Students will be able to describe what megafauna are, what their adaptations were during the Ice Age and how they came to be extinct. Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics Task 2: Using the worksheet students are to describe the features of the animal and explain how its features help to adapt to the conditions of the Ice Age. Task 3: Make notes about the extinction of the Giant Ground Sloth Task 4: Main Task: Primary Assessment, describe how our climate has changed. (Sentence starters, PEEL structure provided and Success Criteria) Task 5: Plenary: Why is our climate temperate when we are on the same latitude as Russia? The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the human causes of climate change. An introduction to the human-enhanced greenhouse effect, and how the greenhouse gases humans contribute increase this factor unnaturally. Breaks the GHG content into how the world produces emissions. Task 1: Starter - Five Quick Questions - A quick recap on what students have previously learnt. Task 2: Students to identify the graph they have previously seen but identify the “hockey-stick” curve. Task 3: Students glue the sheet in their books and explain the greenhouse effect in 20 words. then look at the two global heat maps and identify countries that are most at risk of rising temperatures. Task 4: Describe how two human activities can contribute to climate change (4 marks). Task 5: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Evaluate the extent to which human factors are responsible for climate change. With reference to a named example, evaluate the extent to which you agree with this statement. .” (9+3spag) Task 6: Evaluate the extent to which human factors are responsible for climate change. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

In this lesson students will be able to state 4 or more threats to the taiga forest and explain why they are occurring. Then they will understand the social, economical and environmental factors that are involved in deforestation. The final task will be a form of formative assessment where students will bring all their knowledge to complete this. Task 1: Starter: True or False Task 2: Identification of different causes of deforestation Task 3: Advantages and disadvantages of deforestation in the taiga Task 4: Main Task- “Describe the characteristics of Russia and assess the threat to Russian biomes” (9 marks) Task 5: Plenary: Tweet about it

Students during this lesson will be able to accurately describe the characteristics of the taiga forest and its vegetaion. Then will be able to create their own climate graphs that show the taiga. Finally students will be able to identify plants and animals found in the taiga forest and how they have adapted to the conditions. Task 1: Starter- Knowledge recall Task 2: Describe the climate of the taiga Task 3: Create your own climate graph of the taiga Task 4: Interpret your climate graph Task 5: Adaptation to climate or lack of sunlight Task 6: Main Task: Explain how vegetation and animals have adapted to the taiga using named examples. Task 7: Plenary: Knowledge Noughts and Crosses Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet

Students will be able to describe the location of Afghanistan, outline how conflict can affect development of a country and will finally explain in a mini essay how geography in the Middle East and conflict is linked. Task 1: Starter- Recall Activity Task 2: Define key words Task 3: Locate Afghanistan Task 4: Describe bar graph of development of Afghanistan Task 5: Explain how geography in the Middle East and conflict are linked

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on expectations in relationships. Students will be able to define what expectations are, identify situations where people may have expectations of them and how to discuss expectations. Task 1: Starter - Knowledge recall about what are some of the verbal ways people can ask for consent. Task 2: Define what expectations are Task 3: Students to label things that they want from a relationship with someone. Task 4: Main Task - Students to identify if the ten scenarios are a negative or positive in the relationships. Task 5: Plenary - Discussion on how to reaffirm expectations in relationships. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to use a compass, why we use compass directions and then how to apply compass directions to find places. This lesson also comes with an assessment at the end to test student’s knowledge of previous skills lessons. Task 1: Starter -Recap the previous lessons and answer questions about them. Task 2: Identity which students know the four-point compass directions and then the eight-point compass to stretch students. Task 3: Discussion on why we use north orientated maps instead of other orientations. Task 4: Complete a worksheet using compass directions and identifying what characters they end up at. Task 5: Main Task - Secondary Assessment- using an atlas to answer all the questions on the worksheet, this puts all the skills students have previously acquired and puts them to use identifying places in an atlas. Task 6: Plenary **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will be able to define the enhanced greenhouse effect, then identify the effects of climate change in the UK, rank which is the most impactful and justify why. Then students will evaluate is the government is doing enough to help tackle climate change. Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics Task 2: Identify the effects of climate change on the UK. Task 3: Rank the effects of climate change on the UK from most significant to least significant. Task 4: Read through the statements on the worksheet and evaluate if the UK government is doing enough. Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of climate change on the UK Task 5: Plenary: What are the challenges with responding to climate change as a low-income country? The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what cartography is, how maps are created, what features are needed in maps and why they are important. Task 1: Starter - Identify the human or physical features Task 2: Students to mind map what maps are and how many maps they can think of Task 3: Students look through the different types of map about Cramond Island and what they think is the positives and negatives of each. Task 4: Students identify different types of maps and explain what it is used for. Task 5: Main Task - Students to answer 7 questions about which map is the best and why Task 6: Plenary - Sleeping gophers game related to different types of maps. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 1- Living in the Physical Environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 34 slides with all the key physical processes broken down into 5 easy steps along with examples of what good and bad answers look like. In the final half of the PowerPoint we cover case studies that students will need when completing paper 1. Key Physical Processes include: Rivers -Waterfalls & Gorges Meanders & Oxbow Lakes Levee formation Coasts Rotational Cliff Slumping Headlands and Bays Formation of a Sea Stack Wave-cut Platforms Spits & Bars Weather Hazards -Formation of a Hurricane Case studies include: Ecosystems - UK Pond Tropical Rainforest - Malaysia Hot Desert - Thar Desert Rivers - River Tees Coasts - Holderness Coast Tectonic Hazards - Christchurch vs Haiti Weather Hazards - Typhoon Haiyan UK Weather Hazards - Beast from the East

