This is a 33 mark end of unit assessment on the topic of ‘The Challenge of Natural Hazards’. There are questions on Climate Change, UK Extreme Weather, Tropical Storms and Tectonic Hazards. The Paper 1 GCSE exam, ‘Living with the Physical Environment’ will test this topic in 33 marks, hence the length of the test. I have also written a detailed mark scheme using a similar format to AQA, so this can be used in departments or with students to grade and analyse the assessments.

This is a revision lesson I’ve created to revise the 3 topics: The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Living World and Physical Landscapes of the UK. It is tailored towards the sub-topics that we have selected as a school, which are ‘Tropical Rainforests’ and ‘Hot Deserts’ in the Living World topic and ‘Coasts’ and ‘Rivers’ in the Physical Landscapes of the UK topic. The lesson is designed to be delivered in 1 hour, with a starter which recaps a little from each topic, and then 3 packs of tasks which are split up on different tables. Students will have 15 minutes to complete the activities in each pack, before a plenary to discuss how prepared they are for their exam. The packs contain a range of tasks including exam questions, marking exam questions, card sorts with key words and exploring photographs they have been given. All of the resources are hidden slides in the powerpoint. Please note, this lesson follows the same format at the ‘GCSE AQA Paper 2 Revision: Human’ lesson. The tasks are different, but you may be interested in purchasing this lesson if you find ‘GCSE AQA Paper 1 Revision: Physical’ works well.

A lesson that uses a clip from a BBC news report about World Population Growth to explain how and when we reached 8 billion and how this is predicted to change in the future. Students will complete a line graph, read information together, label countries onto a map and answer questions based on the reading. This lesson was designed for a year 7 group, however it could easily be used with year 8 or year 9 depending on when population is taught in the key stage 3 curriculum. I have differentiated the powerpoint for a lower ability year 7 group with SEN students and have also made a copy of the reading that is dyslexia friendly.

Lesson 6 for KS3 unit of work on food. Students will learn the concept of ‘food miles’ through a video, discussion and a play your cards right activity. They will then use this knowledge, along with information from a differentiated handout (according to reading level) to create a booklet on food miles. This can take 1-2 lessons and can be set as a homework to complete if not completed in class.

This lesson is currently used towards the end of year 7, but would be equally useful for any KS3 group, or as an introduction at GCSE. Pupils will be asked at the start of the lesson to justify whether or not they think that India is developed. During the lesson, a card sort will help pupils to create a map showing the development of different regions of India. At the end of the lesson, pupils are asked to look back at their answer to the question of how developed India is and see explain whether or not they’ve changed their mind. There is a second bellwork included in the powerpoint incase you don’t get through it all in one lesson. This lesson follows the same format as my, ‘How Developed is China?’ lesson

A lesson designed to be used with year 8, although I have used the resources with sixth form before to help them understand economic development with a detailed case study! The lesson focuses on the city of Shenzhen in China and looks at rapid population and economic growth. Pupils will create a storyboard to show why the city has grown so rapidly. There is also a video interview with a farmer to show his perceptions of how the city has developed.

A faced paced containing tasks to complete on tables. All resources included. Tasks will help pupils revise tectonics, climate change, extreme weather in the UK and tropical storms. Please check out my other revision lessons and leave feedback if you like the lesson!

For AQA GCSE Geography Grades 9-1 Economic Features of the UK. Discussing effects of HS2, toll roads and other infrastructural changes. Group discussion and note taking sheet. All resources included

Lessons 4&5 for KS3 unit of work on food. The first lesson introduces famine Horn of Africa and uses maps to describe the location of the region. There is a group activity to create flow charts which help pupils extend their ideas. Pupils will then complete a comprehension activity based on an extract from a BBC article about the famine. In the second lesson, a powerpoint accompanies the assessment which asks pupils to choose the best solution to the problem of famine in the Horn of Africa from 3 options. This has been assessed using a ‘milestones’ grid which our school uses, however this can be easily adapted to KS3 levels or equivalent. The assessment is available in 3 different versions, which are differentiated according to ability.

