A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the human and physical causes of flood risk. Students will learn about how different features contribute to flooding events and evaluate if HICs or LICs are more significantly affected.
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: Which of the drainage basins are more likely to flood and why?
Task 3: Key Term Match Up
Task 4: Students to read through the different causes of flooding and put them into human or physical factors
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Explain why the town of Boscastle in Cornwall is likely to suffer from flooding (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 - Home Learning - Explain why the effects of flooding are worse in LICs.
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on what soft engineering along a river is, and the four management strategies involved. Students will then identify the cost and benefits of each strategy and then will evaluate which is the most effective and why.
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: A quick recap on what soft engineering strategies are and why they are used.
Task 3: Students to read through information and analyses what each strategy is and identify their costs and benefits.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "Use examples of two soft engineering river flood management strategies to show how it has a limited effect on the environment (6).” 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 - Fill your hard hat, describe and identify hard engineering strategies.
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on what hard engineering along a river is, and the four management strategies involved. Students will then identify the cost and benefits of each strategy and then will evaluate which is the most effective and why
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: A quick recap on what hard engineering strategies are and why they are used.
Task 3: Students to read through information and analyses what each strategy is and identify their costs and benefits.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "To what extent are hard engineering schemes sustainable (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 - Fill your hard hat, describe and identify hard engineering strategies.
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the lower course. Students will learn about depositional features such as levees, floodplains and estuaries.
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 a floodplain.
Task 3: Create labels on how levees form
Task 4: Students to draw and label how a meander forms.
Task 5: Describe how the tide causes an estuary to occur.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Describe how a features found in the lower 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 - Key Term Trade
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the middle course. Students will learn about the erosional features and depositional features such as meanders and oxbow lakes.
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 cross-section of a meander.
Task 3: Watch a video about how meanders turn into oxbow lakes
Task 4: Students to draw and label how a meander forms.
Task 5: Students to label the five steps to the formation of an oxbow lake
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Explain how an ox-bow lake could form on the river shown in Figure 1 (6).” 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 - Odd one Out
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the different types of erosion and transportation. Then students will link erosion, transportation, are deposition to velocity and particle size.
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: Watch the video and make notes on what transportation is.
Task 3: Using the key terms students sort the transportation descriptions to the key term.
Task 4: Students then label the key terms on a diagram to cement knowledge.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “How does velocity affect transportation and deposition (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 - Write down four pieces of knowledge they have gained today.
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on an introduction into Nigeria. Students will be able to describe the location of Nigeria, the importance of Nigeria, both globally and regionally along with explaining how the changing demographics have resulted in Nigeria developing into an NEE.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how ox-bow lakes are formed
Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe the location of Nigeria (4 marks)
Task 3: Watch the video on facts about Nigeria
Task 4: Students to describe the population structure of Nigeria using a population pyramid (4 marks)
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Nigeria is becoming a NEE”. To what extent do you agree? (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 - True or False about Nigeria
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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, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on how economic industry affects the environment. Use of Torr Quarry for the case study.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Using 5 steps, draw 5 diagrams that show the process of rotational cliff slumping.
Task 2: Geography Skills: Image inference “What evidence is there of environmental damage?”
Task 3: Watch the video on thepositives and negatives of quarrying in England.
Task 4: Geography Skills: Describing location - Describe the location of Torr Quarry.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “To what extent do you think that the quarry is being managed in an environmentally sustainable way? (6 marks)”
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for exam question on rotational cliff slumping.
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A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on two contrasting rural areas with population increase and decrease. This lesson covers South Cambridgeshire (population increase) and Outer Hebrides (population decrease)
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Read, Write, Mark, students have 4 minutes to recap learning on rotational cliff slumping. Then write down as much as they can remember, then mark accuracy.
Task 2: Geography Skills: Graph Analysis - Describe the type of graph, describe the change in urban population in the UK.
Task 3: Geography Skills: Describe location - Describe the location of the Outer Hebrides, then describe the location of South Cambridgeshire.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Contrast the economic challenges associated with rural areas of population growth and decline (6 marks)”
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for exam question on rotational cliff slumping.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on debt in developing countries, and introduction into what national and global debt is.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Define debt then writing the definition on their worksheet
Task 3: Read through the different facts about debt and students are to pick which they think is positive and negative
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- Evaluate the benefits of debt on developing countries
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on what projects that developing nations need to improve infrastructure.
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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 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 natural causes of climate change through Earth’s history.
Task 1: Starter - 5 Quick Questions- students to recap on previously learnt information.
Task 2: Students to write out how temperature has changed through time and make the link to CO2.
Task 3: Students to watch the video in PowerPoint and make notes on the worksheet about the 4 causes of natural climate change.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- Complete two exam questions “Using figure 3 which one of the following statements is true” “Give one nature cause of changes in global temperatures”
Task 5: Plenary - Which natural cause of climate change do you think is most impactful and why.
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Students will understand the location and distribution of Russia’s fuel resources, from this they should explain how Europe receives its energy from Russia. They will be able to investigate the advantages and disadvantages from getting fuel from Russia.
Task 1: Starter: Knowledge recall of previous lessons
Task 2: Key words match up
Task 3: Analyse the pie chart to gain information to complete task
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of the Chernobyl disaster (6 marks)
Task 5: Plenary- Pick 5 words from the lesson and write a question about them
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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?
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