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Hurricane Katrina - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Hurricane Katrina - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will begin by recapping what they have previously learnt in the other lessons on physical features of North America. Students will then be introduced to how we measure hurricanes using the Saffir Simpon Scale and the given background information about Hurricane Katrina. Then students will be asked to describe the path the hurricane took to reach landfall. Then will watch the video on the hurricane, writing down any notes as they go. Finally students will identify primary and secondary effects and identify if they are social, economic or environmental, this will result in them writing a newspaper article about Hurricane Katrina and its effects and responses Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Identify the path the hurricane took to reach landfall Task 3: Identify the impacts of the hurricane from the video. Task 4: Categorise impacts into social, economic, environmental and primary and secondary Task 5: Show learning in a newspaper article describing Hurricane Katrina. This lesson has a completed powerpoint and worksheet
Formation of a Hurricane - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Formation of a Hurricane - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will begin by recapping what they have previously learnt in the other lessons on physical features in North America. Students will then be introduced to what a hurricane/ tropical storm is, they will be asked to describe the distribution of tropical storms globally and then identify features of a tropical storm. Students are then asked to put in order the formation of hurricanes using a card sort and then label how hurricanes form and describe it in their books. Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Identify distribution of tropical storms globally Task 3: Identify features of a hurricane Task 4: Put in order the formation of a hurricane Task 5: Describe in books how hurricanes form This lesson has a completed powerpoint and worksheet
San Francisco Quake - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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San Francisco Quake - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will start with 5 quick questions from their previous lessons on North America. Then they will describe the location of San Francisco in the United States of America, they will then recap conservative plate boundaries and how they cause earthquakes. Students will then be tested quickly on their ability to describe the formation of an earthquake. Students then learn how we measure earthquakes with the Richter Scale and the Mercalli Scale. Finally students will read through the information sheet about the quake and will identify the effects of the quake into social, economic and environmental effects. Then finish of their information by writing a newspaper article to summarise their learning. Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Identify location of San Francisco Task 3: Recap how earthquakes form Task 4: Identify the effects of the quake Task 4: Write a newspaper article about the quake. This lesson contains a full powerpoint, worksheet and newspaper template
Mapping Countries in North America - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Mapping Countries in North America - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will start by gluing in learning journeys and knowledge organiser to show what they will be learning this term. Then students will be asked to show their knowledge of anything they know about North America. Students will then be asked to describe the location of North America, then to do this using latitude and longitude showing increasing depth and skill. Then using the template attached students are to use atlases to draw on the countries and physical features of North America on their sheets. Starter: Knowledge Retention 5 quick starter questions Task 1: Describe the location of North America globally Task 2: Describe the location of North America using latitude and longitude Task 3: Main Task: Using an atlas write down the location and physical features of North America Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet and learning journey and knowledge organiser.
Development in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Development in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will begin by recapping what they have previously learnt in the other lessons on human development in South America. Students will then be introduced to what development is and then to describe where the richest place with GNI is in South America, students then categorise the simple indicators of development into social, economic and environmental then they learn about the limitations to using money as a single measure of development, this transitions onto HDI and its properties. Finally students learn about the UN Sustainable Development goals and are to evaluate which is the most needed and why. Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Identify countries in South America with high GNI Task 3: Categories the simple indicators of development into social, economic or environmental Task 4: Identify countries with high HDi Task 5: Recap core knowledge Task 6: Evaluate which sustainable development goal each country should choose and why. This lesson has a completed powerpoint and worksheet
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.
Importance of Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Importance of Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will begin by setting up their books for the human topic of South America/ Brazil and then answer 5 quick questions about their previous learning. Then using longitude and latitude students will identify the location of Brazil, then Rio in their books. Then they will be given some background to the country of Brazil and then they will explain using their information sheet the importance of Rio both locally, nationally and internationally. Students are then tested on what they have just learnt and then given the task of creating a tourist brochure about visiting Rio. Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Locate Rio within Brazil using longitude and latitude Task 3: Read through information and highlight its local, national or international importance Task 4: Quick Quiz Task 5: Create a tourist brochure on Rio This lesson contains a fully completed lesson, powerpoint, worksheet and learning journey for the topic.
