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Cities of the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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.
Coasts of the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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.
Rivers of the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the journey of a river from source to mouth. This is an introduction to rivers and should be used at the start of Year 7 to consolidate any information they have about them and then teaching from this point. Students will learn to use terms such as highland, lowland, low,middle and upper course as well as river bank and river bed. Finally students will consolidate their knowledge to describe the location of River Severn’s location.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous lessons
Task 1: Recap on the different countries that make up the UK
Task 2: Describe the distribution of highland and lowlands in the UK
Task 3: Annotate the diagram of the river with key words
Task 4: Main Task: Describe the location of River Severn using the key terms learnt today.
Task 5: Plenary: Home Learning reminder along with SPAG cleanup.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Climate of the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe where the UK is located globally using a variety of descriptors such as; longitude and latitude, recapping of the continents and surrounding seas and oceans. Student should also be able to describe the countries that make up the UK, British Isles and GB. Finally students will learn the difference between weather and climate and then asked to describe the climate of the UK in Winter and Summer.
Starter: Knowledge Retention - Recapping on previous learning
Task 1: Describe the importance on why describing a place accurately is important.
Task 2: How to read longitude and latitude, then describe the UK’s longitude and latitude.
Task 3: Recap on the continents and oceans.
Task 4: What is the difference between weather and climate, and what is the UKs climate zone.
Task 5: Main Task: Describe the UK’s temperature in Summer and in Winter.
Task 6: Plenary: Home learning of an A3 poster of several physical features in the UK.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Data & Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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.
Introduction to Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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.
Fieldwork Skills for GCSE - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
In this lesson students will be introduced to what fieldwork skills are, how to do them and why we do them. This is to get them farmiliar with the types of sampling and data collection ahead of a fieldtrip and why they choose that.
In this lesson students cover:
Primary vs Secondary Data
Qualitative vs Quantative Data
Types of sampling: Cluster, Stratified, Systematic and Random, along with the benefits and drawbacks of each type of sampling.
Finally students cover why we do risk assessments and why it is important.
Students finish off with an exam question practice that will be completed in their booklets.
GCSE Geography Issue Evaluation 2023 Cayman Islands - Paper 3 (AQA) (Pre-Release)
This lesson is the introduction to the Paper 3 Pre-Release section for 2023. It introduces the first 3 pages of the booklet, discussing what tourism is, the benefits of tourism including job opportunities and the positive multiplier effect it creates.
Then an evaluation into which countries rely on tourism the most, along with a discussion on the compound line graph and how to read it, then the growth of cruise tourism in the Caribbean.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention - Answer questions students have previously learnt.
Task 2: Describe how tourism creates jobs and what knock on effects these have.
Task 3: Describe the trends that are present in the graph
Task 4: Which country receives the most tourism? Description and evaluation of a compound line graph.
Task 5: Describe the trends seen in the bar chart of number of cruise passengers.
Task 6: Evaluation of infographic on cruise ships in the Caribbean.
Task 7: Describe the location of the Cayman Island.
Final Task: What are the social, economic, and environmental effects of cruise tourism in the Caribbean.
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Resource Management - Water Supply, Insecurity, and Sustainability - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
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
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Resource Management - Global Distribution of Water - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on where water is distributed globally. This covers areas of deficit and surplus. In this lesson discusses the importance of water security on development, global water consumption and the human/ physical factors that affect water availability.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Quick quiz on why water is important.
Task 3: Describe the distribution of water globally (4 marks)
Task 4: Describe the change in water demand from 1900 to 2025 (3 marks)
Task 5: Watch the video and answer the questions about conflict and water security.
Task 6: Use the information below to complete the table on impacts of water insecurity.
Task 7: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain how both physical and human factors can influence the availability of water. (6 marks)” OR “Explain how human actions can contribute to water insecurity. (6 marks)”
Task 8: Plenary - What questions would you ask to find out more about how this building increases water supply/
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Resource Management - Water Management in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how water in the UK is managed. This includes areas of surplus and deficit along with the case study of Kielder Dam, Northumberland. This lesson also discusses the impacts of water pollution in the UK and ways that is it managed.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Key word match up for water deficit, water surplus, water stress.
Task 3: Three choropleth maps of the UK and students must suggest if there is a relationship between rainfall, population density and water stress.
Task 4: Describe the location of Kielder dam and the location of the water transfer scheme (4 marks)
Task 5: Colour code the positives and negatives of Kielder Dam.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the extent to which water transfer systems bring opportunities to local areas (6 marks)"
Task 6: Plenary - What questions would you ask to find out more about global water scarcity?
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Resource Management - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in Geography about Resource Management, with a specification on water.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe what resources are, why it is important to management them sustainability. First students start of with an overview of energy in the UK, then the provision of food in the UK along with how to reduce food miles and an introduction to agribusiness. Finally students will focus on the resource of water at the UK scale with Kielder Dam, in Northumberland as a water transfer scheme. Then focus on the larger scale of global distribution of water. With the focus on the south-north water transfer scheme in China. Then how to sustainability increase water supply with the Mali Water Aid case study.
Lesson 1:Introduction to Resource Management.
Lesson 2: Provision of Energy in the UK
Lesson 3: Provision of Food in the UK
Lesson 4: Reducing Food Miles and Agribusiness
Lesson 5: Water Management in the UK
Lesson 6: Global Distribution of Water
Lesson 7: Water supply, insecurity and sustainability.
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Resource Management - Provision of energy in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
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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Resource Management - Reducing Food Miles and Agribusiness - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what consumer demand is, strategies to reduce carbon footprint and the importance of agribusiness.
Task 1: Starter - Application of geographical skills, 3 exam style questions about previous learning.
