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The Migrant Crisis in Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the land and sea routes that migrants take to get into Europe using geographical terms. They will be able to describe the location of Calais and the issues that boat crossings cause including migrant deaths and the dangers of crossing with identification of graphs. Finally students will condense the text of a news article about the migrant crisis and identify the stakeholders points of view. Students will be asked to demonstrate their learning by creating a profile for each of the stakeholder groups.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning.
Task 1: Describe the routes that migrants take to get into Europe
Task 2: Using the bar graph describe the dangers of boats crossing into Europe.
Task 3: Condense the newspaper article about the dangers of migrant crossings.
Task 4: Main Task: Create a stakeholder profile about each of the stakeholders and why they might feel that way.
Task 5: Plenary: Using the red and green planner sheets students are to show true or false answers.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
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Human Features of Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 Year 7 about the human features of Europe including the countries in Europe, the European Union, along with its positives and negatives, Brexit and migration and migrant crisis in Europe.
This bundle contains 5 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately identify where Europe is, along with several counties and seas contained within it. Then students will be taught what the EU is, when it formed and the positives and negatives of the Eu along with why the UK chose to leave. Finally students will learn the different types of migration and explaining the migrant crisis currently happening in Europe.
Lesson 1: Location of Europe
Lesson 2: Introduction to the EU
Lesson 3: Positives and Negatives of the EU
Lesson 4: Migration in Europe
Lesson 5: The Migrant Crisis in Europe
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation, map skills, and climate graph interpretation.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Salisbury Poisoning - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will understand the timeline the led to the Sailsbury incident, they will be able to explain why this incident happened.
Videos are linked in the download.
Students to complete a sheet to show understanding of the topic.
Lesson 8 of 9
River Volga's Waterfalls - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to recap the key terms of biomes, their components and the location of the taiga from previous lessons on their whiteboards as a starter.
Then students will be given guided reading homelearning (included) to cement their knowledge. Students then will recap previous terms of rivers, and the courses of the river. Then students will locate the river volga globally and use 4-6 figure grid reference to establish geography skills. Finally students will create a story board on the steps of waterfall formation and a quick quiz on what they learnt.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1:Recap the key geographical terms for rivers
Task 2: Describe the location off the river Volga
Task 3: Identify the 4-6 figure grid references to certain features along the river
Task 4: Main Task: Create a comic strip about how a waterfalls forms using key geographical terms.
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of key questions from today
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet and home learning guided reading.
River Volga's Meanders - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will start by conducting a formative assessment on their previous learning of Russia and key geographical concepts. Then students will recap their previous learning in 6 quick questions on whiteboards. Students will be given guided reading homelearning (included) to cement their knowledge. Students then will recap previous terms of rivers, and the courses of the river. Students will then be tested on their knowledge retention on learning about meanders and then asked to complete a field sketch and annotation .
Starter: Formative Assessment and then 6 quick starter questions
Task 1:Recap the key geographical terms for rivers
Task 2: Describe the definition of meander and how they form
Task 3: Tested on key components of rivers such as slip off slope and river cliff
Task 4: Main Task: Write instructions on how the create an meander (Lower ability) oxbow lake (higher ability)
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of key questions from today
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet and home learning guided reading.
River Volga's Levees - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to recap the key learning from previous lessons on rivers and their features, they will also be able to describe 4-6 figure grid references on their whiteboards as a starter.
Then students will be given guided reading home learning (included) to cement their knowledge. Students then will recap previous terms of rivers, and the courses of the river.
Then students will go through the step-by step process of how levees are formed, with a strong investigation into deposition and how it works. Pupils will then be tested on the key knowledge of levee formation before being asked to annotate the sketch of a levee formation to show how it forms.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1:Recap the key geographical terms for rivers
Task 2: Describe what deposition is and how it occurs
Task 3: Recap the core content of the lesson on whiteboards to show how well they understand
Task 4: Using the image on the screen, stick image in and annotate how the levee forms.
Task 5: Main Task: Annotate the sketch of a levee formation to show how it forms.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet and home learning guided reading.
The Climate of Africa
Students will be able to recap the difference between weather and climate then identify the different climates of Africa. Students then learn the three components that affect biome distribution. Then using four different climate graphs of different countries in Africa students cement their knowledge through 4 different questions. Finally students will investigate the animals and plants that are adapted to two places of contrasting climate, e.g. Egypt and DRC.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the area that receives the most direct sunlight
Task 2: Describe the different climate areas in Africa using latitude
Task 3: Analyse four different climate graphs of contrasting areas in Africa
Task 4: Main Task: Compare the adaptation of the plants and animals of two different climates in two countries in Africa
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
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Physical Features of Africa - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 9 in their first term back at school. This helps to get students familiar again with physical geographical concepts of rivers, coasts, climate, sand dunes and plate tectonics. This bundle also contains a tutorial on GIS mapping for students to have a go mapping Africa to see its physical features.
