This is a topical lesson focusing on the current situation in the Ukraine.
Students carry out a Carousel activity that looks at a time line of the events leading up the current situation. They then further investigate the the reasons for Russia's involvement before being asked to form their own opinions on the situation.
This lesson teaches students about population pyramids. Students are required to produce their own population pyramid for Ethiopia and be able to identify key features of both LEDC and MEDC country's population pyramids.
Recourse:
Key information: Highlights the main parts and features of population pyramids.
Population information: This is used to create a population pyramid for an LEDC country.
This is the first lesson made for the new AQA SPEC on climate change.
The lesson introduces the students to the idea of climate change and how the climate has changed over time since the Quaternary Period.
This lesson has been created to teach the new AQA GCSE SPEC
This lesson looks at humans being the cause of climate change on earth.
It uses the following three ideas as the main discussion point:
use of fossil Fuels
agriculture
deforestation
This lesson has been created to teach the new AQA 2016 SPEC
This lesson teaches the idea of climate change being caused via natural factors.
These being:
orbital Change
Volcanic Activity
Solar Output.
This is a lesson looks at Chamonix as a case study for tourism in the alps.
Students carry out a carousel to build up information on the fact file before doing a card sort of the social, economic and environmental factors.
The tourism management pdf can be used to give students more detailed information about how the area is managed.
This lesson teaches the students how the Earth’s climate has changed throughout history. Students start by creating a graph that shows how the climate has increased during the last few hundred years. They then investigate 4 different factors that have shaped the Earth’s climate through time (learnt through the card sort and card sort hand-out).
The homework gets students to investigate the key words that they will come across during this topic.
This is the second lesson on fracking. Students look at the good and bad points of fracking which is then followed up be having a student lead debate on the issue.
Resources:
Progression: To show progress from the start to the end of the lesson.
Word sort: Students rank the pros and cons of fracking
Debate Role: Gives students characters to play during the debate.
Debate Handout: Gives students structure in how to form their side of the argument.
This is the final lesson on fracking. This lesson gets students to express their opinion on the issue of fracking via the creation of a newspaper front page.
Resources:
News Paper Earthquake - Easy/Normal: A news article report looking at earthquakes caused by fracking. This has been differentiated for people with low literacy.
News Paper Water - Easy/Normal: A news article report looking at water contamination caused by fracking. This has been differentiated for people with low literacy.
Newspaper Guide: This is a template for students to set out their newspaper front page.
This is a lesson that introduces the idea of the MINT countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey). The lesson focuses on why we are studying these countries and the amount the economies are growing.
This is a revision sheet designed for the AQA A Syllabus.
It goes through every detail required to learn for the Population spec and works best when printed double sided onto A5 paper.
The page numbers refer to the AQA A Text Book
This is a revision sheet designed for the AQA A Syllabus.
It goes through every detail required to learn for the Changing Urban Environments spec and works best when printed double sided onto A5 paper.
The page numbers refer to the AQA A Text Book
This lesson looks at what can is considered to be effective AID. It asks the students to think about the idea that AID is not always best for the recipient country.
Resources:
Different types of AID - This gets students to read through the key words on the board and match up to what they think is the correct definition.
Evaluation Information Hand-out - Students need to read through the three different case studies about different types of AID around the world. They then use the 'Evaluation Hand-out&' to answer the questions about each project.
This is the first lesson in the new AQA Geography SPEC.
It looks at different ways we can divide the world up and the reasons for this.
All resources included in the power point
This lesson is for the new AQA Geography SPEC
This lessons uses Rwanda as a case study to show how tourism can help reduce the development gap.
All resources are either attached or found within the power point.
This is an introduction lesson to the idea of Fracking.
The lesson starts with a brainstorm of what the word/process could mean. This is followed by highlighting the need for a new source of energy supply within the UK - Energy Handout.
A video/teachers explanation/questions and card sort, then talk through the process of Fracking.
This is a lesson that uses the Rhone Glacier for AQA Geography A syllabus.
Students use the BBC news article to fill build up information on the Rhone Glacier.