These are pop quizzes to test student on their content knowledge and can be used in class, as homework or a revision recall. I find these make a great starter for a few minutes while the students settle.
This scheme of work is targeted for Year 9 but can be adapted to younger years and is getting students to look at different concepts and ideas through the lens of the border.
Lesson 1: Explores what is a border and whether borders are natural. Then the lesson explore the four functions of a border: barriers, bridges, resources and symbols of identity.
The lesson incorporates many different activities and promotes high level thinking.
Please adapt, change and make use of the lessons as you wish.
Prepare your students to produce a field sketch.
The worksheet includes a WAGOLL and also looks into the advantages and disadvantages of field sketches. It was produced for GCSE but could be applied to KS3.
This lesson uses ArcGIS Online to allow students to produce their own crime data (other data could also be used). The downloads consist of two lessons:
First lesson: Students will use ArcGIS Online to explore their wider geographcial skills with GIS mapping. They can import data included to show crime in Worthing which they manipulate and then can combine with other data sets to explain crime within worthing.
The lesson comes with a step by step as well as the data required.
Second Lesson: Students will interpret their data as well as making conclusions about crime hotspots within Worthing.
The excel document needs to be saved as a csv file before it can be used in the lesson.
This scheme of work is targeted for Year 9 but can be adapted to younger years and is getting students to look at different concepts and ideas through the lens of the border.
Lesson 7: This lesson summarises the learning of the mini-unit. It gets the students to look at whether they think that borders are needed and inspires a debate within the class.
The lesson incorporates many different activities and promotes high level thinking.
Please adapt, change and make use of the lessons as you wish.
This is a revision resource that asks the students to review their current knowledge, through diagrams, definitions and explanations.
This could help throughout the course at reviewing and revising the coasts course.
Revision worksheet that could be used within class, as homework or revision materials. The revision worksheet looks at all areas of the natural hazards unit.
More resources similar to this to come!
This scheme of work is targeted for Year 9 but can be adapted to younger years and is getting students to look at different concepts and ideas through the lens of the border.
Lesson 4: This lesson looks at identity and whether there is a national identity and how this can be challenged. This will be reviewed by looking at Catalonia in Spain.
The lesson incorporates many different activities and promotes high level thinking.
Please adapt, change and make use of the lessons as you wish.
This scheme of work is targeted for Year 9 but can be adapted to younger years and is getting students to look at different concepts and ideas through the lens of the border.
Lesson 6: This lesson explores whether globalisation makes borders less important using COVID-19 as an example.
The lesson incorporates many different activities and promotes high level thinking.
Please adapt, change and make use of the lessons as you wish.
This scheme of work is targeted for Year 9 but can be adapted to younger years and is getting students to look at different concepts and ideas through the lens of the border.
Lesson 2 explore culture borders - what are they? How they interact with everyone’s lives? We do a class questionnaire and do data presentation based on this.
Please adapt, change and make use of the lessons as you wish.
This scheme of work is targeted for Year 9 but can be adapted to younger years and is getting students to look at different concepts and ideas through the lens of the border.
Lesson 3: This explores what is a national border and whether students think that these are important. This uses the silent debate to build up students ideas.
The lesson incorporates many different activities and promotes high level thinking.
Please adapt, change and make use of the lessons as you wish.
This scheme of work is targeted for Year 9 but can be adapted to younger years and is getting students to look at different concepts and ideas through the lens of the border.
Lesson 5: This lesson looks at border experiences and reviewing the concept of migration which is discussed across many of the lessons. You will look at a GIS or a storyboard to explain a border crossing.
The lesson incorporates many different activities and promotes high level thinking.
Please adapt, change and make use of the lessons as you wish.