Lesson 4 of Powers and Borders for OCR A Level geography

Help students revise by giving them this knowledge organiser with the key knowledge for KS3 Weather.

Lesson 3 for OCR Powers and Borders unit A Level Geography

A powerpoint and adapted resources to accompany the lesson on Global Health produced by the RGS for 21st Century Challenges (https://21stcenturychallenges.org/). The lesson is the work of the RGS I have just put it together on a powerpoint for easy class use - all resources are credited to their original source. Perfect for KS5 or high-ability KS4 geography classes or for use in cross-curricular lessons. Should take an hours lesson. Includes opportunity for self/peer assessment and exam practice for AfL (assessment for learning). Perfect for the new 2016 onwards A Level spec. Students taken through why health is of global concern and how geography affects it. Included: one powerpoint, a keyword activity sheet, information on Malaria and the original 21st century challenge resource sheet.

A generic mark scheme for the 16 mark evaluate questions in the new Edexcel AS / A Level. Can be used for planning and feedback as well.

In the style of the '5 minute lesson plan' this is a planning sheet for feedback/DIRT lessons. Especially useful for those following a 4:2 teaching plan, there is space to consider misconceptions from marking, whole class DIRT tasks to improve work and challenge misconceptions, three areas to plan for group work to address specific areas students need to work on to master topics, an area for any 1:1 notes needed and a space for star examples that you can share with the rest of the class to demonstrate good practice.

For OCR A Level Option D - Powers and Borders (post-2016 spec) but would work for Superpowers in Edexcel. This will take 2-3 hrs depending on class. Lesson 2 meeting the LOs: 2.1. A multitude of factors pose challenges to sovereignty and territorial integrity. • To understand that factors such as current political boundaries, TNCs, supranational institutions and political dominance of ethnic groups can cause erosion of sovereignty and the loss of territorial integrity. • Case study of one country in which sovereignty has been challenged including: cause and challenges to the government and impacts on people and place. Images used under Fair Use. Videos had to be removed due to being too big to upload - alternatives are easily available on YouTube.

Quick plenary activity which requires students to use an IWB to drag and drop the correct words into a cloze activity on where volcanoes and earthquakes occur. Could also be used as a worksheet. Includes: 1 word document. Please respect my copyright. I've worked hard in my own time to develop this.

Definition dominoes game where students have to match up keywords and their definitions. Based on L1 (Key idea 1a) of the OCR A Level Powers and Borders spec but would fit with Superpowers type units from the other boards as well.