These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - River landscapes - Water Cycle & Drainage Basin
Students will learn:
How the water cycle / hydrological cycle moves water through our environments and the key term of the drainage basin
Hydrological cycle
Key Terms in the hydrological cycle
Drainage basin
Key terms in the drainage basin
Field sketch skills
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Double Lesson -Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - river Landscapes - River Soft & Hard Engineering
Students will learn:
About the costs and benefits of managing river flooding using both soft and hard engineering.
River management
Soft engineering on rivers
Floodplain Zoning, Wetland storage areas, Tree planting
Hard engineering on rivers
Dams, Channel straighting, Embankments and flood relief channels
Flood warnings and preparations
Exam style question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. These twp lessons are suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Improving Rio de Janeiro’s Environment
Students will learn about:
how Rio De Janeiro is responding to it’s environmental challenges
Environmental Challenges in Rio
Air pollution in Rio
Water pollution in Rio
Waste pollution in Rio
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Introduction to Rio de Janeiro
Students will learn about:
Where Rio De Janeiro is located, its primary land uses and why is to growing so rapidly
Introduction to Rio De Janeiro
Location of Rio De Janeiro on a map
Flipped learning. City zones and migration
Exam question and scaffolding
AFL of previous lessons
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
This Contour lines lesson has been downloaded over 960 times
It lessons allows students to experiance building their own “potato” mountain with contour lines.
Contour lines, Height and Relief - map skills lesson - This map skills lesson is about contour lines, spot heights and colour layering and how these show relief on a map
This map skills lesson enables students to work out the height and gradient of slopes by using contour lines as well as how to use colour layering and spot heights. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World -Megacities
Students will learn about:
The location and rate of growth of mega cities
Megacities
Distribution of megacities
Urbanisation
Push and pull factors
Natural increase
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Characteristics of a Rainforest
Students will learn:
About the physical characteristics of Tropical Rainforests
Introduction to tropical rainforests
Where are tropical rainforest found
Climate of the tropical Rainforest
The characteristics of a tropical rainforest
The climate graph of the tropical rainforest
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Deforestation in the Amazon
Students will learn:
About the reasons for deforestation in the Amazon
Deforestation in the Amazon
Threats to the Amazon Rainforest
The scale of deforestation
Common causes of deforestation
Deforestation in the Amazon
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
KS3 Geography Lesson - Africa - Human and Physical Geography. This lesson is designed to help teach students all 54 countries of Africa as well as all the major physical feature of Africa.
Students are able to use an atlas to label all 54 African countries as well as all the major physical features of the continent onto the worksheets provided with the lessons.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Engaging game
Progress checker
Printable resource
In addition to the lesson you will need an atlas.
This lesson is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 is suitable for a two lessons each 50 mins - 1 hour lesson.
This map symbol lesson has been downloaded over 920 times
Measuring distance on a map and scale lesson - This map skills lesson is about how students can work out distances on a map by estimating, a ruler or string. It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map skills lesson about measuring distance with activities for the students to practice their new skills. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
AQA GCSE Geography Lesson - Challenges in the human environment - The challenges of Resource Management - Resource Management - The Global Distribution of Resources
Students will learn about:
The global uneven distribution of Food, water and energy
Global distribution of food
Global distribution of water
Global distribution of energy
Food security
Water security
Energy security
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Fair trade
Students will learn about:
How fair trade can reduce the development gap
What is fair trade
Fair trade of coffee
Advantages of Fair trade
Disadvantages of Fair trade
Exam style question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Debt relief and Microfinance
Students will learn about:
How debt relief and microfinance loans can help reduce the development gap
How have poor countries built up debt
Debt Relief
Examples of debt relief and how this aids development
What is mircofinance
Examples of how microfinance can aid development
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment - Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Causes of Uneven Development
Students will learn about:
The physical, economic and historical causes of uneven development
Physical causes of uneven development
Economic causes of uneven development
Historical causes of uneven development
Non treatable diseases
Landlocked countries
Conflict
Colonialism
Raw material prices
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment - Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Measuring Development
Students will learn about:
How to measure development using a range of development indicators using “top Trump” style cards.
A range of development indicators
Gross National Income
Birth rate
Death rate
Life expectancy
Human development index
Happiness index
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Managing Coasts - Managed retreat
Students will learn about:
How managed retreat can protect coastline from the effects of erosion and other physical processes.
Managed retreat
Case study - Medmerry near Chichester, West Sussex
Coastal Monitoring and adaptation
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
Key Stage 3 Lesson - United Kingdom - Human and Physical Geography.
This lesson is designed to help teach students the key human and physical features in the United Kingdom onto the worksheets provided with the lessons.
The students will learn:
The largest ten cities in the UK
Key Motorways, ports and airports
Highlands and lowlands
Longest three rivers
Seas and Oceans
This lesson is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 is suitable for a two lessons each 50 mins - 1 hour lesson.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Progress checker
Printable resource
In addition to the lesson you will need an atlas.
This map skills lesson is about compass directions and 4 figure grid references. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes an adapted game of Tic Tac Toe incorporating 4 figure grid references.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
This map skills lesson is about scale and distance including estimating, ruler and string. This lesson is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and you may wish to do this over either 1 or 2 lessons for younger students or those that learn at a slower pace.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Printable resource
worksheet
This map skills lesson is about map symbols. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes some creative writing where students substitute words for map symbols. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
It contains:
Three Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Printable material
Engaging game activity
Printable resource