I'm a Geography teacher with experience educating at various levels, ranging from mainstream schools, SEN and extra-curricular tuition. I also have experience in teaching humanities, English and PSHE topics. My resources are designed primarily as schemes of works for mainly Geographical topics with all levels considered
I'm a Geography teacher with experience educating at various levels, ranging from mainstream schools, SEN and extra-curricular tuition. I also have experience in teaching humanities, English and PSHE topics. My resources are designed primarily as schemes of works for mainly Geographical topics with all levels considered
Destructive waves erode the coastline in four ways. This worksheet looks at these, their descriptions and uses ‘kung fu’ moves to help them remember the key terms as a bit of added fun.
For more than four thousand miles The Great Wall of China winds across the Chinese countryside. The Wall is listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the World and is the longest structure made by man. It stretches across the mountains of north China, traveling north and northwest Beijing. Constructed of masonry, rock and packed earth the thickness of the Wall ranges from four and a half meters to nine meters and is up to seven and a half meters tall. Today it’s a famous tourist attraction and important symbol of China.
These worksheets help your students develop their field sketching skills by explaining the dos and don’ts and using the Great Wall of China as an example
This booklet introduces and teaches the students how to read longitude and latitude, as well as help students develop their descriptive, sensory and research skills. The students investigate the two teams who raced to the poles in in 1911 and study the problems caused by the increasing number of tourists visiting Antarctica. Ways to reduce these impacts are discussed in addition to whether the students think Antarctica should be protected or not. The booklet is concluded with the students designing a leaflet to help promote funding to preserve the huts used by Robert Scott’s Antarctic Exhibition team.
A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, annotating thoughts, and ideas, and using senses to describe their findings.
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It's that time of year again where a bit of fun in the classroom wont do any harm but to keep it topical here are some country dingbats to try on the students...
The Three Gorges is a narrow, steep sided part of the Yangtze River, at five thousand kilometres one of the world’s longest rivers. The valley is home to over four hundred million people and provides over sixty per cent of Chinas rice crop.
In 1992 the Chinese government agreed to building the Three Gorges Dam. At an estimated cost of between £17 - £21 Billion and more than two kilometres long and one hundred and fifty meters high it will be the biggest dam in the world at completion in 2009.
These worksheets look at the positive and negatives of building the dam, the consiquences and leads to the opposrtunity of a class debate as to whether the Chinese government were right to build the dam.
These worksheets look at the large companies and their locations around the work, then focus primarily on a Nike case study in China and the positives and negatives it brings to LEDCs
This 17 page booklet allows students to investigate our National Parks. It covers a number of Geographical topics including map work, impacts of tourism and solutions to these and discussion on whether National Parks are still considered important.
Some of the titles included in this booklet are:
What Is A National Park?,
What Makes The New Forest National Park A Honey Pot Site?,
What Impacts Can Visitors Have On Our National Parks?,
Should The South Downs Have Been Included In Britain’s National Parks?
Do We Still Need National Parks?
Being able to identify coastal features on a map is an important skill to have as it can often come up in exams. These worksheets help students to use the knowledge they have gathered to identify the features on the map pieces from the additional sheet, sketch the feature and describe how it is recognised.
The beautiful Iguazu Falls are also known as the Iguassu Falls and the Iguaçu Falls. The magnificent display of these 275 individual drops has awed tourists and locals alike for centuries. They originate from the Iguazu River and are situated on the border of Brazil and Argentina. The falls are what divide the river of the same name into its upper and lower portions and have given rise to several myths and legends as to their origin. This river forms the boundary between Brazil and Argentina, making it an important part of the political and geographical structure of the continent of South America.
This worksheets helps your students to develop their field sketching skills by going through the important dos and don’ts and using the Iguazu Falls as an example
England is often thought of as a multicultural society due to the huge diversity which exists within it. London especially is incredibly diverse, with over 250 different languages spoken there every day, and so it’s referred to as being ‘super-diverse’. This diversity has evolved over many years.
These worksheets help your students to explore the make up of the English people as well as discuss why so many people move to England and the benefits and problems these people may be considered to bring with them. They are asked to express their opinion while backing these up with facts. A chance is also given to explore where their families have moved too and from.
This 50 page booklet allows students to explore Russia through a variety of activities both students and teacher lead. Chapters include, amongst others:
Where Are We Talking About?
Why Visit Russia?
Where In Russia?
What Is Russia’s Climate Like?
Who Makes Up Russia?
What Have We Borrowed?
What’s Russia’s Culture Like?
What Are Matryoshka Dolls?
Seeing The Sites
What Is The Winter Palace?
Who Is ‘The Motherland Calls?’
The Galapagos Of Russia?
Why Visit The Metro?
What Is The Route Of The Tsars?
Have I Seen There Before?
What Does Russia Produce?
What is Russia’s Role In The UN?
What happened To Princess Anastasia?
When looking at maps we can find it difficult to imagine what the landscape looks like if we were actually there. This worksheet explains how to draw a cross-section of Jeju Island, South Korea, by using the contours on a map and following a simple flow diagram.
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These six worksheets help students to investigate how a mountain is defined and how different mountians; fold-mountains, block-fault mountians and dome mountains are formed
This six page worksheet helps students to understand how plants and animals adapt to living in mountainous areas. The activities include research, designing their own plants and animals as well as peer assessment
This 50 page booklet allows students to explore China through a variety of activities both students and teacher lead. Chapters include, amongst others:
Where Are We Talking About?
What Do You Know About China?
Why Travel to China?
What Is The Climate Like in China?
What Is our Population Like?
What’s Happening To China’s Population?
What’s Happening To The Age Of China?
China’s Culture
A Taste Of China
Gung Hey Fat Choy!
Playing With Paper
Britain’s Best Beverage
China’s Threatened Wildlife
The Great Wall
The Terracotta Army
The Forbidden City
Tiananmen Square
Three Gorge Dam
Transnational Companies In China
This 15 page booklets allows the students to explore and discover the Seven Original and New Wonders of the World and Natural World through a range of different activities including individual and group tasks. Wonders include:
The New Seven Wonders Of The World
Chichen Itza
Christ The Redeemer
The Great Wall Of China
The Taj Mahal
Machu Picchu
Petra
The Roman Colosseum
This 20 page booklet allows students to discover and explore the original seven wonders of the world though individual and group activities. Chapters include:
The Colossus Of Rhodes
The Great Pyramid Of Giza
The Hanging Baskets Of Babylon
The Lighthouse Of Alexandria
The Mausoleum At Halicarnassus
The Statue Of Zeus At Olympia
The Temple Of Artemis At Ephesus