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 - 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 - Aid and Intermediate Technology
Students will learn about:
How investment, Industrial development and tourism can reduced the development gap.
Which strategies can reduce the development gap
How different forms of aid can aid development and reduce the development gap
How industrial development can help reduce the development gap.
How tourism can help reduce the development gap
How intermediate / appropriate technology can aid development
How NGO’s can aid development through providing goats to families
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 - Wealth and Health
Students will learn about:
How uneven development leads to inequalities of Wealth and health between rich and poor countries.
What is the imbalance between rich and poor
How does uneven development lead to differences in wealth between countries
Differences in health between countries
Case study - Malaria
Independent learning through Gap Minder’s Dollar Street.
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 - Migration
Students will learn about:
How uneven development leads to international migration
What are the different types of migration
Push and pull factors
Immigrant
Emigrant
Economic Migrant
Refugee
Internally displaced
Migration from Syria and Poland
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 - Investment and Tourism
Students will learn about:
How tourism can help reduce the development gap
How tourism aids development
How eco tourism aid development
How tourism promotes the economy and employment
How industrial development aids development
How tourism can aid infrastructure
How tourism can aid the quality of life
The impact of tourism on the environment
Exam 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 - 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 - Demographic Transition Model
Students will learn about:
How levels of development can be linked to levels of development through the demographic transition model.
What is the Demographic Transition Model
How to link the demographic transition model to development
The five stages of the Demographic transition model
Exam 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 - Changing Population Pyramids & Population Structure
Students will learn about:
How population structures and contrasting countries are changing
Understanding Population pyramids
How development can be observed through population pyramids
How to compare population pyramids
Exam questions
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 - Our Unequal World
Students will learn about:
The global variations in economic development and quality of life
What is development
How to measure development
What is Gross domestic income
What is the Human development index
How to measure quality of life
A range of maps and data representing global development
Brandt line
Topological Map
Choropleth Map
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
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.
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.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson Bundle - Living with the physical environment - River Landscapes - All Fourteen lessons
Students will learn:
UK relief and landscape
Water cycle / Hydrological cycle
Long profile of a river
Weathering
River erosion and transportation
V shaped valley
Waterfall and gorges
Meanders and Oxbow lakes
Levess and estuaries
Hydrological Graph
What causes a river to flood
Soft engineering
Hard engineering
River Tees case study (workbook)
Banbury Case study
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 fifteen 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Physical Landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - All lessons
Students will learn:
Wave types and their characteristics
Coastal erosion
Coastal weathering and Mass movement
Coastal erosional landforms - Headlands and bays
Coastal transportation & Long Shore Drift
Coastal deposition spits, bars and tombolo
Coastal landforms at Swanage (Case Study)
Managing coasts - Hard engineering
Managing coasts - Soft engineering
Manging coasts = Managed retreat
Managing Coasts - Lyme Regis (Case Study)
Starters
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for all eight 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson = Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Erosion Landforms Headlands and bays
Students will learn about:
The characteristics and formation of coastal landforms - Headland, Bays,cliffs and wave cut platform
How headland and bays are formed
How headlands are eroded
Exam 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 - 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 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 - 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 - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Managing coasts - Hard Engineering
Students will learn about:
How hard engineering coastal defenses can protect coastlines from the effect of erosion
Hard engineering
Groynes
Sea walls
Rock wall
Gabions
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 Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Landforms at Swanage
Students will learn about:
Formation of sand dunes
Physical and human landforms at Swanage
Exam questions
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 -Coastal deposition, spits and tombolo
Students will learn about:
The charactoristics and formation of coastal deposistion landforms such as Spits and tombolo.
Coastal deposition
Traction
Solution
Saltation
Suspension
Formation of a spit, bar and tombolo
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.