Task 2: Definition of consumer demand
Task 3: Students are to complete a table of the positives and negatives of; seasonal produce, locally produced food and limit Uk food imports along with subsistance farming.
Task 4: Using your table, categorise the following into positives and negatives of the agribusiness process.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the extent to which agribusinesses are a beneficial change in food production” (6 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - What ways has the energy consumption in the UK changes?
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Resource Management - Provision of Food in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how the UK’s demand for food has changed through time and how food miles, organic food and seasonal food have changed in the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Three choropleth maps on food resources, recap of previous lesson and improve graph reading skills/ data analysis.
Task 2: Match up the key terms to their correct description.
Task 3: Describe how the demand for food in the UK has changed.
Task 4: Describe how importing food for Kenya has positives and negatives for the people of Kenya.
Task 5: Using an Atlas, map where the food comes from and how many miles, creating a flow line map.
Task 6: Exam Question: Using the table and your own knowledge, discuss the advantages of buying local food products (6 marks)
Task 7: Plenary - Which would be the best for UK carbon emissions?
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Introduction to Resource Management - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on an introduction to resource management, this lesson covers the significance of water, food and energy along with the economic and social well being that these resources provide. This lesson also covers the distribution of these resources.
Task 1: Starter - Answer questions from previous topics.
Task 2: Sort the resources into economic well-being and social well-being.
Task 3: Describe the distribution of resources globally.
Task 4: From slides 8-11 students have different maps to describe the resources being distributed and how they are linked.
Task 5: Exam Question: Using the map and your own understanding, suggest how inequalities in the consumption of resources influence well-being.
(3 marks) + Using the graph, suggest how the percentage of income spent on food may influence well-being.
(2 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - Which lack of resource will cause the most issues and why?
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The Challenge of Natural Hazards - (Full SOW) (KS4 - Key Stage 4)
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in GCSE geography about Natural, Tectonic and Weather Hazards around the world and the effects they have on both LICs and HICs. This bundle also covers the climate change topic as well.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Natural Hazards
Lesson 2: Structure of the Earth
Lesson 3: Plate Tectonics and Plate Boundaries
Lesson 4: Christchurch Earthquake
Lesson 5: Haiti Earthquake
Lesson 6: Tectonic Hazards Mitigation and Adaptation.
Lesson 7: Comparing the Christchurch and Haiti Earthquakes
Lesson 8: Global Atmospheric Circulation Model (GAC)
Lesson 9: Tropical Storms
Lesson 10: Future of Tropical Storms
Lesson 11: Effects and Responses to Typhoon Haiyan
Lesson 12: UK Weather Hazards
Lesson 13: Beast from the East
Lesson 14: Climate Change: Natural Causes
Lesson 15: Climate Change: Human Causes
Lesson 16: Climate Change: Effects
Lesson 17: Mitigating Climate Change
Lesson 18: Adapting to Climate Change
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe what natural hazards are, different types of natural hazards, and describe the structure of the earth. Then students will investigate the structure of the Earth along with learning about plate tectonic theory and continental drift, this will then be used to describe the plate boundaries along with their characteristics and physical features. Finally students will learn about the Christchurch 2011 (HIC) case study and the Haiti 2010 (LIC) as two areas of contrasting wealth along with the effects and long term/short term responses.
In weather hazards 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.
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Tectonic Hazards - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about Tectonic Hazards around the world and the effects they have on both LICs and HICs.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe what natural hazards are, different types of natural hazards, and describe the structure of the earth. Then students will investigate the structure of the Earth along with learning about plate tectonic theory and continental drift, this will then be used to describe the plate boundaries along with their characteristics and physical features. Finally students will learn about the Christchurch 2011 (HIC) case study and the Haiti 2010 (LIC) as two areas of contrasting wealth along with the effects and long term/short term responses.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Natural Hazards
Lesson 2: Structure of the Earth
Lesson 3: Plate Tectonics and Plate Boundaries
Lesson 4: Christchurch Earthquake
Lesson 5: Haiti Earthquake
Lesson 6: Tectonic Hazards Mitigation and Adaptation.
Lesson 7: Comparing Christchurch and Haiti Earthquakes
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Comparing the Christchurch and Haiti Earthquakes - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on comparing the 2010 Haiti earthquake with the 2011 New Zealand quake. This lesson is the last in the series and works really well with the others in the series. Students recap the effects and impacts of the quakes and then identify to what extent they agree with the statement “The effects of tectonic hazards are worse in LICs.”
This 9 mark question has high levels of scaffolding that allow students of all abilities to access to question and work through each section with sentence starters and key words on each.
Task 1: Starter: Recall on each type of graph and revision of coast topic.
Task 2: Recap quiz on plate tectonics to see how confident they are on the lessons.
Task 3: Identify the relevant differences in the quake between the two locations.
Task 4: The effects of tectonic hazards are worse in LICs. To what extent do you agree? (9 marks +3 Spag)
Task 6: Peer Feedback
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Tectonic Hazards Mitigation Adaption - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the reasons why people live in tectonically active regions, why the effects of natural hazards are greater in LICs than HICs and creating a scientific hypothesis to check the statements.
Task 1: Starter: Knowledge recall on previous topic (Coasts)
Task 2: Recap on what the effects on natural hazards are.
Task 3: Create a scientific hypothesis to investigate why the effects on natural hazards are greater in LICs than HICs
Task 4: Watch the news video about the way Naples monitors Vesuvius.
Task 5: Either prove or disprove the scientific hypothesis.
Task 6: Exam question: Describe and explain how planning for a tectonic hazard might help to reduce the effects of an earthquake or volcanic eruption in Naples
(6 marks)
Task 7: Peer Feedback
Task 8: Revision on geographical skills
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