This is an independant revision activity designed for the Edexcel Unit 1 examination. Students follow the link provided to a slide-share presentation on the UK travel industry and complete a series of short questions to test their knowlege & understanding on tourist boards, man-made & human attractions and the roles of different organisations within the sector. The worksheets prompt students to look at particular slides for their answers. Ideal for use as a homework or with ICT/ internet access.

A good worksheet aimed at exam skills of photo annotation ( of a an arch and a bay) and describing a UK named coastline. Students refer to processes of erosion and deposition to explain the formation of landforms along the Dorset/ Swanage Bay area, which is an ‘example’ needed for the Paper 2 examination for AQA . Students then complete a gap fill exercise to answer a 6 mark examination question; '“Describe the human and physical features of a UK coastline you have studied ( 6 marks).

Many Northern UK towns and cities have fallen out of favour with shoppers due to deindustrialisation and the rise of out-of town shopping centres. As a result, local governments have been spending money on urban renewal programmes to encourage shoppers back into town centres to boost jobs and trade in the local economy. This has recently been done in Oldham, a satelite town within the Greater Manchester area. This is a comprehensive lesson ( may stretch to 2 lessons as originally devised for 100 minute lesson) on regenerating the town Hall in Oldham, which was completed in 2017. The lesson looks at reasons for Oldham’s decline and asks students where they normally do their shopping to pick out trends in retail moving away from city centres. They study images and videos of before and after pictures of the town hall. Link to the ’ before’ clips of the townhall on youtube clip is here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0sQtmrRcvI Students then have a choice of 2 worksheets to fill in: a copy of the slide or an easier annotation tasks with labels ready to select from. There are some suggested extension questions on the worksheet also. This lesson would be great for any schools in the Manchester region.

This Powerpoint resource has been designed to be printed out in A3 size to provide a poster revision resource for students that can used at home or on classroom display Students fill out the boxes and prompt questions provided using the issue evaluation booklet from the summer 2019 examination series. It would be an ideal follow on activity from my first student booklet on the issue evaluation. Last Year I photocopied model examples of these a3 sheets done to high standards and gave them to Lower ability groups to copy/ assist in filling in their own. The students independantly analyse the sources in the booklet to find relevant facts and statistics and examine their own opinions on the information given. The structures given help them to evaluate the issues of how far road building in Peru will lead to greater wealth equality, and think in terms of social, economic and environmental. There is a 6 mark GCSE exam type question included plus links to websites for further research. This is suitable for all ability levels and produced by our ofsted Oustanding Geography department with proven success on the paper 3 examination. This resource will help students become independent learners, work at their own pace to study the material, free up teacher time and also create engaging revision content that boosts factual retention in the examination.

I have put together a 6 page student workbook to guide GCSE students through the content of the pre-release material on tropical rainforests for 2019 AQA summer examination series. This A4 booklet allows student to work through content at their own pace and includes a series of 3 and 4 mark questions to test their understanding on the visual and written sources. There are also links to numeracy skills like mean/ median and mode. We used this format very successfully last year within our department and it is made accessible for all abilities groups.There is a 9 mark question at the end with a differentiated pupil writing frame to help structure their response. This content should take 2-3 hours to complete.

This brief PowerPoint presentation provides links to fee revision resources suitable for most GCSE Geography specifications. Pinterest is a large collection of ideas and productions that can be shared at a glance using eye catching images. Most students use social media so I printed this out and gave it my year 11 classes to inspire them revise in some alternative ways.

This worksheet has 20 questions about the poem ‘Remains’ by Simon Armitage. The worksheet is differentiated with multiple choice options and suitable for lower and middle abilities to complete via distance learning, at home. The poem ’ Remains’ is part of the compulsory literature of poetry that students must study for their GCSE English Literature exam from the ’ power and conflict’. The questions test the student’s ability to independently analyse the language, structure and themes of the poem. There are links to guide the student to support resources for help; including a youtube clips and appropriate BBC Bitesize pages. There are a full set of answers included also, so students or parents can self mark / asses their work.

Bullet journals are a quick and creative way to track your actions, habbits and thoughts over time. This KS2 & KS3 bullet journal colouring exercise, encourages students to reflect on how sustainable they are in their day -to day habits. They are asked to colour in each vertical ’ strand’ of the rainbow to show whether they have completed any of the environmentally helpful actions on a daily basis, over a 25 day period. The students could do this just as a starter at the beginning of each each geography lesson, or consecutively as an ongoing homework task. The aim of the bullet journal is to develop student’s accountability as global citizens by teaching them to lead sustainable lives. This lesson/ worksheet would make a perfect addition to a SOW on sustainability or Earth Day theme. There is also a set of de-brief questions provided for students to answer in class, or as a discussion framework, for them to reflect on how well they have done after the 25 day period. These could be blown up onto A3 and made into colourful displays for the classrooms also.

Students use the powerpoint information and information sheet to create a tourist brochure on the pilgrammage site. This resource has been brought to you by the author of the Amazon Kindle ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to reduce your workload that Schools don’t tell you!. 100% free for Amazon Unlimited subscribers and available to download at the following link; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=time+smart+teaching&qid=1577972903&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 The introductory chapters are FREE to read on my tes shop page.

This FREE resource provides a comprehensive list of keywords that your students need to know and be able to define for the paper 3 Fieldwork and skills exam for GCSE Geography AQA specification. It may be applicable to other specifications also. This resource has been brought to you by the author of the Amazon Kindle ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to reduce your workload that Schools don’t tell you!. 100% free for Amazon Unlimited subscribers and available to download at the following link; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=time+smart+teaching&qid=1577972903&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 The introductory chapters are FREE to read on my tes shop page.

