Extensive coverage of the curriculum for KS3 and KS4 Geography
Explore KS3 and KS4 Geography with comprehensive and varied teaching material. This exciting interactive map adventure requires students to employ their knowledge of direction and scale and navigate their ship to the location of hidden treasure! With over 2,000 slides in total, Boardworks gives you everything you need for your lessons, whatever your teaching style.
- KS3 Geography contains 23 presentations, specially designed to meet the requirements of the revised Programme of Study.
- KS4 Geography comprises 25 presentations, offering extensive coverage of the main GCSE specifications.
- The wealth of material featured throughout the product enables you to explore and teach your subject 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 latitude and longitude, combine the main points for teaching, clearly conveyed, with highlighted key words and useful illustrative examples.
- Clearly defined learning objectives at the beginning of every presentation enable you to convey the aims of each lesson in a straightforward way.
- 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. Comprehensive, ready-made resources facilitate teaching of important concepts: this dynamic, step-by-step animation, for example, contains everything you need to explain how oxbow lakes are formed.
- Wide-ranging content supports core learning objectives, ignites student interest and creates varied, engaging and inspirational lessons.
- Innovative interactive maps represent ready-to-use resources to stimulate your students and develop core skills.
- Topical examples and powerful case studies underpin understanding and provide students with easily relatable points of reference.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the technological potential of your whiteboard by engaging your class in inspiringly interactive lessons. This decision-making activity is an ideal way to spark a student-led discussion about the factors which influence location choice for different industries.
- Supplement your teaching with exciting activities that encourage whole-class participation.
- Improve your students’ comprehension of key themes with fun animations and innovative games.
- Over 700 interactive slides are embedded throughout the presentations.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Explore fundamental facts and figures with a variety of attention-grabbing interactives. This dynamic graph, for example, explains population pyramids in a succinct and visually appealing way.
- 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.
- Underpin understanding with thought-provoking drag and drop diagrams and fact-linking exercises.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
Boardworks Geography is straightforward to use and can be completely tailored to the needs of your students. This appealing interactive picture can be used flexibly as required: as a way to introduce your students to the main areas of a glacier system, for instance, or to recap learning.
- 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. 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.
- Detailed contents documents serve as handy reference guides and are great for lesson planning.
- The interactive menu system in the KS3 product makes it simple to find and select the material you want to teach.
- KS3 Geography is supplemented by editable worksheets, which provide opportunities for extension work and allow students to study independently and at their own pace.
Engaging summary material
Round up lessons with engaging evaluative material. This exciting Mount Everest quiz features at the end of every KS3 presentation: in teams, students race to reach the summit of the mountain by answering questions about what they’ve learnt. Whatever your teaching style, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a topic from start to finish.
- Varied review material covers the entire content of the course and greatly facilitates revision.
- KS3 Geography features printable glossaries for ease of reference and fun plenaries to help students focus their learning.
- KS4 Geography contains numerous synoptic exercises to test overall understanding, including sample exam questions, ‘key ideas’ slides, and innovative games.