I have been a Geography teacher for many years and enjoy reshaping schemes of learning and creating corresponding lessons. I hope to share these with others who need them! Please ask any questions and rate my resources for others to see! :)
I have been a Geography teacher for many years and enjoy reshaping schemes of learning and creating corresponding lessons. I hope to share these with others who need them! Please ask any questions and rate my resources for others to see! :)
Entire lesson focusing on knowledge of coasts and applying it to map skills- grid references and identifying landforms on an OS map. Ideal for GCSE revision.
AQA A Level Geography- Contemporary Urban Environments
Lessons include the following content: Urban form, world cities, Urban waste, Urban Climate, precipitation and drainage, megacities, Air quality and river restoration.
Discussion and research tasks which engage students about current issues in our cities- UK and global.
Key case studies include: Birmingham and Mumbai (social and environmental sustainability and regeneration) and the Cheonggyecheon River Restoration Project in Seoul. Emphasis on current global challenges and solutions to them.
Exam questions embedded and structured in most lesson to ensure progress is made towards the exams.
Any questions, please ask.
Why is Antarctica threatened?
You will be able to use this to:
Describe Antarctica’s unique environment.
Outline the four main threats to Antarctica.
Explain how international laws are directed to protect Antarctica. (Antarctic Treaty)
This is part of a sequence of lessons for the AQA topic- Global Systems and Governance.
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
Whole lesson- resource management- AQA geography paper 2
Factors effecting energy supply: costs, physical factors, political, climate and technology.
Nigeria example embedded with video and interactive tasks.
Exam style questions differentiated.
Homework research task at the end of the lesson.
Please ask any questions.
Whole lesson- GCSE Geography- AQA Paper 2- resource management- energy- global energy distribution.
Entire lesson with learning objectives, key words and differentiated tasks.
Nigeria case study- TNCs and energy distribution- looks at global energy consumption and supply.
Map skills, analysis and key words.
LOs: To outline why central Italy is prone to earthquakes.
To know the details of the L’Aquila earthquake 2009.
To assess how the character of place you have studied has been changed by its hazardous setting.
Addresses the fault lines in Italy and impacts upon specific cities. Focus upon L’Aquila.
Addresses how the character of the place has changed and applies to an exam question.
Question: Assess how the character of a place you have studied has been changed by its hazardous setting. (9 marks)
LOs: To know the causes and effects of the Volcanic eruption in New Zealand 2019.
To describe the spatial and temporal setting of the event.
To analyse the effectiveness of short and long-term responses.
To evaluate the technology and responses used to respond.
Maps New Zealand, addresses the case study and then followed by application to a case study.
Main task is completed with students having access to the internet- independent lead.
What does the Gini Index Measure?
Wise: You will be able to use this to:
Discuss whether you think flows of money, people and ideas are making the rich richer and the poor poorer. (Both arguments needed).
Outline how we can measure inequality and the development gap around the world.
Discuss inequalities within Nigeria using the Gini Index.
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
Weather and climate- lessons to teach Ks3.
Focus on many types of weather: clouds, extreme weather, heatwaves, hurricanes, UK flooding, tornadoes, thunderstorms.
Lesson titles are:
-Clouds- Types and Formation.
-Extreme weather in the UK- heatwave 2018.
-Hurricane formation and Hurricane Katrina.
-UK Flooding- Boscastle 2004.
-Tornadoes- Joplin.
-Thunderstorms.
Case study lessons included: UK heatwave 2018, Hurricane Katrina, UK Flooding- Boscastle, Joplin (Missouri) tornado.
Plus an assessment based on the lessons.
All lessons include differentiated tasks, learning objectives and key words.
KS3 Geography Lesson.
Learning Objectives:
To know the population of India.
To understand how wealth varies across India.
Excellent if we are able to explain the population distribution of India.
Range of activities- lots of opportunity for numeracy and graphical skills + locational knowledge. (pie charts, chloropleth maps, population pyramids).
Lesson teaches students about the states and population of India- density and distribution.
Introduces students to religion and cultures in India and gets them thinking about opportunities and challenges for these areas of overpopulation.
Differentiated tasks.
Please ask for more info!
Whole lesson and study of extreme weather in the UK. Heatwave 2018 example.
Includes causes, effects and responses.
Sentence starters and challenge tasks to meet all abilities.
Videos embedded to aid learning and visualisation.
CPD presentation on utilising and enhancing feedback in the classroom and in marking.
Tips, resources and reasons why feedback is so important in and outside of the classroom. Many examples of feedback given in the slides.
Please ask if you have any questions.
Entire lesson for students to discover types of clouds and discover how clouds are formed.
Includes AfL tasks, videos, independent, pair and teacher led tasks.
Challenge tasks entered for higher ability and differentiation.
Can be used for KS3 or 4
What are the aims and roles of global institutions?
You will be able to use this to:
Outline the roles and differences between International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Describe how one of the institutions above can increase unequal power relations between countries.
This is part of a sequence of lessons for the AQA topic- Global Systems and Governance.
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
What are the barriers to trade and protectionism?
You will be able to use this to:
Define the following barriers to trade and protectionism: tariff, import licence, import quota, subsidies, sanctions, embargoes, regulatory or technical restrictions.
Outline the notion of comparative advantage as to why countries trade.
Outline the rules-based system of the World Trade Organisation.
This is part of a sequence of lessons for the AQA topic- Global Systems and Governance.
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
Gives students scope to plan their own presentation on a natural hazard case study of their choice.
Gives a mark scheme that teachers and peers can use.
Fits in with my A Level natural hazards scheme of learning.
