This scheme of work is designed to start preparing Year 9 students for GCSE by mirroring part of the ‘Urban Issues and Challenges’ section of the AQA Geography GCSE (8035) which considers a case study of a HIC city and LIC city. Since this unit focuses on two cities at the same time rather than one, the focus is often of comparison and connections rather than depth. This scheme of work is assessed by a mock GCSE tier-less examination at the end of the unit. The assessment is linked to the new GCSE 9-1 grades as well as KS3 progress ladders. As a whole unit, this scheme of work is expected to take around 14-15 hours. Not all resources could be provided. However, this scheme has been uploaded ‘as-is’ for you to use, adapt and develop as you wish, but please credit me as the original author. I would be very grateful if you could review my work, in order to help others judge whether the resource(s) are useful, and how they could be improve them. Thanks! Why FREE? *While the resource is my own creation, it contains elements from other sources (which are cited/referenced where possible) and this resource is considered ‘legacy’ and will not be updated. But I do work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visiting my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available!

Students use a GIS package and a step-by-step guide to make a decision on where to build a wind farm. The area is based around our high school, but nevertheless, it is a good activity to experience decision making! You need the Aegis3 package installed on your school computers. *Unfortunately, the company who produced this program now appears to have disappeared… so unless you already have Aegis3 or Aegis3 Viewer, then you won’t be able to obtain it. Therefore this resource is being offered on a permanent discount, for those out there lucky enough to still have the Aegis3 program! Please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! Wind Farm Decision Making GIS by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A virtual tour of the Ecotech (Green Britain) Centre in the UK, for those who can’t go there for real! A good exploration of sustainability. Sadly, the Green Britain Centre shut down in February 2019. Effectively, this is the only way you can ‘visit’ the Centre for now! Why FREE? While the resource is my own creation, it contains elements from other sources (which are cited/referenced where possible) and this resource is considered ‘legacy’ and will not be updated. But I do work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visiting my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! EcoTech Virtual Tour by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

We take our Year 9 students (8th Graders) to London each year, and there are a handful of those who don’t go. So I invested a few hours into turning our trip into a virtual tour. Students take an urban-transect of London, ‘visit’ the London Docklands, walk along the riverside and see sites from London Eye. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visiting my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! Virtual London Field Trip by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A simple task to enable pupils to practice the geographical skill of annotated sketching. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. If you really like this resource and want to support me a little more, please consider also buying me a ‘coffee’ at http://ko-fi.com/kitrackley :) Annotated Sketching by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

This pack has been created by students in the Gifted & Talented Geography group from Framingham Earl High School, Norwich in the United Kingdom. We created this pack as part of a gift to our friends in Umbwi School, Dedza, which is our link school in Malawi as part of the Norwich-Dedza Partnership. The idea was to produce a low-tech visual resource which is honest about life in rural UK. We know it is not perfect, and we wish we had more time to reflect other parts of UK life that are not represented, but we had a lot of fun making it. The resource cards have been completely constructed by the students, with the majority of the photos taken by them too. We hope you enjoy using this resource! Zikomo! (Chichewa for “Thank you!”) This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visiting my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! Life In The UK (Resource Pack) by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Full lesson materials to demonstrate how climate graphs work using water and bottles. You’ll need a set of used washed drinks bottles (500ml-ish), blue food colouring and some string. Of course, I cannot supply you with the physical materials over the internet! May be one day ;) This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visiting my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! Liquid Climate Graphs by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Designed to be a homework task. These differentiated worksheets ask pupils to consider the unintended consequences of the Chinese One Child Policy. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! China One Child Policy Unintended Consequences by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Designed as a homework task. These differentiated worksheets ask pupils to consider the advantages and disadvantages of rural-to-urban migration in China. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! China Rural to Urban Migration by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

These resources are designed to be used as a ‘jigsaw’ (co-operative learning) activity, to help groups of students learnt about the common development indicators. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! Development Indicators by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

We have a unit on World Sport which covers that year’s major international sporting event. This lesson is about the participants of the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil. Pupils learn were the countries are from, but also explore whether the wealth of a country influence success in the competition, or whether it wins the right to host it. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. Why FREE? While the resource is my own creation, it contains elements from other sources (which are cited/referenced where possible) and this resource is considered ‘legacy’ and will not be updated. But I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visiting my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! FIFA World Cup 2014: Participants & GDP by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

I created this resource for visiting Primary Schools as part of a Malawi Conference, involving teachers from Malawi through the Norwich-Dedza Partnership. The cards are a fun way to explore what Malawi exports to the UK, and the spider diagram gets pupils to attach their lives with the imports brought into the UK. I was expecting older kids than 5 year olds, but it worked from them! This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available!

