A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on how the economic development of Nigeria has led to environmental problems. Students will be able to explain how the environmental problems affect both the natural and human environments and then outline the Bodo Oil Spill case study.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Describe how a Levee is formed
Task 2: Indicate which of the environmental problems affect the natural vs human environment.
Task 3: Watch the video on the Bodo Oil Spill.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “The impacts of economic development have been only positive in Nigeria”.Do you agree with this statement?Justify your opinion (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 - Revise for Levee Read, Write, Wipe as starter for next lesson.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on educational inequality, an introduction into what educational inequality is, the difference between state and public school and how this affects the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Define educational inequality then writing the definition on their worksheet
Task 3: Read through the different facts and graphs about educational inequalities and students have to describe the difference between the north and south
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- students to define what educational inequality is, outline how it changes depending on where they live using facts and figures. Then to give examples of how the government reduce education inequality through the UK.
Task 5: Plenary - Explain why the life expectancy of poor people are lower than their rich peers.
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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”
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the effects of human-caused climate change and how they impact different areas on the planet. Students will look at food production, migration, holidays and other factors that will be affected by climate change.
Task 1: Starter - 5 Quick Questions- students to recap on previously learnt information.
Task 2: Students to identify the data on the bar and pie chart and identify the amount of greenhouses gases in total emissions and which gas traps the most heat.
Task 3: Students are given an information sheet with the impacts of climate change on the UK and Bangladesh. They are then to sort the impacts into social, economic or environmental impacts.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Compare and contrast the possible impacts of climate change on a poorer part of the world with those on a richer part of the world” (6 marks)
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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.
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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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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the future of tropical storms and what could potentially happen to people living in these areas. Contains lots of graph analysis for students.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: On white boards students to make notes on the video about tropical storms
Task 3: Read through the information on the sheet and analyse the graphs about the future of tropical storms.
Task 4: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Suggest how the distributiion of tropical storms could change in the future if the trend in temperature change continues” (4 marks)
Task 5: Plenary - True or false about formation of tropical storms
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the recruitment processes used in WW1, an introduction propaganda, Lord Kitchener, conscription and the Order of the White Feather.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge recall on previous lesson about propaganda
Task 2: Whilst watching the BBC video students must answer 4 questions about Lord Kitchener’s tactics.
Task 3: Main Task - Students have three options to investigate the oral testimonies of those who experienced the recruitment process first hand. Must answer questions of varying difficulty.
Task 4: Plenary Which tactic was the most significant tactic used in recruitment and why?
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Students will be able to define the enhanced greenhouse effect, then identify the effects of climate change in the UK, rank which is the most impactful and justify why. Then students will evaluate is the government is doing enough to help tackle climate change.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Identify the effects of climate change on the UK.
Task 3: Rank the effects of climate change on the UK from most significant to least significant.
Task 4: Read through the statements on the worksheet and evaluate if the UK government is doing enough.
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of climate change on the UK
Task 5: Plenary: What are the challenges with responding to climate change as a low-income country?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the continents and countries of the world, an introduction to scale, at both local, national and global.
Task 1: Starter - Recap the last few lessons and information they have learnt.
Task 2: Students to identify which pictures are bigger and smaller depending on the scale.
Task 3: Students to watch a video about the scale and then answer questions about the video and scale.
Task 4: Main Task - Finish the sentences in books about what the scale is used for in books and how you would use scale.
Task 5: Plenary 3,2,1
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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
In this lesson students will identify what a natural hazard is, types of natural hazards and how hazards and their risks change depending on several factors.
Task 1: Identify natural hazards based on pictures
Task 2: Write down the different types of natural hazards
Task 3: Complete structure of the Earth sheet.
Task 4: Exam style 4 mark question
Task 5: Plenary: GCSE pod
Lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet.
In this lesson, students will investigate the beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s life by looking through her family tree, starting at the first royal in the House Windsor King George V. After this students will see how her family dealt with the challenges of WW1 &2 along with abdication. Finally, students will investigate her early life and her contributions to WW2.
Task 1: Starter: Knowledge Dump - Write down everything you know about Queen Elizabeth II.
