Year 9 mid half term assessment focusing on how how the Human Development Index could be made more accurate by adding one more development indicator. This is a skills based module focused around the AQA A specification at GCSE, as my students start their GCSE subjects in year 9.

A KS3 lesson looking at the four main types of coastal erosion. Students create role plays in groups using the guidance sheets and then they watch each others role plays in order to match up the erosion types.

Students learn about destructive and constructive waves through human creating human diagrams which they present to each other.

Lots of interesting activities relating to map symbols. One of the worksheets is particularly good for higher ability students as they have to use grid references also. Students love the mystery activity in my experience.

A lesson for year 9 looking at how development can be measured by different indicators based on the AQA A GCSE specification.

i created this mini SOW on Afghanistan for my year 8's. The whole topic is based around research techniques where students use the school library extensively as well as the internet to produce a final project to explain why the the country can be described as being in &'turmoil&';.

I made this for my year 9 class who are GCSE for the AQA A specification. It is the first two lessons for starting to look at development. As the students start the GCSE in year 9, I have made the topic more based around exam practise.

Levelled pick n mix plenary inspired by @87history. The students select a few plenaries that they would like to complete from the different levelled rows.

A selection of lessons aimed to help students understand the SDME exam specifically for OCR B. As the paper is now an unseen resource some example questions have been put into the lessons.

A lesson that looks at the structure of the earth and the two types of crust.

When printed onto A3 students play against each other to see who can answer the most questions under the clock or who can finish the whole board first. Students write their answers on post-it notes so that the boards can be used again and again.

Two assessment lessons on FairTrade. One looks at re-capping what they have learnt about FairTrade and looking at ideas of sustainable development. The other moves on to look at peer assessing each others work, with an example of a pupils work to look at.

A DIRT review sheet for the ecosystems and urban challenges section of the SAMS paper. This sheet was designed to help my students improve the answers that they got wrong as a class, so will probably need adapting to be used with other classes. The document is saved as a pdf as it contains different fonts.

A PowerPoint which goes through the mark scheme in a student friendly way for the 2012 paper. Question 7d is from the 2015 paper.

A starter slide showing a two comparison pictures of Dubai, which can be used in the new AQA GCSE urban issues and challenges unit.

In the style of harry potter, these key words can be hung to make a nice classroom display. To see how this looks visit @geoisamazing.

AQA A GCSE specification lesson looking the stages of development.

Lesson 2 in a series of lessons on volcanoes and earthquakes. The students play information race in teams. There is also a SEN version of the game.

This lesson looks at the different factors that affect development, using newspaper articles to identify them.

A whole lesson on teaching direction for year 7 map skills topics. You may want to change the map on the worksheet to one of your own area. The wording is also more for a more able set.