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Outstanding Lesson: What are hazards?
Learning Objectives:
To identify a range of natural hazards
To describe how people and places are affected by them
Includes a great starter, learning tasks and research activity.
Excellent activity booklet: Guide to rivers, flooding with key terminology
Great introduction to river studies and the water cycle.
Includes activities looking at:
World famous rivers
Flooding Case Study
Key terminology
Crosswords
Wordsearch
River run-off
Infiltration cartoons
Outstanding: How can the rich help the poor? (TES Pick)
Title: How can the rich help the poor?
Learning Objectives:
To identify the different types of aid
To justify the reasons for giving international aid
Include activity sheet, tasks, video clip, range of famous quotes and discussion points.
Comprehensive lesson
Brilliant: 10 World Landmark Jigsaws
Supurb end of term challenge activity. Students to highlight, cut, assemble,paste, name, locate and research each of the ten famous landmarks ! Good fun !
Also great to use as a introductory and transition lesson activity to introduce the skills, spatial awareness and global knowledge needed for Geography!
This has proved very successful for Y6 students entering KS3
It can be used as an independent, paired or group task. Fantastic if used as a competition.
Should TNCs’ use child labour? (TES Pick)
Title - Should TNCs’ use child labour?
Learning Objectives:
To describe why children are employed
To evaluate the role that they have within manufacturing
Includes hyperlinks to appropriate videos, extension activities, discussion points, tables for students to complete as well as an assessment task marking rubrics to consolidate learning.
Excellent: Geography Base Line Assessment Test 1 hour Comprehensive - World and British
A fantastic resource that is an efficient to mark. This assessment will gauge current Geographical knowledge of Y6 students entering KS3. Can also be used as assessment tool for new GCSE/KS4 students and also students preparing for A Level/KS5.
Capitals cities of Europe
Rivers
Volcanoes
UK Counties
British cities
Geographical Vocabulary
Earthquakes
weather and climate
People and population
Food and farming
Mountains and highlands
Pollution
European countries
Continents of the world
Seas and oceans of the world
Excellent Map of Africa atlas exercise
A comprehensive mapping activity to introduce and consolidate the human and physical geography of Africa.
Looks at the countries, main cities, rivers, islands, capes, deserts, seas and oceans.
Fun and challenging !
How can we reduce the effects of flooding?
A research based lesson reviewing the strategies to reduce the effects of flooding - including soft and hard engineering techniques.
Outstanding Lesson - Sources of energy, Green, renewable, wind energy
Title: How can wind power be used create renewable energy?
Learning objectives:
•To identify examples of renewable and non-renewable energy
•To list the costs and benefits of wind power
•To look at a Case Study
A great lesson that reviews the many variety of energy sources and focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy.
Includes a useful case study for application of skills, knowledge and understanding.
Outstanding Lesson: Brazil's Amazon Rainforest (TES pick)
A fantastic lesson reviewing the environmental conditions, characteristics and human pressures found within this fragile biome. Involves kinaesthetic collaborative class group task, analysis and evaluation. Includes pit stop plenaries and free plenary placemat.
Great for an introduction to this popular case study and theme of biomes.
Excellent starter - Identification of Coastal Erosion Landforms
Excellent starter and introduction to further research
Airline ticket boarding pass – Earthquakes
Interactive, great and fun ‘ticket to learning’ starter activity.
Adaptable for ANY lesson!
This focusses on earthquakes and has different levels of questioning - ideal for a mixed ability class.
Allows students to reflect, peer mark and use images/drawings for show their comprehension. Good fun!
MYP IB Curriculum:Tourism in Denmark - Aarhus
A useful ICT resource to encourage students to consider promoting tourism of a destination.
Can be adapted for other locations around the world
Atlas/map skills: Fantastic introduction to Asia and China
Very useful resource: Includes a crossword challenge and research activity.
Easy, fun: Geography Quiz - end of term challenege
Excellent end of term Quiz aimed at increasing spacial awareness, global knowledge and general Geographical knowledge !
Introduction to Geology: How are rocks formed and shaped?
Lesson objectives:
To describe the 3 main rock types.
To explain 4 weathering processes
Great lesson that has a range of fun activities and also includes an activity sheet
Excellent - A river’s journey (KS3)
Aim: To describe how the river channel and the drainage basin change as a river flows downstream.
Excellent lesson on how the river profile and channel changes as the river moves from its upper, middle and lowers course.
Includes activity sheets and extension task,
Case study: Flooding in the UK
Lesson objectives:
To identify the features of a drainage basin by creating and labelling a paper 3D model.
To use a Case study to review the range impacts caused by to flooding
Great lesson - ideal for student to complete via Google Classroom/Microsoft Teams
Includes a great Case study and 3D pop-up river basin paper model.
Zombie Apocalypse lesson!
Great problem solving lesson that refines a range of Geographic skills.
Students focus on a series of missions - can they survive the lesson?!!
Excellent map skills: How well do you know Asia?
Great worksheet to increase spatial awareness and atlas skills.