Task 2: Match up the key terms to their definitions
Task 3: Create the House of Windsor family tree
Task 4: How would Edward VIII feel about abdication?
Task 5: Watch the YouTube clip about Elizabeth’s first radio broadcast and explain why this was significant
Task 6: Re-complete to knowledge dump from the start but with a green pen and show what you have learnt.
Task 7: Plenary: 3,2,1 - Give me 3 things you learnt today 2 things that interested you, and 1 thing you want to know more about.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what puberty is. This covers the changes in brain, body and emotions, and what students should expect and how to manage it.
Task 1: Starter - On white boards students are to come up with what they think puberty is and any misconceptions that they have.
Task 2: On your print out of a human body, label the changes that the male body will go through.
Task 3: On your print out of a human body, label the changes that the female body will go through
Task 4: What advice about puberty would you give to your peers to help them.
Task 5: Plenary - If any students have any questions they can write it on a post it note and give it to the class teacher.
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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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These home learning/ homework sheets are a good way to test students knowledge and comprehension of the “changing economic world” topic. Each sheet provides upwards of 7 research questions, with two AQA specified exam questions to ensure that students are applying their knowledge correctly. It is recommended giving 1-2 weeks for students to complete the sheet (depending on student ability)
This home learning sheet is specifically designed for the Changing Economic World lessons that are also on Planet Geography, so if you want some engaging and challenging lessons, head over to the lessons and get them too!!
This is the ultimate classroom-themed bunting bundle.
These 9 different themes are perfect to liven up any classroom, with themes ranging from pastel pencils, continents, florals and much more!
This bunting will allow you to personalise your classroom, and say whatever you want on them. The digital download allows you to print off your own bunting at home or at work and hang it up on the same day.
The font used is Fink Heavy, which is clear, readable and easy to see from a distance.
This is a digital download, no physical product will be sent to you! No refund policy due to the nature of a digital download.
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography “The Changing Economic World”. This topic will briefly cover where is Nigeria, why is it important, both nationally and globally. Then students will investigate the benefits and drawbacks of TNCs in Nigeria (specifically Shell) then the types of aid Nigeria receives. Students will identify if this aid is beneficial or what problems may arise with aid. Finally students will explore the impacts of economic development on the environment of Nigeria, with a specific look at the Bodo Oil Spill and its effects on the local people.
Lesson 1: Importance of Nigeria
Lesson 2: TNCs in Nigeria (Shell)
Lesson 3: International Aid in Nigeria
Lesson 4: Environmental Impacts of Economic Development in Nigeria.
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
BONUS- Will include homework research sheets that will span over the four lessons (one sheet every two lessons )
An introductory topic for KS3 Year 7 about the human features of Europe including the countries in Europe, the European Union, along with its positives and negatives, Brexit and migration and migrant crisis in Europe.
This bundle contains 5 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately identify where Europe is, along with several counties and seas contained within it. Then students will be taught what the EU is, when it formed and the positives and negatives of the Eu along with why the UK chose to leave. Finally students will learn the different types of migration and explaining the migrant crisis currently happening in Europe.
Lesson 1: Location of Europe
Lesson 2: Introduction to the EU
Lesson 3: Positives and Negatives of the EU
Lesson 4: Migration in Europe
Lesson 5: The Migrant Crisis in Europe
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation, map skills, and climate graph interpretation.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 9 in their second term back at school, and is designed to flow with the “Physical Features of Africa Bundle”. This bundle allows students to investigate the human side of Africa with specific looks at countries as case studies with links to key geographical concepts such as development, population and slums.
This bundle contains 6 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly begin by identifying population densities and sparsities in different countries in Africa as well as introducing population pyramids to students to link to development. Then students will investigate the importance of Nigeria and why it is globally and nationally important. Next students will find out what development is, and why some countries are less developed than others, which will directly link to colonisation and the reason some countries struggle to develop. Then once students are clear with population and development the concept of slums is introduced and linked to favelas in Brazil and what issues these cause for the people and how to fix them
Lesson 1: The Population of Africa
Lesson 2: Nigeria and its Importance
Lesson 3: Development in Africa
Lesson 4: Colonisation of Africa
Lesson 5: Slums in Africa
Lesson 6: Solutions to Slums
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.