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Introduction to Natural Hazards - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
In this lesson students will identify what a natural hazard is, types of natural hazards and how hazards and their risks change depending on several factors.
Task 1: Identify natural hazards based on pictures
Task 2: Write down the different types of natural hazards
Task 3: Complete structure of the Earth sheet.
Task 4: Exam style 4 mark question
Task 5: Plenary: GCSE pod
Lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet.
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Conflict - (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about conflict and its features. This bundle contains 10 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately
define conflict, its effects on people and the environment. How conflict has affected the Middle East along with countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and how Russia is involved in modern conflicts. Finally asking the questions of how do we affect conflict.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Conflict
Lesson 2: How Conflict Affects Geography
Lesson 3: How Physical Geography Effects Conflict
Lesson 4: Middle East’s Physical Geography
Lesson 5: War in Iraq, Physical Geography
Lesson 6: Development in Afghanistan
Lesson 7: Russia and Conflict
Lesson 8: Russia Ukraine Conflict 2022
Lesson 9: Salisbury Poisoning
Lesson 10: How do we cause conflict?
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.
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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 7 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
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.
Russia's Importance In Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will understand the location and distribution of Russia’s fuel resources, from this they should explain how Europe receives its energy from Russia. They will be able to investigate the advantages and disadvantages from getting fuel from Russia.
Task 1: Starter: Knowledge recall of previous lessons
Task 2: Key words match up
Task 3: Analyse the pie chart to gain information to complete task
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of the Chernobyl disaster (6 marks)
Task 5: Plenary- Pick 5 words from the lesson and write a question about them
Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet
Effects of Chernobyl - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to outline the main long term and short term effects of Chernobyl and the consequences of these effects. Students will be able to evaluate the severity between the long term and short term consequences of Chernobyl.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons
Task 2: Using an atlas identify countries affected by the radiation leak
Task 3: Looking at the information on the worksheet students to rank these effects 1-9 in terms of significance.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to answer one of two questions about Chernobyl and its effects
Task 5: Plenary: What things would students pack in their bags if they had to evacuate.
Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet
Chernobyl, What Happened? - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to accurately locate Chernobyl and be able to discuss the time-line of events that led to the Chernobyl disaster. Students will begin to look at the magnitude of the event and the effects of the disaster.
Task 1: Starter- True or False- Knowledge recap of previous learning
Task 2: Located Ukraine/ Chernobyl on maps
Task 3: Watch various clips about Chernobyl
Task 4: Sort the effects of Chernobyl into social, economic and environmental effects
Task 5: Choose which of the effects are most significant and why.
Task 6: Main Task:Outline what happened in Chernobyl, identify which effect is most significant and describe its size, severity and length of time.
Task 7: Plenary: Write a sentence about how they, thought, liked, hated, wanted to learn more.
Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet.
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
Plants and Animals In Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students during this lesson will be able to accurately describe the characteristics of the taiga forest and its vegetaion. Then will be able to create their own climate graphs that show the taiga. Finally students will be able to identify plants and animals found in the taiga forest and how they have adapted to the conditions.
Task 1: Starter- Knowledge recall
Task 2: Describe the climate of the taiga
Task 3: Create your own climate graph of the taiga
Task 4: Interpret your climate graph
Task 5: Adaptation to climate or lack of sunlight
Task 6: Main Task: Explain how vegetation and animals have adapted to the taiga using named examples.
Task 7: Plenary: Knowledge Noughts and Crosses
Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet
Biomes of Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will identify different biomes throughout Russia and understand how climate affects the locations of biomes. Students will also be able to describe the vegetation and animals that are located through the biomes of Russia.
Task 1: Starter: Key words match up
Task 2: Describe location of the biomes in Russia
Task 3: Fill in sheet with characteristics of different biomes
Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe what vegetation/ animals they would see throughout their journey.
Task 5: Plenary: Quiz at the end of the lesson to summarise learning.
Population Distribution in Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the distribution of population across Russia, using key terms such as dense and sparse to describe the spread. Students will then be able to use human and physical evidence as to why humans are distributed this way.
Starter: True or False
Task 1: Describe the distribution of population density using a map
Task 2: True or False
Task 3: Human and physical factors that affect population
Task 4: Main Task: Explain one physical and one human factor to why Russia’s population is distributed this way.
Task 5: Plenary: Peer assessment- swap books with partner and mark the question.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Where is Russia? - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Introductory lesson into Russia, students will be able to locate Russia along with its physical and human features.
This is lesson 1 in a series of 8 lessons.
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
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
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
Development in Afghanistan - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the location of Afghanistan, outline how conflict can affect development of a country and will finally explain in a mini essay how geography in the Middle East and conflict is linked.
Task 1: Starter- Recall Activity
Task 2: Define key words
Task 3: Locate Afghanistan
Task 4: Describe bar graph of development of Afghanistan
Task 5: Explain how geography in the Middle East and conflict are linked
War in Iraq, Physical Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will learn where Iraq is located, its physical geography and then explain how physical geography affected the war in Iraq. Task 1- Describe where Iraq is
Task 2- Watch video about Iraq war
Task 3- Create timeline about the Iraq War
Task 4- Colour in physical map about Iraq
Lesson 5 out of 9.
Middle East's Physical Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will state where the Middle East is along with recognising the countries in that area along with the physical geography of the Middle East. The final task is where students describe the physical features of the Middle East to show comprehension.
Lesson 4 of 9 about conflict.
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 Conflict Affects Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will explain how conflict affects the different human, environment and physical geography of an area. Starter activity to recap on previous learning then discussion on how these affect geography.
Resources attached to this but also on last slide of powerpoint
Lesson 2 in a series of lessons regarding conflicts and its implications on the physical and human world
Introduction to Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on conflict, an introduction into what conflict is, types of conflict and how they affect us on a local, national and global scale and how patterns of conflict have shaped the world today.
Task 1: Starter - Define what conflict and war is.
Task 2: Decide which conflicts are local, national and international
Task 3: Interpret the map on which things are good about the map and which are bad.
Task 4: Using an Atlas and the patterns of conflict to design their own map illustrating the patterns of conflict today
Task 5: Main Task - Long form writing- students to use the map they have created to describe the patterns of conflict in the world today.
Task 6: Plenary - Class discussion- which conflict was the worst and why?
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **