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 - Deposition Features of a river - Hydrological graph
Students will learn:
About the physical and human factors that increase or decrease the risk of flooding
What is flooding
Causes of flooding
Hydrological graph
River discharge
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 Landscapes - What causes a river to flood?
Students will learn:
Factors that affect flooding
Physical factors that affect flooding
Human factors that affect flooding
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.
GCSE geography - Virtual River field work - Physical geography field trip
These lessons have everything you need to complete a virtual river field trip or to complete the classroom work following your own river field work.
Students will learn:
Recap typical features found in the long profile of a river
The location of Carding Mill Valley
Risk assessments
Methodology
Fieldwork equipment
Field sketches
River data
Presentation of data
Field wok analysis
Fieldwork conclusions and evaluation
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
These lessons are suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. There are five lesson 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson as well as a workbook to accompany the lessons.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Wave types and their characteristics
Students will learn about:
About the formation and Characteristics of constructive waves, destructive waves and Tsunamis
How a tsunami is formed
How a constructive waves is formed
How a destructive waves is formed
Exam questions 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 - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Weathering
Students will learn about:
About the processes of weathering and how this breaks up rocks.
Weathering
Physical weathering
Freeze thaw weathering
Biological weathering
Chemical weathering
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 - Coastal Landscapes - Mass movement and longshore drift
Students will learn about:
The processes of weathering and how these lead to cliff collapse at the coast as well as how Long Shore Drift transports material along a coastline.
What causes a cliff to collapse
Mass movement
Landslide
Mudslide
Rotational slip
Rock slide
Longshore Drift
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 Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Managing the growth of squatter settlements in Rio De Janeiro
Students will learn about:
Students will learn about the poor housing in Rio De Janerio
Why have favelas / squatter settlements grown
Where favelas are located in Rio De Janeiro
Case study of Rocinha
Growth of favelas in Rio
Challenges in squatter settlements in Rio
Construction in favelas
Health services in favelas
Crime in favelas
Education in 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 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.
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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
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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.
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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 - 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.
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.