This is a one-off lesson based on a game. ‘The Hunger Game’ explores the issues of food insecurity and reasons why the world’s food supply is distributed unevenly. The game uses Skittles and requires teams of six students. Each player represents a continent and Skittles are distributed according to what percentage of the world’s food supply that continent receives. Real life events are played out and players lose or gain food supplies. Players can intervene and provide food aid to other continents. At the beginning and end of the game students each complete a worksheet which encourages reflection of the events that affected them and others, and how they felt about it. I designed this game for an observation lesson and received an ‘outstanding’. It is an original resource which was inspired by the popular Jelly Babies Population Game. I have used the game with both a low and high ability Year 8 class and also a Year 12 class. The KS3 and A-Level groups were highly engaged with the lesson and played the game independently. Differentiation was very much through team discussion, reflection outcomes and teacher questioning. I was amazed by the implications discussed by the higher ability Year 8 class – issues we hadn’t yet covered in lessons. The game requires 100 Skittles per team and plastic cups or bowls for players to keep them in. The resources provided include: Lesson plan PowerPoint Starter and plenary activity Player instructions Continent profiles Student worksheet Positive and negative chance cards It is ideal for a 60 minute lesson but could easily be extended through follow-up discussion. I managed to squeeze it into a 50 minute lesson, but revisited the worksheet the following lesson to reflect on the outcomes and key learning points. Please leave feedback and/or rate if you do purchase this lesson! Thank you!

A detailed student workbook for AQA’ s Changing Places unit, focussing on economic and social inequalities in Stratford (London) as a distant place study. The workbook is fully resourced for both teacher and student-led activities. It is 43 pages long and contains approximately 8-10 hours of activities. The content reflects the specification requirements and links into the unit’s key ideas. It includes: Physical geography (location) Historical development, land use, infrastructure and the built environment (locale) Economic characteristics (employment, industries, house prices, Olympic-led regeneration) Social inequalities (GDHI, deprivation and displacement - Carpenters Estate) The workbook includes a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data sources, all of which are fully referenced. There are exam questions and key term reminders too. Some activities require the internet but the majority use sources provided. This is a unique study booklet that I created for my students. It is the product of hours of research! I delivered it at the end of the unit but it could be completed alongside teaching the main specification. The package also contains a summary sheet to aid student’s revision of the place study. Ideally printed in A3.