A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 2- Challenges in the human environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 36 slides with full information and case studies for each topic.
Content Includes:
Urban Issues and Challenges
Definition and causes of urbanisation
Emergence of megacities
Case Study of Rio as an NEE along with opportunities and challenges.
Case Study - Urban change in a Major UK City - Leeds
Sustainable Urban Living - Leeds Greenhouse Project
Traffic Management in Leeds
The Changing Economic World
Measuring development
Measuring population and causes of uneven development
Tourism in Jamaica
UK national and global links
Case Study- Nigeria - TNCs causing development
Economic and Industrial Change in the UK
Modern Industrial Developments in the UK - Cambridge Science Park and Torr Quarry.
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Students will be able to describe the importance of fieldwork along with why do fieldwork in geography. This lesson contains the basis for a fieldwork investigation around your school that includes a liter count and bi-polar environmental quality survey.
Task 1: Describe which is more accurate data sample set
Task 2: Writing a hypothesis
Task 3: Conducting research at 3 different locations along with the research sheet.
Task 4: Main Task: Write up _ Describe what the research found about the school site.
Task 5: Plenary: Homework for litter pick for further data
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Students will recap the issues present in Kibera the slum that was previously investigated. Then they will choose which area they want to improve in their slums and why. Next they will categorise the solutions to slums into social, economic and environmental. Then students will evaluate which of the solutions have been the most successful rating them 1-8. Finally students have a silent debate where they write down which of the improvements has been the most successful and why, then pass the book around to debate the next point.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Recap the issues of living in slums.
Task 2: Explain which part of Kibera should be improved and why on whiteboards.
Task 3: Categorise the solutions to slums into social, economic and environmental.
Task 4: Evaluate which of the solutions have been the most successful rating them 1-8
Task 5: silent debate where they write down which of the improvements has been the most successful and why, then pass the book around to debate the next point…
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Students will be able to describe how our climate has changed over time, why it has changed over time and interpret graphs that link CO2 to temperature to sea-level rise. Then students will identify the natural causes of climate change and the human causes of climate change.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: On whiteboards come up with theories about how we know the climate has changed in the past.
Task 3: Using the worksheet, students evaluate which is the most accurate/ best proxy for climate reconstruction and place them in a diamond 9.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe how we know our climate is changing through evaluation of proxies.
Task 5: Plenary: What do we think our planet was like during the last Ice Age?
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the Beast from the East - an extreme weather event in England in 2018. Students will investigate the location, causes of the storm, the social, economic and environmental impacts along with the short term and long term responses.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Using the images on the screen, come up with what you think caused the Beast from the East.
Task 3: Complete the learning clock with information in the PowerPoint starting with identifying where the beast was affected. Then identify the causes of the storm, next to
the social and economic and environmental factors and finally the long term and short term responses.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Suggest how extreme weather in the UK can have economic and social impacts.” "(6 marks)
Task 5: Plenary - How could we have responded to the event better?
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Students will be start with defining development and what it means to then, then improving their answer. Next students will identify the social, economic and environmental indicators of development. This will lead on to them learning about the importance of the Human Development Index (HDI) and be asked to identify where in Africa is the most developed country and why. Then students will learn about the sustainable development goals and should identify which country should focus on which goal the most and why.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Give the definition of development, then improve the definition.
Task 2: Identify the social, economic and environmental indicators of development
Task 3: Explain why HDI is an important tool to measure development.
Task 4: Describe where in Africa is the most and least developed.
Task 5: Evaluate which sustainable development goal each country should choose and why
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the distribution of tropical storm, a look into how they form, where they form and the conditions surrounding tropical storms
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Write a detailed description explaining where tropical storms form (3 marks)
Task 3: Complete description of formation of tropical storms
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "Study the map below which shows the path of a tropical storm. With the help of the map, describe the life cycle of a tropical storm. (4 marks)
Task 5: Plenary - Using the information on graph students must infer what tropical storms will be like in the future.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how the UK’s demand for energy has changed, why it has changed along with how the mix of energy the UK has used has changed. This lesson covers fracking, wind and nuclear energy as case studies for the impacts of energy exploitation.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Graph analysis: Describe how consumption in the UK has changed over time.
