Lesson following the AQA A GCSE OXFORD TEXTBOOK.
What is an ecosystem?
Lesson looking at defining an ecosystem, abiotic and biotic features, producers, consumers and decomposes, nutrient cycle, food webs and food chains, examples of UK ecosystems, pond ecosystem.
Exam question worksheet for pupils.
Lesson used with a mixed ability Year 7 Class.
Starter: Sequence the formation of a sea stack.
Main: How is material transported - Salutation, Traction, Suspension, Solution - pupils to draw diagrams into books and explain how the material is being moved.
Longshore Drift - explain process, drawn into book.
Plenary: What would happen if longshore drift continued? - linked to depositional features.
Summary what has been learnt in today's lesson in 20 words.
A display created using images of £2 coins and 50p asking pupils to think about what History do they have in their pocket.
Images of:
Battle of Britain
Battle of Hastings
Great Fire of London
Magna Carta
WW1
Suffragette movement
Gunpowder Plot
Victoria Cross
NHS
London Underground
I got the images printed on colour and laminated and cut around them to display them.
PowerPoint Slides to look at the difference between weather and climate - plenary activity of statements that relate to either weather and climate.
Card sort activity to support different aspects of the weather and how we measure it - great to use if you don't have the equipment in school to demonstrate with.
Used with a mixed ability Year 7 class.
Very visual resources, fully animated.
New resource for the new AQA A Geography Specification for Teaching in September 2016.
First lesson looking at What are Natural Hazards?
Definition
Types of natural hazards
Factors that increase hazard risk
Practise exam style question
Geographical skills - drawing pie charts/divided bar graph and describing pattern on a map.
Also included are key words that will be used in the Tectonic Hazard topic.
Following the AQA A Specification for cliff collapse at Christchurch Bay.
The lesson examines the causes and the effects of cliff collapse.
Includes a sketch map of the coastline and exam style question.
Lesson used with Year 9 looking at flooding events in Pakistan in 2010.
Starting with a 5Ws of an image of flooding
Locating Pakistan and writing a description of location
Causes of flooding
Video clip to show impacts
Impacts of flooding -categorise statements into social, economic and environmental impacts
Immediate aftermath of the flooding again with a video clip.
Plenary - Is Pakistan a risky place?
Also include a document that I used with my lower end.
Information Sheets for the case studies used in Geography AQA A Specification Topic Living World.
Amazon Rainforest
Atlantic Rainforest
Epping Forest
Hot Desert MEDC - Australian Outback
Hot Desert LEDC - Sahara Desert
Also past 8 mark exam questions from 2011-2015
18 questions to be displayed around the classroom - not the typical "geography questions", examples: Which is the only city to be located in two continents? Which county in the UK has two coasts? Which country has the most volcanoes? Which country has the highest life expectancy? How many Great Lakes are there in the North America?
My intention is to have the pages printed back to back on A4 (obviously only get pages 2-37 printed not the first page), on card and in colour and the page folded therefore the question is on the top and you open it to reveal the answer (I am going to use velcro dots also).
10 “Geog your memory” worksheets with answers for Paper 1 AQA A Geography.
Topics included: natural hazards, tectonic hazards, weather hazards, climate change, ecosystems, tropical rainforests, hot deserts, river landscapes, coastal landscapes
I set these for homework and then using the answers pupils mark their work the following lessons.
Definition grids of key terms used within each topic of the new GCSE course. I will be using as a starter activity to recap previous learning, or within revision lessons to ensure pupils know what key terms mean. They can either be printed or shown using a projector/smart board. Answers are included in the notes section of the Powerpoint.
There are definition grids for paper 1 and paper 2 topics including: tectonic hazards, weather hazards, climate change, ecosystems, tropical rainforests, hot deserts, river landscapes, coastal landscapes, the urban world, urban change in the UK, sustainable urban development, the development gap, a newly emerging economy, the changing UK economy, resource management and energy management.
This resource can be easily adapted if you study a different optional topic.
Each PowerPoint slide contains 5 Geography general knowledge questions. The first 9 slides focus on Britain and the next 4 are worldwide Geography. Answers are included. I usually have this slide on the board when I am going around checking homework to try and increase pupils general Geography knowledge who will answer the questions in the back of their books I will then go over the answers and pupils are scored out of 5.
Blank templates of each are included.
Revision booklet for pupils to complete independently on the topic of Hot Environments from Paper 1 Section B using their exercise books/ textbooks. (Page numbers relate to blue Oxford University Press Textbook). Case study included is Thar Desert.
Thought Quilt covers the topics of tropical rainforest and hot deserts – answers are included.
Revision booklet for pupils to complete independently on the topic of Weather Hazards from Paper 1 using their exercise books/ textbooks.
The case studies included are: Typhoon Haiyan and the Somerset Levels
PowerPoint and resources to be used when teaching AQA A Coastal Habitats using Studland Bay as a case study.
Looking at the the ecosystem, issues, solutions and conflict.
NEW: Overview of the topic to be used as a revision aid.
Interative Geography Classroom Display
19 questions in total and answers.
Example Questions Include:
Name a country that ends in the letter T
Name a four letter country that is NOT in Asia
Name a EUROPEAN country that contains a double letter
Name a US STATE that contains just four letters
Name a country that ends with an R
Word document should be printed back to back. “Flip pages on the short edge” option
I printed mine on card not paper
I used velcro dots (from amazon) to secure the answers.
Questions black font, blue border, answers on the inside, black font, green border.