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 - World Population and Urbanisation
Students will learn about:
How the global population is distributed and the movement of people from the rural to Urban environment.
World population
Urbanisation
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.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Investment and Tourism
Students will learn about:
How tourism can help reduce the development gap
How tourism aids development
How eco tourism aid development
How tourism promotes the economy and employment
How industrial development aids development
How tourism can aid infrastructure
How tourism can aid the quality of life
The impact of tourism on the environment
Exam question 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 - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Wealth and Health
Students will learn about:
How uneven development leads to inequalities of Wealth and health between rich and poor countries.
What is the imbalance between rich and poor
How does uneven development lead to differences in wealth between countries
Differences in health between countries
Case study - Malaria
Independent learning through Gap Minder’s Dollar Street.
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 - Our Unequal World
Students will learn about:
The global variations in economic development and quality of life
What is development
How to measure development
What is Gross domestic income
What is the Human development index
How to measure quality of life
A range of maps and data representing global development
Brandt line
Topological Map
Choropleth Map
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
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 - Changing Population Pyramids & Population Structure
Students will learn about:
How population structures and contrasting countries are changing
Understanding Population pyramids
How development can be observed through population pyramids
How to compare population pyramids
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 Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Demographic Transition Model
Students will learn about:
How levels of development can be linked to levels of development through the demographic transition model.
What is the Demographic Transition Model
How to link the demographic transition model to development
The five stages of the Demographic transition model
Exam question 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 - River Landscapes - Weathering
Students will learn:
How the weather and other naturally occurring physical processes break down rocks
Weathering
Biological weathering
Chemical weathering
Physical weathering
Climate based weathering
Freeze thaw 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.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Soft engineering
Students will learn about:
The benefits and challenges of soft engineering and how it can protect coastlines from the effects of erosion
Soft engineering
Dune regeneration
Beach replenishment
Dune fencing
Managed retreat
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 Erosion Landforms Headlands and bays
Students will learn about:
The characteristics and formation of coastal landforms - Headland, Bays,cliffs and wave cut platform
How headland and bays are formed
How headlands are eroded
Exam question 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 - Managing coasts - Hard Engineering
Students will learn about:
How hard engineering coastal defenses can protect coastlines from the effect of erosion
Hard engineering
Groynes
Sea walls
Rock wall
Gabions
Field sketch skills
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.
A Level Geography NEA fieldwork videos. -A curated selection of 33 of the best videos to help support students complete their A Level Geography NEA - Suitable for all a level Geography specifications AQA, ORC & Edexcel
These videos cover:
NEA Introduction and choosing your Geogrpahy NEA title
NEA Methodology and data capture
NEA Data presentation
NEA Data analysis
NEA Evaluation & Conclusion
It also includes
Detailed insights into the markeing scheme and how to score full marks
How to conduct a literature review and how to reference your sources
Key advances statistics and maths skills to analyse your data
* Spearmans rank
* Mann - Whitney U Test
* Chi Square test
* Box and Whisker plots
* Standard deviation
Tips and tricks from A* students and teachers
This is an amazing resource to give to students so they can complete this project while maintaining the correct levels of teacher input.
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.12 Globalisation - Revision
Students will learn about how superpowers influence geopolitics and the tensions this creates
Revision videos
Exam Questions and model answers
Recall sheets
The lesson contain:
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
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.5 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Defining and Protecting Human Rights
Students will learn there is a significant difference between countries in their definitions and protections of human rights
Human Rights USA and UN
Economic Development v’s Human Rights
Democratic Freedoms
Political Curruption
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
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.1 Health, Human Rights and Interventions -Variations in human health and life expectancy
Students will learn about that there are notable variations in human health and life expectancy.
Variations in health and life expectancy in Africa
Democratic Republic of Congo Case Study
Algeria Case Study
Variations in health and life expectancy in developed countries
Variations within countries UK Case study
variations between ethnic groups Australia Case study
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
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.3 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Development Targets and Policies
Students will learn about how Governments and International Government Organisations play a significant role in defining development targets and policies.
Economic and Social Development
Social Spending Saudi Arabia Case Study
Social Spending France Case Study
Promoting Development
World Bank - Education and the Environment
International Monetary Fund and Poverty
The World Trade Organisation and environment
Millennium Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
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
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.4 Health Human Rights & Interventions - Human Rights
Students will learn about how human rights have become important aspects of international law and international agreements
What are human rights
European Convention on Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human rights in the UK & objections to the ECHR
Aleppo Syria Case Study
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
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.1 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Human Development
Students will learn about concepts of human development and why they are complex and often contested
Intro to Hans Rosling and Factfulness
Human development
Measuring human development
Measuring economic inequality
Human development Index
Happy Planet Index
Sharia Law
Variations in education
Gender inequalities
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
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.6 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Variations of Human Rights within Countries
Students will learn that there are significant variations in human rights within countries reflected in different levels of social development.
Free Speak v Human Rights
Aboriginal (ASTI) Human rights Case study Australia
Level of inequality between ATSI and non indigenous population
Health and the ASTI population
Education and ASTI population
Equal rights and ASTI population
Gender Inequality and ASTI population
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
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.7 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Geoploitical Intervention
Students will learn there are different forms of geopolitical intervention in defense of human rights
Intervention in conflict
Geopolitical Intervention
* Development Aid
* Trade Embargoes
* Military aid
* Military action
Validity of intervention
National Sovereignty
Libya Case study
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
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.8 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - The impact of development aid
Students will learn that some development focuses on improving both human rights and human welfare, but other development has negative environment and cultural impacts
Types of development aid
Development aid Haiti case study
Development aid Malaria case study
Gender equality
Aid and dependency
Aid supporting or promoting corruption
Development aid and environmental protection
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