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 - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Management at Lyme Regis
Students will learn about:
The case study of Lyme Regis in Dorset and the 4 phases of coastal defenses that have been added to provide a coastal management scheme.
Location of Lyme Regis
Physical and human geography at Lyme Regis
Coastal defenses at Lyme Regis
Why Lyme Regis needs coastal defenses
Impacts of coastal defenses at Lyme Regis
How successful has the management scheme been
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
These are two lesson suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for two single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
Key Stage 3 Geography Lesson - Watercycle / Water Cycle / hydrological cycle
Students will learn:
Defining precipitation
All the key elements of the water cycle
Written AFL to check understanding
Works sheeps to support the lesson
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 3 Geography and science students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - The challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate Change - Human causes of climate change
Students will learn:
About the Green House Effect and human causes of climate change and how fossil fuels , agriculture and deforestation all lead to increased global temperatures.
The green house effect
The enhanced green house effect
How human activity is contributing to climate change
The different type of human activities and how they contribute to climate change
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 Bundle - Living with the physical environment - River Landscapes - All Fourteen lessons
Students will learn:
UK relief and landscape
Water cycle / Hydrological cycle
Long profile of a river
Weathering
River erosion and transportation
V shaped valley
Waterfall and gorges
Meanders and Oxbow lakes
Levess and estuaries
Hydrological Graph
What causes a river to flood
Soft engineering
Hard engineering
River Tees case study (workbook)
Banbury Case study
These Lessons include:
Starters
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. These lessons are suitable for fifteen 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
This map skills lesson bundle contain all the lessons you will need to teach map skills to KS3 or higher ability KS2.
These lessons have been downloaded over 17,000 times on TES.
It also includes a complete work booklet that you can either use alongside the lessons or for independent study as it contains everything a student needs to complete their own learning.
The students will learn:
Map Symbols
Longitude and Latitude
4 figure Grid references
6 Figure grid references (using Pac Man)
Contour Lines, Height and relief (using potatoes)
Measuring distance
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson Bundle - Living in the physical Environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Extreme weather in the UK - All Lessons
Students will learn:
Weather Hazards in the UK
Weather Hazards Depressions & Anticyclones
Somerset Levels Flood 2014
Extreme Weather in the UK - Is it getting worse
These lessons includes
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 five 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Physical Landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - All lessons
Students will learn:
Wave types and their characteristics
Coastal erosion
Coastal weathering and Mass movement
Coastal erosional landforms - Headlands and bays
Coastal transportation & Long Shore Drift
Coastal deposition spits, bars and tombolo
Coastal landforms at Swanage (Case Study)
Managing coasts - Hard engineering
Managing coasts - Soft engineering
Manging coasts = Managed retreat
Managing Coasts - Lyme Regis (Case Study)
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 eight 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson Bundle - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate change bundle - All seven lessons
Students will learn:
Evidence for climate change
Natural factors affecting climate change
The greenhouse effect
Human causes of climate change
Global social and environmental impacts of climate change
How to mitigate climate change
How to adapt to climate change at a local level
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 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Natural hazards - All lessons
Students will learn:
What is a natural hazard
Global distribution of plate boundaries
Physical processes at plate boundaries
Chile & Nepal earthquake case studies
Chile & Nepal Earthquake comparing earthquakes
Reducing the risk of tectonic activity
Living near a volcano
This lesson includes
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 eight 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geogrpahy GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Natural Hazards - What is a natural hazard
Students will learn:
About the risk from natural hazards and they types of human activities they affect.
What is a natural hazard
What is a hazard risk
What factors affect hazard risk
What are the different types of natural hazard
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 Bundle - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - All seven lessons
Students will learn:
Characteristics of a rainforest
Climate of a rainforest
Plant adaptations in the rainforest
Animal adaptations in the rainforest
Deforestation in the Amazon
Impact of deforestation
Managing the Amazon rainforest
Sustainable management of the 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. These lessons is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Ecosystems - All three lessons
Students will learn:
A small scale ecosystem
How does change affect ecosystems
Global biomes and ecosystems
These Lessons include:
Starters
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. These lessons are suitable for three 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - River Landscape - River Landform of the River Tees -Case study Booklet
This is a self study booklet and contained everything a student needs to complete this learning. It also have QR codes with links through to external resources making it perfect for homework.
Students will learn about the erosional and deposition landforms along the river Tees in County Durham in the North East of England
Where is the RIver Tees
High Force Water Fall and Gorge
Meanders, Levees near Darlington
Map Skills
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 - 5.1 Regenerating Places - Thinking about Place.
Students will learn about how people get attached to places and identify with them
Creating a sense of belonging
Identifying with place
Rebranding place
Starter
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
A Level Geography NEA fieldwork book. -Guide to A Level Geography NEA - Everything you need to know to get full marks - SUitable for all a level Geography specifications AQA, ORC & Edexcel
Helps you get full marks in Geography NEA.
Step-by-step guide for each NEA section.
Provides templates, tools, and tips.
Includes practical examples and resources.
Focuses on clear data presentation and analysis.
Emphasizes academic integrity and proper referencing.
Encourages staying organized and motivated.
Suitable for students and teachers.
Clear instructions for achieving high grades.
Perfect for A-Level Geography students.
This guide is an invaluable tool for both students and teachers, offering the structure, resources, and encouragement needed to excel in the Geography NEA.
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.1 Globalisation Understanding globalization
Students will learn about global shifts and some of their charactoristics
Logistics and shipping containers
Global e-commerce and supply chains
The growth of the throw away society
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 - 4.12 Globalisation - Revision
Students will learn about how superpowers influence geopolitics and the tensions this creates
Revision videos
Exam Questions and model answers
Recall sheets
The lesson contain:
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 - 4.5 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Defining and Protecting Human Rights
Students will learn there is a significant difference between countries in their definitions and protections of human rights
Human Rights USA and UN
Economic Development v’s Human Rights
Democratic Freedoms
Political Curruption
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 - 4.1 Health, Human Rights and Interventions -Variations in human health and life expectancy
Students will learn about that there are notable variations in human health and life expectancy.
Variations in health and life expectancy in Africa
Democratic Republic of Congo Case Study
Algeria Case Study
Variations in health and life expectancy in developed countries
Variations within countries UK Case study
variations between ethnic groups Australia 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
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.3 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Development Targets and Policies
Students will learn about how Governments and International Government Organisations play a significant role in defining development targets and policies.
Economic and Social Development
Social Spending Saudi Arabia Case Study
Social Spending France Case Study
Promoting Development
World Bank - Education and the Environment
International Monetary Fund and Poverty
The World Trade Organisation and environment
Millennium Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
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