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Human Features of South America - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Human Features of South America - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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An introductory topic for KS3 Year 8 about the human features of South America, specifically focusing on Brazil. This series of lessons will focus on the importance of Brazil, People in Brazil, Development, Inequalities, Drug Trafficking and Reducing Inequalities in Slums. This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced. Lesson 1: Importance of Brazil Lesson 2: Grid Referencing Brazil Lesson 3: People in Brazil Lesson 4: Development in Brazil Lesson 5: Inequality in Brazil Lesson 6: Drug Trade in South America Lesson 7: Fixing Inequality in Brazil Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation, graph reading, Choropleth map interpretation This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Physical Features of South America
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Physical Features of South America

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For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 8 in their first term back at school. This helps to get students familiar again with physical geographical concepts of rivers, coasts, climate. This bundle also contains a tutorial on GIS mapping for students to have a go mapping South America to see its physical features. This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets. Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly begin by using GIS to map the physical features of South America and identify its location globally as well as its individual countries. Then students will go through the climate of South America along with creating a climate graph and manipulating and using data. Next students will recap the water cycle, transportation and erosion to learn about meander and waterfall formation, specifically in the case study of the Amazon River. Finally students learn about how headlands, bays and sea stacks formation along the South American coastline. Lesson 1: Mapping South America using GIS Lesson 2: Climate of South America Lesson 3: Amazon Rainforest Characteristics Lesson 4: Deforestation in the Amazon Lesson 5: Water in the Amazon Lesson 6: The Amazon River Lesson 7: Coasts of Brazil Students will gain a variety of skills such as data collection and manipulation along with creation of graphs and reading OS maps. This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Resource Management - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
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Resource Management - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)

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An AQA specification topic for KS4 in Geography about Resource Management, with a specification on water. Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe what resources are, why it is important to management them sustainability. First students start of with an overview of energy in the UK, then the provision of food in the UK along with how to reduce food miles and an introduction to agribusiness. Finally students will focus on the resource of water at the UK scale with Kielder Dam, in Northumberland as a water transfer scheme. Then focus on the larger scale of global distribution of water. With the focus on the south-north water transfer scheme in China. Then how to sustainability increase water supply with the Mali Water Aid case study. Lesson 1:Introduction to Resource Management. Lesson 2: Provision of Energy in the UK Lesson 3: Provision of Food in the UK Lesson 4: Reducing Food Miles and Agribusiness Lesson 5: Water Management in the UK Lesson 6: Global Distribution of Water Lesson 7: Water supply, insecurity and sustainability. Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis. This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Tectonic Hazards - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
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Tectonic Hazards - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)

