A lesson which covers the importance of resources for economic and social well being as part of the AQA 8035 Geography course.
Lesson features:
Starter questions
A range of explanation slides
A range of short knowledge focused tasks
Opportunity for exam practice at the end
Lesson is designed for 55-65 minute lessons.
Lesson will require students to have access to the GCSE Geography AQA Student Book (GCSE Geography AQA 2016) Paperback – 28 April 2016
by Simon Ross (Author), Nick Rowles (Author)
A set of worksheets, which can be used standalone or as a booklet on the Urban Issues and Challenges unit of work for the AQA (8035) GCSE Geography specification. Examples focus on Bristol and Rio de Janeiro.
Sheets requires the blue Oxford University Press textbooks for the 9-1 GCSE Geography AQA Course.
Three board games (made on publisher) for Paper 1 of the 8035 GCSE Geog. Sepcification.
One board game for Section A (Natural Hazards), one board game for Section B (Living World) and one board game for Section C (Rivers and Coasts only).
The board games include some questions focused around named examples and case studies, however these can be very easily adapted in publisher by just changing the names to those relevant to your school/department
Case studies and examples included:
Board Game 1:
Chile earthquake (2010)
Nepal earthquake (2015)
Typhoon Haiyan
Somerset Levels Floods (2014)
Board Game 2:
Freshwater pond ecosystem
Malayisa (TRF)
Sahara (Hot Desert)
Board Game 3:
Swanage coastline for coastal landforms
Holderness coastline for management
Boscastle floods
A worksheet on the different types of accommodation for the Pearson BTEC Tech Award Level 1/2 (2022) Travel and Tourism course.
This standalone worksheet includes sections on:
types of accommodation
products and services of accomodation
changing trends
improving sustainability
A standalone guided reading worksheet on tourism in Jamaica, which focuses on how it is being used a strategy to reduce the development gap.
This does not need to be used with any other resource and could be set as a homework or main class activity.
Jamaica is often a named example used in the Changing Economic World part of Paper 2.
Recommended to enlarge the worksheet to A3 when printing.
A revision mind-map for component 1 of the edexcel (pearson) BTECH tech award in travel and tourism (level 1/2), focusing on travel and tourism organisations.
Sheet should be enlarged to A3 when printing to ensure students can information.
Perfect as a revision resource and as a catch-up resource if students have missed lessons. Ideally used with the Pearson textbook (9781292444635)
A set of resourced lessons to cover component 1a of the Pearson BTEC (tech) travel and tourism course (2022 onwards).
Each of the 16 lessons contains a powerpoint that includes:
title and learning aim
do now starter task to recap previous content/knowledge
a series of dual-coded exposition slides
range of written pause points to hinge capture key knowledge
range of application tasks, which prioritise independent research
The lesson pack also includes a double sided revision sheet on component 1A on demonstrating an understanding of the UK travel and tourism industry.
It also includes a unit overview sheet that could be stuck into students books so they can keep track of their learning journey, this can also be easily edited.
Worksheets for the BTEC (tech) award in Travel and Tourism by Pearson (2022 onwards).
Worksheet 1: visitor destinations
This worksheet supports students research on Dubai, as a popular World city, Bath, as an historical town/city, and then gives them an open option to research 1 National Park/landscape in the UK and one coastal resort of their choice. Students would need to have access to ipads, computers or laptops to conduct the research.
Worksheet 2: tourism types and activities
This worksheet gives students scenarios of domestic, outbound and inbound tourists and they have to research different a suggested itinerary. It also gives them an opportunity to categorise each scenario into leisure or business. Students would need to have access to ipads, computers or laptops to conduct the research.
Worksheet would need to be enlarged onto A3 when printing as it is currently set to A4 size.
A double sided set of unseen fieldwork questions for students to practice in preparation for Paper 3 of 8035 (AQA) GCSE Geography.
Best enlarged to A3 when printing.
