An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about Tectonic Hazards around the world and the effects they have on both LICs and HICs.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe what natural hazards are, different types of natural hazards, and describe the structure of the earth. Then students will investigate the structure of the Earth along with learning about plate tectonic theory and continental drift, this will then be used to describe the plate boundaries along with their characteristics and physical features. Finally students will learn about the Christchurch 2011 (HIC) case study and the Haiti 2010 (LIC) as two areas of contrasting wealth along with the effects and long term/short term responses.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Natural Hazards
Lesson 2: Structure of the Earth
Lesson 3: Plate Tectonics and Plate Boundaries
Lesson 4: Christchurch Earthquake
Lesson 5: Haiti Earthquake
Lesson 6: Tectonic Hazards Mitigation and Adaptation.
Lesson 7: Comparing Christchurch and Haiti Earthquakes
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 geography this bundle is great for Year 7 in their first term at school. This gets students familiar with geographical concepts of fieldwork, data, human and physical geography. This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly conduct fieldwork investigation into the environment of their school to get them engaged in geography and explain why it is important along with data collection and presentation. Then students will investigate the location of the UK, this is done to provide a strong basis for all students regardless of primary school. This includes continents, countries, seas and the use of longitude and latitude. Students will then learn about the climate and weather of the UK, the case study of the River Severn along with its basic features of a river and the Holderness Coast along with headlands and bays and a quick introduction of geology. Then students will investigate human geography and its features of human settlements and scales along with identifying major UK cities and the density/sparseness. Finally students end on the case study of Leeds and its importance as a UK city.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Fieldwork
Lesson 2: Data and Fieldwork
Lesson 3: Climate of the UK
Lesson 4: Rivers of the UK
Lesson 5: Coasts of the UK
Lesson 6: Cities of the UK
Lesson 7: Importance of Leeds
Students will gain a variety of skills such as fieldwork, data collection and manipulation along with manipulation. Along with OS map reading and bar chart analysis
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 9 in their first term back at school. This helps to get students familiar again with physical geographical concepts of rivers, coasts, climate, sand dunes and plate tectonics. This bundle also contains a tutorial on GIS mapping for students to have a go mapping Africa to see its physical features.
This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly begin by using GIS to map the physical features of Africa and identify its location globally as well as its individual countries. Then students will go through the climate and misconceptions of Africa along with creating a climate graph and manipulating and using data. Next students will recap the water cycle, transportation and erosion to learn about Delta formation, specifically in the context of the Niger Delta. Then switching the plate tectonics students recap the theory and structure of the Earth before investigating shield and composite volcanoes as well as the African Rift Valley. Finally students learn about the formation of sand dunes and how they bring tourist opportunities as well as headlands, bays and spit formation along the African coastline.
Lesson 1: Mapping Africa using GIS
Lesson 2: Physical Features of Africa
Lesson 3: The Climate of Africa
Lesson 4: The Niger Delta
Lesson 5: The East African Rift Valley
Lesson 6: Sand Dunes at Sossusvlei
Lesson 7: Coasts of Africa
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data collection and manipulation along with creation of graphs and reading OS maps.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about Brazil and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately locate Brazil and its surrounding countries, the distribution of its population due to human and physical factors and how urbanisation has impacted Rio with favelas and squatter settlements. Finally, students will investigate the Amazon Rainforest
Lesson 1: Location, Climate and Importance of Brazil
Lesson 2: Inequalities in Brazil
Lesson 3: Impacts of Urbanisation in Brazil
Lesson 4: Life in a favela
Lesson 5: Positives of urbanisation in Brazil
Lesson 6: Importance of the Amazon Rainforest
Lesson 7: Exploitation of the Amazon Rainforest
Lesson 8: Protecting the Amazon Rainforest
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, creation of climate graphs and case study analysis.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS4 geography about the changing economic world of the UK. This will include how employment structure has changed through time, how industry affects the environment along with changes to rural areas and transport infastructure.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately
outline how/ why the UK’s employment has changed. Investigate the change in rural areas due to population increase and decrease. How Heathrow’s expansion can be a benefit and a drawback along with the UK’s connections to countries in the wider world.
