PLTS - What do they mean?

Independent Enquirers:
Young people process and evaluate information in their investigations, planning what to do and how to go about it. They take informed and well-reasoned decisions, recognising that others have different beliefs and attitudes.


Creative Thinkers:
Young people think creatively by generating and exploring ideas, making original connections. They try different ways to tackle a problem, working with others to find imaginative solutions and outcomes that are of value.


Reflective Learners
Young people evaluate their strengths and limitations, setting themselves realistic goals with criteria for success. They monitor their own performance and progress, inviting feedback from others and making changes to further their learning.


Team Workers
Young people work confidently with others, adapting to different contexts and taking responsibility for their own part. They listen to and take account of different views. They form collaborative relationships, resolving issues to reach agreed outcomes.


Self-managers
Young people organise themselves, showing personal responsibility, initiative, creativity and enterprise with a commitment to learning and self- improvement. They actively embrace change, responding positively to new priorities, coping with challenges and looking for opportunities.


Effective participators
Young people actively engage with issues that affect them and those around them. They play a full part in the life of their school, college, workplace or wider community by taking responsible action to bring improvements for others as well as themselves.

Year 12 Research: Plate Tectonics

Research the following, to create a mini portfolio:

1. Young Fold Mountains
2. Rift Valleys
3. Ocean Ridges
4. Deep Sea Trenches
5. Island Arcs

The information you must find about each includes:

• Description for each explaining how it formed
• Where they are located: think about if it is at particular plate margins, give examples
• Diagram of how it formed, or what it looks like now.

You will need to print off this research to use it to revise from for your exams.

Below are some useful links that may assist you in your research:

http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/evolving_earth/evolving_earth.html

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html

Plate tectonic videos

Various videos covering all areas of plate tectonics. The videos make excellent starters and plenaries.

http://www.gatm.org.uk/geographyatthemovies/tectonics.html

http://www.teachersdomain.org/collection/k12/sci.ess.earthsys.internal/

http://www.teachersdomain.org/collection/k12/sci.ess.earthsys.surface/

Introduction to plate tectonics:

http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_vid_plateintro/

http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_vid_wegener2/

AS and A2 level exam papers

Link to all previous AQA, OCR, edexcel and ICE exam papers. The exam papers are available in a PDF format and are easily downloadable and printable.

http://www.freeexampapers.com/Dndex.php?d=QSBMZXZlbC9HZW9ncmFwaHk=&catagory=

Research on deserts

Research a particular desert, constructing a powerpoint about that desert.

Do not copy and paste text
Do not change the background of the powerpoint

Things to include in the powerpoint:
Location - maps, description
Describe the climate for the desert - climate graphs with descriptions
Plants and animals - descriptions, how adapted, pictures

Usefull websites are linked below to help your search:

http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/desert/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deserts

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/desert/desert.shtml

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/desert.htm

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/desert_plant_page.htm

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/desert.html

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov06macro/mh-macro.html

http://www.desertanimals.net/

http://www.desertusa.com/animal.html

Desert Project Videos

Video about animal adaptions to life in the desert






Video about plant adaptions to life in the desert.









The climate and landforms of the desert







Locations and types of desert

Deserts Project - Year 8

Create a wall showing lots of information about hot and cold deserts!

think about the animals, plants, people, climate

Year 7 Transport Project

Add resources about different types of transport from the past, present to the future.

Use this wall as a resource database for the class!

Resources for Teaching

The only one we've got - An Earth poem.

The poem explores the way we treat our planet and it is intended to prompt and provoke student debate and discussion. Usefull resource at KS3 environmental studies

TES contains lots of different resources for various topics in geography. the resources cover KS3, KS4 and also AS/A2 courses.

Links to lots of A-Level teaching resources, the site contains excellent plate textonics resources.





The Staffordshire Learning Net contains loads of information about geography for both teachers and students.


This site contains various resources for geography





The Internet Geographer is a web resource directory of various geographical resources.

Great sites for teachers and students!

Internet Geography is a website for students and
teachers of geography.The website covers lots of different topics both at a KS3 and KS4 level, as well as a great resource for revising.





Geography at the Movies is a great site for teachers. The site contains lots of useful videos that can be used as starters and plenaries.





Games4geog is a site offers a collection of interactive geography games on various KS3 and KS4 topics.






Geographyalltheway is a usefull site with various resources for KS3 and KS4.

Also click the following link to find a directory of various sites:

Directory of Geography Resource Websites

KS3 Games - make learning fun and easy!

Below are a list of various games you can play to reinforce lots of different topics you have been taught

Mapzone is a fun and interactive way to learn map skills, ideal for those studying at KS3. Mapzone is brought to you by the Ordnance Survey, a usefull website where you can find various maps for all over the UK.

Electrocity is a game that lets you control a town in New Zealand. What you do with that town is up to you. You can build stuff, destroy stuff, and even leave stuff alone. The game is a great way of reinforcing learning about the environment and energy.

This site offers a variety of games about climate change from crossowrds, hangman to wordsearches. The site also contains information about climate change and global warming.


The Dumptown game is a great way to learn about how to reduce, reuse and recycle. A great game to reinforce any environmental unit.



Juicy Geography hosts a wide range of games for various topics in geography for KS3 and KS4.



Games4geog offers a wide range of games for various units both at KS3 and KS$. The games are great tools for starters or plenaries

Revision sites for GCSE

BBC GCSE bitesize contains lots of information about various different topics you will cover in your GCSE. Try the quizzes or the games to test your knowledge.


The Geography Site contains lots of information on various topics, breaking them down into different stages. The Geography Site provides a great way to revise topics you are struggling with while also highlighting all the key words for that topic.

Usefull tools for students and teachers

Wordle is a usefull tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. This is a usefull tool for both teachers and students.

Wallwisher is a new way to communicate. Add your ideas, comment, weblinks, videos to any topic. Wallwisher is a great way of sharing ideas for a project or responses to a topic.




Bubbl.us - An exciting, colourful, flexible tool to create mindmaps.


For classed-based testing in both work and educational environments. Students registered under my account can log in and take their tests.


Cool Text Generator