A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on what rivers are, what their main features are and how they change through the upper, middle and lower course.
Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt on their coasts topic students are to complete what they know. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson.
Task 2: Label two diagrams with the keywords used during the topic. The HA students will be given an extra map showing relief, and identify more features.
Task 3: Using the information given students are to complete a graph showing a long profile of the river Severn. Then they label their diagram with annotations and images.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Explain why the upper course of a river valley has a different cross profile from the lower course (4).” 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 - Dingbat theme rivers
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on types of aid in Nigeria. Students will be able to describe why Nigeria needs aid, why international aid is useful for the country and why it is not always used effectively.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Exam question on how an ox-bow lake is formed
Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe the trend in aid received by Nigeria (3 marks)
Task 3: Students to priorities which they think is the main reason for aid and why.
Task 4: Geography Skill: Graph Analysis: Identify how much aid Nigeria gave and how much the EU gave.
Task 5: Main Task - Describe the living conditions in the figure, explain how aid should be spent in the area and then justify why small scale projects are more likely to be successful in Nigeria.
Task 5: Plenary - Revision for next geographical process, levee and floodplain formation.
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Students will be able to outline the main long term and short term effects of Chernobyl and the consequences of these effects. Students will be able to evaluate the severity between the long term and short term consequences of Chernobyl.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons
Task 2: Using an atlas identify countries affected by the radiation leak
Task 3: Looking at the information on the worksheet students to rank these effects 1-9 in terms of significance.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to answer one of two questions about Chernobyl and its effects
Task 5: Plenary: What things would students pack in their bags if they had to evacuate.
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A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on the transport infrastructure in the UK, specifically about the Heathrow Expansion along with the stakeholders, the positives and negatives of the expansion and finally the social, economic, environmental and political factors.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Draw 4 diagrams to show the formation of headlands and bays.
Task 2: Geographic Skills: Description of Location - Describe where Heathrow is
Task 3: Geographic Skills: Comparison of information - Compare Heathrow airport to its international rivals.
Task 4: Watch the video and make notes on the Heathrow expansion.
Task 5: Label which opinion is for or again the expansion, then categorise the stakeholders into social, economic, political and environmental. Then rank them into most and least important arguements.
Task 6: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “‘Changes to the UK transport infrastructure are predicted to be beneficial’ To what extent do you agree (9 marks)"
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 7: Plenary - Revise for headlands and bays as questions will be coming next week.
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A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on how the UK is connected to the wider world through several different ways. In this lesson students will learn about how we are connected through trade, culture, transport and electronic communications.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Read, Write, Mark, all about the formation of headlands and bays.
Task 2: Geographic Skills: Description of graphs - Describe what the diagrams show about UK’s changing trade links.
Task 3: Geographic Skills: Description of graphs - What is the graph showing, what is the type of graph, what is the difference, etc.
Task 4: Colour code the categories to the information.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “How does the UK benefit by having close links with the rest of the world (6 marks)"
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 6: Plenary - Revise for headlands and bays exam question.
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A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on how the UK is connected to the wider world through the Commonwealth and the European Union. This will cover the economic and political advantages of each system.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Exam question “Explain the formation of the physical features of the coastline shown in the images above (6)
Task 2: Watch the video about the Commonwealth
Task 3: Geographic Skills: Description of graphs - Describe what the graph is and analyze the data.
Task 4: Watch the video about the EU.
Task 5: Identify the economic, political, social, and environmental advantages of the EU.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Suggest how the UK benefits economically and politically from its membership of either the EU or Commonwealth. (6 marks)”
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 6: Plenary - Revise for the formation of a sea stack.
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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.
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An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography “The Changing Economic World”. This topic will briefly cover where is Nigeria, why is it important, both nationally and globally. Then students will investigate the benefits and drawbacks of TNCs in Nigeria (specifically Shell) then the types of aid Nigeria receives. Students will identify if this aid is beneficial or what problems may arise with aid. Finally students will explore the impacts of economic development on the environment of Nigeria, with a specific look at the Bodo Oil Spill and its effects on the local people.
