I am a secondary school Head of department and I love to teach engaging, vibrant and interesting lessons. I try to inspire students with what greets them when they come into my classroom and try to move away from the chalk and talk teacher at the front lessons and make learning interactive and fun!
I am a secondary school Head of department and I love to teach engaging, vibrant and interesting lessons. I try to inspire students with what greets them when they come into my classroom and try to move away from the chalk and talk teacher at the front lessons and make learning interactive and fun!
Students complete the case studies with probing questions for the topic of tectonics and restless earth. The pack includes grids on a rich and poor earthquake, a volcanic eruption, fold mountains and a Tsunami.
Rich earthquake (Kobe, Japan), Poor earthquake (Sichuan, China), Volcano (Icelandic), Fold Mountains (The Andes) and Tsunami (Boxing day).
Students complete the sheets for revision alongside the booklets, the questions are challenging and related to the exam specification/question demands.
This can be a lesson revision activity or a stand alone weekly set of home work tasks.
This resource fully covers the National Curriculum criteria for elements of Russia as well as many skills and location elements. The accompanying scheme of work for a full term maps out suggested lessons (or the accompanying lessons are available on TES). The assessment is directly related to the scheme of work and the KS3 assessment criteria stated on the scheme.
This pack perfectly and succinctly summarises all of the elements and key sociologists for the Education unit for AQA AS/A2. It works well as a holiday revision or pre-assessment unit content revision or I initially made if for a student that had missed a great deal of the course.
The notes can be used to set weekly tests and also use them to apply and think independently about how research methods are also threaded through the unit so there is an A3 summary Education and research methods sheet included!
A variety of worksheets for mix and match homework's to compliment a series of coasts lessons. The tasks differ depending on their level of skill, effort and knowledge. The tasks are standalone and there are enough tasks for 6 weeks of homework once per week.
No planning needed all sheets are prepared.
This resource works best as being printed out as A3 sheets and then stapled together as a large work book.
The resources are all completed on the first 4 pages as theories and concepts about the course, including indicators, reasons for inequalities, types of aid, advantages and disadvantages of aid and then ALL case studies needed with accompanying notes to support the case studies. The case studies are based on the examination prompts regarding case study extended writing questions with source stimulus for preparing for shorter questions.
Please note the case study packs are also available separately for several other units.
This keynote training presentation works specifically at engaging boys in learning in lessons, establishing rapport, improving behavior and understanding preconceptions about boys and achievement of boys in the UK. The presentation is interactive so staff will be expected to participate and the training should last around an hour.
This training works really well at engaging staff in understanding the gender gap and ideas on how to engage boys in lessons. Has been used at whole school and departmental level.
This is a full scheme of work for China with extended questioning and linked to student assessment rubric. It covers many areas of the current National Curriculum framework in addition to teacher assessment criteria and student assessment rubrics. Lesson 1 is also attached.
This resource fully covers the National Curriculum criteria for the study of Africa in addition to many of the Geographical skills requirements of the NC framework. The Scheme of work has big research questions broken down into smaller Learning Intentions for a lesson by lesson approach in addition to questioning suggestions and assessment criteria and suggested activities. Accompanying lessons are available. There is a student friendly rubric to follow the lessons and the assessment criteria.
Full scheme of work for the new National Curriculum changes to Geography to incorporate the elements of Extreme Environments and various locational knowledge. The perfect unit for preparing students for ecosystems and environments in the majority of specifications at KS4. There is also a bundle available with the first three lessons on the scheme of work.
This is a full scheme of work for a term covering rocks, resources and tectonic activity. There are big research questions with learning intentions, outcomes, keywords, questioning and lesson activities. In addition there is an assessment attached and a student friendly rubric for self assessment, accompanying lessons are also available. This scheme firs the criteria for the New National Curriculum framework.
This resource provides a stand alone case study pack for students to complete with all case study notes. In addition the question and answer booklets are god to RAG so students can assess their own learning.
The homework's are good starters or additional support materials for low ability students to build confidence for the Q&A packs or the research sheets. These materials can be used as stand alone revision for holiday sessions.
Students complete the case studies with probing questions for the topic on The living world (ecosystems), The restless earth (tectonics) and Water on the land (rivers).
Students complete the sheets for revision alongside the booklets included, the questions are challenging and related to the exam specification/question demands.
This can be a lesson revision activity or a stand alone weekly set of home work tasks.
Students complete the case studies with probing questions for the topic on The Development Gap, Urban environments and Tourism.
The Development Gap includes; Development Gap. The pack includes Haiti as an LEDC that suffers from physical inequality (Haiti Earthquake), Small scale aid youth empowerment in Uganda, Medium scale aid, Action Aid in Kolkata, Large scale Aid - the Cahora Bassa dam, Mozambique and inequality in the EU.
Urban environments includes; sustainable transport in London and sustainable living in Curitiba, squatter settlements in Kibera, Kenya and managing CBD's including UDC's (Newcastle upon Tyne), City Challenge (Manchester) ,Sustainable communities (New Islington) and Managing a city sustainability (Newcastle upon Tyne).
Tourism includes; the pack includes questioning sheets and resource interpretation on Blackpool (UK coastal resort including Butler model), The Galapagos Islands (Ecotourism), Antarctica (Extreme Tourism) and Jamaica (Tourism in the Tropics).
Students complete the sheets for revision alongside the booklets included, the questions are challenging and related to the exam specification/question demands.
This can be a lesson revision activity or a stand alone weekly set of home work tasks.
These lessons can be purchased individually but work well as completed one after the other so that students can compare and contrast the different impacts of being a host nation.