This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly begin by using GIS to map the physical features of Africa and identify its location globally as well as its individual countries. Then students will go through the climate and misconceptions of Africa along with creating a climate graph and manipulating and using data. Next students will recap the water cycle, transportation and erosion to learn about Delta formation, specifically in the context of the Niger Delta. Then switching the plate tectonics students recap the theory and structure of the Earth before investigating shield and composite volcanoes as well as the African Rift Valley. Finally students learn about the formation of sand dunes and how they bring tourist opportunities as well as headlands, bays and spit formation along the African coastline.
Lesson 1: Mapping Africa using GIS
Lesson 2: Physical Features of Africa
Lesson 3: The Climate of Africa
Lesson 4: The Niger Delta
Lesson 5: The East African Rift Valley
Lesson 6: Sand Dunes at Sossusvlei
Lesson 7: Coasts of Africa
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data collection and manipulation along with creation of graphs and reading OS maps.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
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Russia - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about Russia and its features. This bundle contains 11 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately locate Russia and it’s surrounding countries, the distribution of its population due to human and physical factors and how plant and animal life has adapted to its climactic conditions. Along with a case study investigation into Chernobyl and how it affected Russia.
Lesson 1: Where is Russia
Lesson 2: Population Distribution in Russia
Lesson 3: Biomes of Russia
Lesson 4: Plants and Animals in Russia
Lesson 5: Taiga Forest Threats
Lesson 6: Chernobyl, What Happened?
Lesson 7: Russia’s Importance in Europe
Lesson 8: What is happening with the Russia Ukraine conflict 2022
Lesson 9: River Volga’s Waterfalls
Lesson 10: River Volga’s Meanders
Lesson 11: River Volga’s Levees
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, creation of climate graphs and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Arctic versus Antarctic - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will firstly begin to glue in their knowledge organisers and the learning journey to start their term off. Then they will using their A3 sheet begin to make notes throughout the lesson on the differences between the Arctic and Antarctic. This will cover, location, climate, plants and animals and people, and development. Finally they will watch a video of what it is like to live in an Antarctic research station.
Task 1: Glue in knowledge organiser and learning journey
Task 2: Identify the difference in climate and other categories of arctic and antarctic living
Task 3: Make notes on the extreme living at Antarctic research stations.
This download contains and up to date powerpoint and learning journey and knowledge organiser as well as a worksheet.
Geopolitics of the Middle East - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will firstly recap what they have learnt in previous lessons on the topic and then begin to learn about what politics is. They will then investigate the 4 main types of politics such as democracy, monarchy, authoritarian and theocratic. Students will then describe the distribution of democracies globally and then learn about the Arab Springs and the effects and changes it brought to the middle east. Finally students will use the graph to describe if the arab springs changed anything for the people in the middle east.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention
Task 2: Describe distribution of democracy globally
Task 3: Identify causes of the Arab Spring
Task 4: Use the graphs to explain if the overall living standard has changed in the Middle East.
This download contains a fully up to date powerpoint and worksheet.
Tourism in the Middle East - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will on whiteboards firstly explain why people may want to visit other places, and then split their whiteboards in half and give reasons to what is good about tourism and what is bad about tourism.
Students will then read through their worksheet and highlight areas that are social, economic or environmental effects of tourism and evaluate which is the most important and why. FInally students will evaluate if the economic benefits of tourism in the Middle East are worth the environmental costs
Task 1: Identify why people visit other places
Task 2: Identify what is good and bad about tourism
Task 3: Categorise effects into social, economic or environmental
Task 4: Evaluate if the economic benefits of tourism in the Middle East are worth the environmental costs
This download contains a powerpoint and worksheet.
Conflict in the Middle East - KS2 (Key Stage 3)
Student will start by recapping information that they have previously learnt in the topic and then will begin to learn about what conflict is, giving examples of large scale and small scale conflicts. Students will then read through the different reasons that conflicts happen and summarise the reason for conflict in the Middle East. After reading through their information students will then give a report on conflict in the Middle East using the example of the War on Terror.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention
Task 2: Categorise types of conflict
Task 3: Reasons for conflict in the Middle East
Task 4: Give a report on conflict in the Middle East using the example of the War on Terror.
This download contains a fully up to date lesson and worksheet.
Plant and animal adaptation to cold environments - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will firstly start by taking a low stakes quiz about the information they have learnt during the last 2 lessons to ensure they have cemented their knowledge. Then they will write down on their whiteboards all the characteristics they can remember of cold environment. Students then are told about polar bear adaptations and are told to link them to the climate of the area and explain how they link. Students show their learning by describing how animals have adapted to survive in the cold environments (4 marks) Then students are told about cold environment plants and are told to show their adaptations and link it to climate. This is tested again by a four mark question “Describe how plants have adapted to survive in the cold environments (4 marks)” Finally to test what students have learnt they they answer the 4 mark question “Describe and explain the features of animal adaptations shown in Figure 8. (4 marks)”
Task 1: Formative assessment of previous learning
Task 2: Recap on knowledge of cold environments
Task 3: Link polar bear adaptations to climate and answer exam q
Task 4: Link plant adaptations to climate and answer exam q
Task 5: Exam question Describe and explain the features of animal adaptations shown in Figure 8. (4 marks)
This powerpoint contains an up to date powerpoint, worksheet and formative assessment sheet.
Opportunities in Cold Environments - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will firstly recap what they have learnt in previous lessons by answering 5 quick questions. Then they will be asked to locate Svalbard using latitude and longitude. Next they will read through their worksheet and highlight opportunities that are either, social, economic or environmental. Finally students will create a tourist brochure about the opportunities there are in Svalbard for people to experience.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention
Task 2: Locate Svalbard using geographical terminology
Task 3: Using fishing, tourism, energy and science, identify the social, economic and environmental opportunities.
Task 4: Using the opportunities you have learnt about today, create a tourist brochure to make people want to go to both Antarctica and Svalbard (Arctic).
This download contains an up to date powerpoint and a worksheet.
Features of Cold Environments - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will firstly start with knowledge retention to recap on what they have previously learnt. Then they will answer 3 questions on their whiteboards about climate, biomes and permafrost to establish a baseline of knowledge. Then they will describe the location of cold environments globally and begin to investigate the polar and tundra environments. Then students will describe the climate of Canada using a climate graph and potentially create their own. Finally they will compare the climate graphs of Canada and Antarctic and explore the similarities and differences of each place.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention
Task 2: Recap on key geographical terms
Task 3: Describe distribution of cold environments
Task 4: Creating climate graph
Task 5: Compare and contrast arctic and antarctic climate graphs.
This download contains an up to date powerpoint and worksheet.
Sand Dune Formation in the Middle East - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will begin by recapping physical features in the Middle East that they have previously learnt about. Students are then asked to describe what sand dunes are and then to identify where the Rub’ Al Khali is using latitude and longitude. Students are then given a video to watch about sand dune formation and given more information about their formation. For their final task they are asked to complete a comic strip to show the formation of sand dunes in their books.
Task 1: Knowledge retention
Task 2: Identify Rub’ Al Khali using geographical terms
Task 3: Identify the steps in the formation of sand dunes.
Task 4: Explain the formation of sand dunes in a comic strip.
This contains a powerpoint and worksheet.
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Physical Features of the Middle East - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 Year 8 about the Physical features of Middle East, specifically focusing on the climate, plant and animal adaptations to the desert, sand dune formation and coasts along the Middle East, specifically with the formation of spits.
This bundle contains 5 lessons that are fully resourced.
Lesson 1: Mapping the Middle East
Lesson 2: Middle East Desert Climate
Lesson 3: Desert Plant and Animal Adaptations
Lesson 4: Sand Dune Formation in the Middle East
Lesson 5: Coasts of the Middle East
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation, graph reading, Choropleth map interpretation
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheet
Mapping the Middle East - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will begin by setting up their books for the new term with a learning journey and knowledge retention sheet (included). Then they will be informed of any misconceptions with the Middle East and given facts about it. Then will be asked to identify the Middle East globally then with Latitude and Longitude. Students will then be asked to fill in an A3 sheet with the countries of the Middle East, the seas, rivers and other physical features.
Task 1: Sticking knowledge organiser and learning journey in
Task 2: Identify the location of the Middle East globally
Task 3: Using latitude and longitude describe the location of several middle eastern countries.
Task 4: Identify the countries and physical features of the Middle East using Atlases.
This lesson has a completed powerpoint and worksheet
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Human Features of the Middle East - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 8 to follow on with the first topic “Physical Features of the Middle East”, and is designed to flow with that. This bundle allows students to investigate the human side of the Middle East with specific looks at development of the Middle East, from ancient civilisations, to the silk road and the Islamic Golden Age, all the way to modern day developments due to resources and geo-politics and modern day conflicts such as the War on Terror. Finally students will investigate the positives and negatives of tourism in the Middle East.
Lesson 1: Development in the Middle East
Lesson 2: Resources in the Middle East
Lesson 3: Geo-politics of the Middle East
Lesson 4: Conflict in the Middle East
Lesson 5:Tourism in the Middle East
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data collection and manipulation along with creation of graphs and reading OS maps.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets, learning journeys and knowledge organisers.