Geography - Resources
Investigating coasts through PowerPoint
Peter Fox provides an example of the creative use of PowerPoint for a Year 8 unit on coastal erosion and deposition. The presentation shows the slides and a handout provides guidance for students. The slides and handout descriptions could also be amalgamated into coasts dominoes.
Numeracy and ICT opportunities for year 7
The Secondary Education Committee highlight how you can use ICT to support numeracy development in geography.
Teaching the geography of China
Sarah Maude (GA International Committee) has compiled a list of resources for teaching about China, from key stage 1 to key stage 4 and beyond. View a range of images of China here.
Ideas for lesson starters and plenaries
The GA's Secondary Education Section Committee provide a range of quick ideas both for starters and plenaries. These cover a variety of topics and can be adapted to other topics.
Using geography textbooks
Textbooks form part of the resource ecology of every geography classroom. In this paper John Widdowson and David Lambert discuss the role and use of textbooks in geography. This paper forms the basis of a chapter in the forthcoming Secondary Geography Handbook.
Using PowerPoint for collaborativework
Getting started with PowerPoint? Liz Taylor (Cambridge University) describes an effective approach to using presentation packages in the geography classroom. Liz also provides two handouts for students: one a guide to starting up with PowerPoint and the other slide planner on acid rain.
Lesson Plans
A rough guide to teaching a 'thinking skills' style lesson
Members of the SESC provide a guide to the stages of a thinking skills lesson, debriefing and what can be learned from thinking.
Thinking about climate graphs
As part of the ICT with Geography in Key Stage 3 initiative, Sarah Watts has produced a lesson plan and resources designed to encourage year 9 students to produce climate graphs using Excel and then think about the location of the data.
Developing questioning skills
As part of the ICT with Geography in Key Stage 3 initiative, Lynda Evans (Gosforth High School, Newcastle upon Tyne) has prepared a lesson plan and a presentation on questioning skills. The lesson includes differentiated activities for year 9 students preparing PowerPoint presentations.
Locating a settlement in ancient Britain
As part of the ICT with Geography in Key Stage 3 initiative, Jenifer Roberts has produced a lesson plan and accompanying student spreadsheet which focuses on locating a settlement. The lesson plan is for use with year 7 or year 8 students and includes the use of Excel spreadsheets.
A Sunday supplement on Japan
As part of the ICT with Geography in Key Stage 3 initiative, Lynda Evans (Gosforth High School, Newcastle upon Tyne) has provided a series of lesson plans and supporting resources and advice for part of a year 9 course that links a unit on ‘Development and Interdependence’ one on ‘Comparing Countries’. ICT research, presentation skills and group work are all combined by groups to produce a Sunday Supplement entitled ‘Focus on Japan’.
Mapping street crime
As part of the ICT with Geography in Key Stage 3 initiative, Noel Jenkins offers a sequence of lessons designed to engage year 7 pupils in geographical enquiry through fieldwork and the use of ICT with a focus on the collection, mapping and analysis of data on street crime using a geographical information system (GIS) package. The Street Crime worksheet and other resources can be downloaded from the Advisory Unit's website. Install the free Aegis 3 Viewer on the site to open and search the worksheet. (Please note that you cannot save, print or edit worksheets using the Viewer).
DCSF
Five more geography lesson plans and supporting materials can be downloaded from the DCSF Standards website.
The additional lessons demonstrate how you can use ICT to investigate: geography in the news, congestion and geomorphology as well as for comparing countries and investigating environmental hazards.
Other Resources
Racial Policy
King James’s School (Kirklees LEA) provides its racial policy for other schools to utilise.
Foreign fieldwork
Considering undertaking fieldwork overseas? This article discusses why it’s worth considering an international destination when planning and undertaking fieldwork and includes useful links and sources.
The Pilot GCSE
The Pilot GCSE pages contain a wide range of ideas and suggestions for resources in teaching about People as Consumers, Extreme Environments and My Place. Some of the ideas can be adapted for use at Key Stages 3 and 4.
Environment Centres
Canterbury Environmental Education Centre
Head of Centre
Canterbury Environmental Education Centre
Canterbury North Substation
Broad Oak Road
Canterbury
Kent CT2 7PX
Tel: 01227 452 447 Fax: 01227 456 944
E-mail: canterbury.environmentalcentre@kent.gov.uk
Centre web site: www.econet.org.uk
Education web site: www.naturegrid.org.uk
Horton Kirby Environmental Education Centre
Head of Centre: Andrew Berry
Horton Kirby Environmental Education Centre
29 School Lane,
Horton Kirby,
Dartford, Kent.
England. DA4 9DQ
Tel/Fax: 01322 863302
Email:hkeec@kent.gov.uk