Extensive coverage of key geographical skills for KS3 and KS4
From interpreting map scales and satellite images, to presenting and analysing data, the Geography Toolkit contains excellent ideas to support skills teaching in your KS3 and KS4 classes. With over 250 slides in total, Boardworks Geography Toolkit will give you everything you need to teach key geographical skills.
- Boardworks Geography Toolkit covers the key practical geography skills for KS3 and KS4.
- There are 17 presentations in total, across 3 units: Map Skills; Fieldwork and Analysis; Interpretation and Reasoning.
- The wealth of material featured throughout the product enables you to explore and teach key geographical skills in detail.
Well-organised resources for whatever you’re teaching
All presentations are coherently structured and contain an abundance of material to help you get the most out of your lessons. Typical slides, like this one about bearings, combine the main points for teaching, clearly conveyed, with useful illustrative examples.
- The presentations are mapped to a range of key geographical skills. High level slides for the most able students are indicated using a colour coded banner.
- Accurate diagrams and charts, eye-catching illustrations and topical photographs enhance key facts and supplement overall understanding.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons come fully prepared with a wide variety of teaching materials, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. Appendix slides, like the one below, contain high quality satellite images and other useful data.
- Appendix slides can be used flexibly, either as lesson starters or with the suggested teaching activities and accompanying worksheets.
- Useful examples and powerful explanatory animations provide students with the skills they need to underpin geographical understanding.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the technological potential of your whiteboard by engaging your class in inspiringly interactive lessons. Interactive tools give clear demonstrations of geographical techniques, like this activity which allows students to draw a cross section.
- Students can practise their skills and then print out the results for their portfolios.
- Supplement your teaching with exciting activities that encourage whole-class participation.
- Over 80 interactive activities are embedded throughout the presentations.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Explore fundamental geographical skills with a variety of attention-grabbing interactive ‘mysteries’. These present a series of facts about a mysterious event, and students are asked to piece together separate pieces of information to draw a conclusion about what happened.
- Break down complex topics using a variety of animated charts and step-by-step simulations.
- Supplement your teaching with appealing interactive tasks that allow students to develop core skills.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
Boardworks Geography Toolkit is straightforward to use and can be completely tailored to the needs of your students. The random fieldwork generator comes up with suggestions for students and is great for inspiring ideas and encouraging students to question the purpose of fieldwork.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Activities can be used flexibly to support your own teaching methods and perfectly fit the abilities of your students.
Additional teaching support
Boardworks presentations are accompanied by numerous additional resources, which can enhance your lessons in a multitude of ways. For example, accompanying editable worksheets provide opportunities for extension work and allow students to study independently and at their own pace.
- Detailed contents documents serve as handy reference guides and are great for lesson planning.
- Helpful speaker’s notes contain extra teaching material, ideas for extension activities, and useful web links, allowing you to expand your lessons as you choose.
Engaging summary material
Round up lessons with engaging evaluative material. Whatever your teaching style, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a topic from start to finish.
- Innovative review material helps students to master each topic and facilitates revision.
- Worksheet and appendix slides allow you to expand on topics to suit the ability of your class. Worksheets can also be used for homework exercises.
