A simple, structured and proven way of getting your students to understand what it takes to perform well in 9-mark questions. Can be used as a stand alone lesson in preparation for assessments or as a reflection activity. Technique is guaranteed to improve student scores if applied. In Trial exam experiments, high achievers improved by 1.5 marks on average after being taught this technique and low achievers improved by an average of 1 mark. For students that used the technique, the improvement was 2.5 marks for high achievers and 2 marks for low achievers. 9-mark example answer to work through following the guidance page on technique with tasks (identify the parts of the answer and correct spellings). Space for students to attempt their own answer to a different questions with sentence starters. Lesson plan attached.

These PowerPoint slides support the free resource: ‘Earth Story booklet’ created by myself. Each lesson has guidance slides and links to videos. This topic worked really well as an introduction to Geography for Year 7 by enabling them to gain perspective on the Earth’s past up to the present day. I hope you and your students enjoy using this resource.