Lesson in the Resource Management Scheme of Work. Pupils will define the term ‘energy security’ and complete a venn diagram from a card sort, assessing the sustainability of various sources of energy. They will then look at how the UK’s energy mix links to energy security.

A lesson focussing on techniques for revision. Examples used are from the topics of: Resource Management, Rivers, Coasts and Tropical Storm Hazards, . I have written it for the AQA 9-1 GCSE, however I would assume that most, if not all of the ideas are on most specs. The lesson looks at memorising key words, mnemonics, use of pictures to jog memory, ways to summarise and revise processes, practice questions and mind mapping. Slightly more than a lesson’s worth, but you can select what activites your students require. Please note that there is some overlap betweent this lesson and the ‘Revision Technique: GCSE Rivers’ lesson.

A revision lesson that has a starter and a plenary based on urban challenges. The main activity is to complete an A3 revision sheet on the 2 case studies for this topic and to show how ideas from each section work together. I’ve also included a complete version of each revision sheet for the case studies that we taught in our school, which were Lagos and Manchester, however the lesson is fully usable if these aren’t your case studies. Please check out my other revision lessons and leave feedback if you like the lesson!

A revision lesson that includes a variety of different activities to help pupils revise different aspects of the ‘Changing Economic World’ unit for AQA GCSE Geography. The tasks include developing a pre-created mind map to help pupils make links between ideas and to define key words, a gaps fill, developing an answer to a 9 mark question, based on an example answer, a quiz quiz trade activity, a quiz and a silent debate. The idea of the quiz, quiz, trade is to improve students short term memory skills and to help them remember key facts. The silent debate draws together different concepts discussed during the topic and helps pupils to start to engage in critical debate based on evidence. All resources are on the powerpoint, aside from the quiz, quiz, trade, which is a separate word document. Please check out my other revision lessons and leave feedback if you like the lesson!

Pupils will work through a range of activities to help them to recap landscapes of the UK- Rivers and Coasts. They will need to match up landforms with pictures, locate these on a map and use this information to explain how each feature is formed. There is also a question to help them practice 6 figure grid references. All resources needed are in the powerpoint, including a map of the Dorset coastline to print and laminate to help students complete their worksheets. Please check out my other revision lessons and leave feedback if you like the lesson!

Lesson aiming to help students learn the importance of physical geography of the local area (Yorkshire). Students will build an overlay map of hills, rivers and settlements and use this to think critically about the interactions between the land and the human environment.

This is the third lesson in the coronavirus series. This lesson looks at 4 risk factors for the disease and explores the reasons behind these risk factors (Ethnicity, Poverty, Health and Age). Students will then look at maps to show the distribution of these risk factors across the country and make predictions as to where they think the death toll will be highest. They will then compare their predictions to a death map created by the ONS and comment on which of the risk factors provided the most/least accurate prediction. There is a key stage 3 version of this lesson which uses slightly easier terminology, but there isn’t a large difference in these lessons.

I’ve planned a revision timetable for year 11 which includes the topics we teach at GCSE (AQA Geography) broken down into manageable chunks. Each week, students have topics to revise, suggested ways to revise and an exam question to do the following lesson. There are 2 options for the exam question, 1 without annotations and another that has the questions annotated and scaffolded to help. There is also a detailed mark scheme, including example answers for the longer questions. Questions range from 1 mark to 9+3 SPaG. I’ll be adding more of these as I plan them so that our entire course is covered. Hopefully this will be easy to edit if you use different case studies, or sub-topics. This is a sample set which includes questions on: -small scale ecosystem you have studied -post industrial economy -UK North/South divide

Flash cards about TNCs, Hazards, Migration and other global issues. Made for Edexcel AS Unit 1