All resources and lessons are contained in the bundle and it is discounted to buy as a bundle.
This also includes the scheme of work and there end of unit assessments.
Lesson 1 and 2: The starting point for the topic of urban and rural. Students complete a range of activities and skills in addition to examination questions. There is also a homework task. Students complete a key terms for the unit, population distribution, statistical skills and analysis, the urban-rural continuum, sphere of influence and the challenges of rural life. High ability students 2 lessons although middle to lower this will be three lessons worth of material. Resources are in the power point to print or attached as a separate document.
Lesson 3 & 4: This is the next double lesson in the sequence for theme 2 'Rural and Urban links'. There are a variety of activities that are attached including an examination question to consolidate learning.
Students look at the reasons for the growth of commuter towns and commuters in general in addition to the impact and management of commuters. The second lesson follows on to look at second homes and the impact of second homes on rural populations.
Lesson 5 & 6: Issues in rural areas; Students have the opportunity to identify links between rural areas and deprivation in Wales. Students have to use the sources to make links and annotate the maps.
Following on there is a flow chart to organise in order to understand what causes rural deprivation and link this onto the issues of health care provision and education. Students then have a writing frame to complete an analysis style question using the opinions and sources.
Lesson 7 & 8: This is the third lesson in the sequence (see bundle to buy as a group) whereby students consider what it means to be a sustainable rural community. They need to work on examination skills of developing points to explain and use evidence on the spider diagram.
In addition students then look at a rural area that has attempted to regenerate and become more sustainable and students have to evaluate how successful the area has been in meeting the objectives using the images and clip link that is on the power point.
There is an examination question also to be used for homework with some scaffolding put in place that can be added to further or removed according to ability.
This revision guide covers the following:
- River processes and landforms including erosion, transportation, deposition, meanders and waterfalls etc)
- Coastal processes and landforms including erosion, transportation, deposition, wave cut notches, platforms, headlands, bays, slumping, sand dunes, etc,
- Flooding including; causes, effects, responses, hydrographs and case study with management techniques
- Population in the UK including; ageing, rural, urban, commuting, issues in urban and rural areas.
- Sustainability in urban areas including; Egan's wheel, BedZED, green belts, urban renewal, case study on regeneration, changes to UK retail including online and out of town.
- Global cities and Mega Cities with case studies.
- Managing coastal areas including assessing vulnerability, hard and soft engineering, rising sea levels, coastal flooding, case studies (UK and international) and management strategies.
The revision guide largely follows the component 1 of the Eduqas course but the themes and topics are applicable to AQA and EdExcel too. The guide also runs alongside the lessons that can be found in my shop.
The price point reflects that multiple copies will be distributed and to your class and it took a long time to make, so far my classes have found it beneficial.
This revision guide is 72 pages and covers everything that is needed for component 2 on the Eduqas specification for Geography.
The revision guide is very detailed and has all case studies and accompanies all lessons that are on my store that match with the revision guide.
The revision guide covers the following; climate change, evidence for climate change, the greenhouse effect, extreme weather including a hurricane and drought case study, extreme weather in the UK including depressions and anticyclones, ecosystems and their distribution, threats to tropical rainforest, threats to the grasslands and sustainable management of both.
Global development, north south global divide, development continuum, MNC's/TNC's and Nike, Tata steel in the UK and Mumbai, India, tourism impacting development, NIC Cancun and the Gambia, North-south divide in the UK, regional inequalities, health issues that impact social development, education of children and water security impacting development, UN and Millennium development goals.
These sheets can be purchased seperately or as Paper 1 and Paper 2 bundles. The case studies work best for AQA Geography but also are used on EdExcel and OCR GCSE papers.
The sheets cover all the content needed for each case study from the units that I deliver there are accompanying case study revision booklets with all of the notes to go with should you prefer them to be completed independently as revision or with support.
The topics and case studies are;
Paper 1;
In the tectonics/restless earth pack includes grids on a rich and poor earthquake, a volcanic eruption, fold mountains and a Tsunami.
Rich earthquake (Kobe, Japan), Poor earthquake (Sichuan, China), Volcano (Icelandic), Fold Mountains (The Andes) and Tsunami (Boxing day).
Living world (ecosystems) includes, tropical rain forest (Malaysia), Rich desert (USA), Poor desert (Thar, India) and Temperate deciduous (Epping forest).
Water on the Land/Rivers includes;
Flooding in a MEDC (Tewkesbury), Flooding in a LEDC (Bangladesh), Hard Engineering (Three Gorges Dam) and Water management in the UK (Kielder Water).
Paper 2;
The Development Gap includes; Development Gap. The pack includes Haiti as an LEDC that suffers from physical inequality (Haiti Earthquake), Small scale aid youth empowerment in Uganda, Medium scale aid, Action Aid in Kolkata, Large scale Aid - the Cahora Bassa dam, Mozambique and inequality in the EU.
Urban environments includes; sustainable transport in London and sustainable living in Curitiba, squatter settlements in Kibera, Kenya and managing CBD's including UDC's (Newcastle upon Tyne), City Challenge (Manchester) ,Sustainable communities (New Islington) and Managing a city sustainability (Newcastle upon Tyne).
Tourism includes; the pack includes questioning sheets and resource interpretation on Blackpool (UK coastal resort including Butler model), The Galapagos Islands (Ecotourism), Antarctica (Extreme Tourism) and Jamaica (Tourism in the Tropics).
Homework or in class support sheets ideal for KS3 homework as stand alone activities.
These topics can be purchased individually or as a pack.
Happy homework!
