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 - 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.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the human environment - Challenges of Resource Management - Resource Management - Provision of energy in the UK
Students will learn about:
The opportunities and challenges faced by the UK in the supply of energy
Energy generation over time in the UK
Population growth in the UK
Energy demand in the UK
Fracking in the UK
Impacts of renewable energy
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 - Soft engineering
Students will learn about:
The benefits and challenges of soft engineering and how it can protect coastlines from the effects of erosion
Soft engineering
Dune regeneration
Beach replenishment
Dune fencing
Managed retreat
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 - Ecosystems - How does change affect ecosystems
Students will learn:
How changes to the ecosystem affect the other components within that ecosystem
WHat causes change in an ecosystem
Human and natural factors that affect ecosystems
Example of how changes can affect a food chain
Example of how the reintroduction of a species can affect a whole ecosystem
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 - Ecosystems - A small-scale ecosystem - Fresh Water Pond
Students will learn:
How the components of a small scale ecosystem in the UK interact.
What is an ecosystem
How ecosystems operate
Producers, consumers and decomposers
How ecosystems are linked
Food chain and food webs
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 - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate Change - Adapting to climate change
Students will learn:
How different groups of people from around the world are learning to adapt their behaviour to reduce the impact of climate change on their communities.
Define adaption to climate change
Local adaptation in the Sahel Africa
Local adaptations in the Maldives
Local adaptation in North India
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 - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Weather hazards - Global atmospheric circulation
Students will learn:
How global atmospheric circulation works.
Features of global atmospheric circulation
Structure of global atmospheric circulation
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geogrpahy 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 - Coastal Management at Lyme Regis
Students will learn about:
The case study of Lyme Regis in Dorset and the 4 phases of coastal defenses that have been added to provide a coastal management scheme.
Location of Lyme Regis
Physical and human geography at Lyme Regis
Coastal defenses at Lyme Regis
Why Lyme Regis needs coastal defenses
Impacts of coastal defenses at Lyme Regis
How successful has the management scheme been
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
These are two lesson suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for two single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - The challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate Change - Human causes of climate change
Students will learn:
About the Green House Effect and human causes of climate change and how fossil fuels , agriculture and deforestation all lead to increased global temperatures.
The green house effect
The enhanced green house effect
How human activity is contributing to climate change
The different type of human activities and how they contribute to climate change
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 - Ecosystems - All three lessons
Students will learn:
A small scale ecosystem
How does change affect ecosystems
Global biomes and ecosystems
These Lessons include:
Starters
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. These lessons are suitable for three 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
The Book
A Level Geography NEA fieldwork book. -Guide to A Level Geography NEA - Everything you need to know to get full marks - Suitable for all a level Geography specifications AQA, ORC & Edexcel
Over 10,000 word book.
Helps you get full marks in Geography NEA.
Step-by-step guide for each NEA section.
Provides templates, tools, and tips.
Includes practical examples and resources.
Focuses on clear data presentation and analysis.
Emphasizes academic integrity and proper referencing.
Encourages staying organized and motivated.
Suitable for students and teachers.
Clear instructions for achieving high grades.
Perfect for A-Level Geography students.
This guide is an invaluable tool for both students and teachers, offering the structure, resources, and encouragement needed to excel in the Geography NEA.
The Videos
These videos cover:
NEA Introduction and choosing your Geogrpahy NEA title
NEA Methodology and data capture
NEA Data presentation
NEA Data analysis
NEA Evaluation & Conclusion
It also includes
Detailed insights into the markeing scheme and how to score full marks
How to conduct a literature review and how to reference your sources
Key advances statistics and maths skills to analyse your data
* Spearmans rank
* Mann - Whitney U Test
* Chi Square test
* Box and Whisker plots
* Standard deviation
* Tips and tricks from A* students and teachers
This is an amazing resource to give to students so they can complete this project while maintaining the correct levels of teacher input.
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.9 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Military Action and Human Rights
Students will learn that military aid, including both direct and indirect military intervention, is frequently justifies in terms of human rights
Military Intervention
Military aid and human rights
Colombia case study
The war of terror
Torture and human rights
USA and Guantanamo Bay
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 3.1 Superpowers - Hard and Soft Power Making a difference
Students will learn about how geopolitical power can be asserted in both hard and soft powers
Hard & Soft powers
Power index
How effective is soft power
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 3.5 Superpowers - Global Networking
Students will learn about how global influence is contested in a number of different economic, environmental and political spheres
Tension over resources
Conflict over resources
Economic tension & interllectual property
Tension over territories
China and the South China Sea
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 3.10 Superpowers - Challenges for the future
Students will learn about how existing superpowers face an ongoing economic restructuring, which challenge their power
Economic Restucturing and deindustialisation
Debt problems and the financial crisis
Maintaining global military power
* Navel Power
* Nuclear Power
* AIr Power
* Intelligence services
* SPace exploration
Future uncertainties & Future superpower structures
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.4 Transnational compnsies TNC’s and Globalisation
Students will learn about the importance of TNC’s as players in globalisation
Transnational Companies & Corporate Colonialism
TNC’s and global production
Global brands & Businesses
Globalisation and glocalisation
This lesson contains
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.7 Globalisation - Global Interconnections
Students will learn that economic migration is increasing as the worls becomes more interconnected - as well as considering the consequences of that migration
Global urban centers
Hyper-urbanisation New Delhi case study
Social Challenges caused by rapid urban growth
Environmental challenges caused by rapid urban growth
International migration
Elite Migration London case study
Low Wage Migration United Arab Emirates case study
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.5 “Switched on” and “Switched off” World
Students will learn about how globalisation affects some countries, places and organisations more than others
Two speed world
Degrees of globalisation
How degrees of globalisation vary
Measuring globalisation
* KOF Index
* A T Kearney Index
Zambia Case study
Tanzania Case study
This lesson contains
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 5.2 Regenerating Places - Understanding you place.
Students will learn about how economies can be classified in different ways and how economic activity, social factors and quality of life vary.
Understanding Economic Change
Clarke Fisher Model
* Primary Industry
* Secondary Industry
* Tertiary Industry
* Quanternary Industry
Employment, incomes and inequality
Socio-economic inequalities
Variations in life expectancy
Occupation and life expectancy
Income and health
variation in educational achievement
THe lesson contain:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
