A knowledge organiser for some of the numeracy skills that students studying GCSE Geography (AQA) may be asked to use in exams.
It’s a 2 page document which includes:
definition of each numeracy measure
step by step guide on how to calculate it
a worked/model example for each
advantage and disadvantage for each measure
top tip reminders
Includes the following numeracy/statistical skills:
mean (average)
median
mode
range
percentage change
interquartile range
A worksheet exploring the economic challenges created by urban growth in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. A range of comprehension questions which includes the growth of the informal economy as well as skills based questions using a line graph. Perfect as a standalone worksheet as part of a lesson or additional homework.
A worksheet exploring the economic opportunities created by urban growth in Rio de Janeiro. Perfect as a standalone worksheet as part of a lesson or as additional homework.
A lesson on the causes and impacts of the Beast from the East (2018).
It explores the causes of the Beast from the East, 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.
A worksheet based on Bristol’s traditional industries and why they have changed.
Part 1 - reading comprehension based on Bristol’s traditional industries. Students read a piece of text and then answer a set of questions.
Part 2 - students highlight the causes and impacts of industrial change using two different colours.
A worksheet on the different types of land use and the links to settlement hierarchy.
Task 1 - students read descriptions of each type of land use and match them to the correct meaning.
Task 2 - students highlight each land use into rural or urban
Task 3/4 - students add the different types of land use for the different settlements in the settlement hierarchy.
Challenge - explain why large settlements have a wider range of land-use.
An A4 worksheet which is based around the different types of settlement.
Task 1 - students have to read each description and match it to the correct settlement name.
Task 2 - students have to complete a diagram of the settlement hierarchy.
Challenge - students have to describe the difference between two settlements.
A set of worksheets, which can be used standalone or as a booklet on the Urban Issues and Challenges unit of work for the AQA (8035) GCSE Geography specification. Examples focus on Bristol and Rio de Janeiro.
Sheets requires the blue Oxford University Press textbooks for the 9-1 GCSE Geography AQA Course.
Two summary sheets on opportunities and challenges in the Sahara.
Includes: key word research, colour coding activities and locating countries onto a map.
Only additional resource required is an atlas.
Designed for the AQA GCSE Geog. 9-1 (8035) spec.
Two A4 summary sheets which includes:
summary of why airports, ports, roads and railways are important for the UK economy
improvement / increasing capacity schemes (colour coding activity for each type of transport focusing on: Heathrow expansion, Liverpool2, dualling of A30 in Cornwall and HS2.
Can be used as as stand alone worksheet.
PDF and word copies available in download.
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 revision sheet that summarises the strategies to reduce the development gap as part of the changing economic world unit in the 8035 GCSE Geography course (AQA).
Can be used as a standalone activity or with the blue GCSE AQA Geography textbook. Ideal for revision or as use as a long-term catch up activity for students with poor attendance.
Best enlarged onto A3 when printed.