Last year I was worried about the lack of aspiration and female voice in my classroom. the girls were all too happy to sit there working quietly and for the lads to have their say. Female underachievement in high schools deserved as much focus as focus as the typical ’ white middle ability boys’. I asked my classes to pick their favourite quote from the list and copy it up BIG and BOLD onto the front of their exercise books to remind them to get into the right mindset and the start of each lesson. I hope they become useful for you too. There are quotes from Jesus, Hillary Clinton, Mother Teresa and Maddonna, amongst others. This resource has been made freely available by Jane Bell, the author of 'Time Smart Teaching; 8 Insider Tips to Reduce Teacher Workload that Schools Don’t Tell you! 5 star rated .Available for FREE on Amazon Kindle prime/ unlimited subscription, 2 whole chapters FREE on my TES store below; https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-time-smart-teaching-ebook-on-workload-reduction-for-teachers-12227510 and the ebook/ paperback available below from https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ

This introduction lesson on our year 7 topic ‘Pole to Pole’ / Cold climates looks at the climate and landscape features of the Tundra biome. Students analyse a climate graph to look at climatic features, and complete a differentiated reading comprehension exercise to pick ou features of the physical geography and landscape of the tundra. The rest of the 6 lesson on this mini scheme of work can be bought separately, or as a bundle for £8 from my tes shop, see resource entitled ’ Tundra Biome Year 7 SOW’ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/tundra-biome-year-7-sow-siberia-antarctica-12231148

Feedback in schools is becoming ever more important as Ofsted’s new framework shifts the focus away from traditional book marking to look at how teachers are opening dialogue about learning with their students. This is a cause I can totally get on board with and promote, especially when it comes to verbal feedback- which does not need a paper trail to prove it’s existence. I studied common coaching questions to come up with this short list than can help structure 1-2-1 discussion with students after their tests; with their papers in front of them/ This approach has proven to be highly effective within schools. I have made a short vlog about this resource on my YOUTUBE channel ‘time smart teaching’ called ’ feedback in 5’. If you have found this apprach useful, please leave a comment and consider supporting me by buying a copy of my ebook written just for teachers; 'Time Smart Teaching; 8 Insider Tips to Reduce Teacher Workload that Schools Don’t Tell You !Exclusive to Amazon, and 100% if you subscribe to Amazon Unlimited. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ The first 2 chapters of this book are FREE, right here on my TES site.

Affirmations are like declarations said to ones-self to generate positivity and introduce a state of quiet mindfulness in the present. Schools can often be chaotic and stressful places to work and there has been a strong movement towards the focus on teacher and support staff wellbeing / well-being. I wrote these 12 teacher affirmations as part of my recent ebook ( and now on paperback) Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to Reduce Workload that School’s Don’t Tell You! Exclusively to Amazon. I thought they would be worth sharing seperately for others to use on INSET or departmental time or as part of their whole-school policy. I intend to make a YOUTUBE slide show with these backed by beautiful calming music, and will place the link to this below / on the next page. Please support me in my efforts to make high quality resources FREE of charge by purchasing my ebook ’ Time Smart Teaching’. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Smart-Teaching-Insider-Workload-ebook/dp/B082ZBLFQQ

I have picked out 4 separate exam questions from the AQA GCSE Geography specimen papers with the mark scheme attached for mock exam practise. Student must be familiar with statistical analysis and be able to interpret and draw conclusions from unfamiliar data sets. This counts towards the numeracy strands assessed in the new curriculum framework.

During the nationwide corona virus lock-down this Spring I created this resource for fellow parents, struggling to home-tutor their kids whilst remotely working. Each of these Geography learning activities are simple, encourage a range of skills and does not require computer access. Most Primary school aged children should be able to complete relatively independently. please share widely.

This lesson includes simple tasks to work through and was designed for year 7 / 8 Geography at Ks3. The lesson focusses on the Geograhy of the North West England region to build up understanding in preparation for the GCSE Geography focus on the UK. Suitable for distance or remote learning.

This structured talking exercise can take place between small groups of 2 or more people. Each person rolls 2 die to be directed to co-ordinates on a grid which lead to a question or discussion point. Most questions are intended to be reflective and make connections between geographical understanding at GCSE level ( years 9-11) and the current pandemic lockdown and social distancing measures. This encourages students to form opinions and make wider connections with their geographical knowledge. It is appropriate for a classroom, or distance /home based learning and could be done with a parent or carer.

I’m sharing this super-useful tool I have devised for getting feedback from your student’s on their confidence and understanding on your curriculum. This proforma has focussed on GCSE Geography Physical topics from paper 1 -UK physical landscapes, and Human paper 2 ’ Changing Economic World’. I have broken down each topic into 8 broad sections for ease, although you can alter the radial diagram if you wish. I used this for my year 11 classes to find out exactly where to focus my revision and intervention strategy for maximum impact. The segments that were less shaded/ left blank were areas of weakness. As it is visual feedback, you can almost instantly where gaps in knowledge are across multiple students, without the need for counting and data analysis. The added benefit is that student are learning about another data presentation technique for Paper 3 in the process! These can be stuck into student books/ revision folders as evidence of self assessment and used to set themselves appropriate target for revision also. This could be adapted for any subject or stage level.

Pinterest is a great search enguine and social media tool to use when you want to make something visual and create impact. I often find myself browsing creative Geography teaching ideas on here and so I thought I would put them together as a ‘board’ for you to pick and choose which ones might be fun ways to deliver geographical knowlege and understanding, with a fun, artistic twist. Almost all the resources on here are freely available to use, download or recreate with a range of ability and challenge levels for KS3 -KS4. These learning tasks can easily be used for home learning / home schooling, or in the classroom and outdoors. From origami cactus, making portraits with maps and using lego to build a soil profile, there is sure to be something for each class and learner.