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An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about Tectonic Hazards around the world and the effects they have on both LICs and HICs. Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe what natural hazards are, different types of natural hazards, and describe the structure of the earth. Then students will investigate the structure of the Earth along with learning about plate tectonic theory and continental drift, this will then be used to describe the plate boundaries along with their characteristics and physical features. Finally students will learn about the Christchurch 2011 (HIC) case study and the Haiti 2010 (LIC) as two areas of contrasting wealth along with the effects and long term/short term responses. Lesson 1: Introduction to Natural Hazards Lesson 2: Structure of the Earth Lesson 3: Plate Tectonics and Plate Boundaries Lesson 4: Christchurch Earthquake Lesson 5: Haiti Earthquake Lesson 6: Tectonic Hazards Mitigation and Adaptation. Lesson 7: Comparing Christchurch and Haiti Earthquakes Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis. This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Features of the UK and Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Features of the UK and Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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An introductory topic for KS3 geography this bundle is great for Year 7 in their first term at school. This gets students familiar with geographical concepts of fieldwork, data, human and physical geography. This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets. Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly conduct fieldwork investigation into the environment of their school to get them engaged in geography and explain why it is important along with data collection and presentation. Then students will investigate the location of the UK, this is done to provide a strong basis for all students regardless of primary school. This includes continents, countries, seas and the use of longitude and latitude. Students will then learn about the climate and weather of the UK, the case study of the River Severn along with its basic features of a river and the Holderness Coast along with headlands and bays and a quick introduction of geology. Then students will investigate human geography and its features of human settlements and scales along with identifying major UK cities and the density/sparseness. Finally students end on the case study of Leeds and its importance as a UK city. Lesson 1: Introduction to Fieldwork Lesson 2: Data and Fieldwork Lesson 3: Climate of the UK Lesson 4: Rivers of the UK Lesson 5: Coasts of the UK Lesson 6: Cities of the UK Lesson 7: Importance of Leeds Students will gain a variety of skills such as fieldwork, data collection and manipulation along with manipulation. Along with OS map reading and bar chart analysis This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Physical Features of Africa - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Physical Features of Africa - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 9 in their first term back at school. This helps to get students familiar again with physical geographical concepts of rivers, coasts, climate, sand dunes and plate tectonics. This bundle also contains a tutorial on GIS mapping for students to have a go mapping Africa to see its physical features. This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets. Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly begin by using GIS to map the physical features of Africa and identify its location globally as well as its individual countries. Then students will go through the climate and misconceptions of Africa along with creating a climate graph and manipulating and using data. Next students will recap the water cycle, transportation and erosion to learn about Delta formation, specifically in the context of the Niger Delta. Then switching the plate tectonics students recap the theory and structure of the Earth before investigating shield and composite volcanoes as well as the African Rift Valley. Finally students learn about the formation of sand dunes and how they bring tourist opportunities as well as headlands, bays and spit formation along the African coastline. Lesson 1: Mapping Africa using GIS Lesson 2: Physical Features of Africa Lesson 3: The Climate of Africa Lesson 4: The Niger Delta Lesson 5: The East African Rift Valley Lesson 6: Sand Dunes at Sossusvlei Lesson 7: Coasts of Africa Students will gain a variety of skills such as data collection and manipulation along with creation of graphs and reading OS maps. This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Brazil - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
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Brazil - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)

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An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about Brazil and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced. Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately locate Brazil and its surrounding countries, the distribution of its population due to human and physical factors and how urbanisation has impacted Rio with favelas and squatter settlements. Finally, students will investigate the Amazon Rainforest Lesson 1: Location, Climate and Importance of Brazil Lesson 2: Inequalities in Brazil Lesson 3: Impacts of Urbanisation in Brazil Lesson 4: Life in a favela Lesson 5: Positives of urbanisation in Brazil Lesson 6: Importance of the Amazon Rainforest Lesson 7: Exploitation of the Amazon Rainforest Lesson 8: Protecting the Amazon Rainforest Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, creation of climate graphs and case study analysis. This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Changing Economic World - UK Case Study - (Full SOW) (KS4 - Key Stage 4)
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Changing Economic World - UK Case Study - (Full SOW) (KS4 - Key Stage 4)

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An introductory topic for KS4 geography about the changing economic world of the UK. This will include how employment structure has changed through time, how industry affects the environment along with changes to rural areas and transport infastructure. Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately outline how/ why the UK’s employment has changed. Investigate the change in rural areas due to population increase and decrease. How Heathrow’s expansion can be a benefit and a drawback along with the UK’s connections to countries in the wider world. Lesson 1: Changing Employment Structure in the UK Lesson 2: Impacts of Industry on the Physical Environment Lesson 3: Changing Rural Landscapes in the UK Lesson 4: North-South Divide in England Lesson 5: Changing UK Transport Infrastructure Lesson 6: Heathrow Expansion Lesson 7: UK’s Connection to the Wider World Lesson 8: The UK and the Wider World - EU and Commonwealth Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation and interpretation along with graph analysis. This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Inequalities - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
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Inequalities - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)

