This is a revision guide for Unit 1 of the new AQA 1-9 Geography GCSE. Be warned; it’s a beast! 97 slides long! This revision guide is based on the text book and is a condensed form of it. Feedback gratefully received.

All the key theories and thinkers students need to know for each unit. A brief summary of their studies.

Activity involves 4 population pyramids that students have to analyse and match each statement to the correct pyramid. Challenge activities include analysis and the creation of their own population pyramid. This activity was used as a recap. Could be modified to introduce the topic.

This lesson looks at the trenches and what it was like to fight in them

Checklists for the 5 main units of the course: Research Methods, Families, Education, Social Stratification and Crime and Deviance.

A list of some key words and their definitions that relate to development. Can be given to students as a word bank or to non-specialist teachers who are teaching your subject.

This pack was created for home study during the coronavirus outbreak. Please note that textbooks were given to our students. However, there is a scanned copy of the Hodder Education Eduqas Route A RE book available online which could be used by students to complete this work. This work is 4 x double lessons (4 x 1 hr 40) covering evil and suffering.

This resource is a collation of the exam questions asked in the new AQA Sociology GCSE course with the required standards for the highest level for each question.

Booster session for paper 1 of the WJEC exam

Lesson on megacities, urbanisation and why urbanisation occurs. Includes DARTs activity, differentiation, checking and extended writing.

This is a starter activity for development indicators that mirrors a GCSE question. I used this as a recap as we had practiced and discussed this type of question previously. Could be used in main body of a lesson to develop exam skills.

This lesson looks briefly at the religious demography of the UK and the importance of studying RE. Course outline is for the WJEC/Eduqas Route A course.

This lesson looks at the UK’s links with the wider world: Trade, culture, transport and communications Commonwealth EU Includes a literacy group task to look at the pros and cons of the EU.

Activity where students match key terms to their definitions.

A mini test I have created to test my students as we interleave topics. Could be useful as a revision tool also.

This lesson was created for Refugee Week 2015 and was taught as a tutor period in 1 hour. Politician can be changed to your local MP.

This is a lesson that looks at what it is like to live in material deprivation in the UK. The photocopy mentioned in the PPT is page 21 of the Napier Press sociology text book.

Mini quiz for Year 8s to test their knowledge of flood hydrograph key terms. Simple match the definition to the key term.

Test for the end of the first topic in the education unit

This is a ‘get on with it’ lesson (or could be set as cover) for the introduction to research methods in A Level Sociology. The textbook mentioned is the Collins textbook.