These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Social Opportunities and Challenges in Rio de Janeiro
Students will learn about:
The different social opportunities, the inequalities and challenges facing people living in Rio De Janeiro
Social opportunities in Rio
Social challenges in Rio
Health care in Rio
Education in Rio
Water supplies in Rio
Energy in Rio
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Planning for Rio de Janeiro’s urban poor
Students will learn about:
This lesson is about improvements to squatter settlements aimed at improving quality of life for the urban poor in Low Income Countries and Newly Emerging Economies
How have favelas been improved
Case study - Favela Bairro project
Evaluation on Favela Bairro project
The effects of the Olympics on the favelas
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - River Landscape - Managing Floods at Banbury
Students will learn:
How the flood management schemes at Banbury have made it less likely that catastrophic floods will happen in the future
Location of Banbury
History of flooding in Banbury
Flood management improvements in 2007
Exam question with resources
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World -Megacities
Students will learn about:
The location and rate of growth of mega cities
Megacities
Distribution of megacities
Urbanisation
Push and pull factors
Natural increase
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 3.7 Superpowers - Superpowers and the Environment
Students will learn about how geopolitical power can be asserted in both hard and soft powers
China’s demand for resources
The consumer demand of the emerging middle class
Monitoring the earths atmosphere
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 3.5 Superpowers - Global Networking
Students will learn about how global influence is contested in a number of different economic, environmental and political spheres
Tension over resources
Conflict over resources
Economic tension & interllectual property
Tension over territories
China and the South China Sea
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.3 The Key Players in Globalisation
Students will learn that decision making by political and economic players are important factors in globalisation
The world trade organisation
The world bank
The international monetary fund
Intergovernment Organisations
International trading blocs
National governments
Benifits and challanges of working both inside and outside of the World trade organisation.
* Ghana case study
* Vietnam case study
* Guatermala case study
This lesson contains
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
This map skills booklet contains everything a student needs to develop a complete range of skills to use an OS Ordinance Survey Map in preparation for the Geography GCSE.
This Map Skills booklet contains:
Map symbols
4 figure grid references
6 figure grid references
Height and relief
Scale and distance
Revision
Perfect for teaching all map skills for KS3 and revision for KS4. The booklet is designed for the students to work completely independently.
For Key Stage 3 Map Skills this is great for teaching. Key Stage 4 perfect for map skills revision
This map skills lesson is about contour lines height and relief including contour lines, spot heights and layer colouring. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes how to use potatoes as hills and add contour lines and then analysis the results.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
This map skills lesson is about compass directions and 4 figure grid references. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes an adapted game of Tic Tac Toe incorporating 4 figure grid references.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Sustainable management of rainforests
Students will learn:
About the different strategies for managing rainforest sustainability
Sustainable management of rainforests
Selective logging
Sustainable farming
Ecotourism
Appropriate technologies to protect forests
How to regenerate rainforests
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazard - Living near a volcano - Living with the risk from tectonic hazard
Students will learn about how people continue to live in areas at risk from earthquake and volcanic eruptions
Why do people live in hazardous areas
Living by a volcano
Risks of living by a volcano
Geothermic power
Farming
Tourism
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
Key Stage 3 Lesson - United Kingdom - Human and Physical Geography.
This lesson is designed to help teach students the key human and physical features in the United Kingdom onto the worksheets provided with the lessons.
The students will learn:
The largest ten cities in the UK
Key Motorways, ports and airports
Highlands and lowlands
Longest three rivers
Seas and Oceans
This lesson is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 is suitable for a two lessons each 50 mins - 1 hour lesson.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Progress checker
Printable resource
In addition to the lesson you will need an atlas.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Challengesof Natural Hazards - Weather hazards - Typhoon Haiyan (Case Study)
Students will learn:
About the primary & secondary effects as well as the immediate and long term responses to typhoon Haiyan
How are tropical storms measured
Location of the Philippines
Storm Haiyan fact file
Primary & secondary effects
Immediate and long-term responses
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for two lessons 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson Bundle - Living in the physical Environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Tropical Stroms - Weather Hazards - All seven lessons
Students will learn:
Global atmospheric circulation
Different global climates & weather
How a tropical storm is formed
The structure of a tropical storm
Tropical storm Haiyan case study
Primary and secondary effects
Immediate and long-term responses
Reducing the effects of tropical storm
Starters
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for all seven 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - V shaped valley
Students will learn:
How a river erodes their valleys to form distinctive landscapes such as a How a river erodes their valleys to form distinctive landscapes such as a V Shaped Valley
Field sketch skills
Weathering, erosion and transportation recaps
Key physical features of a V shaped valley
How a V shaped valley is formed
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Erosion and Deposition Features of a river - Meanders and Oxbow lakes
Students will learn:
How river landforms are created by deposition and erosion such as meanders and oxbow lakes
How a meander is formed
How an oxbow lake is formed
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Double Lesson -Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - river Landscapes - River Soft & Hard Engineering
Students will learn:
About the costs and benefits of managing river flooding using both soft and hard engineering.
River management
Soft engineering on rivers
Floodplain Zoning, Wetland storage areas, Tree planting
Hard engineering on rivers
Dams, Channel straighting, Embankments and flood relief channels
Flood warnings and preparations
Exam style question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. These twp lessons are suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes -Coastal erosion processes
Students will learn:
About the processes of erosion on the coastline
Coastal erosion
Hydraulic action
Attrition
Abrasion
Corrosion
Solution
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
A company called Zipline from Silicon Valley is working with the Governments of Rwanda and Tanzania to deliver blood and emergency medicines by drone. This cost effective and appropriate use of technology is now saving lives every day. Let your students learn how zipline are; delivering their service, creating high value jobs, saving lives, reducing infant mortality and increasing life expectancy.
This gives students a contemporary case study which they can relate to with technology that they are familiar with. This project gives the students the opportunity to understand the previous challenges of transporting blood projects across rural Rwanda across vast distances where there are no formal roads. They can also see how this had a direct effect on the death rate of women in child birth. Finally, students can discover the dramatic impact this simple but appropriate technology has had in reducing the death rate in Rwanda.
This homework is suitable for both key stage three and four.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Full instructions in a single slide.
Links to resources
Video