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River Management
This lesson is based around the new AQA GCSE specification. This is a lesson in the unit titled River landscapes in the UK. The main aim of this lesson is to cover the following element of the specification:
- The costs and benefits of the following management strategies:
* Hard engineering - dams and reservoirs, straightening, embankments, flood relief channels
* Soft engineering - flood warnings and preparation, flood plain zoning, planting trees and river restoration.
Major UK city - Birmingham's Importance
This lesson is the first part of the major UK city you must cover in the new AQA GCSE specification. This lesson aims to cover the following element from the specification:
- The location and importance of the city in the UK and the wider
world
- Impacts of national and international migration on the growth and
character of the city
NOTE = When it refers to a page number please use the factfile attached.
Holderness Coast
This lesson aims to allow students to gain an understanding of what is happening at the Holderness Coastline. It looks at the erosion taking place and the impact this is having on the local area. This is then followed by looking at the management strategies that Holderness has implement and the impact this has caused.
By the end of the lesson students will be able to answer the following key questions:
- What is happening at the Holderness Coastline?
- How is this causing problems for the villages?
- How are they protecting the Holderness coast?
Transportation and Depositional Landforms
This lesson aims to allows students to gain an understanding of longshore drift, deposition, and depositional landforms.
By the end of the lesson students will be able to answer the following questions:
- What other processes occur at the coast?
- Why does sediment get deposited along the coast?
- What is longshore drift and how does it work?
- What other landforms are formed at the coast and how are they formed?
Waves
This lesson aims to get students to gain an understanding of the different types of waves and to understanding the factors influencing tides.
By the end of the lesson students will be able to answer the following key questions:
- What causes tides?
- How are waves different?
- Why do waves break?
Flood Risk and Hydrographs
This lesson is based around the new AQA GCSE specification. This is a lesson in the unit titled River landscapes in the UK. The main aim of this lesson is to cover the following element of the specification:
How physical and human factors affect the flood risk - precipitation, geology, relief and land use.
The use of hydrographs to show the relationship between precipitation and discharge.
Depositional Landforms - Rivers
This lesson is based around the new AQA GCSE specification. This is a lesson in the unit titled River landscapes in the UK. The main aim of this lesson is to cover the following element of the specification:
- Characteristics and formation of landforms resulting from deposition - levees, floodplains and estuaries.
Sustainable Rainforest Management
This lesson is based around the new AQA GCSE specification. This is a lesson in the unit titled Living World. The main aim of this lesson is to cover the following element of the specification:
- Value of tropical rainforests to people and the environment.
- Strategies used to manage the rainforest sustainably – selective logging and replanting, conservation and education, ecotourism and international agreements about the use of tropical hardwoods, debt reduction.
NOTE - When it refers to page numbers please refer to the information provided.
Erosional Landforms - Rivers
This lesson is based around the new AQA GCSE specification. This is a lesson in the unit titled River landscapes in the UK. The main aim of this lesson is to cover the following element of the specification:
- Characteristics and formation of landforms resulting from erosion - interlocking spurs, waterfalls and gorges.
Erosional and Depositional Landforms - Rivers
This lesson is based around the new AQA GCSE specification. This is a lesson in the unit titled River landscapes in the UK. The main aim of this lesson is to cover the following element of the specification:
- Charactersistics and formation of landforms resulting from erosion and deposition - meanders and ox-bow lakes.
Tropical Rainforests Characteristics
This lesson is based around the new AQA GCSE specification. This is a lesson in the unit titled Living World. The main aim of this lesson is to cover the following element of the specification:
- The physical characteristics of a tropical rainforest.
- The interdependence of climate, water, soils, plants, animals and people.
- How plants and animals adapt to the physical conditions.
- Issues related to biodiversity.
NOTE - When it refers to page numbers please refer to the fact file provided.
A Systems Approach - AQA A Level
This lesson is based around the new AQA A Level specification. This is a lesson in the unit titled Water and Carbon Cycles. The main aim of this lesson is to cover the following element of the specification:
3.1.1.1 – Water and carbon cycles as natural systems.
Systems in physical geography: systems concept and their application to the water and carbon cycle inputs – outputs, energy, stores/components, flows/transfers, positive/negative feedback, dynamic equilibrium
Any pages referenced are from the Oxford physical textbook.
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Major UK City - Birmingham's Challenges
This lesson is the first part of the major UK city you must cover in the new AQA GCSE specification. This lesson aims to cover the following element from the specification:
How urban change has created challenges:
• social and economic: urban deprivation, inequalities in housing,
education, health and employment
• environmental: dereliction, building on brownfield and
greenfield sites, waste disposal
• the impact of urban sprawl on the rural–urban fringe, and the
growth of commuter settlements.
Tourism in Thailand
This lesson is the fifth in a sequence of lessons for the topic Asia. This lesson aims to get students to think about the following:
How tourism in Thailand has changed over time
The link between tourism and GDP
Why people visit Thailand
The impacts of tourism on Thailand
Monsoons
This lesson is the fourth in a sequence of lessons for the topic Asia. This lesson aims to get students to think about the following:
What a monsoon is
Monsoon formation
Impacts of a monsoon
Globalisation
This lesson is the eight and last lesson in a sequence of lessons for the topic Asia. This lesson aims to get students to think about the following:
What it feels like to work in a sweatshop
What the conditions are like in a sweatshop
Aral Sea
This lesson is the third in a sequence of lessons for the topic Asia. This lesson aims to get students to think about the following:
Why the Aral Sea is Shrinking
What the impacts of the shrinking sea are
How we could manage the shrinking sea
Where is Asia?
This lesson is the first in a sequence of lessons for the topic Asia. This lesson aims to get students to think about the following:
Where Asia is located.
The countries that make up Asia and a brief history of Asia
What the most influential countries are
What the key regions are and their characteristics.
Asia End of Unit Assessment and Feedback
This is an analysis and evaluation style assessment for my unit of work titled Asia. This lesson comes with the assessment, mark scheme, marking grid and action points for students to complete as part of the feedback.
UK Physical Geography
This lesson aims to get students use to the location of the different mountain regions and the main Rivers located across the UK. This is used mostly for year 7's but can also be adapted to use with the new AQA GCSE Physical Landscapes Topic.