Students will be able to recap the difference between weather and climate then identify the different climates of Africa. Students then learn the three components that affect biome distribution. Then using four different climate graphs of different countries in Africa students cement their knowledge through 4 different questions. Finally students will investigate the animals and plants that are adapted to two places of contrasting climate, e.g. Egypt and DRC. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the area that receives the most direct sunlight Task 2: Describe the different climate areas in Africa using latitude Task 3: Analyse four different climate graphs of contrasting areas in Africa Task 4: Main Task: Compare the adaptation of the plants and animals of two different climates in two countries in Africa Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe the importance of fieldwork along with why do fieldwork in geography. This lesson contains the basis for a fieldwork investigation around your school that includes a liter count and bi-polar environmental quality survey. Task 1: Describe which is more accurate data sample set Task 2: Writing a hypothesis Task 3: Conducting research at 3 different locations along with the research sheet. Task 4: Main Task: Write up _ Describe what the research found about the school site. Task 5: Plenary: Homework for litter pick for further data Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to explain what colonisation is, where in Africa was colonised and by which country/ empire. Students will then learn about the scramble for Africa post slave trade and the reasons for the scramble. Students will then identify the social, economic and environmental. issues that colonisation caused for Africa. Then students will evaluate which is the worst effect and why. Finally they will create a newspaper article about the effects of colonisation on Africa. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the countries that were colonised and by which country/ empire. Task 2: Identify the social, economic and environmental. issues that colonisation Task 3: Evaluate which of the effects of colonisation was the worst and why. Task 4: Create a newspaper article explaining what colonisation is, why it happened and its effects on the African people. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to use key terms such as dense, sparse and distribution then describe the distribution and density for different countries in Africa. Students will then be given key terms with population such as birth rate, death rate, life expectancy and infant mortality rate. Then students will be introduced to population pyramids and asked to compare the three different areas of Africa that have these population pyramids. Finally using factors used in HDI students will compare which is the best country to live in Africa according to statistics and why. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the density and distribution of populations of a football match, then the countries in Africa Task 2: Join the key word with the definition. Task 3: Explain the population pyramid for the continent of Africa, then describe the population pyramids between Uganda, Botswana and Tunisia. Task 4: Using the profile of Africa you have built up over the lesson, describe which of the three countries in Africa would be the best place to live currently and why. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be start with defining development and what it means to then, then improving their answer. Next students will identify the social, economic and environmental indicators of development. This will lead on to them learning about the importance of the Human Development Index (HDI) and be asked to identify where in Africa is the most developed country and why. Then students will learn about the sustainable development goals and should identify which country should focus on which goal the most and why. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Give the definition of development, then improve the definition. Task 2: Identify the social, economic and environmental indicators of development Task 3: Explain why HDI is an important tool to measure development. Task 4: Describe where in Africa is the most and least developed. Task 5: Evaluate which sustainable development goal each country should choose and why Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe the journey of a river from source to mouth. This is an introduction to rivers and should be used at the start of Year 7 to consolidate any information they have about them and then teaching from this point. Students will learn to use terms such as highland, lowland, low,middle and upper course as well as river bank and river bed. Finally students will consolidate their knowledge to describe the location of River Severn’s location. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous lessons Task 1: Recap on the different countries that make up the UK Task 2: Describe the distribution of highland and lowlands in the UK Task 3: Annotate the diagram of the river with key words Task 4: Main Task: Describe the location of River Severn using the key terms learnt today. Task 5: Plenary: Home Learning reminder along with SPAG cleanup. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe the difference between Primary and Secondary data as well as give examples for each type. Then students will investigate Quantitative versus Qualitative data and what types of data these represent. Finally students will explain why it is important to display data in different methods, specifically bar chart. This lesson was created to be part of a two lesson plan, so the previous lesson will be included in the download to help with planing. Starter: Knowledge Retention on previous learning Task 1: Testing the difference between primary and secondary data Task 2: Testing the difference between quantitative and qualitative Task 3: Why do we choose to present data in a certain way? Task 4: Main Task: Describe the quality of the environment at our school Lesson contains two powerpoints and one worksheet.

