Adding a bit of fun and crazy to Geography! All proceeds will help our ever shrinking department budget, which I need to stop supplementing with my own money!
Adding a bit of fun and crazy to Geography! All proceeds will help our ever shrinking department budget, which I need to stop supplementing with my own money!
The American Dream: Is the USA still the top superpower?
A step-by step worksheet (ideally printed in A3) where students consider all of the elements that make the USA a superpower. At the end of the lesson, students reflect on whether they are still the ‘top’ superpower.
Global atmospheric circulation lesson and worksheet
Includes two ‘Do now’ tasks based on retrieval practice.
Worksheet structured alongside powerpoint, covering;
Latitude, pressure, wind before looking at GAC.
Lesson for Geography GCSE, AQA, 9-1
Worksheet designed to go alongside PPT
DIN retrieval activity
Will require access to Oxford Geography GCSE AQA, pages 236-7
(otherwise will need information hand outs for ‘evidence of a post industrial economy: IT, research, service & finance’
Please ensure you open the compressed file- the resources are too big to put on individually so are compressed in a file
Bristol’s Temple Quarter regeneration lesson and worksheets
(Most likely cover a double or two single lessons)
Includes a ‘Do now’ task based on retrieval practice.
Worksheet structured alongside powerpoint and resources;
First section: info on the regeneration
Second section- was it successful? (worksheet requires access to Oxford AQA textbook pages 184- 185 ‘Temple Quarter Regeneration’).
Introduction to the coast and waves AQA GCSE lesson & worksheet
Worksheet in ‘mat style’ with differing activities that correlate to the lesson on the powerpoint.
Includes two ‘Do Nows’ based on retrieval practice.
Lessons based on Oxford AQA GCSE Geography textbook.
Lessons and worksheets based on:
Character and importance of Bristol (incl. migration)
Bristol opportunities
Environmental challenges
Social & economic challenges (Filwood & Stoke Bishop)
Urban sprawl
Regeneration (Temple Quarter)
***NEW - Includes revision infographics
Regeneration of Bristol Harbourside
Reasons for regeneration
Key features
Successes and failures
Lesson, DIN, worksheet and information sheet
***NEW - Includes revision infographic
Bristol social & economic challenges- Comparing Filwood & Stoke Bishop lesson
Worksheet set out in a ‘comparison gate’ style.
Includes a ‘Do now’ task based on retrieval practice.
Economic futures in the UK, Economic World, Geography GCSE, 9-1
UK Post- industrial economy
Sustainable Industry (Jaguar Land Rover)
Changing rural landscapes
Infrastructure developments
North- South divide
UK in the wider world (Updated information on BREXIT)
All include DIN activity, plenary (rock, paper scissors) and structured progression steps.
Would require access to Oxford AQA GCSE Geography textbook, or similar resources to support independent student work during the lessons.
Sustainable traffic management lesson and worksheets
Sustainable traffic management touching upon Bristol’s cycling scheme then Beijing, Singapore and Freiburg’s traffic management.
Includes a ‘Do now’ task based on retrieval practice.
Sustainable industry, Geography GCSE, AQA, 9-1
Based upon Jaguar Land Rover
Worksheet designed to go alongside PPT
DIN retrieval activity
***NEW - Includes revision infographic
We were keen to separate Paper 1 and 2 from fieldwork units, and reduce workload, so I created this ‘mini unit’ for the department which includes:
Fieldwork data collection booklet, methods include for each of the three sites: Land use tally, environmental quality survey for old site (old pictures included) and current site, mood mapping for old site (old pictures included) and current site, pedestrian count and questionnaire. Each method links to one or more of our key questions (see below).
26 page work booklet (integrated titles, DINs, lesson tasks, exam questions and plenary tasks)
Knowledge organiser
Lessons 1-3:
*Our physical fieldwork is longer as it introduces ‘generic’ presentation styles and learning of key terms, such as ‘primary, secondary data, qualitative, quantitative…’ This is also available on here.
I have also included the lesson from our Urban Issues section on Bristol regeneration to provide much needed context/ reminder of theory being explored.
Introduction, risks and data collection methods
Data presentation and analysis
What conclusions can we make from our analysis and how do we evaluate our enquiry?
This human fieldwork is based on the enquiry question ‘Has regeneration improved Bristol harbourside?’
Key questions:
What is the land use at Bristol Harbourside?
How has the environment changed?
Which areas are the most popular and why?
PDF and PowerPoint versions are included in order to edit should you wish (enquiry location, school logos, DIN questions…)
All proceeds will help our ever shrinking department budget, which I need to stop supplementing with my own money.
Knowledge organiser metacognition activities- homework activities to support reflection of class work or to facilitate flipped learning when used alongside a knowledge organiser.
Activities include:
RAG traffic lights
Tough exam questions
100 word challenge
Mind mapping
Quick fire quiz
3 min memory task
Alphabet key words
Poem / rap / song
Double detail challenge
Mnemonics
15 words
The secret game
Comic strip
Duel coding
Brain gym
Internet search
Heading connections
The Cornell Method
Frayer model
Wordsearch
Storyboard
Snakes & ladders
Venn diagram
Zones of relevance
5 min lesson plan
Revision clock
6 min articulate
Created for Geography but can be used for any subject
Bristol city pie & packaging and associated lesson
Includes a ‘Do now’ tasks based on retrieval practice.
Worksheet structured alongside recipe cards, covering;
Social, economic & environmental changes
Improvements and developments in infrastructure, Geography GCSE, AQA, 9-1
Worksheet designed to go alongside PPT
DIN retrieval activity
Will require GCSE Oxford textbook, Pages 246-7. Or a similar resource on UK infrastructure improvements
This was designed last year with the use of existing resources on the internet for Year 9 Geography lessons; we are moving to a common curriculum next year and it’s a shame we cannot teach it more. Hence why I’m sharing in the hope it will get some more use!
Lessons 8-15
Lessons:
Globalisation
The flip flop trail
What is a superpower?
Why did the UK empire collapse?
Emerging superpowers
South China Sea
Global fashion industry
IGOs
China: the workshop of the world?
China: Neocolonialism?
India: the race for space?
The American dream?
Russia: the fossil fuel superpower?
Russia in the Arctic
Who owns Antarctica
Mid cycle assessment and mark scheme and knowledge organiser included
This was designed last year with the use of existing resources on the internet for Year 9 Geography lessons; we are moving to a common curriculum next year and it’s a shame we cannot teach it more. Hence why I’m sharing in the hope it will get some more use!
Lessons 1-7
Lessons:
Globalisation
The flip flop trail
What is a superpower?
Why did the UK empire collapse?
Emerging superpowers
South China Sea
Global fashion industry
IGOs
China: the workshop of the world?
China: Neocolonialism?
India: the race for space?
The American dream?
Russia: the fossil fuel superpower?
Russia in the Arctic
Who owns Antarctica
Mid cycle assessment and mark scheme and knowledge organiser included