I created this resource involving teachers from Malawi through the Norwich-Dedza Partnership. A different take on typical ‘site & situation’ tasks! This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! Site & Situation (Malawi) by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A simple set of worksheets to explore the patterns of population distribution and density. Includes “missing words” help as differentiation. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! Population Distribution & Density by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

I remember reading the giant IPCC report on Climate Change as part of my degree, that time spent actually came in handy later as I used the report to rustle up a handout about climate change in the Alps as part of a unit about tourism. I ended up turning it into a whole lesson activity. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! Tourism in the Alps & Climate Change by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Our legacy GCSE (senior) students needed to get their teeth into detailed case studies for their exams, so we try to structure resources in a way that allows them to summarise complex and specific information. Since our school is in Norfolk, UK, we have a great example of coastal management along our coastline, with a wealth of information from the authorities. Here I’ve put them together in a way that helps students to summarise the info they need. The resources contain citations to the information if you want/need to take this case study further! This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! North Norfolk Coastal Management (Case Study) by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Please help me improve by reviewing my work! :)

Students explore push and pull factors of rural-to-urban migration in LEDCs/developing countries using a set of mystery cards. It is based on a woman who lives in rural Gambia. The task encourages co-operative and dialogic learning, and then asks them to apply the idea into over contexts. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! Time to head west? (Rural-to-Urban Migration in The Gambia) by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please help me to improve my work by reviewing it! :)

A simple task exploring the three aspects of sustainability (social, environmental and economic). Makes for a good homework. This is a legacy resource, and so has been permanently discounted down to £1. I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visit my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available! The “SEE Stool” of Sustainability by Kit Rackley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please review my work to help me improve! :)

The monitoring of greenhouse gases globally is an exceptionally important job and is highly logistical. The Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases (CCGG) group of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Global Monitoring Division (GMD) have locations all around the world from where their greenhouse gas air samples come from. This network is a major part of the global monitoring efforts, collaborating with a large number of organisations and government agencies. In this pack are a set of cards for a selection of 40 greenhouse gas sampling sites. Each card contains a range of information useful for discussion and development of further teaching resources. Some teaching ideas can be found on the 'Teaching ideas’ card and a glossary of each card’s attributes are found on the ‘Attributes glossary’ card. Higher resolution images and a spreadsheet of card data are provided. The cards are set out on letter-sized paper which can be printed directly onto a sticker sheet (Avery 8163 - 2”x4”), trimmed and stuck onto blank playing cards. Alternatively feel free to give the card images to any third-party printer who will make playing cards for you! Kit Rackley - UK Educational Practitioner and NOAA Affiliate (Dec 2017) http://geogramblings.wordpress.com Why FREE? While the resource is my own creation, it contains elements from other sources (which are cited/referenced where possible) and this resource is considered ‘legacy’ and will not be updated. But I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visiting my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available!

I had the opportunity to visit the Solar Decathlon in Denver 2017. I put together this resource to match the part of most GCSE Geography syllabuses that focus on urban growth and sustainability. Some slides are region-based (east of England) and for the AQA syllabus, but the main learning objectives are very relevant for a range of scales and locations. This powerpoint can be used front-facing; as an independent learning resource or flipped homework task. I strongly recommend you search for and browse the official website, it is very informative! Why FREE? While the resource is my own creation, it contains elements from other sources (which are cited/referenced where possible) and this resource is considered ‘legacy’ and will not be updated. But I work very hard on making resources that are effective and engaging, so please leave me some kind feedback and visiting my ‘Geogramblings’ website where more up-to-date stuff is available!