A biome card sort with coniferous forest, desert, mountain, Mediterranean, savannah, temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, tropical forests and tundra

Lesson used with a mixed ability Year 7 class. Content Covered: Starter: Name these coastal landforms What is erosion? Pupils to jumble definition 4 types of erosion - pupils drawing sketches of the diferent types of erosion based on description. Formation of cave, arch, stack and stump - pupils to complete a back to back activity and then draw diagram with annotation into books. Exam style question - Explain the formation of a sea stack - with mark scheme Extra slides on headlands and bays.

Lesson used with Year 9 looking at flooding events in Pakistan in 2010. Starting with a 5Ws of an image of flooding Locating Pakistan and writing a description of location Causes of flooding Video clip to show impacts Impacts of flooding -categorise statements into social, economic and environmental impacts Immediate aftermath of the flooding again with a video clip. Plenary - Is Pakistan a risky place? Also include a document that I used with my lower end.

I have used this task at the start of a revision session with my KS4 pupils. Pupils have the definitions of the 15 main command words used by AQA and have to match up the definitions with the command words. Answers are included. PDF is purely a copy of the Word document. I have also included the command words which I have pupils stick in the front of their exercise books.

AQA OXFORD GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOK NEEDED FOR THIS LESSON Lesson taken from pages 54 and 55 of the Oxford Texbook looking at how does change effect ecosystems.

Decision making exercise looking at flood zoning. "Town Planners" Pupils are to decide where several aspects of the town should be built in relation to a river that has been known to flood. Pupils have to justify how they have planned the town. Used with a Year 7 mixed ability set. The river document was printed on A3 paper and pupils had to draw on the scale of past flood levels. They also cut and stuck their decisions around their town. Differentiation via the different roles involved - Team Leader, Land Advisor, Architect, Reporter

Lesson used with a mixed ability Year 7 Class. Starter: Sequence the formation of a sea stack. Main: How is material transported - Salutation, Traction, Suspension, Solution - pupils to draw diagrams into books and explain how the material is being moved. Longshore Drift - explain process, drawn into book. Plenary: What would happen if longshore drift continued? - linked to depositional features. Summary what has been learnt in today's lesson in 20 words.

PowerPoint Slides to look at the difference between weather and climate - plenary activity of statements that relate to either weather and climate. Card sort activity to support different aspects of the weather and how we measure it - great to use if you don't have the equipment in school to demonstrate with. Used with a mixed ability Year 7 class. Very visual resources, fully animated.

Definition grids of key terms used within each topic of the new GCSE course. I will be using as a starter activity to recap previous learning, or within revision lessons to ensure pupils know what key terms mean. They can either be printed or shown using a projector/smart board. Answers are included in the notes section of the Powerpoint. There are definition grids for paper 1 and paper 2 topics including: tectonic hazards, weather hazards, climate change, ecosystems, tropical rainforests, hot deserts, river landscapes, coastal landscapes, the urban world, urban change in the UK, sustainable urban development, the development gap, a newly emerging economy, the changing UK economy, resource management and energy management. This resource can be easily adapted if you study a different optional topic.

Each PowerPoint slide contains 5 Geography general knowledge questions. The first 9 slides focus on Britain and the next 4 are worldwide Geography. Answers are included. I usually have this slide on the board when I am going around checking homework to try and increase pupils general Geography knowledge who will answer the questions in the back of their books I will then go over the answers and pupils are scored out of 5. Blank templates of each are included.

Geography AQA A Plate Margins for first teaching in 2016, exams in 2018. Starter: A bridge between two continents video of Iceland. What is happening here? how are the plates moving? Building on prior knowledge, pupils to identify the different ways in which plates can move. Main Task: Pupils are to use information sheets to label diagrams of the different plate margins. Task is modelled. Feedback on slides, discussing/ensuring pupils diagrams are correct. Plenary: Exam Question - with model answer.

Lesson following the AQA A GCSE syllabus - 5.3 Distribution of Ecosystems. Starter: Imagine you are going on a journey from the North to South Pole - how would the places you visit change as you travel. Pupils are using information cards to complete a carousel activity of the 8 different types of biomes. Exam questions Location of biomes in North America with model answer Distribution of temperate deciduous woodland with model answer. Distribution of tundra ecosystem with mark scheme.

18 questions to be displayed around the classroom - not the typical "geography questions", examples: Which is the only city to be located in two continents? Which county in the UK has two coasts? Which country has the most volcanoes? Which country has the highest life expectancy? How many Great Lakes are there in the North America? My intention is to have the pages printed back to back on A4 (obviously only get pages 2-37 printed not the first page), on card and in colour and the page folded therefore the question is on the top and you open it to reveal the answer (I am going to use velcro dots also).

Revision booklet for pupils to complete independently on the topic of Tropical Rainforests from Paper 1 Section B using their exercise books/ textbooks. (Page numbers relate to blue Oxford University Press Textbook). Case study included is Deforestation in Malaysia. Thought Quilt covers the topics of tropical rainforests and hot deserts – answers are included.

PowerPoint slides to discuss how to identify glacial feature on an OS map. Corrie, Arêtes, Pyramidal Peak, U-shaped Valley, Truncated Spurs.

Interative Geography Classroom Display 19 questions in total and answers. Example Questions Include: Name a country that ends in the letter T Name a four letter country that is NOT in Asia Name a EUROPEAN country that contains a double letter Name a US STATE that contains just four letters Name a country that ends with an R Word document should be printed back to back. “Flip pages on the short edge” option I printed mine on card not paper I used velcro dots (from amazon) to secure the answers. Questions black font, blue border, answers on the inside, black font, green border.

AQA GEOGRAPHY OXFORD TEXTBOOK NEEDED FOR THIS LESSON. Lesson following the AQA A textbook looking at how to reduce the risk during a tectonic hazard. Lesson using the textbook for higher pupils. For lower ability pupils, they can complete a fill in the method and if it is for earthquakes or volcanoes. Exam question and marks scheme. BONUS - Resources for Living with Tectonic Hazards looking at Iceland.

Here is my greatly loved and appreciated country of the month display. Each month I focus on one country around the world. The countries included are: Mexico, Peru, Mongolia, Italy, Iceland, Portugal, Nepal, Uganda, Qatar, Russia, Japan, South Korea. For each country there is the name of the country, 5 facts about the country and the country’s flag. This is displayed around my world map. I often get pupils asking what country is next, or wondering where the country is and encouraging them to use an atlas to locate it they frequently comment or ask about the facts displayed.

Following the AQA A Specification for cliff collapse at Christchurch Bay. The lesson examines the causes and the effects of cliff collapse. Includes a sketch map of the coastline and exam style question.

Starter activity using peoples opinion of wind power - who do you most agree with? Card sort activity / worksheet whereby information is categorised into facts and statistics surrounding wind power, advantages or disadvantages. Pupils evaluate if the UK should use wind power - written task Finish with an opinion line - pupils stand up/ post it note where they fit along the line. Lesson used with top set and middle set and bottom set Year 8 pupils in the topic of Resources. Additional SEN resources - colour code, facts statistics, advantages and disadvantages also a writing frame.