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Victoria Hewett
Jan 4, 20171 min read
Resource – Biome Backpacks
@MrsHumanities they’re such fun! Enjoy! 👏🏻👍🏻 pic.twitter.com/AHfLHj797d — Heather Mary James (@LDNHumsTeacher) September 25, 2016 At...
Victoria Hewett
Dec 30, 20161 min read
Resource – Filling the Gaps KS3 to GCSE
Last year before my former year 9 students were to start their GCSE geography course I felt I should drop the final topic for the summer...
Victoria Hewett
Nov 20, 20162 min read
Resource – The Hydrological Cycle
It’s quite an engaging activity and my students have taken a lot of the key terminology from it in the past. This version is for higher...
Victoria Hewett
Nov 15, 20162 min read
Zombie Apocalypse Atlas and Map Skills SoW
Update: Click here for resources. I have a confession, I really like post-apocalyptic fiction. Last year I wanted to take some of this...
Victoria Hewett
Jul 18, 20161 min read
The Bigger Picture – Observational Fieldwork
This weekend I thought about how I could keep my student engaged in learning for the last week of the school year. They’ve done their...
Victoria Hewett
Mar 12, 20164 min read
Developing Independent Learners
This term I’ve been using independent learning projects with some of my classes in year 7 & 8. At the start of the topic I discussed with...
Victoria Hewett
Jan 31, 20161 min read
Resource – Hexagon Revision Tasks
After making the suffragette market place and visual hexagon activity yesterday, I realised how easy visual hexagons were to make. In the...
Victoria Hewett
Sep 9, 20152 min read
Classroom Ideas – River in a Bottle
I came up with the idea during my NQT a few years ago and have been using it every year since. The visibiilty of the processes taking...
Victoria Hewett
Mar 15, 20153 min read
Resource – Farming and Diversification
They started by looking at different types of farming, then moved onto subsistence vs. commercial farming. Later they carried out a...
Victoria Hewett
Jan 2, 20153 min read
#TakeAwayHmk – Mrs Humanities Trial and Errors
After much deliberation within my own mind about trying Take Away Homework, I decided to give it a go last term. I’d read up about Ross...
Victoria Hewett
Dec 22, 20141 min read
Resource – The ‘insert topic’ Spinner
After using this this resource The Rainfall Spinner , I’ve decided I need to find other uses for the ‘insert topic’ spinner. I used the...
Victoria Hewett
Dec 22, 20141 min read
Topical Rewards – Weather and Climate
This term year 8 studied Weather and Climate. My expectations of a number of my students were exceeded in the study of this topic, they...
Victoria Hewett
Oct 30, 20142 min read
Resources – Weather and Climate- The Rainfall Spinner
One of my favourite topics has to be Weather and Climate. I find it fascinating and really want the pupils to see how much there is to...
Victoria Hewett
Oct 18, 20141 min read
Humanities in the News Classroom Display
Some pupils and I have created our Humanities in the News display. We’ve started with a profile on the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner...
Victoria Hewett
Oct 12, 20142 min read
Creating Displays
With open evening on the horizon this week my aim is to create displays for my classroom. 1// Interactive Progress Displays Not only do I...
Victoria Hewett
Sep 23, 20143 min read
Humanities in the News – Edition 2
1// Scotland voted NO! Following from Edition 1 the Scottish Referendum had an interesting turn out, 55% of the Scottish population that...
Victoria Hewett
Sep 2, 20142 min read
My Top 3 Geography Resource Sites
The resources provided by a large number of the teaching community are essential for new teachers, without inspiration from others I...
Victoria Hewett
Sep 2, 20144 min read
Humanities in the News – Edition 1
Personal readers – links are provided for further reading Teachers – links are provided for further reading and most of which will be...
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