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 Geogrpahy GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Physical processes at plate boundaries
Students will learn about the physical processes that occur at plate margins and plate boundaries
Destructive plate boundary
Constructive plate boundary
Conservative plate boundary
Collision plate boundary
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.
AQA Geography GCSE Double Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Effects and Responses to an Earthquake - Chile & Nepal earthquake case studies
Students will learn:
about the difference between the effects and responses of earthquakes in contrasting countries. Nepal (Low Income Country) and Chile (Newly Emerging Country)
Primary effects
Secondary effects
Immediate response
Long-term response
Chile earthquake case study
Nepal earthquake case study
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This is a double lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for two 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Global Distribution of plate boundaries
Students will learn:
The location of the plate boundaries and where earthquake and volcanic eruptions occur and link this to plate tectonics
What is the structure of the Earth
How do tectonic plates move
Plate boundaries introduction
Where are earthquakes and volcanoes located
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.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Chile & Nepal comparing earthquakes
Students will learn the similarities and differences between the earthquakes in Nepal and Chile.
How development affects the effects and responses to a tectonic hazard
Evaluation skills
Exam question practice with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Exam questions
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.
This map symbol lesson has been downloaded over 1400 times
6 figure grid references - map skills lesson - This map skills lesson is about six figure grid references. It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map skills lesson about grid references includes how to work out a six figure grid reference on an Ordnance Survey map. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This 4 figure grid reference lesson has been downloaded over 330 times
4 figure grid references - map skills lesson - This map skills lesson is about four figure grid references.
This map skills lesson about grid references and compass points includes how to work out a four figure grid reference on an Ordnance Survey map. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map symbol lesson has been downloaded over 580 times
Ordnance Survey Map symbols lesson - This map skills lesson is about O S map symbols.
This map skills lesson about map symbols lesson includes some creative writing where students substitute words for map symbols. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Animal adaptation in the rainforest
Students will learn:
How animals have specifically adapted to successfully survive in a tropical rainforest
Animal adaptation in a rainforest
How adaptation allows animal to survive
Competition for food
Other survival strategies
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 - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Plant adaptation in the rainforest
Students will learn:
How plants have specifically adapted to successfully survive in a tropical rainforest
Definition of adaptation
Examples of plants have adapted to survive in a tropical rainforest
The different layers of a rainforest
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 - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Impacts of deforestation in the Amazon
Students will learn:
ABout the impacts of deforestation in the Amazon.
Social impacts of deforestation
Environmental impacts of deforestation
Economic impacts of deforestation
Exam 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. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Managing the Amazon rainforest
Students will learn:
About the rates of deforestation and why rainforests need to be protected
Rate of deforestation in the Amazon
Biodiversity in the Amazon
Soil erosion
Challenges and benefits of deforestation
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 Hazards - Reducing the risk of tectonic activity
Students will learn about how the risks from tectonic hazards and Earthquakes can be reduced.
Monitoring tectonic hazards
Planning for tectonic hazards
Predicting tectonic hazards
Protection from tectonic hazards
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.
This map symbol lesson is new to my map skill lessons
Longitude and latitude lesson - This map skills lesson is about both latitude and longitude. It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map skills lesson about longitude and latitude includes key terms. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the human environment - Resource Management - Provision of Food in the UK
Students will learn about:
The opportunities and challenges faced by the UK in the provision of food.
Why consumers demand imported food into the UK
How much of the price of food makes its way back to farmers in developing countries
What is the impact of importing food
Food miles and carbon footprint
UK farms adapting to consumer demand
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 human environment - Challenges of Resource Management - Resource Management - Provision of water in the UK
Students will learn about:
The opportunities and challenges faced by the UK in the provision of Water
Water consumer in the home
Water surplus
Water deficit
Water transportation in the UK
Safe drinking water
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 - World Population and Urbanisation
Students will learn about:
How the global population is distributed and the movement of people from the rural to Urban environment.
World population
Urbanisation
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.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Investment and Tourism
Students will learn about:
How tourism can help reduce the development gap
How tourism aids development
How eco tourism aid development
How tourism promotes the economy and employment
How industrial development aids development
How tourism can aid infrastructure
How tourism can aid the quality of life
The impact of tourism on the environment
Exam 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. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Wealth and Health
Students will learn about:
How uneven development leads to inequalities of Wealth and health between rich and poor countries.
What is the imbalance between rich and poor
How does uneven development lead to differences in wealth between countries
Differences in health between countries
Case study - Malaria
Independent learning through Gap Minder’s Dollar Street.
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 Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Aid and Intermediate Technology
Students will learn about:
How investment, Industrial development and tourism can reduced the development gap.
Which strategies can reduce the development gap
How different forms of aid can aid development and reduce the development gap
How industrial development can help reduce the development gap.
How tourism can help reduce the development gap
How intermediate / appropriate technology can aid development
How NGO’s can aid development through providing goats to families
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 Human Environment Changing Economic World - Our Unequal World
Students will learn about:
The global variations in economic development and quality of life
What is development
How to measure development
What is Gross domestic income
What is the Human development index
How to measure quality of life
A range of maps and data representing global development
Brandt line
Topological Map
Choropleth Map
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
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.