A scaffolded revision worksheet to consolidate students knowledge and understanding of urbanisation trends and megacities. Designed to be used with the AQA 8035 GCSE Geography course.
Three board games (made on publisher) for Paper 2 of the 8035 GCSE Geog. Sepcification.
One board game for Section A (Urban Issues and Challenges), one board game for Section B (Changing Economic World) and one board game for Section C (Challenge of Resource Management, with a focus on water).
The board games include some questions focused around named examples and case studies, however these can be very easily adapted in publisher by just changing the names to those relevant to your school/department
Case studies and examples included:
Board Game 1:
Bristol as a UK city
Rio de Janeiro as a city in an NEE
Board Game 2:
India as a country in an NEE
Tourism in India
Board Game 3:
South to North Transfer Scheme in China for large scale water
Ice Stupas in Ladakh for sustainable water supplies
A worksheet on weather, which includes:
Task 1 - students read the different elements of weather and match them to the correct definition.
Task 2 - students have to identify the type of weather shown in the photographs.
Task 3 - students read some examples of weather and categorise them to show if they have a positive or negative impact on people.
Task 4 - students read a short paragraph explaining the impacts of high temperatures and highlight the connectives and weather elements in two different colours.
Task 5 - students write their own PEEL paragraph to explain how heavy snow can impact people.
A two page handout, which can be printed double sided, for parents of Year 11 or Year 10 students outlining:
structure of GCSE Geography (AQA) course
dates of final exams
resources and revision guides that can provide support
space for entering students mock grades
space for entering targets for students
The handout comes as a powerpoint document so therefore can be edited.
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 1 – Living with the Physical Environment – Natural Hazards
This x10 slide powerpoint provides a simple lesson covering what a natural hazard is, categorising the different types of hazard and exploring how urbanisation, development and climate change can affect hazard risk. It also contains a skills based activity which requires students to make a graph showing the fatalities of three natural hazards. It is matched to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification and does not require any other resources.
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 2 – Changing Economic World
This x13 slide powerpoint provides a useful summary of the content on the case study for Section B of Paper 2. It is matched to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification.
If this powerpoint is printed as a 2 slide handout, each powerpoint slide can be cut out and forms a very handy one-sided summary flashcard for students to use. These can then be treasury tagged together to form a set of flashcards to revise from.
Included:
• Case study of a LIC/NEE - India
• Tourism - India
A fully resourced lesson exploring the environmental challenges in Bristol, focusing on dereliction, brownfield sites, urban sprawl and waste.
It includes pre-made worksheets and challenge tasks which requires the Oxford University Press textbook for ‘GCSE Geography AQA’.
A worksheet that focuses on why the banana trade is unfair. The first part of the worksheet focuses on comprehension questions and the second part is completely skills based, for example calculating how much a supplier chain worker earns as part of the banana trade.
A worksheet aimed at KS3 but could be used at KS4 on the main development indicators. First activity involves adding the correct name of the indicator to the correct definition and the second activity requries them to decide if they increase or decrease as a country develops.
A standalone worksheet which could be used with KS3 or KS4.
The first part involves students reading descriptions of the different causes of the development gap and then adding the correct name of the cause to each one.
The second task involves students categorising them into physical, economic or historical.
The third task requires students to analyse two maps and then identify which possible cause of the development gap they show. The first is structured with gap fills and sentence starters and the second is slightly more open.
There is a challenge task at the end to promote deeper level thinking.
Perfect for a lesson, revision or homework.
A standalone worksheet that could be used as part of a lesson on strategies to reduce the development gap.
It includes x3 tasks:
Task 1 - match each strategy with the correct meaning/description
Task 2 - explain how one strategy reduce the development gap. A model example is given to help.
Task 3 - x4 weakness/challenges are described and students have to suggest which strategy to reduce the development gap it would link to.
A lesson on the causes and impacts of the Hurricane Irma (2017) with a focus on the impacts on Antigua and Barbuda.
It explores the causes of Hurricane Irma, with the aid of a short video and gives students a written activity based on explaining this.
The second part of the lesson focuses on some of the impacts - with an activity on categorising the impacts into social / economic / environmental and then an extended written piece using a PEEL structure to explain the impacts. The extended written task also includes a model example before students are expected to complete their own independent explanation.
Designed to last 1 hour.
A lesson which covers the importance of resources for economic and social well being as part of the AQA 8035 Geography course.
Lesson features:
Starter questions
A range of explanation slides
A range of short knowledge focused tasks
Opportunity for exam practice at the end
Lesson is designed for 55-65 minute lessons.
Lesson will require students to have access to the GCSE Geography AQA Student Book (GCSE Geography AQA 2016) Paperback – 28 April 2016
by Simon Ross (Author), Nick Rowles (Author)
A worksheet designed to be used with the GCSE Geography AQA Student Book (GCSE Geography AQA 2016) Paperback – 28 April 2016.
Perfect to consolidate key knowledge quickly using the textbook pages on Rio’s environmental challenges. Worksheet also includes an optional challenge column to stretch the most able.