Task 3: Pie chart analysis: Energy mix of the UK through time.
Task 4: Compound line graph analysis: Energy mix of the UK through time.
Task 5: Colour code the positives and negatives of wind and nuclear power.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain why the UK’s energy mix will include both renewable and non-renewable sources in the future. (6 marks)"
Task 6: Plenary - What are some of the main uses for water in the UK?
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An introductory topic for KS3 geography this bundle is great for Year 7 in their first term at school. This gets students familiar with geographical concepts of fieldwork, data, human and physical geography. This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly conduct fieldwork investigation into the environment of their school to get them engaged in geography and explain why it is important along with data collection and presentation. Then students will investigate the location of the UK, this is done to provide a strong basis for all students regardless of primary school. This includes continents, countries, seas and the use of longitude and latitude. Students will then learn about the climate and weather of the UK, the case study of the River Severn along with its basic features of a river and the Holderness Coast along with headlands and bays and a quick introduction of geology. Then students will investigate human geography and its features of human settlements and scales along with identifying major UK cities and the density/sparseness. Finally students end on the case study of Leeds and its importance as a UK city.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Fieldwork
Lesson 2: Data and Fieldwork
Lesson 3: Climate of the UK
Lesson 4: Rivers of the UK
Lesson 5: Coasts of the UK
Lesson 6: Cities of the UK
Lesson 7: Importance of Leeds
Students will gain a variety of skills such as fieldwork, data collection and manipulation along with manipulation. Along with OS map reading and bar chart analysis
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Students will be able to describe the difference between Primary and Secondary data as well as give examples for each type. Then students will investigate Quantitative versus Qualitative data and what types of data these represent. Finally students will explain why it is important to display data in different methods, specifically bar chart. This lesson was created to be part of a two lesson plan, so the previous lesson will be included in the download to help with planing.
Starter: Knowledge Retention on previous learning
Task 1: Testing the difference between primary and secondary data
Task 2: Testing the difference between quantitative and qualitative
Task 3: Why do we choose to present data in a certain way?
Task 4: Main Task: Describe the quality of the environment at our school
Lesson contains two powerpoints and one worksheet.
For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 9 students as the lessons revolve around cold environments and are a great starting point for students who want to study GCSE geography as many themes are similar to the cold environments topic at GCSE and provides great foundational knowledge. Students firstly start identifying the difference between the Arctic and Antarctic, then the features of their climates and the adaptation they cause in plants and animals that survive there. Finally students learn about the opportunities and challenges of living in these areas and link them to development.
Lesson 1: Arctic versus Antarctic
Lesson 2: Features of Cold Environments
Lesson 3: Plant and animal adaptation to cold environments
Lesson 4: Opportunities in Cold Environments
Lesson 5: Challenges in Cold Environments
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data collection and manipulation along with creation of graphs and reading OS maps.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets, knowledge organiser and learning journey.
A fully resourced and up to date lesson introducing students to intimacy and sexual relationships. This should form the basis of discussions about what intimacy is and how to prepare for intimacy in a relationship.
Task 1: Starter - Create class ground rules on SRE
Task 2: Students to discuss what intimacy is and what it means to them
Task 3: In pairs come up with 5 or more characteristics of a positive intimate relationship.
Task 4: What are the positives of having healthy intimacy, what are the negatives of intimacy.
Task 5: Main Task: Students must give advice to 4 different scenarios.
A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 1- Living in the Physical Environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 30 slides with full information and case studies for each topic.
Case studies include:
Ecosystems - UK Pond
Tropical Rainforest - Malaysia
Hot Desert - Thar Desert
Rivers - River Tees
Coasts - Holderness Coast
Tectonic Hazards - Christchurch vs Haiti
Weather Hazards - Typhoon Haiyan
UK Weather Hazards - Beast from the East
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An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about Weather Hazards and their formation along with effects.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe the distribution of the climate globally using the GAC. Then describe the location and formation of tropical storms along with their effects through the case study of Typhoon Haiyan. Next students will look at the weather of the UK and finally describe an extreme UK weather event. In the last few lessons students will look at our changing climate and how this occurs both naturally and also anthropogenically, they will identify the effects and how we can adapt and mitigate them.
