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 - 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 Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Deposition Features of a river - Levees, flood plains and estuaries
Students will learn:
How river features such as Levees, flood plains and Estuaries are created by deposition and erosion
Geography skills - Choropleth map
OS map skills
How levee are formed
How are floodplains formed
Key features in an estuary
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 - 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 - Waterfall and gorges
Students will learn:
How a river erodes their valleys to form distinctive landscapes such as waterfalls
How a waterfall is created
How a gorge is created
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 int the UK - River landscapes - Fluvial / River Processes - Erosion & Transportation
Students will learn: How rivers erode rocks, transport their load and finally how they deposit their load
River erosion
River transportation
Hjulstrom curve
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 - Weathering
Students will learn:
How the weather and other naturally occurring physical processes break down rocks
Weathering
Biological weathering
Chemical weathering
Physical weathering
Climate based weathering
Freeze thaw 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 int the UK - River landscapes - Long river profile
Students will learn:
How rivers and their valleys change down stream.
Maps skills
Long profile of a river
Upper course of a river
Middle course of a river
Lower course of a river
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 - Water Cycle & Drainage Basin
Students will learn:
How the water cycle / hydrological cycle moves water through our environments and the key term of the drainage basin
Hydrological cycle
Key Terms in the hydrological cycle
Drainage basin
Key terms in the drainage basin
Field sketch 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.
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 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 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 - 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 - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Deforestation in the Amazon
Students will learn:
About the reasons for deforestation in the Amazon
Deforestation in the Amazon
Threats to the Amazon Rainforest
The scale of deforestation
Common causes of deforestation
Deforestation in the Amazon
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Characteristics of a Rainforest
Students will learn:
About the physical characteristics of Tropical Rainforests
Introduction to tropical rainforests
Where are tropical rainforest found
Climate of the tropical Rainforest
The characteristics of a tropical rainforest
The climate graph of the tropical 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 - Ecosystems - Global biomes and ecosystems
Students will learn:
The global distribution and characteristics of global ecosystems and biomes
Introduction to biomes
Distribution of Global biomes and ecosystems
Characteristics of the global biomes and ecosystems
Definitions of habitat, ecosystems and biomes
Descriptions of 8 key global biomes
Printable worksheets for global biomes
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 - Ecosystems - How does change affect ecosystems
Students will learn:
How changes to the ecosystem affect the other components within that ecosystem
WHat causes change in an ecosystem
Human and natural factors that affect ecosystems
Example of how changes can affect a food chain
Example of how the reintroduction of a species can affect a whole ecosystem
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.