Lesson 1: Importance of Nigeria
Lesson 2: TNCs in Nigeria (Shell)
Lesson 3: International Aid in Nigeria
Lesson 4: Environmental Impacts of Economic Development in Nigeria.
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
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BONUS- Will include homework research sheets that will span over the four lessons (one sheet every two lessons )
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Students to identify where the world’s tropical rainforests are located and where in South America does the largest amount of the Amazon Rainforest is found.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: On whiteboards, come up with as many reasons you think the Amazon Rainforest is important.
Task 3: Which of the benefits of the Amazon Rainforest is most important and why?
Task 4: Main Task - Describe the importance of the Amazon Rainforest
Task 5: Plenary: 3,2,1 - Class Discussion - Why do people cut down the rainforest?
Lesson 6 out of 8
Students will identify the location of Brazil globally, continentally and the physical features of Brazil such as the Andes, Atacama desert and the Amazon. Students will then create a climate graph to show the temperature of Brazil and the climate. Finally, they will identify why Brazil is an important country internationally.
Task 1: Located and describe Brazil
Task 2: Using the worksheet students will draw on where the physical features of South America and Brazil are.
Task 3: Climate graph of Brazil (Amazon Rainforest)
Task 4: Main Task: Describe the location of Brazil and explain Rio de Janeiro’s importance.
Task 5: Plenary: Class question- why do people what to move to Rio?
Lesson 1 out of 8
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on inequality, an introduction into what inequality is, types of inequality and an evaluation on how they affect people.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Define inequality then writing the definition on their worksheet
Task 3: Read through the different facts about inequalities and students are to pick which they think is the most important factor and why
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- students to define what inequality is, outline how inequality effects people and then justify which inequality factor is and why
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to reduce inequality.
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Students will be able to describe what megafauna are, what their adaptations were during the Ice Age and how they came to be extinct.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Using the worksheet students are to describe the features of the animal and explain how its features help to adapt to the conditions of the Ice Age.
Task 3: Make notes about the extinction of the Giant Ground Sloth
Task 4: Main Task: Primary Assessment, describe how our climate has changed. (Sentence starters, PEEL structure provided and Success Criteria)
Task 5: Plenary: Why is our climate temperate when we are on the same latitude as Russia?
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Students will be able to define weather and precipitation along with identifying the climate of the UK. Students will then read through what creates weather and complete challenge tasks for each.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Describe the climate of the UK using the term “Temperate”
Task 3: Using the worksheet, students will read through how each factor affects the weather and then complete challenge tasks.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe the weather conditions of the UK.
Task 5: Plenary: What are some of the ways climate change will affect the UK.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the weather of the UK, with background on ocean currents, distance from the equator, altitude and prevailing winds. This will help students to understand the many reasons we have a temperate climate in the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Students to watch a video on why the UK climate varies, and divide the UK into four sections, describing the summer and winter of each section.
Task 3: Explain why convectional rainfall is common in the southeast of England during the summer (4 marks)
Task 4: Read through the sheet and justify which weather condition the UK faces is most impactful and why.
Task 5: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Which extreme weather condition impacts the UK most significantly. Justify your opinion.” (6 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - How can the UK prepare for extreme weather conditions?
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the natural causes of climate change through Earth’s history.
Task 1: Starter - 5 Quick Questions- students to recap on previously learnt information.
Task 2: Students to write out how temperature has changed through time and make the link to CO2.
Task 3: Students to watch the video in PowerPoint and make notes on the worksheet about the 4 causes of natural climate change.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- Complete two exam questions “Using figure 3 which one of the following statements is true” “Give one nature cause of changes in global temperatures”
Task 5: Plenary - Which natural cause of climate change do you think is most impactful and why.
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