How do rivers shape our landscape? KS3 FULL UNIT

How do rivers shape the land?

This brand new unit of work is designed to help save you time and reduce the stress of designing new lessons for your students.  

Inside you'll find:

• 9 classroom-ready lessons including teacher notes and answers to worksheets/activities
• 2 homework activities (that are quick to mark/check)
• End of unit assessment

Here's an outline of the unit alongside part of the scheme of the work:

Each of the lessons include teacher guidance in the notes as well as answers to activities to enable non-specialists and those less familiar with the material to feel supported.  

The learning journey helps students to understand how the topic fits together and it can also be explicitly linked to in lessons, to show what they've covered and how that links forward.

The scheme of work includes the key questions of each lesson broken down into specific tasks to help the teacher deliver the learning effectively.  There is plenty of room to put your own spin on things but I'm hoping this will also aid those of new to the profession or teaching outside of your specialism.

I've listed the slides/resources that you may wish to photocopy so that you can arrive prepared for the lesson, with everything you need to hand.

Each of the slides is colour coded to reflect the style of activity:

Orange = Do now starter task

Purple = New learning

Yellow = Talk and share

Blue = Independent tasks

Pink = Apply and develop the learning

Green = Reflect on the learning

You'll also find some homework tasks that are straight forward for you to mark and check.  However, they also help to consolidate learning and provide opportunities to widen student understanding.

One homework is on key terms and another asks students to find out where their stuff comes from. The other homework is a revision clock that helps students to prepare for an assessment.

The assessment includes multiple choice questions, map interpretation, description, explain and evaluation style questions.  It is also accompanied with an easy to follow mark scheme.