Lesson 1: Changing Employment Structure in the UK
Lesson 2: Impacts of Industry on the Physical Environment
Lesson 3: Changing Rural Landscapes in the UK
Lesson 4: North-South Divide in England
Lesson 5: Changing UK Transport Infrastructure
Lesson 6: Heathrow Expansion
Lesson 7: UK’s Connection to the Wider World
Lesson 8: The UK and the Wider World - EU and Commonwealth
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation and interpretation along with graph analysis.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about inequality and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately
define inequality, global debt, positives and negatives of aid in developing countries and how to measure development. Finally students will focus on how the UK has inequalities in education, health and the North South divide.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Inequality
Lesson 2: Debt in Developing Countries
Lesson 3: Aid Positives and Negatives
Lesson 4: Measuring Development
Lesson 5: Global Inequalities
Lesson 6: Inequalities in the UK: North South Divide
Lesson 7: Education Inequality
Lesson 8: Health Inequalities in the UK
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 geography about Earth’s past climate and today’s climate change and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately
outline how the Earth’s climate has changed over time, and accurately define the enhanced greenhouse effect. Students will investigate the Ice Age and its effects on Homo-Sapiens and megafauna. Students will investigate why the UK has a temperate climate, how climate change affects the UK, and look globally at how areas with contrasting wealth (Bangladesh and Maldives) are affected by climate change and how they plan to mitigate/adapt to it.
Lesson 1: Climate Change
Lesson 2: Evidence of Climate Change
Lesson 3: Animals of the Ice Age
Lesson 4: Ice Age and the Effects on Earth
Lesson 5: Climate of the UK
Lesson 6: Climate Change Effect in the UK
Lesson 7: Effects of Climate Change in Bangladesh
Lesson 8: Effects of Climate Change in the Maldives
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation and interpretation along with map reading and climate graph reading.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about conflict and its features. This bundle contains 10 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately
define conflict, its effects on people and the environment. How conflict has affected the Middle East along with countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and how Russia is involved in modern conflicts. Finally asking the questions of how do we affect conflict.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Conflict
Lesson 2: How Conflict Affects Geography
Lesson 3: How Physical Geography Effects Conflict
Lesson 4: Middle East’s Physical Geography
Lesson 5: War in Iraq, Physical Geography
Lesson 6: Development in Afghanistan
Lesson 7: Russia and Conflict
Lesson 8: Russia Ukraine Conflict 2022
Lesson 9: Salisbury Poisoning
Lesson 10: How do we cause conflict?
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation, map skills, and climate graph interpretation.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 in geography introducing students to geography, its different types, and map skills. This bundle contains 9 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to identify the continents, countries and oceans of Earth, discuss the different types of geography and begin to read and interpret graphs.
Lesson 1 - Continents and Countries
Lesson 2 - Continents and Oceans
Lesson 3- Different Types of Geography
Lesson 4 - Cartography
Lesson 5- Reading Maps
Lesson 6 - Compass Points
Lesson 7- Scale on a Map
Lesson 8 - Height on a Map
Lesson 9 -Measuring Distance
Students will gain a variety of skills such as map reading, interpreting data, and applying the information to maps.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about river landscapes in the UK. Covering aspects such as erosion, transportation, deposition and features formed from these
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe how and why a river changes from source to mouth, with references to features on each course along with the erosional, depositional and transportations reasons for each formation. Students will then identify what causes flooding to happen, identifying features of a hydrograph and what natural and human factors cause flooding. Finally students will look at a case study about how management strategies are used to minimise the effects of flooding. With a specific case study at a management strategy used.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Rivers
Lesson 2: Erosion, Transportation and Deposition
Lesson 3: Upper Course River Features
Lesson 4: Middle Course River Features
Lesson 5: Lower Course River Features
Lesson 6: Case Study of the River Aire
Lesson 7: Factors that Affect Flood Risk
Lesson 8: Understanding Hydrographs
Lesson 9: Flooding- Hard Engineering
Lesson 10: Flooding - Soft Engineering
Lesson 11: York Flood Management scheme
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about Russia and its features. This bundle contains 11 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately locate Russia and it’s surrounding countries, the distribution of its population due to human and physical factors and how plant and animal life has adapted to its climactic conditions. Along with a case study investigation into Chernobyl and how it affected Russia.