Lesson 1: Global Atmospheric Circulation Model (GAC)
Lesson 2: Tropical Storms
Lesson 3: Future of Tropical Storms
Lesson 4: Effects and Responses to Typhoon Haiyan
Lesson 5: UK Weather Hazards
Lesson 6: Beast from the East
Lesson 7: Climate Change: Natural Causes
Lesson 8: Climate Change: Human Causes
Lesson 9: Climate Change: Effects
Lesson 10: Mitigating Climate Change
Lesson 11: Adapting to Climate Change
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on body image and body dysmorphia, an introduction into what body image is, what social media can do.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge recap on what students previously learnt about hygiene.
Task 2: Create a spider diagram about what is body image using prompts on the board.
Task 3: Using example of filters, students have to identify what has changed and why that person may have changed it.
Task 4: What can be done to promote body positivity?
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to reduce inequality.
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Students will recap on what human geography is and its features along with investigating what a human settlement is and what scales they come in. Then students will investigate where certain cities in the UK are located. Students will be introduced to the terms dense and sparse and asked to identify areas in the UK that are densely and sparsely populated. Finally students will be introduced to key aspects of human geography such as social, economic and environmental and then asked to identify those features on images of the Leeds city.
Starter: Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe what is human geography and its features.
Task 2: What is a settlement and put the settlements in order of scale.
Task 3: Fill in the cities of the UK on a blank map using an atlas
Task 4: Describe the density and distribution of each football match, then areas in the UK.
Task 5: Main Task:Identify social, economic and environmental human impacts in each image.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on Typhoon Haiyan, the location, case study, primary and secondary effects along with planning, preparation and monitoring.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Students to accurately describe the path of the typhoon.
Task 3: Read through the information sheet and add the effects and responses on their sheet.
Task 4: Main Task - Exam question practice, "Using an example, describe the primary and secondary effects of a tropical storm. (6 marks)
Task 5: Exam Question Practice - "Using an example, describe the short-term responses to a tropical storm (4 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - Explain why planning and preparation is the best option for reducing the effects of tropical storms.
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Students will be able to use key terms such as dense, sparse and distribution then describe the distribution and density for different countries in Africa. Students will then be given key terms with population such as birth rate, death rate, life expectancy and infant mortality rate. Then students will be introduced to population pyramids and asked to compare the three different areas of Africa that have these population pyramids. Finally using factors used in HDI students will compare which is the best country to live in Africa according to statistics and why.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the density and distribution of populations of a football match, then the countries in Africa
Task 2: Join the key word with the definition.
Task 3: Explain the population pyramid for the continent of Africa, then describe the population pyramids between Uganda, Botswana and Tunisia.
Task 4: Using the profile of Africa you have built up over the lesson, describe which of the three countries in Africa would be the best place to live currently and why.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Students will be able to explain what colonisation is, where in Africa was colonised and by which country/ empire. Students will then learn about the scramble for Africa post slave trade and the reasons for the scramble. Students will then identify the social, economic and environmental. issues that colonisation caused for Africa. Then students will evaluate which is the worst effect and why. Finally they will create a newspaper article about the effects of colonisation on Africa.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the countries that were colonised and by which country/ empire.
Task 2: Identify the social, economic and environmental. issues that colonisation
Task 3: Evaluate which of the effects of colonisation was the worst and why.
Task 4: Create a newspaper article explaining what colonisation is, why it happened and its effects on the African people.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Students will be able asked to recap the layers of the Earth and their characteristics, then students will recap plate tectonic and locate the African plate, this will then quickly cover the 3 types of plate boundaries of constructive, destructive and conservative. Finally students will be asked to explain the formation of a rift valley and explain the two types of volcanoes that occur on these boundaries.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Recap on structure of the Earth and plate tectonics
Task 2: Recap on the three types of plate boundaries.
Task 3: Describe the location of the Great African Rift Valley.
Task 4: Main Task: Explain the formation of the East African Rift Valley and give one physical feature within.
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.