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This lesson investigates what is drought, causes of drought and the global distribution before focusing on the drought in The Sahel in 2011.

A lesson about the monsoon focusing on India looking at climate graphs aimed at KS3.

This lesson investigates Nike as a case study of globalisation focusing on how it has become so big, positives and negatives. One task focuses on IT so students need access to ICT but this activity can be skipped.

This lesson investigates why Hurricane Katrina was so devastating and the effects of it. This can be used as a case study. There is a fact collecting exercise that uses two YouTube videos as sources of information.

This lesson investigates the benefits of eco-tourism to India but also the problems it causes uses a real story of a man eating tiger. Students carry out a carousel activity to find out different people’s views on the tiger and then come to a conclusion in regards to what the solution should be. this lesson should take 2 periods.

This lesson investigates how China became the development country it is today, it looks at the Great leap Forward through a reading and YouTube video and how it failed and looks at a BBC article on the modern economic transformation of the country with questions to accompany it.

This research based lesson gets students to use the internet to research different indicators and to look at trends to predict the future. There is graph analysis at the beginning and then students make conclusions at the end. I would recommend students use Hans Roslings’ Gapminder website to access information

This lesson investigates the use of water in farming. It includes an analysis of table data regarding water usage per crop, growing crops in the desert, problems with growing crops in the desert, a comprehension task based on a reading activity and YouTube link on why the Aral Sea has shrunk and finally solutions to water based problems in which students have to provide a solution - a solution sheet is there to support too. This will take 2 periods.

This lesson is an introduction to a unit on agriculture focusing on the key idea of inputs, processes and outputs. Students add inputs, processes and outputs to a diagram of a farming example. The rest of the lesson focuses on the differences between commercial and subsistence and intensive and extensive farming using comparison tables and a whiteboard activity where students have to name the type of farming.

This lessons investigates why panda numbers are low and how China is boosting their numbers. There is a document with panda facts that students use to answer why reproductive rates are low, they then describe graphs and maps of their numbers and ranges with peer assessment. Using a BBC article and a YouTube clip they answer how china has increased their numbers. Finally they have to agree or disagree with a Chris Packham statement where he said Pandas should go extinct.

This lesson uses GIS with step by step instructions so that students can measure the erosion of the coast and then plot this on a graph using Google Sheets. This is done by overlapping a historic map with current satellite imagery and measuring the difference. This can be attempted by a student who has never used ArcGIS before.

This lesson goes through the basics; including a gapfill on background information, comprehension questions related to the gapfill worksheet and a YouTube video, latitud i s explained through diagrams and then there is a plotting exercise in which natural disasters of the 21st Century and major news stories are plotted on a map also includes answers.

This lesson investigates the collapse of civilization on Easter Island. It starts with a structured activity describing the location of the island and its physical geography using maps as source material. Some key terms are then introduced and ideally added to their glossary (if they have one). A short YouTube video is watched and a text is read providing information on the collapse of civilization, students then answer 5 questions. They then complete a table in which they explain how each different factor made life more and more difficult for people to live on the island. Finally as an extension tasks students apply the lesson learned from Easter Island to our modern day way of life and the way we are exploiting our resources.

A brief history of Africa focusing on colonialism. Image analysis focusing on the scramble for Africa, a tarsia of key terms, a reading activity with comprehension questions and a modern focus on the DRC and how colonialism is still impacting it today.

A lesson to fight the stereotype that all of the continent is poor. This includes an image analysis using 8 way thinking, data comparison table and the use of GapMinder’s Dollar Street to look at real families.

A lesson taught to Y7 about tropical rainforest animal adaptations which culminated in students creating their own animal. It includes: What happens next, play the video and pause at 0.48 this should perk interest in the lesson. showing different rainforest animals (tarsier and anaconda but could be used for any) and getting students to identify then develop explanations - ideal for using mini whiteboards. Tropical rainforest creating planning sheet. Key terms which could be applicable for students to use for their creation. Basic mark scheme. Peer assessment activity. Developing ideas with the introduction of symbiotic relationships. Please note all APK/ starter activities are specific to my school’s SOW so may need to be edited before you teach it.

A lesson taught to Y8 about how cities have changed over time. It includes: Spot the difference of images of villages from past and present to engage learners. Gap fill activity. Questions. Reading activity in which students circle the correct option/ cross out incorrect option. Table structure for students to compare different city factors then and now. Answering the question ‘How have cities changed?’ in an extended form. Please note all APKs/ starter activities are based upon my school’s SOW so may need adapting before use.