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Hello, I'm Natasha and I provide high-quality geography resources for KS3 and KS4.
https://linktr.ee/planetgeography
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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.
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.
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.
Middle East Desert Climate - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will begin by recapping what they have previously learnt in the other lessons on physical features of the Middle East.
Then they will recap what they know about climate and biomes. Then will be asked to describe the location of deserts globally using latitude and longitude. Then they will identify the features of the hot desert and will be asked to describe the climate of Egypt by identifying features of a climate graph. Higher ability students will be asked to complete their own climate graph in lesson. All students will be able to compare two climate graphs of differing areas.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention
Task 2: Identify location of hot deserts
Task 3: Identify the features of hot deserts
Task 4: Describe the climate of Egypt using a climate graph
Task 5: Creation of own climate graph
Task 6: Compare climate graphs of Egypt and Brazil.
This lesson has a completed powerpoint and worksheet
San Francisco Quake - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will start with 5 quick questions from their previous lessons on North America. Then they will describe the location of San Francisco in the United States of America, they will then recap conservative plate boundaries and how they cause earthquakes. Students will then be tested quickly on their ability to describe the formation of an earthquake. Students then learn how we measure earthquakes with the Richter Scale and the Mercalli Scale. Finally students will read through the information sheet about the quake and will identify the effects of the quake into social, economic and environmental effects. Then finish of their information by writing a newspaper article to summarise their learning.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention
Task 2: Identify location of San Francisco
Task 3: Recap how earthquakes form
Task 4: Identify the effects of the quake
Task 4: Write a newspaper article about the quake.
This lesson contains a full powerpoint, worksheet and newspaper template
Responses to Hurricane Katrina
Students will begin by recapping with a formative assessment on what they have previously learnt in the other lessons on physical features of North America
Students will then be asked how they would respond to the impacts of hurricane Katrina, and then will be asked to evaluate the responses of the government. They will do this through using the Disaster Management Cycle and will identify if these were long term of short term. Finally students will finish with writing a speech explaining how they plan to respond and recover from the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention and formative assessment
Task 2: Identify how they would respond to impacts
Task 3: Categorise responses to short term, long term and effective/ ineffective
Task 4: Write a speech explaining how you plan to respond, recover, from the effects of Hurricane Katrina and prepare for future hurricanes.
This lesson has a completed powerpoint and worksheet
Inequality in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will identify the inequalities in Brazil, through identifying the urban and rural areas in Brazil and why people migrate to urban areas. This will lead on to urbanisation and its causes.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: Identify the positives and negatives of both rural and urban areas.
Task 3: Causes of urbanisation through push and pull factors
Task 4: Main Task - Describe how inequality has developed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Task 5: Plenary: Class question- What are some of the social, economic and environmental issues with rapidly urbanising areas
Lesson 2 out of 8
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Investigating Cold Environments - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 9 students as the lessons revolve around cold environments and are a great starting point for students who want to study GCSE geography as many themes are similar to the cold environments topic at GCSE and provides great foundational knowledge. Students firstly start identifying the difference between the Arctic and Antarctic, then the features of their climates and the adaptation they cause in plants and animals that survive there. Finally students learn about the opportunities and challenges of living in these areas and link them to development.
Lesson 1: Arctic versus Antarctic
Lesson 2: Features of Cold Environments
Lesson 3: Plant and animal adaptation to cold environments
Lesson 4: Opportunities in Cold Environments
Lesson 5: Challenges in Cold Environments
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, knowledge organiser and learning journey.
Problems with overpopulation - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to recap the key learning from previous lessons on Asia and features of population, they will also be able to describe the mode of data on their white boards as a starter.
Then students will be asked to describe what overpopulation is and what its effects might be. Then using a choropleth map to describe where globally is densely populated. There is then a video to watch to describe the problems with overpopulation. Students are to match up the causes of over population to the definition and describe why.
Students are introduced to Dharavi Slums in India and to describe using the images what problems overpopulation have caused.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Define/ describe overpopulation
Task 2: Describe where globally is densely populated
Task 3: Identify the causes of overpopulation and evaluate which is the worst and why
Task 4: Main Task: Using the photographs of Dharavi, explain some of the problems with overpopulation
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Geography - Halloween Quiz
The Ultimate Geography Halloween Quiz for 2024 has landed! With over 30 questions, this quiz will test students ability to name physical geography features such as formation of rivers, climate and coast, but will also test their ability to map read in a fun trick-or treat inspired 4 figure grid reference test. Finally the quiz finishes with general knowledge about Halloween that will get the students scratching their heads. With fun sound effects and music, students will love this quiz for the end of term!
Factors Affecting Flood Risk - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the human and physical causes of flood risk. Students will learn about how different features contribute to flooding events and evaluate if HICs or LICs are more significantly affected.