Lesson 1: Where is Russia
Lesson 2: Population Distribution in Russia
Lesson 3: Biomes of Russia
Lesson 4: Plants and Animals in Russia
Lesson 5: Taiga Forest Threats
Lesson 6: Chernobyl, What Happened?
Lesson 7: Russia’s Importance in Europe
Lesson 8: What is happening with the Russia Ukraine conflict 2022
Lesson 9: River Volga’s Waterfalls
Lesson 10: River Volga’s Meanders
Lesson 11: River Volga’s Levees
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, creation of climate graphs and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about Weather Hazards and their formation along with effects.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe the distribution of the climate globally using the GAC. Then describe the location and formation of tropical storms along with their effects through the case study of Typhoon Haiyan. Next students will look at the weather of the UK and finally describe an extreme UK weather event. In the last few lessons students will look at our changing climate and how this occurs both naturally and also anthropogenically, they will identify the effects and how we can adapt and mitigate them.
Lesson 1: Global Atmospheric Circulation Model (GAC)
Lesson 2: Tropical Storms
Lesson 3: Future of Tropical Storms
Lesson 4: Effects and Responses to Typhoon Haiyan
Lesson 5: UK Weather Hazards
Lesson 6: Beast from the East
Lesson 7: Climate Change: Natural Causes
Lesson 8: Climate Change: Human Causes
Lesson 9: Climate Change: Effects
Lesson 10: Mitigating Climate Change
Lesson 11: Adapting to Climate Change
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in GCSE geography about Natural, Tectonic and Weather Hazards around the world and the effects they have on both LICs and HICs. This bundle also covers the climate change topic as well.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Natural Hazards
Lesson 2: Structure of the Earth
Lesson 3: Plate Tectonics and Plate Boundaries
Lesson 4: Christchurch Earthquake
Lesson 5: Haiti Earthquake
Lesson 6: Tectonic Hazards Mitigation and Adaptation.
Lesson 7: Comparing the Christchurch and Haiti Earthquakes
Lesson 8: Global Atmospheric Circulation Model (GAC)
Lesson 9: Tropical Storms
Lesson 10: Future of Tropical Storms
Lesson 11: Effects and Responses to Typhoon Haiyan
Lesson 12: UK Weather Hazards
Lesson 13: Beast from the East
Lesson 14: Climate Change: Natural Causes
Lesson 15: Climate Change: Human Causes
Lesson 16: Climate Change: Effects
Lesson 17: Mitigating Climate Change
Lesson 18: Adapting to Climate Change
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe what natural hazards are, different types of natural hazards, and describe the structure of the earth. Then students will investigate the structure of the Earth along with learning about plate tectonic theory and continental drift, this will then be used to describe the plate boundaries along with their characteristics and physical features. Finally students will learn about the Christchurch 2011 (HIC) case study and the Haiti 2010 (LIC) as two areas of contrasting wealth along with the effects and long term/short term responses.
In weather hazards students will be able to accurately describe the distribution of the climate globally using the GAC. Then describe the location and formation of tropical storms along with their effects through the case study of Typhoon Haiyan. Next students will look at the weather of the UK and finally describe an extreme UK weather event. In the last few lessons students will look at our changing climate and how this occurs both naturally and also anthropogenically, they will identify the effects and how we can adapt and mitigate them.