Students will be able to describe the land and sea routes that migrants take to get into Europe using geographical terms. They will be able to describe the location of Calais and the issues that boat crossings cause including migrant deaths and the dangers of crossing with identification of graphs. Finally students will condense the text of a news article about the migrant crisis and identify the stakeholders points of view. Students will be asked to demonstrate their learning by creating a profile for each of the stakeholder groups. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning. Task 1: Describe the routes that migrants take to get into Europe Task 2: Using the bar graph describe the dangers of boats crossing into Europe. Task 3: Condense the newspaper article about the dangers of migrant crossings. Task 4: Main Task: Create a stakeholder profile about each of the stakeholders and why they might feel that way. Task 5: Plenary: Using the red and green planner sheets students are to show true or false answers. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the upper course. Students will learn about the erosional features such as interlocking spurs, waterfalls and gorges. Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt in the previous lesson. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson. Task 2: Field sketch and describe the appearance of interlocking spurs. Task 3: Watch a video about how waterfalls form and then turn into a gorge. Task 4: Students to draw and label how a waterfall is formed. Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Describe how a feature found in the upper course of a river is formed (4).” High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words. Task 5: Plenary - Using only 20 words, try to summarise how gorges form from waterfalls. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on an what Transnational corporations (TNC’s) are and why they have chosen Nigeria to develop in. Students will be able to explain the positives and negatives of Nigeria and then answer the question on if TNCs are a positive force in Nigeria. Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how ox-bow lakes are formed Task 2: Outline the positives and negatives of TNCs on the worksheet. Task 3: Geography Skills: Describe the distribution of oil fields in Nigeria (3 marks) Task 4: Students to watch a video explaining the positives and negatives of Shell in Nigeria. Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “To what extent are TNCs a positive force for the host country?" (6 marks) High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words. Task 5: Plenary - Revision on exam question about ox-bow lakes. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will identify the location of Brazil globally, continentally and the physical features of Brazil such as the Andes, Atacama desert and the Amazon. Students will then create a climate graph to show the temperature of Brazil and the climate. Finally, they will identify why Brazil is an important country internationally. Task 1: Located and describe Brazil Task 2: Using the worksheet students will draw on where the physical features of South America and Brazil are. Task 3: Climate graph of Brazil (Amazon Rainforest) Task 4: Main Task: Describe the location of Brazil and explain Rio de Janeiro’s importance. Task 5: Plenary: Class question- why do people what to move to Rio? Lesson 1 out of 8

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to measure development, introduction to economic and human development and what the HDI is. Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning Task 2: Define development then write the definition on their worksheet Task 3: Read through the different measures of development and students to pick one, and justify why they have. Then pass the sheet to the next student and they debate the point. Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- students to define what development is, outline which development indicator they have chosen and why, the state other measures of development and which is the best one to use. Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to help countries develop equally. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what climate change mitigation is, the positives and negatives of using fossil fuels. Then mitigation is broken into four sections: Reduction of GHG, artificially alter global temperatures, GHG capture and storage and finally international agreements. Task 1: Starter - 3 exam questions OR describe the impact of each picture, then if it is a social, or economic impact. Task 2: Students to come up with a definition of mitigation then copy out the real definition. Task 3: Overview of the formation of coal, oil and gas. Then students identify the advantages and disadvantages of using fossil fuels. Task 4: Using the PowerPoint attached (can be printed for a handout) students fill in each type of renewable energy on their sheets. Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- Complete two exam questions “Describe how GHG emissions from energy production could be reduced?" “explain how alternative energy production and planting trees may help to reduce the rate of climate change” **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will be able to define what a glacial and interglacial period is along with the conditions of each. They will also interpret graphs to show the glacial/interglacial cycle on Earth and describe the extent of ice during the last Ice Age. Students will then investigate the causes of the Ice Age and how humans survived the conditions. Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics Task 2: Students describe the Earth’s climate over the past 450,000 years by interpreting a graph. Task 3: Using the map of Earth students are to describe the extent of ice during the Ice Age. Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe the last Ice Age and its effects on Earth, using success criteria. Task 5: Plenary: Why is our planet not able to enter an Ice Age currently? Would we adapt now to an Ice Age? How would we adapt? The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the global atmospheric model, its components and its function along with pressure belts and surface winds and how the Coriolis force affects trade winds and westerlies. Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning Task 2: Definition of global atmospheric circulation Task 3: Complete two exam questions about pressure belts and conditions. Task 4: Complete GAC sheet. Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain how the global atmospheric system affects the weather and climate at the equator” (4 marks) Task 6: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to help countries develop equally. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the weather of the UK, with background on ocean currents, distance from the equator, altitude and prevailing winds. This will help students to understand the many reasons we have a temperate climate in the UK. Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning Task 2: Students to watch a video on why the UK climate varies, and divide the UK into four sections, describing the summer and winter of each section. Task 3: Explain why convectional rainfall is common in the southeast of England during the summer (4 marks) Task 4: Read through the sheet and justify which weather condition the UK faces is most impactful and why. Task 5: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Which extreme weather condition impacts the UK most significantly. Justify your opinion.” (6 marks) Task 6: Plenary - How can the UK prepare for extreme weather conditions? **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Introductory lesson into Russia, students will be able to locate Russia along with its physical and human features. This is lesson 1 in a series of 8 lessons.

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to identify height on a map, why we need to know height on a map and what it can be represented as. Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning from previous lessons Task 2: Students on worksheets to join up the high lines to show the height of the land. Task 3: Then they are to colour in each height to show the height of the land. Task 4: Main Task - Explain why contour lines are important. Task 5: Plenary **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to use a compass, why we use compass directions and then how to apply compass directions to find places. This lesson also comes with an assessment at the end to test student’s knowledge of previous skills lessons. Task 1: Starter -Recap the previous lessons and answer questions about them. Task 2: Identity which students know the four-point compass directions and then the eight-point compass to stretch students. Task 3: Discussion on why we use north orientated maps instead of other orientations. Task 4: Complete a worksheet using compass directions and identifying what characters they end up at. Task 5: Main Task - Secondary Assessment- using an atlas to answer all the questions on the worksheet, this puts all the skills students have previously acquired and puts them to use identifying places in an atlas. Task 6: Plenary **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to increase water supplies through; dams/ reservoirs, desalination plants and diverting supplies. The South-North Transfer Scheme in China an example of a large scale water transfer scheme to show how its development has both advantages and disadvantages. Then the lesson focuses on moving towards a sustainable future with water conservation, groundwater management, recycling, ‘grey’ water an example of a local scheme in an LIC or NEE to increase sustainable supplies of water. The case study for this is WaterAid in Mali. Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning Task 2: Class discussion on how to increase water supplies. Task 3: Class to watch two videos about the South- North Water Transfer Scheme in China Task 4: Class Discussion on how to create a sustainable supply. Task 5: Watch the clip from water aid and identify three things WaterAid does in Mali to support people. Task 6: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the sustainability of the Water Aid Project in Mali. (6 marks)" Task 7: Plenary - Time to revise. In line with the AQA exam board **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will be able to describe what coastlines are, where they are located and a specific focus on the Holderness Coast. This lesson will cover features such as geology and features such as headland and bays. Finally this lesson will work on improving students OS map reading skills. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Recap on what the coast is along with the closest coast to us. Task 2: Describe the location of the Holderness Coast Task 3: Describe the type of rock found on the Holderness coast and what features these create. Task 4: Main Task: Using an OS map, complete the sheet on OS map skills Task 5: Plenary: Home Learning on A3 research project. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe what the European Union is, when it formed and its purpose. INtroduction to the concepts of Freedom of Movement and Single Market. They will also be able to explain why it formed and its main countries that made up the EU. Starter: Knowledge retention from previous learning Task 1: Assessment for learning - Students to write down everything they know about the EU. Task 2: Explain the history of the EU and its formation through time. Task 3: Difference between the EU and Europe (geography misconception) Task 4: Main Task: Create a newspaper article for Newsround about what the EU is and what it does. Task 5: Plenary: Fill in the spider diagram from the start of the lesson with new learning about the EU. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe where tropical rainforests are located globally using lines of latitude and other descriptors of location that students have learned. Then students will describe the location of the Amazon Rainforest in South America using the same skills as before. Next students will investigate why rainforests are in that area and how convectional rainfall occurs. After that students will learn about the layers of the rainforest and then describe what they have learnt about the Amazon Rainforest in their books. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe where tropical rainforests are located globally Task 2: Describe where the Amazon Rainforest is located in South America Task 3: Create a comic about how convectional rainfall creates rainforests Task 4: Match the layers of the rainforest to its description. Task 5: Main Task: Describe your learning about tropical rainforests and their characteristics. Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to locate Africa using the previous lessons learning and the map on screen, then students will investigate the misconceptions that they may hold about Africa. Next students learn what relief is and describe the areas of relief in Africa and then the river and climate of Africa, then the culture and religion of people in Africa. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the location of Africa Task 2: Describe the relief of areas in Africa using compass directions Task 3: Explain the rivers in Africa and their direction of flow. Task 4: Explain the vegetation zones in Africa Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will firstly start with knowledge retention to recap on what they have previously learnt. Then they will answer 3 questions on their whiteboards about climate, biomes and permafrost to establish a baseline of knowledge. Then they will describe the location of cold environments globally and begin to investigate the polar and tundra environments. Then students will describe the climate of Canada using a climate graph and potentially create their own. Finally they will compare the climate graphs of Canada and Antarctic and explore the similarities and differences of each place. Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Recap on key geographical terms Task 3: Describe distribution of cold environments Task 4: Creating climate graph Task 5: Compare and contrast arctic and antarctic climate graphs. This download contains an up to date powerpoint and worksheet.