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to increase water supplies through; dams/ reservoirs, desalination plants and diverting supplies. The South-North Transfer Scheme in China an example of a large scale water transfer scheme to show how its development has both advantages and disadvantages. Then the lesson focuses on moving towards a sustainable future with water conservation, groundwater management, recycling, ‘grey’ water an example of a local scheme in an LIC or NEE to increase sustainable supplies of water. The case study for this is WaterAid in Mali. Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning Task 2: Class discussion on how to increase water supplies. Task 3: Class to watch two videos about the South- North Water Transfer Scheme in China Task 4: Class Discussion on how to create a sustainable supply. Task 5: Watch the clip from water aid and identify three things WaterAid does in Mali to support people. Task 6: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the sustainability of the Water Aid Project in Mali. (6 marks)" Task 7: Plenary - Time to revise. In line with the AQA exam board **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on where water is distributed globally. This covers areas of deficit and surplus. In this lesson discusses the importance of water security on development, global water consumption and the human/ physical factors that affect water availability. Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning Task 2: Quick quiz on why water is important. Task 3: Describe the distribution of water globally (4 marks) Task 4: Describe the change in water demand from 1900 to 2025 (3 marks) Task 5: Watch the video and answer the questions about conflict and water security. Task 6: Use the information below to complete the table on impacts of water insecurity. Task 7: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain how both physical and human factors can influence the availability of water. (6 marks)” OR “Explain how human actions can contribute to water insecurity. (6 marks)” Task 8: Plenary - What questions would you ask to find out more about how this building increases water supply/ **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

In this lesson students will identify what a natural hazard is, types of natural hazards and how hazards and their risks change depending on several factors. Task 1: Identify natural hazards based on pictures Task 2: Write down the different types of natural hazards Task 3: Complete structure of the Earth sheet. Task 4: Exam style 4 mark question Task 5: Plenary: GCSE pod Lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet.

A sheet to stick into students books to show book expectations every term. Has images for EAL and SEND students, allows them to dual code.

Students will be able to describe the journey of a river from source to mouth. This is an introduction to rivers and should be used at the start of Year 7 to consolidate any information they have about them and then teaching from this point. Students will learn to use terms such as highland, lowland, low,middle and upper course as well as river bank and river bed. Finally students will consolidate their knowledge to describe the location of River Severn’s location. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous lessons Task 1: Recap on the different countries that make up the UK Task 2: Describe the distribution of highland and lowlands in the UK Task 3: Annotate the diagram of the river with key words Task 4: Main Task: Describe the location of River Severn using the key terms learnt today. Task 5: Plenary: Home Learning reminder along with SPAG cleanup. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will recap on what human geography is and its features along with investigating what a human settlement is and what scales they come in. Then students will investigate where certain cities in the UK are located. Students will be introduced to the terms dense and sparse and asked to identify areas in the UK that are densely and sparsely populated. Finally students will be introduced to key aspects of human geography such as social, economic and environmental and then asked to identify those features on images of the Leeds city. Starter: Knowledge retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe what is human geography and its features. Task 2: What is a settlement and put the settlements in order of scale. Task 3: Fill in the cities of the UK on a blank map using an atlas Task 4: Describe the density and distribution of each football match, then areas in the UK. Task 5: Main Task:Identify social, economic and environmental human impacts in each image. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will recap the issues present in Kibera the slum that was previously investigated. Then they will choose which area they want to improve in their slums and why. Next they will categorise the solutions to slums into social, economic and environmental. Then students will evaluate which of the solutions have been the most successful rating them 1-8. Finally students have a silent debate where they write down which of the improvements has been the most successful and why, then pass the book around to debate the next point. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Recap the issues of living in slums. Task 2: Explain which part of Kibera should be improved and why on whiteboards. Task 3: Categorise the solutions to slums into social, economic and environmental. Task 4: Evaluate which of the solutions have been the most successful rating them 1-8 Task 5: silent debate where they write down which of the improvements has been the most successful and why, then pass the book around to debate the next point… Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe what the European Union is, when it formed and its purpose. INtroduction to the concepts of Freedom of Movement and Single Market. They will also be able to explain why it formed and its main countries that made up the EU. Starter: Knowledge retention from previous learning Task 1: Assessment for learning - Students to write down everything they know about the EU. Task 2: Explain the history of the EU and its formation through time. Task 3: Difference between the EU and Europe (geography misconception) Task 4: Main Task: Create a newspaper article for Newsround about what the EU is and what it does. Task 5: Plenary: Fill in the spider diagram from the start of the lesson with new learning about the EU. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to locate Africa using the previous lessons learning and the map on screen, then students will investigate the misconceptions that they may hold about Africa. Next students learn what relief is and describe the areas of relief in Africa and then the river and climate of Africa, then the culture and religion of people in Africa. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the location of Africa Task 2: Describe the relief of areas in Africa using compass directions Task 3: Explain the rivers in Africa and their direction of flow. Task 4: Explain the vegetation zones in Africa Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to recap the difference between weather and climate then identify the different climates of South America. Students then learn the three components that affect biome distribution. Then students will describe the climate region for the Amazon Rainforest and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Students will then compare the climate graphs of two distinct areas to gain confidence in analysing climate graphs. Then students will create their own climate graphs for the Amazon Rainforest. Finally students will compare two areas of South America to show contrasting climates. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the difference between weather and climate. Task 2: Describe the climate region for the Amazon Rainforest and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Task 3: Analyse two different climate graphs of contrasting areas in South America Task 4: Main Task: Create climate graph of the amazon rainforest. Task 5: Compare two climate graphs from two areas in Brazil Task 6: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.