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Hello, I'm Natasha and I provide high-quality geography resources for KS3 and KS4.
https://linktr.ee/planetgeography
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Climate of the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to define weather and precipitation along with identifying the climate of the UK. Students will then read through what creates weather and complete challenge tasks for each.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Describe the climate of the UK using the term “Temperate”
Task 3: Using the worksheet, students will read through how each factor affects the weather and then complete challenge tasks.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe the weather conditions of the UK.
Task 5: Plenary: What are some of the ways climate change will affect the UK.
Lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
Climate Change: Human Causes - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the human causes of climate change. An introduction to the human-enhanced greenhouse effect, and how the greenhouse gases humans contribute increase this factor unnaturally. Breaks the GHG content into how the world produces emissions.
Task 1: Starter - Five Quick Questions - A quick recap on what students have previously learnt.
Task 2: Students to identify the graph they have previously seen but identify the “hockey-stick” curve.
Task 3: Students glue the sheet in their books and explain the greenhouse effect in 20 words. then look at the two global heat maps and identify countries that are most at risk of rising temperatures.
Task 4: Describe how two human activities can contribute to climate change (4 marks).
Task 5: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Evaluate the extent to which human factors are responsible for climate change. With reference to a named example, evaluate the extent to which you agree with this statement.
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Task 6: Evaluate the extent to which human factors are responsible for climate change.
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UK Weather Hazards - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
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?
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Taiga Forest Threats - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
In this lesson students will be able to state 4 or more threats to the taiga forest and explain why they are occurring. Then they will understand the social, economical and environmental factors that are involved in deforestation. The final task will be a form of formative assessment where students will bring all their knowledge to complete this.
Task 1: Starter: True or False
Task 2: Identification of different causes of deforestation
Task 3: Advantages and disadvantages of deforestation in the taiga
Task 4: Main Task- “Describe the characteristics of Russia and assess the threat to Russian biomes” (9 marks)
Task 5: Plenary: Tweet about it
How Conflict Affects Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will explain how conflict affects the different human, environment and physical geography of an area. Starter activity to recap on previous learning then discussion on how these affect geography.
Resources attached to this but also on last slide of powerpoint
Lesson 2 in a series of lessons regarding conflicts and its implications on the physical and human world
How Physical Geography Effects Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how physical geography and its features can effect conflict. A recap on what physical geography is, features of physical geography that can affect conflict.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning with 5 questions.
Task 2: Define physical geography
Task 3: Read through the battle of hastings and identify how the physical geography of the area affected the battle.
Task 4: Match up the key terms and how they affect conflict
Task 5: Main Task- Using an Atlas students to look at global maps and topographical maps and decide which country would be easiest and hardest to invade and why.
Task 6: Plenary - What are some of the ways countries avoid being invaded.
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Development in Afghanistan - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the location of Afghanistan, outline how conflict can affect development of a country and will finally explain in a mini essay how geography in the Middle East and conflict is linked.
Task 1: Starter- Recall Activity
Task 2: Define key words
Task 3: Locate Afghanistan
Task 4: Describe bar graph of development of Afghanistan
Task 5: Explain how geography in the Middle East and conflict are linked
Expectations in Relationships - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on expectations in relationships. Students will be able to define what expectations are, identify situations where people may have expectations of them and how to discuss expectations.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge recall about what are some of the verbal ways people can ask for consent.
Task 2: Define what expectations are
Task 3: Students to label things that they want from a relationship with someone.
Task 4: Main Task - Students to identify if the ten scenarios are a negative or positive in the relationships.
Task 5: Plenary - Discussion on how to reaffirm expectations in relationships.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Events That Led to WW1 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on events that led to world war 1, an introduction into what events caused WW1, how various events contributed to the war and how they impacted each country in the war.
Task 1: Starter - Investigate what causes and consequences mean to students
Task 2: Using the research sheet students must fill in the sheet as the lesson continues
Task 3: Students to evaluate which they think was the most significant contributing factor that started the first world war and why?
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Causes of WW1 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
In this lessons students will learn how to create a good argument then identify the causes of WW1. Then students will discuss all sides of the story then come to a valid conclusion with evidence and explain how they have reached that conclusion
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
In today’s lesson students will identify sources to investigate what happened to Franz Ferdinand, then explain the consequences of the assassination.
Propaganda in WW1 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will learn about primary sources and how they were created during the first world war.
Map Skills Revision - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
The first PowerPoint in a series to help students to recap their knowledge of OS maps and other Cartographic skills. The first few slides recap the importance of using maps and some historical knowledge on why we use OS maps.
This lesson contains:
Task 1: Students are asked in groups to match up a key map term along with a definition and example of the feature.
Recap on compass directions
Task 2: Stick the compass direction on the sheet and then differentiated further task to encourage looking into orientation.
Four figure grid reference recap
Task 3: Find harry potter characters on the sheet and write the grid coordinates for them.
Plenary: Confidence check on how students are feeling about the coordinates.
Hygiene and Keeping Clean - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on hygiene during puberty and how to stay clean, students will learn the importance of hygiene and what routines they should keep in order to stay hygienic.
Task 1: Starter - Create a definition of what hygiene is and examples of hygiene.
Task 2: To label on an image areas that could end up unhygienic if not looked after.
Task 3: Put hygiene options in order of importance to keep hygienic and clean
Task 4: Main Task - Complete their own hygiene plan to ensure that students know what routines they need to do to stay hygienic
Task 5: Plenary - Quiz about how to stay clean and tidy.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Cartography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what cartography is, how maps are created, what features are needed in maps and why they are important.
Task 1: Starter - Identify the human or physical features
Task 2: Students to mind map what maps are and how many maps they can think of
Task 3: Students look through the different types of map about Cramond Island and what they think is the positives and negatives of each.
Task 4: Students identify different types of maps and explain what it is used for.
Task 5: Main Task - Students to answer 7 questions about which map is the best and why
Task 6: Plenary - Sleeping gophers game related to different types of maps.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Effects of Climate Change in the Maldives - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to locate the Maldives and evaluate the impacts of climate change in the Maldives, then evaluate if they are adapting well enough to climate change. Then students will complete a secondary assessment about the past 5 lessons they have learnt about.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Describe the location of the Maldives
Task 3: Read through the impacts of climate change in the Maldives and evaluate which is the most significant.
Task 4: Then evaluate which is the best strategy to combat climate change.
Task 5: Main Task: Secondary Assessment - Evaluate the impacts of climate change globally (9 marks)
Task 6: Plenary: How can the school can reduce its contribution to climate change.
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
GCSE Geography Key Processes & Case Studies - Paper 1 (AQA)
A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 1- Living in the Physical Environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 34 slides with all the key physical processes broken down into 5 easy steps along with examples of what good and bad answers look like. In the final half of the PowerPoint we cover case studies that students will need when completing paper 1.
Key Physical Processes include:
Rivers
-Waterfalls & Gorges
Meanders & Oxbow Lakes
Levee formation
Coasts
Rotational Cliff Slumping
Headlands and Bays
Formation of a Sea Stack
Wave-cut Platforms
Spits & Bars
Weather Hazards
-Formation of a Hurricane
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
Bundle
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.
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?
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
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?
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **