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Hello, I'm Natasha and I provide high-quality geography resources for KS3 and KS4.
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Global Inequality - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the distribution of global inequalities, a look into why global inequalities have occurred and long form written assessment at the end to assess students comprehension.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: On white boards students to come up with reasons why some countries develop better than others.
Task 3: Read through the different reasons for global inequalities on the worksheet and PowerPoint slides.
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing assessment- students to discuss why development is important to developing countries and how countries develop unequally.
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to help countries develop equally.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
UK Weather Hazards - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the weather of the UK, with background on ocean currents, distance from the equator, altitude and prevailing winds. This will help students to understand the many reasons we have a temperate climate in the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Students to watch a video on why the UK climate varies, and divide the UK into four sections, describing the summer and winter of each section.
Task 3: Explain why convectional rainfall is common in the southeast of England during the summer (4 marks)
Task 4: Read through the sheet and justify which weather condition the UK faces is most impactful and why.
Task 5: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Which extreme weather condition impacts the UK most significantly. Justify your opinion.” (6 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - How can the UK prepare for extreme weather conditions?
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Taiga Forest Threats - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
In this lesson students will be able to state 4 or more threats to the taiga forest and explain why they are occurring. Then they will understand the social, economical and environmental factors that are involved in deforestation. The final task will be a form of formative assessment where students will bring all their knowledge to complete this.
Task 1: Starter: True or False
Task 2: Identification of different causes of deforestation
Task 3: Advantages and disadvantages of deforestation in the taiga
Task 4: Main Task- “Describe the characteristics of Russia and assess the threat to Russian biomes” (9 marks)
Task 5: Plenary: Tweet about it
How Physical Geography Effects Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how physical geography and its features can effect conflict. A recap on what physical geography is, features of physical geography that can affect conflict.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning with 5 questions.
Task 2: Define physical geography
Task 3: Read through the battle of hastings and identify how the physical geography of the area affected the battle.
Task 4: Match up the key terms and how they affect conflict
Task 5: Main Task- Using an Atlas students to look at global maps and topographical maps and decide which country would be easiest and hardest to invade and why.
Task 6: Plenary - What are some of the ways countries avoid being invaded.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
How Do We Cause Conflict? - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will compile what they have learnt over the past 9 lessons to understand how people in the UK affect conflicts, how conflict affects us and then evaluate the effect of conflict.
Task 1: Starter/ recall of knowledge
Task 2: How do we personally affect conflicts?- Fill in the sheet
Task 3: Evaluate the effects of conflict
Lesson 9 of 9
Dangers of Sexting - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
This is the sixth lesson in a series of PSHE lesson about relationships and sex. In this lesson students should learn about what sexting is and the dangers/ consequences of sexting.
Climate Change Effects in the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to define the enhanced greenhouse effect, then identify the effects of climate change in the UK, rank which is the most impactful and justify why. Then students will evaluate is the government is doing enough to help tackle climate change.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Identify the effects of climate change on the UK.
Task 3: Rank the effects of climate change on the UK from most significant to least significant.
Task 4: Read through the statements on the worksheet and evaluate if the UK government is doing enough.
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of climate change on the UK
Task 5: Plenary: What are the challenges with responding to climate change as a low-income country?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
Effects of Climate Change in the Maldives - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to locate the Maldives and evaluate the impacts of climate change in the Maldives, then evaluate if they are adapting well enough to climate change. Then students will complete a secondary assessment about the past 5 lessons they have learnt about.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Describe the location of the Maldives
Task 3: Read through the impacts of climate change in the Maldives and evaluate which is the most significant.
Task 4: Then evaluate which is the best strategy to combat climate change.
Task 5: Main Task: Secondary Assessment - Evaluate the impacts of climate change globally (9 marks)
Task 6: Plenary: How can the school can reduce its contribution to climate change.
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
Map Skills for GCSE - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the different cartographic skills for students at GCSE. This lesson includes:
Atlas Skills including reading longitude and latitude and identification of physical and human atlas maps.
Ordnance Survey Maps including using a key, scale, four and six figure references and reading contours and spot height.
Maps in association with photographs including direction of photograph, identification of features, use of satellite imagery and sketch/ field maps.
Task 1: Identify the longitude and latitude of 12 points on an atlas.
Task 2: Measuring the distance between features on an OS map
Task 3: Identifying four and six figures on a simple OS map
Task 4: Identify the maximum and minimum height of the OS map
Task 5: Identify the direction the photograph was taken
Task 6: Explain the social, economic and environmental impacts of a earthquake from satellite imagery.
If you get time you could take your students outside and get them to do a sketch map of the school ground and a birds eye view of the school.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Resource Management - Provision of Food in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how the UK’s demand for food has changed through time and how food miles, organic food and seasonal food have changed in the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Three choropleth maps on food resources, recap of previous lesson and improve graph reading skills/ data analysis.
Task 2: Match up the key terms to their correct description.
Task 3: Describe how the demand for food in the UK has changed.
Task 4: Describe how importing food for Kenya has positives and negatives for the people of Kenya.
Task 5: Using an Atlas, map where the food comes from and how many miles, creating a flow line map.
Task 6: Exam Question: Using the table and your own knowledge, discuss the advantages of buying local food products (6 marks)
Task 7: Plenary - Which would be the best for UK carbon emissions?
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Introduction to Resource Management - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on an introduction to resource management, this lesson covers the significance of water, food and energy along with the economic and social well being that these resources provide. This lesson also covers the distribution of these resources.
Task 1: Starter - Answer questions from previous topics.
