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
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on plate tectonics, plate boundaries and the different features and hazards found at each boundary
Task 1: Starter: Knowledge recall on previous topic (Coasts)
Task 2: Draw a diagram and label it on destructive plate margins, fill in information and features found here.
Task 3: Draw a diagram and label it on constructive plate margins, fill in information and features found here.
Task 4: Watch the video to recap what they have just learnt.
Task 5: Exam question: “using a diagram, explain what happens at a constructive boundary (4 marks)”
Task 6: Plenary- Revision on how a sea stack is formed.
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the River Aire. Students will learn about the source and mouth of the river along with the erosional and depositional features found along the river.
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: Geography Skills: Using an OS map identify the 6 figure grid reference of Janet’s Foss and other features of the upper course.
Task 3: In 5 steps explain how Janet’s Foss has formed and what features will be left behind.
Task 4: Students to use an OS map to identify any meanders on the OS map and watch videos to explain how meanders form and where floodplains along the River Aire is located.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Suggests how this feature along the River Aire at Woodlesford has formed (6 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 - Link Up Learning- Link the information in today’s lesson to other lessons on previous topics.
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on an introduction into Nigeria. Students will be able to describe the location of Nigeria, the importance of Nigeria, both globally and regionally along with explaining how the changing demographics have resulted in Nigeria developing into an NEE.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how ox-bow lakes are formed
Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe the location of Nigeria (4 marks)
Task 3: Watch the video on facts about Nigeria
Task 4: Students to describe the population structure of Nigeria using a population pyramid (4 marks)
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Nigeria is becoming a NEE”. To what extent do you agree? (6 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 - True or False about Nigeria
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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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A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on the transport infrastructure in the UK. This lesson covers, port, road and railways - specifically looking at HS2.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Exam Question on processes of slumping.
Task 2: Why is transport important in the UK?
Task 3: Watch the video and make notes on HS2.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Describe how the UK is improving its transport network (4 marks)
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 5: Peer Assessment
Task 5: 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 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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A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on the employment of the UK through time. An introduction to key terms such as primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary employment and what these jobs are.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how levees are formed, through read, wipe, write.
Task 2: Geography Skills - Describe what type of graph it is, what it shows, and then “Describe how employment has changed in the UK since 1970. (3 marks)”
Task 3: Create your own employment linkage, from primary to quaternary employment.
Task 4: Geography Skills - Describe what type of graph it is, what it shows, and then "Describe how the UK’s economy has changed from 1800-2006 (4 marks)
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Explain how the UK’s economy has changed from 1800-2006 (6 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 the wrong words.
Task 5: Plenary - Revision for next lessons exam question about levees.
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A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on the historical reasons for the North-South divide and how it affects social, economic and political aspects of the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Read, Write, Mark, students have 4 minutes to recap learning on rotational cliff slumping. Then write down as much as they can remember, then mark accuracy.
Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe location - Describe the location of the north-south divide border.
Task 3: Watch the video and make notes on the north-south divide.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Suggest how we can resolve regional differences in the UK? (6 marks)”
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for exam question on rotational cliff slumping.
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A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on how economic industry affects the environment. Use of Torr Quarry for the case study.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Using 5 steps, draw 5 diagrams that show the process of rotational cliff slumping.
Task 2: Geography Skills: Image inference “What evidence is there of environmental damage?”
Task 3: Watch the video on thepositives and negatives of quarrying in England.
Task 4: Geography Skills: Describing location - Describe the location of Torr Quarry.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “To what extent do you think that the quarry is being managed in an environmentally sustainable way? (6 marks)”
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for exam question on rotational cliff slumping.
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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”
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the effects of human-caused climate change and how they impact different areas on the planet. Students will look at food production, migration, holidays and other factors that will be affected by climate change.
Task 1: Starter - 5 Quick Questions- students to recap on previously learnt information.
Task 2: Students to identify the data on the bar and pie chart and identify the amount of greenhouses gases in total emissions and which gas traps the most heat.
