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! :)
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.
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.
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).
Geography Lesson- Challenges in a LIC- India Case study- Slums- Dharavi
Suitable for KS3 or introduction to lower ability KS4.
Learning Objectives:
To know the challenges (push factors) in India.
To understand how challenges are caused by population growth.
Excellent if we are able to explain the social, economic and environmental challenges in India using named examples.
Introduction to slums: using graphs to address data on population increase in Mumbai. Images used for discussion on challenges and disparities in wealth. Key terms- social, economic and environmental explained- students have to then categorise these into a table. embedded videos and engaging tasks. Chloropleth map showing different levels of wealth across India- locational knowledge + numerical skills.
Differentiated plenary with exam style questions to check for understanding.
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 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.
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).
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.
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!
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.
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?
What are the barriers to trade and protectionism?
You will be able to use this to:
Define the following barriers to trade and protectionism: tariff, import licence, import quota, subsidies, sanctions, embargoes, regulatory or technical restrictions.
Outline the notion of comparative advantage as to why countries trade.
Outline the rules-based system of the World Trade Organisation.
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).
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.
