Three board games (made on publisher) for Paper 2 of the 8035 GCSE Geog. Sepcification.
One board game for Section A (Urban Issues and Challenges), one board game for Section B (Changing Economic World) and one board game for Section C (Challenge of Resource Management, with a focus on water).
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:
Bristol as a UK city
Rio de Janeiro as a city in an NEE
Board Game 2:
India as a country in an NEE
Tourism in India
Board Game 3:
South to North Transfer Scheme in China for large scale water
Ice Stupas in Ladakh for sustainable water supplies
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.
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 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.
A lesson on the causes and impacts of the Hurricane Irma (2017) with a focus on the impacts on Antigua and Barbuda.
It explores the causes of Hurricane Irma, 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.
x2 revision sheets to summarise the development gap content for the AQA GCSE Geography (8035) course, as part of the Changing Economic World unit.
Can be used as standalone resource and/or with the blue GCSE AQA Geography textbook.
Best enlarged to A3 when printing.
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.
Three summary revision worksheets which cover:
Rio de Janeiro as a city experiencing urban growth
Bristol, as UK city experiencing urban change
Urban sustainability (with some links to Bristol)
These worksheets are designed to summarise key content and knowledge and could be used as a standalone resource and/or with the blue AQA GCSE Geography textbook.
Perfect for revision, cover work or as a catch up activity for students with long-term absence.
Two revision sheets that summarise the Bristol and Rio de Janeiro case studies for the 8035 GCSE Geography course, as part of the urban issues and challenges topic. They are uploaded as two separate documents but could easily be enlarged and photocopied back to back if needed.
Perfect as a revision activity or for catch up for students with long-term absence.
Recommended to enlarge to A3 when printing.
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.
A worksheet designed to be used with the Oxford University Press ‘GCSE Geography AQA’ textbook, pages 204-207, for 8035 specification. A great resource for cover lessons.
A summary worksheet on the causes of, and strategies to reduce, the UK’s ‘North-South Divide’. Contains a gap fill activity using key words to explain the causes followed by a colour coding activity based around strategies to reduce it.
A lesson designed for Year 7 which introduces the different types of resources and the concept of sustainability.
Includes the following:
key terms and definitions (inc. non-renewable, renewable)
identify and naming the different types of resources
video link to sustainability (in notes of powerpoint)
gap fill explanation paragraph on linking sustainability and resources
MS Forms quiz to assess progress (in notes of powerpoint)
Each extended independent task has a challenge.
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’.
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 1 – Living with the Physical Environment – Natural Hazards
This x10 slide powerpoint provides a simple lesson covering what a natural hazard is, categorising the different types of hazard and exploring how urbanisation, development and climate change can affect hazard risk. It also contains a skills based activity which requires students to make a graph showing the fatalities of three natural hazards. It is matched to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification and does not require any other resources.
A fully resourced lesson exploring the environmental opportunities in Bristol, focusing on urban greening and integrated transport systems.
It includes a worksheet which requires students to use pages 172-173 in the Oxford University ‘AQA GCSE Geography’ textbook. It also includes an activity focused around how the environmental opportunities can benefit the population’s quality of life.
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.