look at eco-towns using BedZed as an example with a video link. Keywords are referenced and embedded into the power point before Egan's wheel is introduced in the form of a jigsaw task. Students then have to evaluate their local area using Egan's wheel and make comparisons about the sustainability of the local catchments areas. Homework sheet with wheel attached also.
Ecosystem for energy production - wind and tidal energy Wales (AQA and Eduqas)
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Ecosystem for energy production - wind and tidal energy Wales (AQA and Eduqas)

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This lesson covers the use of wave and tidal energy and is largely case study based to consolidate learning on a task sheet. Students need to understand the key terms associated with energy production at the coast in addition to the positive and negative issues associated with the production. Assessment objectives are prompted on the case study resource.
MNC's - Nike and Tata steel, growth, location, advantages and disadvantages. AQA and Eduqas
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MNC's - Nike and Tata steel, growth, location, advantages and disadvantages. AQA and Eduqas

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Students learn about the key terms associated with MNC's (TNC's) and where they are distributed globally and the reasons why. Students apply their knowledge to Nike as a case study using the large task sheets and the information hand out. Then students complete the information on Tata steel for homework and how MNC's can also impact on the UK. Questions on the homework sheet are structured from AO1-3.
Introduction to tectonics including plate tectonics jigsaw!
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Introduction to tectonics including plate tectonics jigsaw!

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These two lessons are an excellent starter to plate tectonics and give students the opportunity to learn about all of the key elements including convection currents, plate tectonics and the structure of the earth. There are printable activities on the power point and the jigsaw is attached as a pdf. This lesson can be differentiated up or down for KS3 or the introduction to a topic at KS4 with more interactive learning.
Human activity in a Savanna ecosystem (Semi arid grassland) Eduqas and AQA
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Human activity in a Savanna ecosystem (Semi arid grassland) Eduqas and AQA

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This lesson is two lessons worth of teaching if lessons as 1 hour in duration. The lesson covers the issues with human intervention such as farming and water extraction as well as climate change. Students focus on Lake Chad and the Great Green Wall of Africa as named examples as well as grass roots strategies such as managing water gulley's. Students also look at the issues associated with GM crops and the lessons have exam questions throughout. All materials for both lessons and the lesson are provided.
Factors affecting climate in the UK: Air masses (Eduqas and AQA) Part 1
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Factors affecting climate in the UK: Air masses (Eduqas and AQA) Part 1

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This lesson covers the different air masses that affect the UK as well as key terms students have to decipher between weather and climate so that they understand the differences. Students have to use the information cards to locate the air mass and its features and then apply this information to summary reports that can be peer mark. This is the first part in the lesson of what impacts weather and climate in the UK. All resource are contained in addition to worksheets that can be adapted and all lesson and teaching materials.
Extreme weather GCSE (Including Climate Change)
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Extreme weather GCSE (Including Climate Change)

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These lessons all have the activities, lesson power points, homework and assessment opportunities in the form of exam questions, nothing for you to do but print. The topics covered in this unit are: - Drought (California) - Hurricanes (Katrina) - High and low pressure systems - Microclimates - Air masses that impact the UK - Depressions and anticyclones - Aspect and altitude - Understanding Climate Change - Natural evidence for climate change - Greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle - natural Theories of climate change
Changing patterns of retailing in the UK (2 lessons) - Theme 2 Eduqas (Lesson, resources &homework)
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Changing patterns of retailing in the UK (2 lessons) - Theme 2 Eduqas (Lesson, resources &homework)

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This pack spans over two lessons, there are several different resources to be printed and all contained in the pack in addition there is a homework task that has structure of an examination style question writing frame. There are a variety of activities and skills needed that follow the specification and cover the last part in the sequence of lessons (see other lessons or bundle) for Population and Urban change.
Drought in California  (2 lessons and HW) - Extreme weather high pressure Eduqas and AQA
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Drought in California (2 lessons and HW) - Extreme weather high pressure Eduqas and AQA

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This lesson contains the full planned lesson (covers two lessons) to explain the cause of droughts in California with a series of resources and activities for students to complete. There is also a clip to show and a variety of map and data handling exercises including the homework activity. There is also a case study task sheet that works best with the information resources and printed as A3. All resources are included.
Development gap, continuum, trade (trade blocs, quotas and subsidies) Case study: Malawi vs. Brazil
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Development gap, continuum, trade (trade blocs, quotas and subsidies) Case study: Malawi vs. Brazil

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This is a very big lesson! It is covering a lot of material in one lesson as we near the end of the course, the homework is also larger than a normal task. The students start off comparing how the world is divided up, gni and gdp as well as the modern changes and critique it. Students then look into the development continuum to see how countries can fit into different areas. Brazil and Malawi are used on a task sheet and a hand out to give the concepts of trade, trade blocs, subsidies, tariffs and quotas more depth and application. Homework is comparing exports and imports with the second part being on free trade and fair trade.
Geography GCSE Assessment objectives, marking and assessment exercises
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Geography GCSE Assessment objectives, marking and assessment exercises

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This literacy mat breaks down the assessment objectives for students for Eduqas Geography (but is similar to AQA and EdExcel AO's so would need a slight tweak). There are suggestions of how students answer each command words and how to respond to different question types. On the back of the mat there are the key words associated with Theme 1 but this is adaptable for the unit that is being delivered. There is also a course overview. Students should have these sheets A3 on their desk ideally laminated so that they can be used with whiteboard pens when completing exam questions as a class or as a walking talking mock.
China Population and Geography Skills
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China Population and Geography Skills

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This is a two part lesson that follows on from the Introduction lesson and the second lesson inn the scheme of work. Students have the opportunity to understand more about the population of China and population pyramids. In addition students learn skills of completing a chloropleth map and make comparisons between China's population and the UK over time. This lesson is the preparation for the 'One Child Policy'.