Urban Issues and Challenges - AQA GCSE Geography

Looking for a scheme of work which covers everything in this topic? Look no further - this has been created by myself as I was tired of using out of date / inaccurate resources.

This is a FULL scheme of work for the topic Urban Issues and Challenges - it is based on the AQA GCSE specification. It has been created from scratch and includes a total of 15 lessons, a FREE AQA knowledge organiser which has been adapted to include the relevant case studies (Lagos and Liverpool), and a formative assessment. Each lesson has a challenge question as its title, tasks throughout, retrieval practice at the start of each lesson, a starter, main and plenary. There is a lot of exam practice, with AQA exam styled questions in most of the lessons.

All the lessons come with worksheets and PowerPoint - the lessons are fully adaptable to your requirement - and will approximately last 1 hour. The lessons were originally created on Google Slides / Google Docs, and have since been converted to Microsoft Powerpoint / Word for you when you download them.

The CGP Geography revision guide (2020) has been used alongside the creation of these lessons.

A breakdown of each lesson are as follows:

Lesson 1 - To explain what urbanisation is.
Lesson 2 - To analyse the factors as to why people want to live in urban areas.
Lesson 3 - To describe where Lagos is, and to understand why it is an important city.
Lesson 4 - To outline the opportunities and challenges which Lagos faces.
Lesson 5 - To analyse the environmental issues in Lagos.
Lesson 6 - To explore the ways in which Lagos has managed urban growth.
Lesson 7 - To examine how urban areas have changed in the UK.
Lesson 8 - To justify the importance of Liverpool, and describe the location.
Lesson 9 - To examine how urban change has brought opportunities to Liverpool.
Lesson 10 - To examine how urban change has brought social and economic challenges to Liverpool.
Lesson 11 - To examine how urban change has created environmental challenges in Liverpool.
Lesson 12 - To explain what urban sprawl is, and the impacts it has.
Lesson 13 - To analyse a regeneration project - Anfield, Liverpool.
Lesson 14 - To explore ways in which urban living can be made more sustainable (Curitiba, Brazil).
Lesson 15 - To outline ways in which traffic can be managed in urban areas (Curitiba, Brazil).

Also included: Knowledge Organiser and a formative assessment.