The Living World (with Hot Deserts) - AQA GCSE Geography

THE LIVING WORLD (with Hot Deserts) - AQA GCSE GEOGRAPHY - Looking for a scheme of work which covers everything in this topic? Look no further - this has been created by myself as I was tired of using out of date / inaccurate resources. It is also suitable for non-specialists who may be teaching this unit.

This is a FULL scheme of work for the topic The Living World - it is based on the AQA GCSE specification. It has been created from scratch and includes a total of 15 lessons, a FREE AQA knowledge organiser which has been adapted to include the relevant case studies (Brazil and Sahara), and summative assessment. Each lesson has a challenge question as its title, tasks throughout, retrieval practice at the start of each lesson, a starter, main and plenary. There is a lot of exam practice, with AQA exam styled questions in most of the lessons.

All the lessons come with worksheets and PowerPoint - the lessons are fully adaptable to your requirement - and will approximately last 1 hour. The lessons were originally created on Google Slides / Google Docs, and have since been converted to Microsoft Powerpoint / Word for you when you download them.

The CGP Geography revision guide (2020) has been used alongside the creation of these lessons.

A breakdown of each lesson are as follows:

Lesson 1 - Ecosystems
Lesson 2 - Unbalanced Ecosystems
Lesson 3 - The Nutrient Cycle
Lesson 4 - Biomes
Lesson 5 - Rainforest Characteristics
Lesson 6 - Rainforest Layers
Lesson 7 - Causes of Deforestation
Lesson 8 - Impacts of Deforestation
Lesson 9 - Sustainably Managing Rainforests
Lesson 10 - Hot Desert Characteristics
Lesson 11 - Plant and Animal Adaptations in Deserts
Lesson 12 - Opportunities and Challenges in Deserts
Lesson 13 - Desertification
Lesson 14 - Revision Lesson
Lesson 15 - Summative Assessment (Section of a past exam paper)

Also included: Knowledge Organiser and a summative assessment.