Ofsted Pro-Forma

Lesson plan PRO-FORMA

Name of Teacher: Housley A Subject: Geography

Year Group: 8-6 Setted  Upper

Mixed Ability Middle

Lower 

Number of Girls 5 Number of Pupils with IEP’s 11

CONTEXT – TOPIC Where in sequence of lessons, how long is the Unit of Work etc.

Economic Activities – primary industry approx. 4 weeks

- agriculture

Previous work: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industry – terms and examples.

Farming – meaning, products, decision/skills of farmer, types of farming.

· To understand how a hill farmer makes his money

· To appreciate the problems facing hill farmers today

· To consider diversification as a means of surviving as a hill farmer

· To begin to develop the concept of planning and managing environments towards sustainable development

The Mucky Hand?!!! (Pupils think about when it is OK to have dirty hands and when not)

Introduction:

· Recap ideas from a farmers decision-making “What a farmer needs to know”

· Now going to examine one real farm to appreciate these decisions. FARMERS IN?

· By end of lesson know what he produces, how he makes his money, what are his problems and how he tries to solve them

· Room for plenty of your ideas at the end of the lesson!

· Locate farm area in Atlas

Development:

· Case-study of the farm through slides and commentary

· Pupils to briefly annotate accompanying worksheet

Consolidation:

· Rehearse problems of monetary issues - sale of fleece (29p loss) (£300+ over flock)

- sale of lamb for meat (role play)

· Examine problem of falling prices and sales. Refer to recent incidents and news articles. (26/8/99 400 ewes released in N. Wales etc.)

· Examine evidence of diversification at case study farm and others in area (quad bike farms)

Conclusion:

· Assess progress in learning objectives by “cards”

· Ideas to redevelop old barn area

Cards – learning objectives … and examples

Slides of Gogarth

Slide projector/screen/stand/extension cable

Slide worksheet

Back-up material - farm data sheet, OS map extract, income and expenditure graphs

- newspaper articles, adverts for quad bike farms

Pupils to complete section on worksheet re-developing Old Barn over this winter ready for Summer 2000.

Read and discuss question worksheet with parent/grandparent.