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Geography resources for KS3 & 4.
Using GIS to prepare for Tropical Storms
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Using GIS to prepare for Tropical Storms

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Prepared for AQA Geography B, a guide for students to use GIS to reseach Historic Hurricanes and accompanying PowerPoint. Task, for them to work in pairs to prepare a PowerPoint that uses GIS and explains why GIS is important in the preparation for Tropical Storms
Population - Play your life expectancy right!
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Population - Play your life expectancy right!

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PowerPoint game based on play your cards right format, but for life expectancy. Students are shown life expectancy for first country and then have to work out, using prior knowledge, if the next country will be higher or lower. Great fun, has always worked well with classes and gets them thinking! Comments welcomed!!
Crime - art or graffiti?
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Crime - art or graffiti?

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Uses Banksy images and tags to encourage students to consider what is graffiti and what effect it can have on an environment.
Japan - money and industry
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Japan - money and industry

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Starter of logos from Japanese companies. How did Japan become a rich country? Why has it slipped from 2nd to 3rd richest in the world? Article looks at who Japan exports to, who it imports from and some of what it imports and exports. Activities include graphs and comprehension, cloze passage for SEN students. Suggest you use my Crib Sheets for Success Criteria for graphs - see TES resources.
A Christmas (Cranberry) Mystery
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A Christmas (Cranberry) Mystery

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A powerpoint and card sort to encourage students to think about the source of one key (depending on your opinion of course) Christmas Dinner. Focuses on Henry Hall who was the first commercial cranberry grower in the USA. Suggest you might use with my resource - Where did my Christmas Dinner come from? Please comment as this is an updated version.
Geography target stickers for extended answers
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Geography target stickers for extended answers

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I've been trying to develop students skills at writing extended answers that explain, using PEE. To help with the feedback, I've been developing stickers that students can understand and hopefully act upon next time!
Population Distribution
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Population Distribution

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Uses NASA images tp show the world's lights and get students thinking about population distribution. Plenary - Play your Life Expectancy Right - based on play your cards right. Will Life Expectancy be higher or lower? My Year 8 students love this! Links with my other resources on population
AQA Geography B Revision Guides
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AQA Geography B Revision Guides

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Written for my students to help them revise in school and at home from the AQA Geography B textbook by D Payne. Includes a range of activities to promote understanding and aid revision, also includes hyperlinks.
Oklahoma Tornado May 2013
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Oklahoma Tornado May 2013

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Uses photos and news reports from Oklahoma Tornado on 20th May to consider the effects of the tornado on people and the environment. Starter activity of 'reading photo&' and encouraging empathy, then DARTs (Directed Activity Related to Texts) to colourcode information to find it to answer questions. Differentiated extension; to write a diary. Planned as a standalone lesson in view of the disaster, could fit as a case study in a scheme of work on extreme weather. Please review.
Success Criteria - Crib Sheets
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Success Criteria - Crib Sheets

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Updated crib Sheets to enable students to produce outstanding maps, graphs and fieldsketches. A 10/10 sheet to ensure they remember title, key etc. A useful reminder for students and another method for ensuring your lesson has success criteria!
Limestone Landscapes - Malham Quarry Roleplay
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Limestone Landscapes - Malham Quarry Roleplay

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All resources for a role play about whether a limestone quarry should be developed in Malham. All roles, writing frame, sample speeches and record sheet provided. I use this as an assessment and the students really enjoy it! Comments please
Exploring England - Where in England?
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Exploring England - Where in England?

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Uses images of England to encourage students to consider what England is like, includes plenary game 'A question of England'. Worksheet uses bi-polar analysis to investigate secondary images. Constructive comments please
Family Fortunes - sanitation and poor water
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Family Fortunes - sanitation and poor water

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Uses worldmapper to consider countries with poor sanitation and water quality. Suggest split group into two families to work out which countries/regions firstly have best sanitation and secondly poorest water quality. Makes noises like Family Fortunes,but you will need a copy of the answers for your own information. Feedback appreciated, thank you
Capital Cities of Africa Game
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Capital Cities of Africa Game

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10 photographs showing capital cities of Africa and outline maps, works well if they are laminated and cut up in envelopes. Student use a map of Africa to match cities to countries before considering whether they are rich cities, poor cities and/or attractive to tourists. Comments appreciated please.