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: Which of the drainage basins are more likely to flood and why?
Task 3: Key Term Match Up
Task 4: Students to read through the different causes of flooding and put them into human or physical factors
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Explain why the town of Boscastle in Cornwall is likely to suffer from flooding (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 - Home Learning - Explain why the effects of flooding are worse in LICs.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Flooding - Soft Engineering - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on what soft engineering along a river is, and the four management strategies involved. Students will then identify the cost and benefits of each strategy and then will evaluate which is the most effective and why.
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: A quick recap on what soft engineering strategies are and why they are used.
Task 3: Students to read through information and analyses what each strategy is and identify their costs and benefits.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "Use examples of two soft engineering river flood management strategies to show how it has a limited effect on the environment (6).” 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 - Fill your hard hat, describe and identify hard engineering strategies.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Flooding - Hard Engineering - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on what hard engineering along a river is, and the four management strategies involved. Students will then identify the cost and benefits of each strategy and then will evaluate which is the most effective and why
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: A quick recap on what hard engineering strategies are and why they are used.
Task 3: Students to read through information and analyses what each strategy is and identify their costs and benefits.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "To what extent are hard engineering schemes sustainable (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 - Fill your hard hat, describe and identify hard engineering strategies.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Lower Course River Features - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the lower course. Students will learn about depositional features such as levees, floodplains and estuaries.
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: Field sketch and describe the appearance of a floodplain.
Task 3: Create labels on how levees form
Task 4: Students to draw and label how a meander forms.
Task 5: Describe how the tide causes an estuary to occur.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Describe how a features found in the lower course of a river is formed (4).” 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 - Key Term Trade
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Middle Course River Features - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the middle course. Students will learn about the erosional features and depositional features such as meanders and oxbow lakes.
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: Field sketch and describe the cross-section of a meander.
Task 3: Watch a video about how meanders turn into oxbow lakes
Task 4: Students to draw and label how a meander forms.
Task 5: Students to label the five steps to the formation of an oxbow lake
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Explain how an ox-bow lake could form on the river shown in Figure 1 (6).” 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 - Odd one Out
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Erosion, Transportation and Deposition in Rivers - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the different types of erosion and transportation. Then students will link erosion, transportation, are deposition to velocity and particle size.
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: Watch the video and make notes on what transportation is.
Task 3: Using the key terms students sort the transportation descriptions to the key term.
Task 4: Students then label the key terms on a diagram to cement knowledge.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “How does velocity affect transportation and deposition (4).” 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 - Write down four pieces of knowledge they have gained today.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Nigeria Case Study - Home Learning - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
These home learning/ homework sheets are a good way to test students knowledge and comprehension of the “changing economic world” topic of Nigeria. Each sheet provides upwards of 7 research questions, with two AQA specified exam questions to ensure that students are applying their knowledge correctly. It is recommended giving 1-2 weeks for students to complete the sheet (depending on student ability)
This home learning sheet is specifically designed for the Nigeria lessons that are also on Planet Geography, so if you want some engaging and challenging lessons, head over to the lessons and get them too!!
There are two homework sheets in this bundle, there is a Word version so you can edit the questions and there is also a PDF file so you can send it to your students digitally.
Intro to Changing Economic World - Home Learning - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
These home learning/ homework sheets are a good way to test students knowledge and comprehension of the “changing economic world” topic. Each sheet provides upwards of 7 research questions, with two AQA specified exam questions to ensure that students are applying their knowledge correctly. It is recommended giving 1-2 weeks for students to complete the sheet (depending on student ability)
This home learning sheet is specifically designed for the Changing Economic World lessons that are also on Planet Geography, so if you want some engaging and challenging lessons, head over to the lessons and get them too!!
Importance of Nigeria - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on an introduction into Nigeria. Students will be able to describe the location of Nigeria, the importance of Nigeria, both globally and regionally along with explaining how the changing demographics have resulted in Nigeria developing into an NEE.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how ox-bow lakes are formed
Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe the location of Nigeria (4 marks)
Task 3: Watch the video on facts about Nigeria
Task 4: Students to describe the population structure of Nigeria using a population pyramid (4 marks)
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Nigeria is becoming a NEE”. To what extent do you agree? (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 - True or False about Nigeria
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Changing UK Transport Infrastructure - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on the transport infrastructure in the UK. This lesson covers, port, road and railways - specifically looking at HS2.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Exam Question on processes of slumping.
Task 2: Why is transport important in the UK?
Task 3: Watch the video and make notes on HS2.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Describe how the UK is improving its transport network (4 marks)
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 5: Peer Assessment
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for headlands and bays as questions will be coming next week.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **