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Hello, I'm Natasha and I provide high-quality geography resources for KS3 and KS4.
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Geography
Mitigating Climate Change - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what climate change mitigation is, the positives and negatives of using fossil fuels. Then mitigation is broken into four sections: Reduction of GHG, artificially alter global temperatures, GHG capture and storage and finally international agreements.
Task 1: Starter - 3 exam questions OR describe the impact of each picture, then if it is a social, or economic impact.
Task 2: Students to come up with a definition of mitigation then copy out the real definition.
Task 3: Overview of the formation of coal, oil and gas. Then students identify the advantages and disadvantages of using fossil fuels.
Task 4: Using the PowerPoint attached (can be printed for a handout) students fill in each type of renewable energy on their sheets.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- Complete two exam questions “Describe how GHG emissions from energy production could be reduced?" “explain how alternative energy production and planting trees may help to reduce the rate of climate change”
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Ice Age and the Effects on Earth - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to define what a glacial and interglacial period is along with the conditions of each. They will also interpret graphs to show the glacial/interglacial cycle on Earth and describe the extent of ice during the last Ice Age. Students will then investigate the causes of the Ice Age and how humans survived the conditions.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Students describe the Earth’s climate over the past 450,000 years by interpreting a graph.
Task 3: Using the map of Earth students are to describe the extent of ice during the Ice Age.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe the last Ice Age and its effects on Earth, using success criteria.
Task 5: Plenary: Why is our planet not able to enter an Ice Age currently? Would we adapt now to an Ice Age? How would we adapt?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
Climate Change - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe how our climate has changed over time, why it has changed over time and interpret graphs that link CO2 to temperature to sea-level rise. Then students will identify the natural causes of climate change and the human causes of climate change.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Using the graph and information on worksheets, describe how the climate has changed through Earth’s history.
Task 3: Using the graph, describe how CO2 concentrations affect global temperatures and how that affects sea level.
Task 4: Interpret two pie charts on the human causes of climate change and greenhouse gases.
Task 5: Main Task: Students to describe how our climate is changing using success criteria provided
Task 5: Plenary: How do we know our climate is changing, what evidence is there?
Lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
Global Atmospheric Circulation Model - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the global atmospheric model, its components and its function along with pressure belts and surface winds and how the Coriolis force affects trade winds and westerlies.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Definition of global atmospheric circulation
Task 3: Complete two exam questions about pressure belts and conditions.
Task 4: Complete GAC sheet.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain how the global atmospheric system affects the weather and climate at the equator” (4 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to help countries develop equally.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Climate Change: Human Causes - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the human causes of climate change. An introduction to the human-enhanced greenhouse effect, and how the greenhouse gases humans contribute increase this factor unnaturally. Breaks the GHG content into how the world produces emissions.
Task 1: Starter - Five Quick Questions - A quick recap on what students have previously learnt.
Task 2: Students to identify the graph they have previously seen but identify the “hockey-stick” curve.
Task 3: Students glue the sheet in their books and explain the greenhouse effect in 20 words. then look at the two global heat maps and identify countries that are most at risk of rising temperatures.
Task 4: Describe how two human activities can contribute to climate change (4 marks).
Task 5: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Evaluate the extent to which human factors are responsible for climate change. With reference to a named example, evaluate the extent to which you agree with this statement.
.” (9+3spag)
Task 6: Evaluate the extent to which human factors are responsible for climate change.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Where is Russia? - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Introductory lesson into Russia, students will be able to locate Russia along with its physical and human features.
This is lesson 1 in a series of 8 lessons.
Identifying height on a map - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to identify height on a map, why we need to know height on a map and what it can be represented as.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning from previous lessons
Task 2: Students on worksheets to join up the high lines to show the height of the land.
Task 3: Then they are to colour in each height to show the height of the land.
Task 4: Main Task - Explain why contour lines are important.
Task 5: Plenary
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Using a compass - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to use a compass, why we use compass directions and then how to apply compass directions to find places. This lesson also comes with an assessment at the end to test student’s knowledge of previous skills lessons.
Task 1: Starter -Recap the previous lessons and answer questions about them.
Task 2: Identity which students know the four-point compass directions and then the eight-point compass to stretch students.
Task 3: Discussion on why we use north orientated maps instead of other orientations.
Task 4: Complete a worksheet using compass directions and identifying what characters they end up at.
Task 5: Main Task - Secondary Assessment- using an atlas to answer all the questions on the worksheet, this puts all the skills students have previously acquired and puts them to use identifying places in an atlas.
Task 6: Plenary
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Climate Change Effects in the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to define the enhanced greenhouse effect, then identify the effects of climate change in the UK, rank which is the most impactful and justify why. Then students will evaluate is the government is doing enough to help tackle climate change.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Identify the effects of climate change on the UK.
Task 3: Rank the effects of climate change on the UK from most significant to least significant.
Task 4: Read through the statements on the worksheet and evaluate if the UK government is doing enough.
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of climate change on the UK
Task 5: Plenary: What are the challenges with responding to climate change as a low-income country?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
Cartography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what cartography is, how maps are created, what features are needed in maps and why they are important.
Task 1: Starter - Identify the human or physical features
Task 2: Students to mind map what maps are and how many maps they can think of
Task 3: Students look through the different types of map about Cramond Island and what they think is the positives and negatives of each.
Task 4: Students identify different types of maps and explain what it is used for.
Task 5: Main Task - Students to answer 7 questions about which map is the best and why
Task 6: Plenary - Sleeping gophers game related to different types of maps.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Effects of Climate Change in the Maldives - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to locate the Maldives and evaluate the impacts of climate change in the Maldives, then evaluate if they are adapting well enough to climate change. Then students will complete a secondary assessment about the past 5 lessons they have learnt about.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Describe the location of the Maldives
Task 3: Read through the impacts of climate change in the Maldives and evaluate which is the most significant.
Task 4: Then evaluate which is the best strategy to combat climate change.
Task 5: Main Task: Secondary Assessment - Evaluate the impacts of climate change globally (9 marks)
Task 6: Plenary: How can the school can reduce its contribution to climate change.
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
Resource Management - Water Supply, Insecurity, and Sustainability - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to increase water supplies through; dams/ reservoirs, desalination plants and diverting supplies. The South-North Transfer Scheme in China an example of a large scale water transfer scheme to show how its development has both advantages and disadvantages. Then the lesson focuses on moving towards a sustainable future with water conservation, groundwater management, recycling, ‘grey’ water
an example of a local scheme in an LIC or NEE to increase sustainable supplies of water. The case study for this is WaterAid in Mali.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Class discussion on how to increase water supplies.
Task 3: Class to watch two videos about the South- North Water Transfer Scheme in China
Task 4: Class Discussion on how to create a sustainable supply.
Task 5: Watch the clip from water aid and identify three things WaterAid does in Mali to support people.
Task 6: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the sustainability of the Water Aid Project in Mali. (6 marks)"
Task 7: Plenary - Time to revise.
In line with the AQA exam board
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
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Human Features of Africa - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 9 in their second term back at school, and is designed to flow with the “Physical Features of Africa Bundle”. This bundle allows students to investigate the human side of Africa with specific looks at countries as case studies with links to key geographical concepts such as development, population and slums.
This bundle contains 6 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly begin by identifying population densities and sparsities in different countries in Africa as well as introducing population pyramids to students to link to development. Then students will investigate the importance of Nigeria and why it is globally and nationally important. Next students will find out what development is, and why some countries are less developed than others, which will directly link to colonisation and the reason some countries struggle to develop. Then once students are clear with population and development the concept of slums is introduced and linked to favelas in Brazil and what issues these cause for the people and how to fix them
Lesson 1: The Population of Africa
Lesson 2: Nigeria and its Importance
Lesson 3: Development in Africa
Lesson 4: Colonisation of Africa
Lesson 5: Slums in Africa
Lesson 6: Solutions to Slums
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.
