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Who is Greta Thunberg? Fantastic -Jigsaw
Differentiated on 3 levels of difficulty! A great jigsaw starter puzzle that introduces Greta Thunberg to stimulate a conversation about her rapid raise to global fame and environmental politics.
How safe is nuclear energy?
Learning Objectives:
To evaluate the use and growth of nuclear energy
To discuss the social risks linked to this energy choice
Environmental systems & Societies: Unit 1.1 - What are Environmental Value Systems (EVS)?
Title: Environmental systems & Societies: Unit 1.1 - What are Environmental Value Systems (EVS)?
Learning Objectives:
● To identify the factors that affect different EVS
● To explain the different environmental philosophies
Great lesson that introduces students to the first unit, also incorporates some excellent video clips for discussion and a Homework task to consolodate learning.
Fantastic: Analysis of Global Warming and Climate Change Data (Al Gore)
This introduces students to easy overview of climate change patterns caused by Global Warming.
A great resource that promotes logical, critical thinking and justification.
Can be used as a group task.
What are the effects of floods? (Outstanding Lesson)
Title: What are the effects of floods?
To identify at least 4 effects
To compare the floods in the UK with Bangladesh
A great double lesson that reviews the impact of flooding.
Ideal for KS3-4.
Differentiated resource available for lower ability students.
Includes 6 activities, starter and plenary and assistance for differentiation.
Also includes level question with level descriptors so that students can generate a target answer response.
Lesson plan overview is on slide 2
Tectonics Assessment - 30 minutes
Great summative assessment designed for Year 7 or 8 that reviews knowledge and understanding of plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions.
Includes a range of different questions:
True/False
Diagram drawing
Image analysis
River Landscapes in the UK
Learning objectives
To identify a variety of river landforms.
To work as a team to assess how rivers shape the land through erosion and deposition.
Comprehensive, interactive lesson that promotes collaboration.
Why live in the USA? (America Mexico Migration Case study)
Learning objectives:
To outline the reasons why Mexico migrants want to live in the USA.
To review some population issues caused by mass migration.
Comprehensive lesson including map activities of the USA/Mexico border, crossword suing key words and places, locational knowledge questions and matching exercises reviewing different perspectives of the migration issues.
Fluvial landforms caused by deposition (floodplains and levees and estuaries)
Learning objectives
To identify a variety of river landforms.
To work as a team to assess how rivers shape the land through erosion and deposition.
Comprehensive, interactive lesson that promotes collaboration.
Excellent lesson - What is the carbon cycle?
A great introduction lesson to the carbon cycle.
Includes activity sheet!
Learning objectives:
To identify the stores and flows within the carbon cycle.
To work in a team to create a labelled diagram of the carbon cycle.
Brexit. Excellent map skills: How well do you know Europe?
Great worksheet to increase spatial awareness and atlas skills.
Outstanding Lesson - How can population pyramids be used to assess demographic changes?
Title: How can population pyramids be used to assess demographic changes?
Learning Objectives:
To explain how population structure can change over time
To construct and analyse population pyramids
Contains clear examples, activity sheets, differentiated tasks, PEE chain examples.
Formative assessment for sense of place: Country in a box assessment
Creative summative assessment for KS3. Very helpful for lower ability students and kinaesthetic learners. Can also be used as a group/team project !
Assessment critera included !
Map/Atlas skills: Fantastic introduction to the Americas
Very useful resource: Includes a crossword challenge and research activity.
ESS 5.1 Worksheet - Introduction to soil
Great activity sheet with a range of tasks
Conservation/environmental agencies jigsaws
Cool kinaesthetic starter activity that introduces the logos of 3 major conservation organisations.
Outstanding - Ancient Egypt starter pack
Highly rated: A fantastic resource that introduces the topic of Ancient Egypt.
Contains images, a historical fun map,hieroglyphics tasks and allows students to design their own cartouche, decipher hieroglyphics, research the unique traditions and cultures of the wonderful Historical topic.
Outstanding Lesson: Hurricanes, Typhoons & Cyclones
Title - What are Hurricanes?
Learning Objective:
To describe how they form using keywords
To map their global distribution
*** A comprehensive introduction to the natural hazard referred to as hurricanes – areas of intense low pressure. This has an excellent starter, main and plenary. It covers mapping global distribution, key words & terminology, the Saffir-Simpson scale measurement and tidal surge. It also has extension higher order thinking question for more ale students.**
What are the effects of a volcanic eruption? (Outstanding lesson)
Learning Objectives:
To identify the main features of a volcano
To describe how people and places are affected by an eruption
Includes volcanic cross section labeling activity, key words, detailed knowledge of and exaplanation of the the formation of volcanoes as well as a comprehensive research task Case study template.
How do ecosystems work?
Learning objectives:
To identify the main components and interactions
To discuss how changes can have effects on plants and animals
Contains fun wordsearch starter, key definitions, energy flow diagram task and review of biotic/abiotic factors.