Geography teaching resources for KS2, KS3, KS4 and KS5. Worksheets and resources are mostly all contained within the lesson powerpoints for convenience.
Geography teaching resources for KS2, KS3, KS4 and KS5. Worksheets and resources are mostly all contained within the lesson powerpoints for convenience.
Lesson covers the growth of development corridors and the pros and cons of science and business parks
Activities include describing tasks, analysing tasks, and map work around science/business park locations
All resources included within the ppt
A thorough and detailed lesson on processes of glacial transport and how moraines and drumlins are formed.
Lesson includes:
A recap of landforms of erosion
An overview of the processes of transport with note-taking frame
Clear diagrams and definitions of the five different types of moraine (medial, lateral, ground, terminal, recessional)
Clear diagrams and definitions of how drumlins and erratics form with note-taking frame
A mix of revision/consolidation games and activities including: pictionary, taboo, who am I?, and a playdoh round
Final acrostic task to help revise key terms
All lesson activities and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
Lesson covers Alaska’s location and development opportunities including oil, fishing, mining, and tourism
Activities include describing locations, reading text, coding information and summarising
All worksheets and resources are included at the end of the ppt
Lesson covers the causes, impacts and responses to the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand 2011. There is also a discussion around why some countries have more devastating impacts from earthquakes than others (comparison with Haiti).
Activities include a video, statement coding, and brainstorm around impacts affecting earthquake impacts.
Worksheets included within the ppt.
A detailed introduction to the topic of glacial landscapes in the UK.
Lesson includes:
An overview of earth’s glacial history including key words tasks (glacial, interglacial etc)
A timeline activity of earth’s glacial history
A partner talk task on the causes of temperature change (past and present)
A mapping task to plot (and then describe) earth’s current glacial distribution
Exam pratice question with answers
All lesson resources and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
A lesson that covers the key processes of glaciation that help to then create all the landforms of erosion.
Lesson includes:
An overview of erosion and weathering
A note-taking task with clear images of erosion and weathering processes
Comprehension questions to check understanding
Final odd-one-out quiz
All lesson resources and worksheets and included in the powerpoint.
A fully planned resource that contains:
• definitions of defence types
• clear images
• mind mapping task
• mini plenaries
• peer assessed 9 mark essay
• All resources are contained within the ppt. Mind map is modelled to help students understand how to lay out their work. 9 mark essay has a suggested structure.
A fun and engaging lesson that explores the idea of national parks in the UK.
Lesson includes:
A starter on the concept of national parks
A video link and questions on the features of national parks
A map describing activity on the location of national parks
A quiz on the names of national parks
A true/false plenary
All lesson resources and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
This thorough 2-hour lesson covers the causes of the Boscastle floods, the impacts, and the remaining issues.
A range of activities include card sorting, answering short knowledge recall questions, and carrying out a 9-marker decision making exercise on how further money should be spent in the village.
All activities and worksheets are included within the ppt.
This lesson covers the location of Mumbai and features such as its population, wealth, push and pull factors, employment and problems in the slums.
Activities include describing Mumbai’s location and answering short knowledge recall questions.
All resources, worksheets and information sheets included within the ppt.
A concise knowledge organiser for the AQA GCSE Geography course (condensed into 20 pages).
NB. Doesn’t contain information for ALL topics, only information for the chosen topics where decisions had to be made, e.g. energy was the chosen resource for the topic ‘The Challenge of Resource Management’
Each topic is condensed into 2-3 A4 pages with blank pages for Issue Evaluation notes and templates for students to add their own fieldwork summaries.
Topics included are:
The Challenge of Natural Hazards - case studies include the Haiti and Christchurch earthquakes, Typhoon Haiyan, and flooding of the Somerset Levels in the UK
The Living World (tropical rainforests & cold environments) - case studies include the Amazon and Alaska
Physical Landscapes in the UK (rivers & coasts) - case studies include the north-east coast (Holderness), the River Severn, and the flooding at Boscastle
Urban Issues and Challenges - case studies include Mumbai and Sheffield
The Changing Economic World - case studies include Nigeria and the UK
The Challenge of Resource Management - focus is on energy with case studies on natural gas in S. America and micro-hydro plants in Nepal
Issue evaluation - space for notes and key words once the pre-release is available
General fieldwork skills
Fieldwork - blank frames for students to complete their own concise summaries
Lesson covers the location of th Amazon, convectional rainfall, and its links between the water and carbon cycle
All resources and sheets are contained within the ppt
Lesson covers the causes and impacts of deforestation with specific reference to links within the water and carbon cycles, e.g. forest fires, glacial melt, sea level rise
All worksheets included within the ppt.
Lesson covers the idea of ecosystems at different scales, biomes, food chains and food webs, nutrient cycling, energy cycling, trophic levels, photosynthesis.
Activities include matching tasks, short understanding questions, quizzes from the board
All resources and worksheets included at the end of the ppt
Lesson covers the idea of biomes and all eight of the world’s major biomes.
Activities include finding information to complete an annotated world map and a quiz plenary task
All resources and worksheets are included at the end of the ppt
Lesson covers the location and climate of tropical rainforests
Activities include describing the rainforest locations and interpreting & describing climate graphs
All resources and worksheets are included at the end of the ppt
Lesson covers the layers of the rainforest (emergent, canopy, understorey, shrub etc) and their characteristics, and the features of the rainforest soil
Activities include labelling the layers of a rainforest and annotating the soil with its characteristics
All resources and worksheets included at the end of the ppt
Lesson covers the meaning of deforestation and causes of deforestation
Activities include sorting statements, describing deforested areas and exam practice
All resources and worksheets are included at the end of the ppt
KS3
Lesson covers the cause and location of the oil spill, a documentary link with questions, a timeline activity and a newspaper article template
All resources included within the ppt