These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - River landscapes - Water Cycle & Drainage Basin
Students will learn:
How the water cycle / hydrological cycle moves water through our environments and the key term of the drainage basin
Hydrological cycle
Key Terms in the hydrological cycle
Drainage basin
Key terms in the drainage basin
Field sketch skills
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Improving Rio de Janeiro’s Environment
Students will learn about:
how Rio De Janeiro is responding to it’s environmental challenges
Environmental Challenges in Rio
Air pollution in Rio
Water pollution in Rio
Waste pollution in Rio
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Managing the growth of squatter settlements in Rio De Janeiro
Students will learn about:
Students will learn about the poor housing in Rio De Janerio
Why have favelas / squatter settlements grown
Where favelas are located in Rio De Janeiro
Case study of Rocinha
Growth of favelas in Rio
Challenges in squatter settlements in Rio
Construction in favelas
Health services in favelas
Crime in favelas
Education in favelas
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Characteristics of a Rainforest
Students will learn:
About the physical characteristics of Tropical Rainforests
Introduction to tropical rainforests
Where are tropical rainforest found
Climate of the tropical Rainforest
The characteristics of a tropical rainforest
The climate graph of the tropical rainforest
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Sustainable management of rainforests
Students will learn:
About the different strategies for managing rainforest sustainability
Sustainable management of rainforests
Selective logging
Sustainable farming
Ecotourism
Appropriate technologies to protect forests
How to regenerate rainforests
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Ecosystems - Global biomes and ecosystems
Students will learn:
The global distribution and characteristics of global ecosystems and biomes
Introduction to biomes
Distribution of Global biomes and ecosystems
Characteristics of the global biomes and ecosystems
Definitions of habitat, ecosystems and biomes
Descriptions of 8 key global biomes
Printable worksheets for global biomes
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Weather hazards - How global circulation affects the worlds weather
Students will learn:
How global circulation affects global weather and climate
Global Circulation
Global Weather
Climate Graphs
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geogrpahy GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
Key Stage 3 Geography Lesson - Watercycle / Water Cycle / hydrological cycle
Students will learn:
Defining precipitation
All the key elements of the water cycle
Written AFL to check understanding
Works sheeps to support the lesson
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 3 Geography and science students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Extreme weather in the UK - Weather hazards Depressions and Anticyclones
Students will learn:
About the formation and characteristic of the extreme weather created by Anticyclones and depressions weather systems.
Synoptic charts
Anticyclones
Depressions
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
All printable resources needed to support the lesson
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the human environment - Challenges of Resource Management - Resource Management - Provision of energy in the UK
Students will learn about:
The opportunities and challenges faced by the UK in the supply of energy
Energy generation over time in the UK
Population growth in the UK
Energy demand in the UK
Fracking in the UK
Impacts of renewable energy
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - V shaped valley
Students will learn:
How a river erodes their valleys to form distinctive landscapes such as a How a river erodes their valleys to form distinctive landscapes such as a V Shaped Valley
Field sketch skills
Weathering, erosion and transportation recaps
Key physical features of a V shaped valley
How a V shaped valley is formed
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Deposition Features of a river - Levees, flood plains and estuaries
Students will learn:
How river features such as Levees, flood plains and Estuaries are created by deposition and erosion
Geography skills - Choropleth map
OS map skills
How levee are formed
How are floodplains formed
Key features in an estuary
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Erosion and Deposition Features of a river - Meanders and Oxbow lakes
Students will learn:
How river landforms are created by deposition and erosion such as meanders and oxbow lakes
How a meander is formed
How an oxbow lake is formed
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - River Landscapes - What causes a river to flood?
Students will learn:
Factors that affect flooding
Physical factors that affect flooding
Human factors that affect flooding
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - River Landscape - Managing Floods at Banbury
Students will learn:
How the flood management schemes at Banbury have made it less likely that catastrophic floods will happen in the future
Location of Banbury
History of flooding in Banbury
Flood management improvements in 2007
Exam question with resources
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Mass movement and longshore drift
Students will learn about:
The processes of weathering and how these lead to cliff collapse at the coast as well as how Long Shore Drift transports material along a coastline.
What causes a cliff to collapse
Mass movement
Landslide
Mudslide
Rotational slip
Rock slide
Longshore Drift
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geogrpahy GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Physical processes at plate boundaries
Students will learn about the physical processes that occur at plate margins and plate boundaries
Destructive plate boundary
Constructive plate boundary
Conservative plate boundary
Collision plate boundary
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Global Distribution of plate boundaries
Students will learn:
The location of the plate boundaries and where earthquake and volcanic eruptions occur and link this to plate tectonics
What is the structure of the Earth
How do tectonic plates move
Plate boundaries introduction
Where are earthquakes and volcanoes located
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Chile & Nepal comparing earthquakes
Students will learn the similarities and differences between the earthquakes in Nepal and Chile.
How development affects the effects and responses to a tectonic hazard
Evaluation skills
Exam question practice with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Exam questions
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
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It lessons allows students to experiance building their own “potato” mountain with contour lines.
Contour lines, Height and Relief - map skills lesson - This map skills lesson is about contour lines, spot heights and colour layering and how these show relief on a map
This map skills lesson enables students to work out the height and gradient of slopes by using contour lines as well as how to use colour layering and spot heights. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.