Students will learn where Iraq is located, its physical geography and then explain how physical geography affected the war in Iraq. Task 1- Describe where Iraq is
Task 2- Watch video about Iraq war
Task 3- Create timeline about the Iraq War
Task 4- Colour in physical map about Iraq
Lesson 5 out of 9.
Students will compile what they have learnt over the past 9 lessons to understand how people in the UK affect conflicts, how conflict affects us and then evaluate the effect of conflict.
Task 1: Starter/ recall of knowledge
Task 2: How do we personally affect conflicts?- Fill in the sheet
Task 3: Evaluate the effects of conflict
Lesson 9 of 9
In this lesson students will be introduced to what fieldwork skills are, how to do them and why we do them. This is to get them farmiliar with the types of sampling and data collection ahead of a fieldtrip and why they choose that.
In this lesson students cover:
Primary vs Secondary Data
Qualitative vs Quantative Data
Types of sampling: Cluster, Stratified, Systematic and Random, along with the benefits and drawbacks of each type of sampling.
Finally students cover why we do risk assessments and why it is important.
Students finish off with an exam question practice that will be completed in their booklets.
Students will identify the inequalities in Brazil, through identifying the urban and rural areas in Brazil and why people migrate to urban areas. This will lead on to urbanisation and its causes.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: Identify the positives and negatives of both rural and urban areas.
Task 3: Causes of urbanisation through push and pull factors
Task 4: Main Task - Describe how inequality has developed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Task 5: Plenary: Class question- What are some of the social, economic and environmental issues with rapidly urbanising areas
Lesson 2 out of 8
Students will be able to accurately locate Chernobyl and be able to discuss the time-line of events that led to the Chernobyl disaster. Students will begin to look at the magnitude of the event and the effects of the disaster.
Task 1: Starter- True or False- Knowledge recap of previous learning
Task 2: Located Ukraine/ Chernobyl on maps
Task 3: Watch various clips about Chernobyl
Task 4: Sort the effects of Chernobyl into social, economic and environmental effects
Task 5: Choose which of the effects are most significant and why.
Task 6: Main Task:Outline what happened in Chernobyl, identify which effect is most significant and describe its size, severity and length of time.
Task 7: Plenary: Write a sentence about how they, thought, liked, hated, wanted to learn more.
Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet.
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 to define what deforestation is and the economic reasons that deforestation occurs. Then students will interpret a pie chart showing the reasons for deforestation. Then after reading through the information students must choose which is the most impactful reason for the amazon rainforest being deforested and why.
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 - Explain how development in tropical rainforests creates economic advantages
Task 5: Plenary: 3,2,1 - Class Discussion - Why do people cut down the rainforest?
Lesson 7 out of 8
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on inequality in the UK and the north south divide, an introduction on the differences between regions in the UK
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Using the infographic students are to write down three differences between the north and south of England.
Task 3: Students to watch a video about the north south divide in the UK and make notes.
Task 4: Read through the information on worksheets and evaluate which of them is the most effective and why.
Task 5: Main Task - Long form writing- describe the north south divide and its effects on England.
Task 6: Plenary - Students to look at GCSE grade results in the UK and explain what the knock on effects for students are in the north of England
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Students will identify the increase in urbanisation over time and predicted increases. Then will investigate the social, economic and environmental challenges of urbanisation in Rio, and how they will impact the area.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: Describe the trend on the graph on screen (3 marks)
Task 3: Using the factors on the worksheet identify which is the most important social, economic and environmental challenges.
Task 4: Main Task - Describe how urbanisation has created challenges in Rio de Janeiro.
Task 5: Plenary: Class question- What are some of the negatives about living in favelas in Rio.
Lesson 3 out of 8
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to measure development, introduction to economic and human development and what the HDI is.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Define development then write the definition on their worksheet
Task 3: Read through the different measures of development and students to pick one, and justify why they have. Then pass the sheet to the next student and they debate the point.
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- students to define what development is, outline which development indicator they have chosen and why, the state other measures of development and which is the best one to use.
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to help countries develop equally.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on aid, introduction to different types of aid, when do we use it and how the UK gives aid to Pakistan
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Define aid then writing the definition on their worksheet
Task 3: Read through the different facts about aid in Pakistan and students are to outline if the facts are positives of negatives to Pakistan
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- students to define what aid is, how it can benefit and be a negative to Pakistan. Then they are to state overall if aid is a good or bad thing and justify if the UK should keep giving aid.
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how Pakistan can improve development in their country.
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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 distribution of tropical storm, a look into how they form, where they form and the conditions surrounding tropical storms
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Write a detailed description explaining where tropical storms form (3 marks)
Task 3: Complete description of formation of tropical storms
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "Study the map below which shows the path of a tropical storm. With the help of the map, describe the life cycle of a tropical storm. (4 marks)
Task 5: Plenary - Using the information on graph students must infer what tropical storms will be like in the future.
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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
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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
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to measure distance on a map, both through straight lines and also through curved lines.
Task 1: Starter - 15 questions recall previous lesson learning.
Task 2: Students to work together on how you can find two whole cities in an inch of space
Task 3: On the worksheets, students have a go at using the scale on the sheet to measure the distance between each image.
Task 4: On the worksheet students use a curved line and measure the distance.
Task 5: Main Task - Tertiary Assessment - “Explain the importance of cartography” with success criteria and sentence starter
Task 7: Plenary: Odd One Out
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how the UK’s demand for energy has changed, why it has changed along with how the mix of energy the UK has used has changed. This lesson covers fracking, wind and nuclear energy as case studies for the impacts of energy exploitation.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Graph analysis: Describe how consumption in the UK has changed over time.
Task 3: Pie chart analysis: Energy mix of the UK through time.
Task 4: Compound line graph analysis: Energy mix of the UK through time.
Task 5: Colour code the positives and negatives of wind and nuclear power.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain why the UK’s energy mix will include both renewable and non-renewable sources in the future. (6 marks)"
Task 6: Plenary - What are some of the main uses for water in the UK?
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how water in the UK is managed. This includes areas of surplus and deficit along with the case study of Kielder Dam, Northumberland. This lesson also discusses the impacts of water pollution in the UK and ways that is it managed.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Key word match up for water deficit, water surplus, water stress.
Task 3: Three choropleth maps of the UK and students must suggest if there is a relationship between rainfall, population density and water stress.
Task 4: Describe the location of Kielder dam and the location of the water transfer scheme (4 marks)
Task 5: Colour code the positives and negatives of Kielder Dam.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the extent to which water transfer systems bring opportunities to local areas (6 marks)"
Task 6: Plenary - What questions would you ask to find out more about global water scarcity?
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on comparing the 2010 Haiti earthquake with the 2011 New Zealand quake. This lesson is the last in the series and works really well with the others in the series. Students recap the effects and impacts of the quakes and then identify to what extent they agree with the statement “The effects of tectonic hazards are worse in LICs.”
This 9 mark question has high levels of scaffolding that allow students of all abilities to access to question and work through each section with sentence starters and key words on each.
Task 1: Starter: Recall on each type of graph and revision of coast topic.
Task 2: Recap quiz on plate tectonics to see how confident they are on the lessons.
Task 3: Identify the relevant differences in the quake between the two locations.
Task 4: The effects of tectonic hazards are worse in LICs. To what extent do you agree? (9 marks +3 Spag)
Task 6: Peer Feedback
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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.
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