Task 2: Sort the resources into economic well-being and social well-being.
Task 3: Describe the distribution of resources globally.
Task 4: From slides 8-11 students have different maps to describe the resources being distributed and how they are linked.
Task 5: Exam Question: Using the map and your own understanding, suggest how inequalities in the consumption of resources influence well-being.
(3 marks) + Using the graph, suggest how the percentage of income spent on food may influence well-being.
(2 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - Which lack of resource will cause the most issues and why?
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Plate Tectonics and Plate Boundaries - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on plate tectonics, plate boundaries and the different features and hazards found at each boundary
Task 1: Starter: Knowledge recall on previous topic (Coasts)
Task 2: Draw a diagram and label it on destructive plate margins, fill in information and features found here.
Task 3: Draw a diagram and label it on constructive plate margins, fill in information and features found here.
Task 4: Watch the video to recap what they have just learnt.
Task 5: Exam question: “using a diagram, explain what happens at a constructive boundary (4 marks)”
Task 6: Plenary- Revision on how a sea stack is formed.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
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Human Features of Africa - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 9 in their second term back at school, and is designed to flow with the “Physical Features of Africa Bundle”. This bundle allows students to investigate the human side of Africa with specific looks at countries as case studies with links to key geographical concepts such as development, population and slums.
This bundle contains 6 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly begin by identifying population densities and sparsities in different countries in Africa as well as introducing population pyramids to students to link to development. Then students will investigate the importance of Nigeria and why it is globally and nationally important. Next students will find out what development is, and why some countries are less developed than others, which will directly link to colonisation and the reason some countries struggle to develop. Then once students are clear with population and development the concept of slums is introduced and linked to favelas in Brazil and what issues these cause for the people and how to fix them
Lesson 1: The Population of Africa
Lesson 2: Nigeria and its Importance
Lesson 3: Development in Africa
Lesson 4: Colonisation of Africa
Lesson 5: Slums in Africa
Lesson 6: Solutions to Slums
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.
Slums in Africa - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will start by identify what a slum mean, and related this to the favelas of Year 8 that they have learned about.Then students will locate Kibera, Kenya globally, nationally and locally. Then students will identify which of the effect of population growth is the worst for people living in slums and why. Finally students will attempt their first high tariff 6 mark question, this will be done in a writing frame with lots of teacher guidance for support.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Identify the features of a slum and how it relates to favelas in Brazil.
Task 2: Describe the location of Kibera, Kenya.
Task 3: Explain the main challenges faced by those living in slums
Task 4: Identify which is the biggest challenge and why.
Task 5: Exam Question: Explain two issues you have studied in an urban settlement (6 marks)
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Mapping South America using GIS - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the location of the continent of South America using longitude and latitude, then describe the physical features of South America that are present. Finally students will log into laptops and use the worksheet provided to produce a GIS map of the different physical features of South America along with annotations of their maps and what they see.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Description of South America using longitude and latitude.
Task 2: Describing the physical features using compass points in South America
Task 3: Main Task: Using GIS online students will create a map with different physical features present in South America
Task 4: Plenary: Home Learning on the physical features of South America (On last slide of powerpoint)
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.
Case Study of River Aire - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the River Aire. Students will learn about the source and mouth of the river along with the erosional and depositional features found along the river.
Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt in the previous lesson. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson.
Task 2: Geography Skills: Using an OS map identify the 6 figure grid reference of Janet’s Foss and other features of the upper course.
Task 3: In 5 steps explain how Janet’s Foss has formed and what features will be left behind.
Task 4: Students to use an OS map to identify any meanders on the OS map and watch videos to explain how meanders form and where floodplains along the River Aire is located.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Suggests how this feature along the River Aire at Woodlesford has formed (6 marks).” High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words.
Task 5: Plenary - Link Up Learning- Link the information in today’s lesson to other lessons on previous topics.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Heathrow Expansion - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on the transport infrastructure in the UK, specifically about the Heathrow Expansion along with the stakeholders, the positives and negatives of the expansion and finally the social, economic, environmental and political factors.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Draw 4 diagrams to show the formation of headlands and bays.
Task 2: Geographic Skills: Description of Location - Describe where Heathrow is
Task 3: Geographic Skills: Comparison of information - Compare Heathrow airport to its international rivals.
Task 4: Watch the video and make notes on the Heathrow expansion.
Task 5: Label which opinion is for or again the expansion, then categorise the stakeholders into social, economic, political and environmental. Then rank them into most and least important arguements.
Task 6: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “‘Changes to the UK transport infrastructure are predicted to be beneficial’ To what extent do you agree (9 marks)"
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 7: Plenary - Revise for headlands and bays as questions will be coming next week.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
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Sex Education and Relationships - (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
6 lessons on sex and relationship education (SRE), entitled “Sex Education and Relationships" Includes modern resources that are LGBT friendly and suitable for Year 7- 11.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Sex & Relationship Education
Lesson 2: Hygiene and Keeping Clean
Lesson 3: Media and Portrayal of Sex and Our Bodies
Lesson 4: Introducing Consent
Lesson 5: Expectation in Relationships
Lesson 6: Dangers of Sexting
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Russia and Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will understand the definition of geopolitics, along with identifying the features of Russia’s soft power then finally explaining how Russia uses its power to influence politics.
Task 1: Located and describe Russia
Task 2: Overview of Russian history and Soviet Union
Task 3: Video of Ukraine Russia conflict
Task 4: Write a news report about conflict and its impact on peoples lives.
Lesson 7 out of 9