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!
This is an excellent introduction lesson to weather and climate with students having an attempt at completing a virtual weather diary using the clip attached and being introduced to key terms.
The task sheet should be printed A3 single sided so that students are able to access it easily and then the weather diary can also be used as homework too.
There are two versions of the lesson as one is using the Promethean software for IWB but I have also copied it onto ppt in the event you do not have the software at your school.
I have also included self assessment ladders (I have left them as levels as all schools can therefore change to their own systems).
Question and answer topic booklets is designed to send home to parents so that they can revise with their child. There are a series of questions and answers that the parent can traffic light to assist and monitor revision. This has been a great tool for the 'revising in my bedroom on facebook' generation when a parent wants to help.
This can also be used to help students check their own learning and then use the questions as mini-knowledge checks. There is also a physical geography booklet.
Case Study revision sheets for Rivers, tourism and tectonics; Students complete the case studies with probing questions. The pack includes questioning sheets and resource interpretation. There is also an accompanying case study notes booklet attached so that these can be used for homework or home revision too.
Parent revision evening; This power point has been used at parents evenings and parent revision evenings to prepare parents and students for the Geography AQA examinations, what the paper looks like, where additional information can be found and timelines.
Memory training; Students are increasingly finding it difficult in a digital age to retain information. Students rarely know their own mobile numbers as the brain no longer needs to retain this information in a digital era where your memory is in your smartphone. For exams however students cannot rely on their smart phones and need to be using their memories.
This is a good session to get students to think about their revision and how they can revise. The session is interactive and there are lots of activities to try. It works best to use your own subject however the information in this one is generic so students can collectively try the techniques.
I use it a lot for Geography case studies for key facts and have had good success. Students sometimes want to revise but struggle to know how they can make their revision more accessible.
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 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.
This booklet contains an extensive set of question and answers for Paper 1 with Rivers and Coasts being the optional units (it does not have glaciation).
The purpose of these booklets is so that students can put them onto flash cards as well as parents using the book to test their child. This resource has been compiled for students to access and use as an additional tool if they are working from home prior to the examinations.
This is the following lesson in the sequence after Population and migration in the UK - Causes and impacts which is also available.
Students have to attempt another data presentation skill with some extension work of selecting an appropriate scale and justifying the technique as well as completing the technique using the map and data provided (see additional resources attached).
Students then make links between the housing crisis and population growth building on from the previous lessons. Students investigate what a garden city is and if it is the answer to the housing crisis. They have to categorize a series of information about garden cities and have to review what the appropriate categories would be. The lesson is then completed with a consolidation task at the end of the lesson or as a homework extension on an examination question.