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An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about inequality and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced. Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately define inequality, global debt, positives and negatives of aid in developing countries and how to measure development. Finally students will focus on how the UK has inequalities in education, health and the North South divide. Lesson 1: Introduction to Inequality Lesson 2: Debt in Developing Countries Lesson 3: Aid Positives and Negatives Lesson 4: Measuring Development Lesson 5: Global Inequalities Lesson 6: Inequalities in the UK: North South Divide Lesson 7: Education Inequality Lesson 8: Health Inequalities in the UK Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis. This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Climate Change - (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
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Climate Change - (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)

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An introductory topic for KS3 geography about Earth’s past climate and today’s climate change and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets. Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately outline how the Earth’s climate has changed over time, and accurately define the enhanced greenhouse effect. Students will investigate the Ice Age and its effects on Homo-Sapiens and megafauna. Students will investigate why the UK has a temperate climate, how climate change affects the UK, and look globally at how areas with contrasting wealth (Bangladesh and Maldives) are affected by climate change and how they plan to mitigate/adapt to it. Lesson 1: Climate Change Lesson 2: Evidence of Climate Change Lesson 3: Animals of the Ice Age Lesson 4: Ice Age and the Effects on Earth Lesson 5: Climate of the UK Lesson 6: Climate Change Effect in the UK Lesson 7: Effects of Climate Change in Bangladesh Lesson 8: Effects of Climate Change in the Maldives Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation and interpretation along with map reading and climate graph reading. This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Conflict - (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
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Conflict - (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)

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An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about conflict and its features. This bundle contains 10 lessons that are fully resourced. Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately define conflict, its effects on people and the environment. How conflict has affected the Middle East along with countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and how Russia is involved in modern conflicts. Finally asking the questions of how do we affect conflict. Lesson 1: Introduction to Conflict Lesson 2: How Conflict Affects Geography Lesson 3: How Physical Geography Effects Conflict Lesson 4: Middle East’s Physical Geography Lesson 5: War in Iraq, Physical Geography Lesson 6: Development in Afghanistan Lesson 7: Russia and Conflict Lesson 8: Russia Ukraine Conflict 2022 Lesson 9: Salisbury Poisoning Lesson 10: How do we cause conflict? Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation, map skills, and climate graph interpretation. This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Introduction to Geography and Map Skills - (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
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Introduction to Geography and Map Skills - (KS3 - Key Stage 3)

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An introductory topic for KS3 in geography introducing students to geography, its different types, and map skills. This bundle contains 9 lessons that are fully resourced. Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to identify the continents, countries and oceans of Earth, discuss the different types of geography and begin to read and interpret graphs. Lesson 1 - Continents and Countries Lesson 2 - Continents and Oceans Lesson 3- Different Types of Geography Lesson 4 - Cartography Lesson 5- Reading Maps Lesson 6 - Compass Points Lesson 7- Scale on a Map Lesson 8 - Height on a Map Lesson 9 -Measuring Distance Students will gain a variety of skills such as map reading, interpreting data, and applying the information to maps. This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets
River Landscapes in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
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River Landscapes in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)

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An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about river landscapes in the UK. Covering aspects such as erosion, transportation, deposition and features formed from these Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe how and why a river changes from source to mouth, with references to features on each course along with the erosional, depositional and transportations reasons for each formation. Students will then identify what causes flooding to happen, identifying features of a hydrograph and what natural and human factors cause flooding. Finally students will look at a case study about how management strategies are used to minimise the effects of flooding. With a specific case study at a management strategy used. Lesson 1: Introduction to Rivers Lesson 2: Erosion, Transportation and Deposition Lesson 3: Upper Course River Features Lesson 4: Middle Course River Features Lesson 5: Lower Course River Features Lesson 6: Case Study of the River Aire Lesson 7: Factors that Affect Flood Risk Lesson 8: Understanding Hydrographs Lesson 9: Flooding- Hard Engineering Lesson 10: Flooding - Soft Engineering Lesson 11: York Flood Management scheme Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis. This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Russia - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
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Russia - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)

