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Quality lessons. Quality weekend. As every teacher knows, finding that work life balance is often difficult. Here at Geography Guru, we provide quality tested geography resources at an affordable price. Take the stress out of your teaching and enjoy what many teachers joined the proffesion for, working with young people.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson investigates features of the middle stage, with a focus on meanders and ox-bow lakes. The lesson starts by explaining why some parts of a river flow faster than others. The pupils draw a cross section of a river and annotate, to highlight these ideas. The lesson includes class discussion questions to check learning throughout the lesson. A flow diagram is used to teach pupils the sequence, as well as a fun, timed class activity. A writing frame is included to help pupils practice writing an independent exam style answer.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. This lesson 2 HOUR lesson looks at how flood plains and levees are formed. The resource includes numerous differentiated worksheets to assist pupils of varying ability in their understanding. A card annotation task is used to explain how levees are produced through successive floods. A paired exercise is then used to develop pupils understanding of river floodplains.
This end of unit test assesses pupils understanding of: the distribution and characteristics of tropical rainforest, the causes and effects of deforestation as well as management strategies. A mark scheme is also included.
This package includes all of the teaching and learning resources required to teach this 4-5 WEEK topic. The bundle includes a detailed and engaging power point for each of the lessons, as well as supporting videos, activities and worksheets. Homework tasks and differentiated support is provided for pupils of varying abilities. The package firstly investgates drainage basins and their characteristics. River processes are covers in detail; as well as how these processes create features of the upper, middle and lower stages. Waterfalls, gourges and interlocking spurs, meanders, oxbow lakes, levees and floodplains are the examples included. The scheme then looks into the hydrological cycle in attempt to explain the factors effcting flood risk. Hydrographs are analysed and linked to environmental characteristics. Pupils use a case study to learn the effects of river flooding. The concepts of hard and soft engineering is finally overviewed. Here pupils analysis the effectiveness of managmement stratergies .
This 2-HOUR lesson teaches students how preparation, protection and prediction can lessen the damage and destruction caused by tropical storms. Pupils learn about the effectiveness of forecasting; as well as various precautions that can be taken prior to the storms arrival. Finally building protection methods are over-viewed. The pupils must then create their own educational hurricane brochure. This must inform citizens of how to keep safe during future storms.
This TWO HOUR resource investigates the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy. This pack contains a fun kinaesthetic activity, where pupils are required to engage with their fellow peers to match their card to its definition, picture and classification. The lesson teaches pupils how fossil fuels are formed over millions of years, as well as how they are used. The independent writing task requires half the pupils to create an argument for renewables, while the other half argue against them. This is then presented in a debate style presentation, where the class votes for the most convincing argument. A marking grid and writing fame for less able pupils is provided, along with an information sheet to help pupils construct their arguments.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘The challenge of resource management module’ (Option choice - Energy management)
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘Economic futures in the UK module’ This TWO HOUR lesson investigates the need for improvements to the UK’s road, rail, air and sea transport infrastructure. Students learn how smart motorways can aid traffic flow and reduce congestion. The pupil’s debate over the benefits of HS2, thought a verbal tennis game and paired exercise. Liverpool 2 is the focus for sea improvements, while Heathrow is the example used to overview improvements to airport infrastructure.
This 1 HOUR resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘The changing economic world’ module. The lesson investigates how countries are classified according to their level of economic development and quality of life. The students are required to use a map to to describe the distribution of high and low income countries. The lesson prompts students to think about why the development gap exists between the worlds richest and poorest nations. The students are taught the development indictors through a fun game and then asked to consider their effectiveness and limitations.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘The changing economic world’ module. In this 1-2 HOUR lesson, pupils evaluate the effectiveness of AID provision. The students are familiarised with the different types of AID through a kinesthetic game. Discussion groups are then used to consider both the benefits and problems of different forms of AID. Two examples of intermediate technology are provided, to show how grass roots development AID is a much more effective at reducing the development gap.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘The changing economic world’ module. This 3 HOUR lesson investigates how the growth of tourism in an LIC can help to
reduce the development gap. The material focus on both Kenyan safaris and beach resorts. The advantages and disadvantages of tourism are scrutinised. A fun kinesthetic exercise is used to teach pupils about tourism activities in these two different environments. Pupils then learn about potential solutions to the problems tourism brings. They are then tested in an extended exam style question, for which a writing frame is provided. An optional link to a 1 hour investigation into mass tourism in Kenya is also included, to help with pupil understanding.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. This 2 hour lesson investigates what an earthquake is, as well as how they are measured and recorded. A map task used for pupils to reflect on where earthquakes occur. A flow diagram task is included on the causes of earthquakes as well as interactive slides of how seismometers work. A student led role play task is used to teach the Richter scale and card sort task for the Mercalli scale. Additional homework task included.
This end of unit exam tests students ability to: use compass directions, interpret map symbols and height, use four and six figure grid references, record latitude and longitude values and measure distances using a scale bar.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. This introductory lesson starts by looking at the importance of rivers. The concept of drainage basins is introduced and reinforced through a supportive video. The different parts of a drainage basin are taught through a ‘splat’ class game. A writing frame and diagram is then providing to test the students ability to explain these key terms.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘Urban issues and challenges’ module. This lesson is a great as an introductuary overview of Rio as a city. Pupils start by locating the metropolis. The students then create a fast fact mind map from the classes current knowledge, video and source sheets provided. The growth of the city is then briefly discussed, before the pupils learn about the structure of Rio through a memory game exercise.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘Urban issues and challenges’ module. This lesson starts by considering why people are drawn to urban areas in Brazil. Students will come to realise that it is the shear volume of migrants, that creates the limitations on the services they expect when they arrive! A card sort task is used to investigate the problems of health, power, water and education across the city. The solutions to these issues are also discussed in depth.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘Urban issues and challenges’ module. This lesson illustrates how gang activity and poor education systems have created economic challenges in Rio de Janeiro. The students learn why such large percentages of Rio’s resident work in the informal sector, and then consider how the authorities are trying to create more formal sector jobs, through the schools of tomorrow program and pacifying police. Video sources provide the stimulus for an extended writing task and writing frames are provided to help pupils develop and link relevant ideas.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. This 1-2 HOUR resource investigates the features produced from coastal deposition. The lesson focuses on beaches, spits and tombolos. A copy and complete exercise is used to link wave energy to the deposition of beaches. Interactive slides are then used to show the link between longshore drift and spit formation. Two video links are provided to assist with this concept. A coasts game is included at the end as a plenary exercise.
This detailed scheme of work contains instructions, suggested activities and lesson outlines for the climate change topic. The 7-9 WEEK scheme looks at the differences between renewable and non-renewable energies. The causes of global warming is covered, as well as its effects and management.
This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. This 1 HOUR resource looks at the difference between constructive and destructive waves and investigate how they shape the coastline. The processes of weathering are over-viewed, as well as how the waves erode the coast through abrasion, solution attrition and hydraulic action.
