Friday Afternoon Geography A-Level Resource Pack + CD

Summary:
Friday Afternoon Geography is packed with fun and engaging revision activities. The activities have been chosen to allow students to apply their knowledge using a variety of learning styles, and to review and reinforce their understanding of key terms and concepts.
These enjoyable activities make revision exercises fun and can be used at any point within a lesson. The pack is fully photocopiable and once the teacher has a set of cards prepared they can be used over and over with all groups, bringing variety and fun to any revision session. The free CD also includes all the content from the pack plus PowerPoint files for front of class teaching. Also included in the pack: a specification matching chart to allow easy integration into any course, answers, suggested timings and teaching notes.

• Activities for individual, paired, group or whole class use
• Provides a range of enjoyable and engaging activities to develop learning styles and reinforce knowledge and understanding of key concepts
• Activities can be used flexibly in revision sessions or throughout the course
• Specification matching chart included

Table of Contents:
1 Coasts
Dominoes: wave terminology
Matching: constructive and destructive waves
Bingo: coastal processes and landforms
Crossword: coastal management
2 Cold environments
Colour categorise: glacial, periglacial and fluvioglacial landforms
Bingo: glacial processes
Bingo: glacial landforms
Matching: glacial erosional landforms
Buzzwords: glacial movement
Crossword: Antarctica
3 Conflicts and challenges
Sequencing: development of today's multicultural society
Crossword: Millennium Development Goals
Colour categorise: potential geographical impacts of international conflict
4 Energy
Talk about: renewable, non-renewable and conserving energy
Jigsaw: geopolitics of energy
Matching: acid rain
Play your cards right: energy mix
Ranking: nuclear
5 Plate tectonics, volcanoes and earthquakes
Play your cards right: structure of the Earth
Matching: volcanic hazards
Dominoes: volcanoes
Talk about: volcanoes, earthquakes and plate tectonic theory
Buzzwords: volcanoes
Colour categorise: lava types and volcanoes
Matching: evidence for plate tectonic theory
6 Population
Crossword: population change
Matching: factors affecting birth and death rates
Matching: issues associated with an ageing population
Colour categorise: issues associated with a youthful population
Triominoes: population structure
Dominoes: Malthus and Boserup
Bingo: population change
7 Rivers
Bingo: hydrological cycle
Jigsaw: river processes
Dominoes: the Hjulström curve
Matching: hydraulic radius
Buzzwords: river landforms
Matching: the long profile
Triominoes: the long profile
Sequencing: landforms resulting from rejuvenation
Colour categorise: flood management
8 Urban
Play your cards right: urbanisation
Matching: causes and impacts of counter-urbanisation
Buzzwords: urban geography
9 Weather and climate
Play your cards right: depressions
Matching and sequencing: why does it rain at the fronts?
Crossword: anticyclones
Colour categorise: anticyclones and depressions
Jigsaw: tropical cyclones
Colour categorise: tropical cyclone management
Talk about: climate change
Dominoes: microclimate
10 Exam practice
Matching: exam command words

About the Author(s):

Kate Haslam and Abigail Norman both teach geography at Greenhead College, a nationally acclaimed sixth form college. The geography department has been awarded grade 1 by OFSTED.