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An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about Russia and its features. This bundle contains 11 lessons that are fully resourced. Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately locate Russia and it’s surrounding countries, the distribution of its population due to human and physical factors and how plant and animal life has adapted to its climactic conditions. Along with a case study investigation into Chernobyl and how it affected Russia. Lesson 1: Where is Russia Lesson 2: Population Distribution in Russia Lesson 3: Biomes of Russia Lesson 4: Plants and Animals in Russia Lesson 5: Taiga Forest Threats Lesson 6: Chernobyl, What Happened? Lesson 7: Russia’s Importance in Europe Lesson 8: What is happening with the Russia Ukraine conflict 2022 Lesson 9: River Volga’s Waterfalls Lesson 10: River Volga’s Meanders Lesson 11: River Volga’s Levees Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, creation of climate graphs and case study analysis. This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Weather Hazards - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
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Weather Hazards - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)

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An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about Weather Hazards and their formation along with effects. Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe the distribution of the climate globally using the GAC. Then describe the location and formation of tropical storms along with their effects through the case study of Typhoon Haiyan. Next students will look at the weather of the UK and finally describe an extreme UK weather event. In the last few lessons students will look at our changing climate and how this occurs both naturally and also anthropogenically, they will identify the effects and how we can adapt and mitigate them. Lesson 1: Global Atmospheric Circulation Model (GAC) Lesson 2: Tropical Storms Lesson 3: Future of Tropical Storms Lesson 4: Effects and Responses to Typhoon Haiyan Lesson 5: UK Weather Hazards Lesson 6: Beast from the East Lesson 7: Climate Change: Natural Causes Lesson 8: Climate Change: Human Causes Lesson 9: Climate Change: Effects Lesson 10: Mitigating Climate Change Lesson 11: Adapting to Climate Change Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis. This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
The Challenge of Natural Hazards - (Full SOW) (KS4 - Key Stage 4)
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The Challenge of Natural Hazards - (Full SOW) (KS4 - Key Stage 4)

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An AQA specification topic for KS4 in GCSE geography about Natural, Tectonic and Weather Hazards around the world and the effects they have on both LICs and HICs. This bundle also covers the climate change topic as well. Lesson 1: Introduction to Natural Hazards Lesson 2: Structure of the Earth Lesson 3: Plate Tectonics and Plate Boundaries Lesson 4: Christchurch Earthquake Lesson 5: Haiti Earthquake Lesson 6: Tectonic Hazards Mitigation and Adaptation. Lesson 7: Comparing the Christchurch and Haiti Earthquakes Lesson 8: Global Atmospheric Circulation Model (GAC) Lesson 9: Tropical Storms Lesson 10: Future of Tropical Storms Lesson 11: Effects and Responses to Typhoon Haiyan Lesson 12: UK Weather Hazards Lesson 13: Beast from the East Lesson 14: Climate Change: Natural Causes Lesson 15: Climate Change: Human Causes Lesson 16: Climate Change: Effects Lesson 17: Mitigating Climate Change Lesson 18: Adapting to Climate Change Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe what natural hazards are, different types of natural hazards, and describe the structure of the earth. Then students will investigate the structure of the Earth along with learning about plate tectonic theory and continental drift, this will then be used to describe the plate boundaries along with their characteristics and physical features. Finally students will learn about the Christchurch 2011 (HIC) case study and the Haiti 2010 (LIC) as two areas of contrasting wealth along with the effects and long term/short term responses. In weather hazards students will be able to accurately describe the distribution of the climate globally using the GAC. Then describe the location and formation of tropical storms along with their effects through the case study of Typhoon Haiyan. Next students will look at the weather of the UK and finally describe an extreme UK weather event. In the last few lessons students will look at our changing climate and how this occurs both naturally and also anthropogenically, they will identify the effects and how we can adapt and mitigate them.