These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Economic Challenges in Rio de Janeiro
Students will learn about:
The different economic opportunities and challenges facing Rio De Janeiro
Economic opportunities for growth in Rio
The challenges of Unemployment in Rio
Formal economy in Rio
Informal economy in Rio
Crime in Rio
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Planning for Rio de Janeiro’s urban poor
Students will learn about:
This lesson is about improvements to squatter settlements aimed at improving quality of life for the urban poor in Low Income Countries and Newly Emerging Economies
How have favelas been improved
Case study - Favela Bairro project
Evaluation on Favela Bairro project
The effects of the Olympics on the favelas
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment - Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Causes of Uneven Development
Students will learn about:
The physical, economic and historical causes of uneven development
Physical causes of uneven development
Economic causes of uneven development
Historical causes of uneven development
Non treatable diseases
Landlocked countries
Conflict
Colonialism
Raw material prices
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 3.4 Superpowers - Emerging Superpowers
Students will learn how emerging powers vary in their influence, and that this can change rapidly over time
Rising economic superpowers
BRIC’s
* Brazil
* Russia
* India
* China
Wallerstein’s world systems theory
Peripheral Theory
Modernisation Theory
Dependancy Theory
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
This map symbol lesson has been downloaded over 1400 times
6 figure grid references - map skills lesson - This map skills lesson is about six figure grid references. It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map skills lesson about grid references includes how to work out a six figure grid reference on an Ordnance Survey map. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Management at Lyme Regis
Students will learn about:
The case study of Lyme Regis in Dorset and the 4 phases of coastal defenses that have been added to provide a coastal management scheme.
Location of Lyme Regis
Physical and human geography at Lyme Regis
Coastal defenses at Lyme Regis
Why Lyme Regis needs coastal defenses
Impacts of coastal defenses at Lyme Regis
How successful has the management scheme been
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
These are two lesson suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for two single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.4 Transnational compnsies TNC’s and Globalisation
Students will learn about the importance of TNC’s as players in globalisation
Transnational Companies & Corporate Colonialism
TNC’s and global production
Global brands & Businesses
Globalisation and glocalisation
This lesson contains
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Social Opportunities and Challenges in Rio de Janeiro
Students will learn about:
The different social opportunities, the inequalities and challenges facing people living in Rio De Janeiro
Social opportunities in Rio
Social challenges in Rio
Health care in Rio
Education in Rio
Water supplies in Rio
Energy in Rio
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
This map skills lesson is about map symbols. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes some creative writing where students substitute words for map symbols. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
It contains:
Three Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Printable material
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
This map skills booklet contains everything a student needs to develop a complete range of skills to use an OS Ordinance Survey Map in preparation for the Geography GCSE.
This Map Skills booklet contains:
Map symbols
4 figure grid references
6 figure grid references
Height and relief
Scale and distance
Revision
Perfect for teaching all map skills for KS3 and revision for KS4. The booklet is designed for the students to work completely independently.
For Key Stage 3 Map Skills this is great for teaching. Key Stage 4 perfect for map skills revision
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Challengesof Natural Hazards - Weather hazards - Typhoon Haiyan (Case Study)
Students will learn:
About the primary & secondary effects as well as the immediate and long term responses to typhoon Haiyan
How are tropical storms measured
Location of the Philippines
Storm Haiyan fact file
Primary & secondary effects
Immediate and long-term responses
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for two lessons 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
This map skills lesson is about contour lines height and relief including contour lines, spot heights and layer colouring. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes how to use potatoes as hills and add contour lines and then analysis the results.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Deposition Features of a river - Levees, flood plains and estuaries
Students will learn:
How river features such as Levees, flood plains and Estuaries are created by deposition and erosion
Geography skills - Choropleth map
OS map skills
How levee are formed
How are floodplains formed
Key features in an estuary
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Erosion and Deposition Features of a river - Meanders and Oxbow lakes
Students will learn:
How river landforms are created by deposition and erosion such as meanders and oxbow lakes
How a meander is formed
How an oxbow lake is formed
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Characteristics of a Rainforest
Students will learn:
About the physical characteristics of Tropical Rainforests
Introduction to tropical rainforests
Where are tropical rainforest found
Climate of the tropical Rainforest
The characteristics of a tropical rainforest
The climate graph of the tropical rainforest
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazard - Living near a volcano - Living with the risk from tectonic hazard
Students will learn about how people continue to live in areas at risk from earthquake and volcanic eruptions
Why do people live in hazardous areas
Living by a volcano
Risks of living by a volcano
Geothermic power
Farming
Tourism
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
This map symbol lesson has been downloaded over 920 times
Measuring distance on a map and scale lesson - This map skills lesson is about how students can work out distances on a map by estimating, a ruler or string. It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map skills lesson about measuring distance with activities for the students to practice their new skills. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Migration
Students will learn about:
How uneven development leads to international migration
What are the different types of migration
Push and pull factors
Immigrant
Emigrant
Economic Migrant
Refugee
Internally displaced
Migration from Syria and Poland
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards Weather hazards - Reducing the Effects of Tropical Storms
Students will learn:
How the effects / impacts of tropical storms can be reduced
Monitoring tropical storms
Predicting tropical storms
Planning for tropical storms
Protection from tropical storms
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
This map skills lesson is about 6 figure grid references. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. This includes a template for the 4 cm Pac Man which fits the OS Explorer maps to help students work out 6 figure grid references. The work starts with from works sheets and allows the most capable students to progress to activities students on a full OS explorer map.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Pac Man templates to fit OS explorer maps
Video Engaging game activity
Printable resource