Fixing Inequality in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Fixing Inequality in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will start with 5 quick questions from their previous lessons on the human features of South America. Then students will be recapping what they have learnt so far about inequality and slums. Then they will investigate the Favela Bairo Project and where it is located and the effectiveness of it. Students will then have a decision making exercise of choosing where they would allocate funding to help reduce the inequality in favelas. Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Identification of slums and their inequalities Task 3: Categorise the project outcomes into social, economic and environmental effects. Task 4: Decision making exercise of choosing where they would allocate funding to help reduce the inequality in favelas. This lesson contains a fully completed powerpoint and worksheet
Physical Features of Asia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Physical Features of Asia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 7 in their second term back at school, and is designed to flow with the “Human Features of Asia Bundle”. This bundle allows students to investigate the physical side of Asia with specific looks at countries as case studies with links to key geographical concepts such as earthquakes, plate tectonics with a specific investigation into the 1995 Kobe Japan earthquake. Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly begin by identifying plate tectonics and how plate boundaries create earthquakes, secondly they will investigate how the Kobe earthquake happened and then through the other series of lessons students will identify the impacts and responses to the earthquake. Lesson 1: Asia’s Plate Tectonics Lesson 2: Kobe Earthquake 1995 Lesson 3: Impacts of Kobe Earthquake 1995 Lesson 4: Responses to Kobe Earthquake 1995 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.
Drug Trade in South America
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Drug Trade in South America

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Students will start with 5 quick questions from their previous lessons on the human issues in South America. Then they will learn what transnational crime is and what the drug trade is. Students are then to describe in their books the drug trade globally and its pathways into other continents. Using a flow map to describe the production of drugs in South America and its distribution into central and North America. Then they are tested with a zipper task about the content they have learnt and then will write a newspaper article about the drug trade in South America. Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Describe the areas globally that produce the most cocaine Task 3: Describe the flow lines of drug production and distribution in South America Task 4: Purposeful Retrieval of previous core learning Task 5: Create a newspaper article about the drug trade in South America.
People in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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People in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will start with 5 quick questions from their previous lessons on the location and features of South America and Brazil, they will then learn about how humans moved from the continent of Africa to the continent of South America. Then students will identify where the most mega cities are located and then identify using atlases where the important Brazilian cities are located. Then learning about the push and pull factors that move people from rural to urban areas. Task 1: Knowledge Recap Task 2: Identification of megacities and describe distribution of megacities globally Task 3: Identify the location of several important Brazilian cities Task 4: Identify which factors are push or pull factors. Task 5: Describe and explain Brazil’s population density (4 marks) This lesson contains a fully completed lesson and worksheet.
Grid Referencing in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Grid Referencing in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students to start by recapping their learning of core knowledge of the physical features of South America with 5 quick questions. Students are then introduced what OS maps are and why we need them, they will then begin to identify symbols that are commonly used in OS maps. The students get shown how to do 4 figure grid references using different places in Brazil, with increasing difficulty. Then students are shown how to do this in 6 figure grid reference. Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Identify OS map symbols Task 3: Identify four figure grid references Task 4: Identify six figure grid references Task 5: Independent Practice with a mix of four and 6 figure grid references to test learning. This lesson contains a fully resourced powerpoint and worksheet with high resolution maps for printing.
Responses to Kobe Earthquake 1995 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Responses to Kobe Earthquake 1995 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will start with 6 quick questions from their previous lessons on the Kobe Earthquake to establish if they have gained the core knowledge. Students will then be introduced to what immediate and long-term responses are and examples of these. Students are then to read through their information sheet and identify the short term and long-term responses to the earthquake and explain if they are social, economic or environmental effects. Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Identification of short term and long term responses Task 3: Image inferences of effects and responses Task 4: Students to debate if the long term responses or long term responses were more impactful. This lesson contains a fully completed powerpoint and worksheet
Impacts of Kobe Earthquake 1995 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Impacts of Kobe Earthquake 1995 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will begin by testing their knowledge acquired from the previous 2 lessons of the physical features of Asia and then will identify the difference between Primary and Secondary impacts, students will then read through the effects of the Kobe 1995 Earthquake and identify if the the effect is primary or secondary and then if it is social, economic or environmental. Finally students will create a newspaper article about the effects of the earthquake and how it affected people. Task 1: Formative assessment of previous learning Task 2: Introduction of primary and secondary learning Task 3: Identify the primary and secondary factors of the Kobe Earthquake Task 4: Identify if they are social, economic or environmental Task 5: Create a newspaper article about how the earthquake happened, the primary and secondary effects of the earthquake and a pretend interview with a survivor. This lesson includes a fully resourced powerpoint, worksheet, test sheet and newspaper article template.
Kobe Earthquake 1995 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Kobe Earthquake 1995 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will start by recapping the previous content they have learnt about with human features of Asia in their last topic. Then they will recap what plate margins are and how they cause earthquakes. Students will then identify the features of an earthquake and then learn about the richter scale. This culminates in a quick test on whiteboards. Then using the information on their sheets students will identify the social, economic and environmental impacts of the Kobe 1995 earthquakes. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Recapping on plate boundaries and how they cause earthquakes Task 2: Identify the features of an earthquake Task 3: Learning about the Richter Scale Task 4: Active assessment on eathquakes Task 5: Identify the social, economic and environmental impacts of the Kobe 1995 Earthquake Task 6: Independent Practice: Describe the effects of the earthquake and explain how it happened. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Human Features of Asia - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
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Human Features of Asia - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)

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An introductory topic for KS3 in geography about the continent of Asia and its human features. This bundle contains 5 lessons that are fully resourced. Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately locate Asia, able to accurately describe the distributions of people throughout Asia. Develop the skill of being able to describe and interpret population pyramids and identify the problems with overpopulation. Finally students finish with investigative China’s One Child Policy and its effects on population and future. Lesson 1: Mapping Countries in Asia Lesson 2: Population of Asia Lesson 3: Population Pyramids Lesson 4: Problems with overpopulation Lesson 5: China’s One Child Policy Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, creation of population pyramids. This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets, learning journey and knowledge organiser.
Asia's Plate Tectonics - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Asia's Plate Tectonics - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will firstly stick in learning journey and knowledge organiser in their books. Then students to recap previous learning of the population of Asia. Then students to recap what the structure of the earth is and then assessed for their understanding. Students then learn about how earth has changed through time and how plate tectonic theory happens, then students are to describe the location of the Pacific Ring of Fire and its location to Asia. Students then to look at information sheet and describe the difference in the three plate margins. Students then practice this in a fake exam question. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1:Recap structure of the earth Task 2: What plate tectonics are and the evidence for them through plate tectonic theory. Task 3: Read through the 3 different plate tectonic boundaries and describe how they move and the features they create. Task 4: Main Task: Attempt the fake exam questions to test knowledge and comprehension. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
China's One Child Policy - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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China's One Child Policy - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will be able to recap the key learning from previous lessons on Asia and population features, students will also be asked to identify features on a population pyramid and identify the mean of the data. Students will recap what overpopulation is from the previous lesson and then describe what was happening to China before the One Child Policy. Students then investigate the two ways that were used to limit population before the policy and then they will investigate the rules and the punishments of the policy. Finally students will identify if the one child policy was effective and if it outweighs the cost in a newspaper article. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1:Recap the term overpopulation Task 2: Describe what the population was like before the One Child Policy and what efforts were used before the policy. Task 3: To understand the rules and the punishments that were in place to ensure the Once Child Policy was enforced. Task 4: Main Task: Create a newspaper article to evaluate the effectiveness of the One Child Policy. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Problems with overpopulation - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Problems with overpopulation - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will be able to recap the key learning from previous lessons on Asia and features of population, they will also be able to describe the mode of data on their white boards as a starter. Then students will be asked to describe what overpopulation is and what its effects might be. Then using a choropleth map to describe where globally is densely populated. There is then a video to watch to describe the problems with overpopulation. Students are to match up the causes of over population to the definition and describe why. Students are introduced to Dharavi Slums in India and to describe using the images what problems overpopulation have caused. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Define/ describe overpopulation Task 2: Describe where globally is densely populated Task 3: Identify the causes of overpopulation and evaluate which is the worst and why Task 4: Main Task: Using the photographs of Dharavi, explain some of the problems with overpopulation Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Population Pyramids - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Population Pyramids - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will start by conducting a formative assessment on their previous learning of Asia and key geographical concepts. Students will be introduced to the core concept and key features of the population pyramid, this will set the ground work for the rest of the lesson. Then they are to watch a quick video (link in powerpoint) over what population pyramids are and their 3 phases. Students are then to identify the features of two separate population pyramids in Asia and then to compare and contrast them to show understanding and comprehension. Starter: Formative Assessment Task 1:Introduction into what the core features of population pyramids are and why we need them. Task 2: Watch the TedEd video describing population pyramids and make notes about them. Task 3: Describe the population pyramid for Afghanistan and then describe the population pyramid for Japan Task 4: Main Task: Compare and contrast the population pyramids of two countries in Asia Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet and the formative assessment quiz.