Mapping South America using GIS - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the location of the continent of South America using longitude and latitude, then describe the physical features of South America that are present. Finally students will log into laptops and use the worksheet provided to produce a GIS map of the different physical features of South America along with annotations of their maps and what they see.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Description of South America using longitude and latitude.
Task 2: Describing the physical features using compass points in South America
Task 3: Main Task: Using GIS online students will create a map with different physical features present in South America
Task 4: Plenary: Home Learning on the physical features of South America (On last slide of powerpoint)
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Salisbury Poisoning - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will understand the timeline the led to the Sailsbury incident, they will be able to explain why this incident happened.
Videos are linked in the download.
Students to complete a sheet to show understanding of the topic.
Lesson 8 of 9
Bundle
Russia - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
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.
Resources in the Middle East - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students recap the physical features of the Middle East from the previous topic and lesson. Students will then recap what resources are and be told about energy as a resource. Students are then asked to categorise energy into renewable and non-renewable. Using a map of the middle east students are then to describe the resource present in each country and then also describe the distribution of each oil producer. Then students demonstrate their learning through describing the distribution of oil in the Middle East and its effects on the Middle East
Task 1: Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Recap renewable and non-renewable energy
Task 3: Using the table and map, describe where the world’s oil reserves are
Task 4: Describe the distribution of non-renewable resources in the Middle East.
Task 5: Using the pie chart describe the distribution of the world’s biggest oil producers. (4 marks)
Task 6: Describe the distribution of oil in the Middle East and its effects on the Middle East
This download contains a fully completed powerpopint and worksheet.
Population of Asia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will start by recapping what they have learnt in their previous lesson about the location and countries of Asia along with river features of previous topic. Then students are to describe what population density and distribution are by describing them using 4 examples. Students to identify using a choropleth map which countries in Asia are the most densely populated. Then students to recap what rural and urban areas are along with why people move from rural to urban areas.
Starter: Knowledge retention of 5 quick starter questions
Task 1:Introduction to population density and distribution, describe the distribution and density of 4 football matches.
Task 2: Describe which countries in Asia are densely and sparsely populated on the choropleth map.
Task 3: Identify the difference between urban and rural areas.
Task 4: Write down what the push and pull factors are for rural and urban areas.
Task 5: Main Task: Describe why people move from the rural areas of India to urban cities.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
York Flood Management Scheme - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the flood management scheme in York, Yorkshire. Students will find out, why the scheme is needed, what the scheme entails and the social, economic and environmental impacts of the scheme.
Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt in the previous lesson. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson.
Task 2: Identify the location of York in England.
Task 3: Students to read through information about why York floods so often.
Task 4: On a map of York students write on it where the scheme is used and what type of management strategy is used.
Task 5: Annotate the benefits and costs of the management scheme
Task 6: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "Using a UK Flood Management Scheme you have studied, argue to what extent this management scheme has been successful (9+3).” High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words.
Task 5: Plenary - Opinion Line, students to consider the statement and stand on a continuum line in the room.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Understanding Flood Hydrographs - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on what hydrographs are, how to read them and how to describe and compare them. Students will compare and contrast flashy versus flat hydrographs and explain reasons for why they might be that way, either from human or physical features.
Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt in the previous lesson. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson.
Task 2: What causes physical factors cause flooding
Task 3: Calculating discharge and why it is important in flooding
Task 4: Students to add annotations to the hydrograph on their worksheet to explain what each part is.
Task 5: Identify why the river is more likely to flood and why?
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Describe the difference between the two hydrographs (4 marks).” High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words.
Task 5: Plenary - Match up the labels to each point on the graph.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **