A fully resourced lesson exploring the costs and benefits of urban sprawl and the growth of commuter settlements.
It includes a pre-made worksheet and challenge tasks which do not require the use of any other resources such as textbooks.
A lesson on the causes and impacts of the Beast from the East (2018).
It explores the causes of the Beast from the East, with the aid of a short video and gives students a written activity based on explaining this.
The second part of the lesson focuses on some of the impacts - with an activity on categorising the impacts into social / economic / environmental and then an extended written piece using a PEEL structure to explain the impacts. The extended written task also includes a model example before students are expected to complete their own independent explanation.
Designed to last 1 hour.
A fully resourced lesson exploring the environmental challenges in Bristol, focusing on dereliction, brownfield sites, urban sprawl and waste.
It includes pre-made worksheets and challenge tasks which requires the Oxford University Press textbook for ‘GCSE Geography AQA’.
A simple worksheet which outlines the main threats to biodiversity in the tropical rainforest. Students have to colour code each of the threats into in-direct or direct.
Two revision sheets focusing on tectonic hazards and an overview of the different types of hazard and factors affecting hazard risk.
Designed to be used for the AQA 8035 geography course and can be used as standalone worksheets or as part of a lesson.
Best printed A4 and then en-larged to A3.
Two summary revision sheets on Bristol as a UK city and on urban sustainability as part of the 8035 GCSE Geography course.
Perfect for revision, cover or catch-up for students with long-term absence.
Advise would be to enlarge to A3 when printing.
A worksheet that focuses on why the banana trade is unfair. The first part of the worksheet focuses on comprehension questions and the second part is completely skills based, for example calculating how much a supplier chain worker earns as part of the banana trade.
A lesson which covers the importance of resources for economic and social well being as part of the AQA 8035 Geography course.
Lesson features:
Starter questions
A range of explanation slides
A range of short knowledge focused tasks
Opportunity for exam practice at the end
Lesson is designed for 55-65 minute lessons.
Lesson will require students to have access to the GCSE Geography AQA Student Book (GCSE Geography AQA 2016) Paperback – 28 April 2016
by Simon Ross (Author), Nick Rowles (Author)
A set of worksheets, which can be used standalone or as a booklet on the Urban Issues and Challenges unit of work for the AQA (8035) GCSE Geography specification. Examples focus on Bristol and Rio de Janeiro.
Sheets requires the blue Oxford University Press textbooks for the 9-1 GCSE Geography AQA Course.
Three board games (made on publisher) for Paper 1 of the 8035 GCSE Geog. Sepcification.
One board game for Section A (Natural Hazards), one board game for Section B (Living World) and one board game for Section C (Rivers and Coasts only).
The board games include some questions focused around named examples and case studies, however these can be very easily adapted in publisher by just changing the names to those relevant to your school/department
Case studies and examples included:
Board Game 1:
Chile earthquake (2010)
Nepal earthquake (2015)
Typhoon Haiyan
Somerset Levels Floods (2014)
Board Game 2:
Freshwater pond ecosystem
Malayisa (TRF)
Sahara (Hot Desert)
Board Game 3:
Swanage coastline for coastal landforms
Holderness coastline for management
Boscastle floods
A set of three worksheets:
Food Crisis in South Sudan - includes location, causes and impacts.
Health inequalities between India and Japan
Water inequalities in the Middle East and grey water in Jordan - causes and impacts.
A worksheet on weather, which includes:
Task 1 - students read the different elements of weather and match them to the correct definition.
Task 2 - students have to identify the type of weather shown in the photographs.
Task 3 - students read some examples of weather and categorise them to show if they have a positive or negative impact on people.
Task 4 - students read a short paragraph explaining the impacts of high temperatures and highlight the connectives and weather elements in two different colours.
Task 5 - students write their own PEEL paragraph to explain how heavy snow can impact people.
A worksheet based on Bristol’s traditional industries and why they have changed.
Part 1 - reading comprehension based on Bristol’s traditional industries. Students read a piece of text and then answer a set of questions.
Part 2 - students highlight the causes and impacts of industrial change using two different colours.
A two page handout, which can be printed double sided, for parents of Year 11 or Year 10 students outlining:
structure of GCSE Geography (AQA) course
dates of final exams
resources and revision guides that can provide support
space for entering students mock grades
space for entering targets for students
The handout comes as a powerpoint document so therefore can be edited.
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 3 – Challenge of Resource Management - Water
This x36 slide powerpoint provides a useful summary of the content on the water topic of Section C of Paper 2. It is matched to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification. It contains pit-stop questions and summarised content to help with planning and delivering revision sessions, which is specifically linked to the specification.
Included examples of:
• Large Scale Water Transfer Scheme – South to North, China
• Local Scheme in a LIC/NEE – Ice Stupas, Ladakh
Six A3 revision board games which can be printed and laminated to provide an interactive revision games for students to test their knowledge of Papers 1 & 2 of the AQA GCSE Geography course. Each board game can be edited in publisher to match school’s own case studies and examples, if needed.
The board games included are:
Paper 1:
Section A- Natural Hazards (inc. Nepal and Chile earthquake, Typhoon Haiyan and Somerset Levels Floods)
Section B - The Living World (inc. Malaysian rainforest, Sahara Desert and pond ecosystem)
Section C - Physical Landscapes (inc. coasts and rivers)
Paper 2:
4. Section A - Urban Issues & Challenges (inc. Bristol and Rio de Janeiro as cities)
5. Section B - Changing Economic World (inc. India and UK economy)
6. Section C - Resource Management - focusing on water (inc. examples of South to North Transfer Scheme in China and Ice Stupas in Ladakh)