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Fragile Extreme Environments
A lesson designed for KS3 Geography. This is lesson 5 from a unit titled Extreme Environments.
This lesson will allow students to answer the following key questions:
• Why are extreme environments fragile?
Hot Arid Regions
A lesson designed for KS3 Geography. This is lesson 3 from a unit titled Extreme Environments.
This lesson will allow students to answer the following key questions:
• What are the characteristics of hot arid regions?
• How is global warming impacting hot arid regions?
Polar Regions
A lesson designed for KS3 Geography. This is lesson 2 from a unit titled Extreme Environments.
This lesson will allow students to answer the following key questions:
What are the characteristics of Polar regions?
How is global warming impacting polar regions?
Animal and Plant Adaptation
A lesson designed for KS3 Geography. This is lesson 4 from a unit titled Extreme Environments.
This lesson will allow students to answer the following key questions:
• How do plants and animals adapt to survive in Hot Arid regions?
Sustainable Management of Extreme Environments
A lesson designed for KS3 Geography. This is lesson 8 from a unit titled Extreme Environments.
This lesson will allow students to answer the following key questions:
• What are the sustainable management strategies to protect extreme environments?
• How effective are they?
People and Extreme Environments
A lesson designed for KS3 Geography. This is lesson 6 from a unit titled Extreme Environments.
This lesson will allow students to answer the following key questions:
Who lives in extreme environments?
How are their cultures different?
Threats to Extreme Environments
A lesson designed for KS3 Geography. This is lesson 7 from a unit titled Extreme Environments.
This lesson will allow students to answer the following key questions:
• What threatens extreme environments?
• To what extent can climate change be managed to reduce the threat on extreme environments?
Coastal Zone Revision (AQA A)
This is a revision lesson that was created for my year 11's based on the AQA A spec. It focuses on the following: Weathering, Beach formation, Cliff collapse, London and the Thames Estuary, Spits and Bars, Essex Marshes, Wave cut platforms, Coastal defences and Waves.
Changing Urban Environments Revision (AQA A)
This is a revision lesson that was created for my year 11's based on the AQA A spec. It focuses on the following: Brownfield and Greenfield Sites, Squatter settlements and improvements, City Challenge, Urban Growth, Causes and effects of air and water pollution, Multicultural communities, CBD decline and improvements and Urban land uses.
Water on the Land Revision (AQA A)
This is a revision lesson that was created for my year 11's based on the AQA A spec. It focuses on the following: Characteristics, Erosion/transportation and deposition, Floodplains, Responses to flooding, Landforms, River valley, Flood hydrograph and Management strategies.
Depression
This lesson looks at what a depression is and how they occur, in addition to the different types of weather that are associated with it.
What is Climate Change
A lesson to introduce students to a unit on Climate Change. Gets students to show their understanding of the greenhouse effect and the enhanced greenhouse effect. Students then look at the existence of climate change.
Hot Desert Characteristics
This lesson is based around the new AQA GCSE specification. This is a lesson in the unit titled Living World. The main aim of this lesson is to cover the following element of the specification:
- The physical characteristics of a hot desert.
- The interdependence of climate, water, soils, plants, animals and people.
- How plants and animals adapt to the physical conditions.
- Issues related to biodiversity
NOTE - When it refers to page numbers please refer to the information provided.
The Great Barrier Reef
This is a lesson that explores the Great Barrier Reef, it aims to explore why the reef is considered one of the natural wonders of the world. In addition to this it explores the causes of the problems currently faced by the coral reef system.
Adapting to Climate Change
This lesson aims to get students to think about how we can adapt to climate change. It looks at the following adaptations; Changes in agricultural systems, managing water supply, Reducing risk from rising sea levels and changing housing design.
AQA Geography GCSE Key terms
Attached is a poster for every key term identified in the new AQA GCSE Geography specification.
Asia's Importance
This lesson is the second in a sequence of lessons for the topic Asia. This lesson aims to get students to think about the following:
What is the global importance of Asia
What is a megacity
Then for a megacity of their choice students conduct research:
The wealth and life expectancy
The problems created
Advantages of the city
Interesting facts
If students struggle to find information I direct them to Internet Geography’s Mumbai pages
Deforestation
This lesson is based around the new AQA GCSE specification. This is a lesson in the unit titled Living World. The main aim of this lesson is to cover the following element of the specification:
- Changing rates of deforestation.
- Causes of deforestation – subsistence and commercial farming, logging, road building, mineral extraction, energy development, settlement, population growth
- Impacts of deforestation – economic development, soil erosion, contribution to climate change.
Credit to broadworks on slide 8 and 9.