Task 3: Students are given an information sheet with the impacts of climate change on the UK and Bangladesh. They are then to sort the impacts into social, economic or environmental impacts.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Compare and contrast the possible impacts of climate change on a poorer part of the world with those on a richer part of the world” (6 marks)
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the future of tropical storms and what could potentially happen to people living in these areas. Contains lots of graph analysis for students.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: On white boards students to make notes on the video about tropical storms
Task 3: Read through the information on the sheet and analyse the graphs about the future of tropical storms.
Task 4: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Suggest how the distributiion of tropical storms could change in the future if the trend in temperature change continues” (4 marks)
Task 5: Plenary - True or false about formation of tropical storms
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the recruitment processes used in WW1, an introduction propaganda, Lord Kitchener, conscription and the Order of the White Feather.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge recall on previous lesson about propaganda
Task 2: Whilst watching the BBC video students must answer 4 questions about Lord Kitchener’s tactics.
Task 3: Main Task - Students have three options to investigate the oral testimonies of those who experienced the recruitment process first hand. Must answer questions of varying difficulty.
Task 4: Plenary Which tactic was the most significant tactic used in recruitment and why?
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A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 1- Living in the Physical Environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 34 slides with all the key physical processes broken down into 5 easy steps along with examples of what good and bad answers look like. In the final half of the PowerPoint we cover case studies that students will need when completing paper 1.
Key Physical Processes include:
Rivers
-Waterfalls & Gorges
Meanders & Oxbow Lakes
Levee formation
Coasts
Rotational Cliff Slumping
Headlands and Bays
Formation of a Sea Stack
Wave-cut Platforms
Spits & Bars
Weather Hazards
-Formation of a Hurricane
Case studies include:
Ecosystems - UK Pond
Tropical Rainforest - Malaysia
Hot Desert - Thar Desert
Rivers - River Tees
Coasts - Holderness Coast
Tectonic Hazards - Christchurch vs Haiti
Weather Hazards - Typhoon Haiyan
UK Weather Hazards - Beast from the East
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what consumer demand is, strategies to reduce carbon footprint and the importance of agribusiness.
Task 1: Starter - Application of geographical skills, 3 exam style questions about previous learning.
Task 2: Definition of consumer demand
Task 3: Students are to complete a table of the positives and negatives of; seasonal produce, locally produced food and limit Uk food imports along with subsistance farming.
Task 4: Using your table, categorise the following into positives and negatives of the agribusiness process.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the extent to which agribusinesses are a beneficial change in food production” (6 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - What ways has the energy consumption in the UK changes?
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on where water is distributed globally. This covers areas of deficit and surplus. In this lesson discusses the importance of water security on development, global water consumption and the human/ physical factors that affect water availability.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Quick quiz on why water is important.
Task 3: Describe the distribution of water globally (4 marks)
Task 4: Describe the change in water demand from 1900 to 2025 (3 marks)
Task 5: Watch the video and answer the questions about conflict and water security.
Task 6: Use the information below to complete the table on impacts of water insecurity.
Task 7: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain how both physical and human factors can influence the availability of water. (6 marks)” OR “Explain how human actions can contribute to water insecurity. (6 marks)”
Task 8: Plenary - What questions would you ask to find out more about how this building increases water supply/
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In this lesson, students will investigate the beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s life by looking through her family tree, starting at the first royal in the House Windsor King George V. After this students will see how her family dealt with the challenges of WW1 &2 along with abdication. Finally, students will investigate her early life and her contributions to WW2.
Task 1: Starter: Knowledge Dump - Write down everything you know about Queen Elizabeth II.
Task 2: Match up the key terms to their definitions
Task 3: Create the House of Windsor family tree
Task 4: How would Edward VIII feel about abdication?
Task 5: Watch the YouTube clip about Elizabeth’s first radio broadcast and explain why this was significant
Task 6: Re-complete to knowledge dump from the start but with a green pen and show what you have learnt.
Task 7: Plenary: 3,2,1 - Give me 3 things you learnt today 2 things that interested you, and 1 thing you want to know more about.
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