A double sided revision sheet for the fieldwork part of the 8035 GCSE Geography course.
It includes a recap of the fieldwork enquiry process and then has a section on each strand in more detail.
It includes a recap on key words and their meanings and sections for students to add details on their own fieldwork investigations e.g. their enquiry questions/hypothesis, data collection, data presentation, conclusions etc.
There are also some practice style questions to apply knowledge, understanding and skills.
Can be easily adapted if needed and can be used as a standalone resource which is ideal for revision or catch-up.
Recommended to enlarge onto A3 when printing.
A double sided revision sheet on fieldwork for the Paper 3 exam as part of the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography course. The revision sheet has a section on each strand of the enquiry process, which includes opportunities to consolidate students own fieldwork investigations.
Unseen fieldwork questions is a double sided A3 worksheet which gives students the opportunity to practice the unseen style fieldwork questions.
A set of three worksheets:
Food Crisis in South Sudan - includes location, causes and impacts.
Health inequalities between India and Japan
Water inequalities in the Middle East and grey water in Jordan - causes and impacts.
A worksheet on weather, which includes:
Task 1 - students read the different elements of weather and match them to the correct definition.
Task 2 - students have to identify the type of weather shown in the photographs.
Task 3 - students read some examples of weather and categorise them to show if they have a positive or negative impact on people.
Task 4 - students read a short paragraph explaining the impacts of high temperatures and highlight the connectives and weather elements in two different colours.
Task 5 - students write their own PEEL paragraph to explain how heavy snow can impact people.
A worksheet based on Bristol’s traditional industries and why they have changed.
Part 1 - reading comprehension based on Bristol’s traditional industries. Students read a piece of text and then answer a set of questions.
Part 2 - students highlight the causes and impacts of industrial change using two different colours.
A two page handout, which can be printed double sided, for parents of Year 11 or Year 10 students outlining:
structure of GCSE Geography (AQA) course
dates of final exams
resources and revision guides that can provide support
space for entering students mock grades
space for entering targets for students
The handout comes as a powerpoint document so therefore can be edited.
A bundle of two fully resourced lessons on environmental opportunities and challenges in Bristol, which are linked directly to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification.
A lesson that explores Nigeria’s quality of life, which includes:
- 5 question quiz starter based on aid in Nigeria to re-cap previous learning
- graph activity to describe changes to Nigeria’s HDI
- development indicator activity for students to explore different ways Nigeria’s quality of life has changed
- consolidation activity which brings together the concept of quality of life improving in the south far more than the north. This builds on the knowledge and understanding from the rest of the unit however is available in two differentiated versions to support students at different ability levels.
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 3 – Challenge of Resource Management - Water
This x36 slide powerpoint provides a useful summary of the content on the water topic of Section C of Paper 2. It is matched to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification. It contains pit-stop questions and summarised content to help with planning and delivering revision sessions, which is specifically linked to the specification.
Included examples of:
• Large Scale Water Transfer Scheme – South to North, China
• Local Scheme in a LIC/NEE – Ice Stupas, Ladakh
Six A3 revision board games which can be printed and laminated to provide an interactive revision games for students to test their knowledge of Papers 1 & 2 of the AQA GCSE Geography course. Each board game can be edited in publisher to match school’s own case studies and examples, if needed.
The board games included are:
Paper 1:
Section A- Natural Hazards (inc. Nepal and Chile earthquake, Typhoon Haiyan and Somerset Levels Floods)
Section B - The Living World (inc. Malaysian rainforest, Sahara Desert and pond ecosystem)
Section C - Physical Landscapes (inc. coasts and rivers)
Paper 2:
4. Section A - Urban Issues & Challenges (inc. Bristol and Rio de Janeiro as cities)
5. Section B - Changing Economic World (inc. India and UK economy)
6. Section C - Resource Management - focusing on water (inc. examples of South to North Transfer Scheme in China and Ice Stupas in Ladakh)