Year 7 Booklet one, ‘How Do Accurate Maps Lie To us?’
This is a knowledge-rich booklet of nine sequenced lessons, designed to be printed in school for each student, for use as a first topic in a Year 7 Geography curriculum.
Making use of the latest in cognitive science, lessons start with structured retrieval practice, with recurring spaced opportunities for deliberate practice.
Focusing on disciplinary literacy, each lesson features age-appropriate text for Year 7 students, taking the time to examine and breakdown the etymology and morphology of key vocabulary.
The unit is ambitious in scope, supports middle leaders in achieving a consistent approach, and is written with the intention that non-specialists are fully able to teach it.
Whilst the booklet is free to download, there’s an option to donate the cost of a coffee.
Written mid-2019
year 7 booklet two, ‘What’s our place in the world?’
This is a knowledge-rich booklet of nine sequenced lessons, designed to be printed in school for each student, following on, and directly referencing, ‘How do accurate maps lie to us?’
Making use of the latest in cognitive science, lessons start with structured retrieval practice, with recurring spaced opportunities for deliberate practice.
The unit focuses on Banbury as a place, as it was written for a school in the local area, but the ideas are broadly transferable to any settlement.
Whilst the booklet is free to download, there’s an option to donate the cost of a coffee.
Written mid-2019
year 8, ‘planetary homeostasis & The Climate Crisis’
This is a knowledge-rich booklet of ten sequenced lessons, designed to be printed in school for each student, introducing the greenhouse effect, the enhanced greenhouse effect, and the idea of planetary homeostasis as laid out in James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory.
Making good use of cognitive science, lessons start with structured retrieval practice, with recurring spaced opportunities for deliberate practice.
The unit is aimed at Year 8 and focuses on the hard science of planetary climate, examining wavelengths, albedo, the Vostok Ice Core Data and the Keeling Curve from the Mauna Lao Observatory.
Whilst the booklet is free to download, there’s an option to donate the cost of a coffee.
Written early-2019