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 - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Ecosystems - A small-scale ecosystem - Fresh Water Pond
Students will learn:
How the components of a small scale ecosystem in the UK interact.
What is an ecosystem
How ecosystems operate
Producers, consumers and decomposers
How ecosystems are linked
Food chain and food webs
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 - The challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate Change - Natural causes of climate change
Students will learn:
About three natural forms of climate change
Climate Change is a natural phenomenon
How solar activity affects climate change - Solar output and Sun Spots
How Volcanic activity affects climate change - Volcanic Eruptions
How the Earths orbit affects climate change - Milankovitch Effect / Cycles
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 - Challange of natural hazards - Climate Change - Evidence for climate change
Students will learn:
How Climate has changed
Evidence for climate change
How evidence is gathered with Ice cores
How evidence is gathered with Tree rings
How evidence is gathered with pollen in sediment
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. These lessons is suitable for two 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate Change - Adapting to climate change
Students will learn:
How different groups of people from around the world are learning to adapt their behaviour to reduce the impact of climate change on their communities.
Define adaption to climate change
Local adaptation in the Sahel Africa
Local adaptations in the Maldives
Local adaptation in North India
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 - Climate Change - Impacts of climate change
Students will learn:
About the global impacts of climate change on the environment
How can we manage climate change
What are the likely effects of climate change
How people and the environment may be affected by climate change around the world
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 - Extreme weather in the UK - Weather Hazards in the UK
Students will learn:
How the UK is affected by a range of weather hazards
The different types of extreme weather in the UK
Storm events
Flooding
Drought
Extreme cold
Inc all printable resources
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 - Extreme weather in the UK - Is it getting worse?
Students will learn:
To evaluate if the weather in the UK is getting worse using a range of different resources and sources of data.
Multiple forms of evidence of extreme weather in the UK
Evaluation skills of the evidence
Exam style questions
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 - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Landforms at Swanage
Students will learn about:
Formation of sand dunes
Physical and human landforms at Swanage
Exam questions
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 - The challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate Change - Human causes of climate change
Students will learn:
About the Green House Effect and human causes of climate change and how fossil fuels , agriculture and deforestation all lead to increased global temperatures.
The green house effect
The enhanced green house effect
How human activity is contributing to climate change
The different type of human activities and how they contribute to climate change
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 Geogrpahy GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Natural Hazards - What is a natural hazard
Students will learn:
About the risk from natural hazards and they types of human activities they affect.
What is a natural hazard
What is a hazard risk
What factors affect hazard risk
What are the different types of natural hazard
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.
KS3 - Countries of the United Kingdom and British Isles
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 3 geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson. Students will learn about:
Countries in the British Isles and united Kingdom
Country flags
Capital Cities
Country facts
Geography skills
In particular this lesson deals wit the misconception / interchangeable use of the terms United Kingdom, British Isles and Great Britain
This lesson includes
Starter
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes int the UK - River landscapes - Fluvial / River Processes - Erosion & Transportation
Students will learn: How rivers erode rocks, transport their load and finally how they deposit their load
River erosion
River transportation
Hjulstrom curve
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 - Waterfall and gorges
Students will learn:
How a river erodes their valleys to form distinctive landscapes such as waterfalls
How a waterfall is created
How a gorge is created
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 - Deposition Features of a river - Hydrological graph
Students will learn:
About the physical and human factors that increase or decrease the risk of flooding
What is flooding
Causes of flooding
Hydrological graph
River discharge
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 - Coastal Landscapes - Wave types and their characteristics
Students will learn about:
About the formation and Characteristics of constructive waves, destructive waves and Tsunamis
How a tsunami is formed
How a constructive waves is formed
How a destructive waves is formed
Exam questions with scaffolding
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 - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Weathering
Students will learn about:
About the processes of weathering and how this breaks up rocks.
Weathering
Physical weathering
Freeze thaw weathering
Biological weathering
Chemical weathering
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.
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Ordnance Survey Map symbols lesson - This map skills lesson is about O S map symbols.
This map skills lesson about map symbols lesson includes some creative writing where students substitute words for map symbols. 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
It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World -Megacities
Students will learn about:
The location and rate of growth of mega cities
Megacities
Distribution of megacities
Urbanisation
Push and pull factors
Natural increase
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 symbol lesson is new to my map skill lessons
Longitude and latitude lesson - This map skills lesson is about both latitude and longitude. 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 longitude and latitude includes key terms. 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 - Challenges of Resource Management - Resource Management - Provision of water in the UK
Students will learn about:
The opportunities and challenges faced by the UK in the provision of Water
Water consumer in the home
Water surplus
Water deficit
Water transportation in the UK
Safe drinking water
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.