These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Improving Rio de Janeiro’s Environment
Students will learn about:
how Rio De Janeiro is responding to it’s environmental challenges
Environmental Challenges in Rio
Air pollution in Rio
Water pollution in Rio
Waste pollution in Rio
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Chile & Nepal comparing earthquakes
Students will learn the similarities and differences between the earthquakes in Nepal and Chile.
How development affects the effects and responses to a tectonic hazard
Evaluation skills
Exam question practice with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Exam questions
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
This Contour lines lesson has been downloaded over 960 times
It lessons allows students to experiance building their own “potato” mountain with contour lines.
Contour lines, Height and Relief - map skills lesson - This map skills lesson is about contour lines, spot heights and colour layering and how these show relief on a map
This map skills lesson enables students to work out the height and gradient of slopes by using contour lines as well as how to use colour layering and spot heights. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map symbol lesson has been downloaded over 1400 times
6 figure grid references - map skills lesson - This map skills lesson is about six figure grid references. It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map skills lesson about grid references includes how to work out a six figure grid reference on an Ordnance Survey map. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This map symbol lesson has been downloaded over 580 times
Ordnance Survey Map symbols lesson - This map skills lesson is about O S map symbols.
This map skills lesson about map symbols lesson includes some creative writing where students substitute words for map symbols. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World -Megacities
Students will learn about:
The location and rate of growth of mega cities
Megacities
Distribution of megacities
Urbanisation
Push and pull factors
Natural increase
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Sustainable management of rainforests
Students will learn:
About the different strategies for managing rainforest sustainability
Sustainable management of rainforests
Selective logging
Sustainable farming
Ecotourism
Appropriate technologies to protect forests
How to regenerate rainforests
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
KS3 Geography Lesson - Africa - Human and Physical Geography. This lesson is designed to help teach students all 54 countries of Africa as well as all the major physical feature of Africa.
Students are able to use an atlas to label all 54 African countries as well as all the major physical features of the continent onto the worksheets provided with the lessons.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Engaging game
Progress checker
Printable resource
In addition to the lesson you will need an atlas.
This lesson is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 is suitable for a two lessons each 50 mins - 1 hour lesson.
This map skills booklet contains everything a student needs to develop a complete range of skills to use an OS Ordinance Survey Map in preparation for the Geography GCSE.
This Map Skills booklet contains:
Map symbols
4 figure grid references
6 figure grid references
Height and relief
Scale and distance
Revision
Perfect for teaching all map skills for KS3 and revision for KS4. The booklet is designed for the students to work completely independently.
For Key Stage 3 Map Skills this is great for teaching. Key Stage 4 perfect for map skills revision
This map symbol lesson has been downloaded over 920 times
Measuring distance on a map and scale lesson - This map skills lesson is about how students can work out distances on a map by estimating, a ruler or string. It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map skills lesson about measuring distance with activities for the students to practice their new skills. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Wealth and Health
Students will learn about:
How uneven development leads to inequalities of Wealth and health between rich and poor countries.
What is the imbalance between rich and poor
How does uneven development lead to differences in wealth between countries
Differences in health between countries
Case study - Malaria
Independent learning through Gap Minder’s Dollar Street.
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Aid and Intermediate Technology
Students will learn about:
How investment, Industrial development and tourism can reduced the development gap.
Which strategies can reduce the development gap
How different forms of aid can aid development and reduce the development gap
How industrial development can help reduce the development gap.
How tourism can help reduce the development gap
How intermediate / appropriate technology can aid development
How NGO’s can aid development through providing goats to families
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Debt relief and Microfinance
Students will learn about:
How debt relief and microfinance loans can help reduce the development gap
How have poor countries built up debt
Debt Relief
Examples of debt relief and how this aids development
What is mircofinance
Examples of how microfinance can aid development
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment - Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Causes of Uneven Development
Students will learn about:
The physical, economic and historical causes of uneven development
Physical causes of uneven development
Economic causes of uneven development
Historical causes of uneven development
Non treatable diseases
Landlocked countries
Conflict
Colonialism
Raw material prices
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment - Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Measuring Development
Students will learn about:
How to measure development using a range of development indicators using “top Trump” style cards.
A range of development indicators
Gross National Income
Birth rate
Death rate
Life expectancy
Human development index
Happiness index
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Managing Coasts - Managed retreat
Students will learn about:
How managed retreat can protect coastline from the effects of erosion and other physical processes.
Managed retreat
Case study - Medmerry near Chichester, West Sussex
Coastal Monitoring and adaptation
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Soft engineering
Students will learn about:
The benefits and challenges of soft engineering and how it can protect coastlines from the effects of erosion
Soft engineering
Dune regeneration
Beach replenishment
Dune fencing
Managed retreat
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
This map skills lesson is about compass directions and 4 figure grid references. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes an adapted game of Tic Tac Toe incorporating 4 figure grid references.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
This map skills lesson is about map symbols. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes some creative writing where students substitute words for map symbols. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
It contains:
Three Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Printable material
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
This map skills lesson is about scale and distance including estimating, ruler and string. This lesson is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and you may wish to do this over either 1 or 2 lessons for younger students or those that learn at a slower pace.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Printable resource
worksheet