Students will recap on what human geography is and its features along with investigating what a human settlement is and what scales they come in. Then students will investigate where certain cities in the UK are located. Students will be introduced to the terms dense and sparse and asked to identify areas in the UK that are densely and sparsely populated. Finally students will be introduced to key aspects of human geography such as social, economic and environmental and then asked to identify those features on images of the Leeds city. Starter: Knowledge retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe what is human geography and its features. Task 2: What is a settlement and put the settlements in order of scale. Task 3: Fill in the cities of the UK on a blank map using an atlas Task 4: Describe the density and distribution of each football match, then areas in the UK. Task 5: Main Task:Identify social, economic and environmental human impacts in each image. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe where the UK is located globally using a variety of descriptors such as; longitude and latitude, recapping of the continents and surrounding seas and oceans. Student should also be able to describe the countries that make up the UK, British Isles and GB. Finally students will learn the difference between weather and climate and then asked to describe the climate of the UK in Winter and Summer. Starter: Knowledge Retention - Recapping on previous learning Task 1: Describe the importance on why describing a place accurately is important. Task 2: How to read longitude and latitude, then describe the UK’s longitude and latitude. Task 3: Recap on the continents and oceans. Task 4: What is the difference between weather and climate, and what is the UKs climate zone. Task 5: Main Task: Describe the UK’s temperature in Summer and in Winter. Task 6: Plenary: Home learning of an A3 poster of several physical features in the UK. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe what a migrant is, along with examples of who would be classed as a migrant. Then students will identify the difference between, migrant, immigrant, refugee and emigrant. Finally students will learn the causes of migration and the use of the terms push and pull factors. Along with the impacts of migration on the host and country of origin. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Key term match up with migrant, emigrant, refugee with definitions. Task 2: Identification of push and pull factors in terms of migration Task 3: Impacts of migration for host and country of origin. Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the impact of migration of the country of origin and the host country. Task 5: Plenary: Purposeful retrieval of information from the lesson. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to locate Nigeria using the locational information from previous lessons as well as the map on the board. Students will then read through the information sheet and highlight why Nigeria is important socially, economically and environmentally. Students will then identify the scale on Nigeria’s importance between nationally or globally and then create a tourist brochure about why people should visit Nigeria. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the location of Nigeria Task 2: Identify on the information sheet the social, economic and environmental importance of Nigeria. Task 3: Explain the global and national importance of Nigeria. Task 4: Create a travel brochure on Nigeria and why tourists should visit there. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe where tropical rainforests are located globally using lines of latitude and other descriptors of location that students have learned. Then students will describe the location of the Amazon Rainforest in South America using the same skills as before. Next students will investigate why rainforests are in that area and how convectional rainfall occurs. After that students will learn about the layers of the rainforest and then describe what they have learnt about the Amazon Rainforest in their books. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe where tropical rainforests are located globally Task 2: Describe where the Amazon Rainforest is located in South America Task 3: Create a comic about how convectional rainfall creates rainforests Task 4: Match the layers of the rainforest to its description. Task 5: Main Task: Describe your learning about tropical rainforests and their characteristics. Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe the location of Leeds globally, continentally, country and county. Students will recap what social, economic and environmental issues are and then read information about the importance of Leeds and highlight the categories. Students will learn about the Burgess Model of cities and then identify examples of these in Leeds. Finally students will learn about the ethnic background of Leeds and the distributions of ethnic groups. Starter: Knowledge retention of previous learning. Task 1: Describe the location of Leeds using as much information as possible. Task 2: Identify the social, economic and environmental factors that make Leds important. Task 3: Draw the settlements onto the Burgess Model Task 4: Main Task: Describe the distribution of each ethnic group in relation to the Burgess Model. Task 5: Plenary: SPaG clean up. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe what coastlines are, where they are located and a specific focus on the Holderness Coast. This lesson will cover features such as geology and features such as headland and bays. Finally this lesson will work on improving students OS map reading skills. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Recap on what the coast is along with the closest coast to us. Task 2: Describe the location of the Holderness Coast Task 3: Describe the type of rock found on the Holderness coast and what features these create. Task 4: Main Task: Using an OS map, complete the sheet on OS map skills Task 5: Plenary: Home Learning on A3 research project. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will recap the issues present in Kibera the slum that was previously investigated. Then they will choose which area they want to improve in their slums and why. Next they will categorise the solutions to slums into social, economic and environmental. Then students will evaluate which of the solutions have been the most successful rating them 1-8. Finally students have a silent debate where they write down which of the improvements has been the most successful and why, then pass the book around to debate the next point. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Recap the issues of living in slums. Task 2: Explain which part of Kibera should be improved and why on whiteboards. Task 3: Categorise the solutions to slums into social, economic and environmental. Task 4: Evaluate which of the solutions have been the most successful rating them 1-8 Task 5: silent debate where they write down which of the improvements has been the most successful and why, then pass the book around to debate the next point… Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to locate the Niger Delta using compass directions and also lines of latitude and longitude. Student will then be reminded of the key geographical terms such as confluence, tributaries and watershed. Then students will be asked to recap the water cycle and its key features. Finally students will identify what a delta is along with it key features and how it forms, including using transportation and deposition to explain how. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the location of the Niger Delta using compass direction and lines of latitude and longitude Task 2: Describe the key terms associated with rivers. Task 3: Recap on the key terms of the water cycle. Task 4: Label the correct definition of erosion and transportation on the sheet. Task 5: Explain the formation of the Niger Delta. Task 6: Plenary: Introduction of new home learning Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able asked to recap the layers of the Earth and their characteristics, then students will recap plate tectonic and locate the African plate, this will then quickly cover the 3 types of plate boundaries of constructive, destructive and conservative. Finally students will be asked to explain the formation of a rift valley and explain the two types of volcanoes that occur on these boundaries. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Recap on structure of the Earth and plate tectonics Task 2: Recap on the three types of plate boundaries. Task 3: Describe the location of the Great African Rift Valley. Task 4: Main Task: Explain the formation of the East African Rift Valley and give one physical feature within. Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will start by identify what a slum mean, and related this to the favelas of Year 8 that they have learned about.Then students will locate Kibera, Kenya globally, nationally and locally. Then students will identify which of the effect of population growth is the worst for people living in slums and why. Finally students will attempt their first high tariff 6 mark question, this will be done in a writing frame with lots of teacher guidance for support. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Identify the features of a slum and how it relates to favelas in Brazil. Task 2: Describe the location of Kibera, Kenya. Task 3: Explain the main challenges faced by those living in slums Task 4: Identify which is the biggest challenge and why. Task 5: Exam Question: Explain two issues you have studied in an urban settlement (6 marks) Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe the location of the continent of Africa using longitude and latitude, then describe the physical features of Africa that are present. Finally students will log into laptops and use the worksheet provided to produce a GIS map of the different physical features of Africa along with annotations of their maps and what they see. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Description of Africa using longitude and latitude. Task 2: Describing the physical features using compass points in Africa. Task 3: Main Task: Using GIS online students will create a map with different physical features present in Africa. Task 4: Plenary: Home Learning on the physical features of Africa (On last slide of powerpoint) Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe the location of the continent of South America using longitude and latitude, then describe the physical features of South America that are present. Finally students will log into laptops and use the worksheet provided to produce a GIS map of the different physical features of South America along with annotations of their maps and what they see. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Description of South America using longitude and latitude. Task 2: Describing the physical features using compass points in South America Task 3: Main Task: Using GIS online students will create a map with different physical features present in South America Task 4: Plenary: Home Learning on the physical features of South America (On last slide of powerpoint) Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.