Lesson following the AQA A GCSE OXFORD TEXTBOOK. What is an ecosystem? Lesson looking at defining an ecosystem, abiotic and biotic features, producers, consumers and decomposes, nutrient cycle, food webs and food chains, examples of UK ecosystems, pond ecosystem. Exam question worksheet for pupils.

AQA GEOGRAPHY OXFORD TEXTBOOK NEEDED FOR THIS LESSON. Lesson following the AQA A textbook looking at how to reduce the risk during a tectonic hazard. Lesson using the textbook for higher pupils. For lower ability pupils, they can complete a fill in the method and if it is for earthquakes or volcanoes. Exam question and marks scheme. BONUS - Resources for Living with Tectonic Hazards looking at Iceland.

AQA OXFORD GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOK NEEDED FOR THIS LESSON. Lesson comparing the primary effects, secondary effects, immediate responses and long term response to the 2010 Chile earthquake and 2015 Nepal earthquake. Starter - what do you already know about Nepal and Chile. Using indicators HDI and GDP what can we find out about these countries. Introducing new vocab. Videos demonstrating the effects of the earthquakes. Pupils are creating fact files about the two earthquakes using the textbook. Two exam questions for pupils to answer. Also looking at how the primary effects, secondary effects, immediate response and long term response to volcanic eruptions differ to earthquakes. Worksheet to colour code. Video to create a case study of Montserrat 1997.

Lesson used with Year 9 pupils as the first lesson in the series on The Restless Earth. Choice of starter activities - word search used with lower ability ability, and an image with the 5 Ws used with higher ability pupils. Pupils begin by looking at 7 images of earthquakes and volcanoes, pupils have 30 seconds to view the images and have to record down 3 words to describe the image. Main Task: Pupils look at BBC articles of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that have occurred in 2016. Pupils have to record down information from the articles on a table worksheet. Feedback - all text boxes link to videos about the earthquake or volcanic eruption. Mapping activity if time. Exit ticket plenary.

Poster to display in the classroom to make pupils aware of the changes to grades. What the old A-G grade equivalent is in the new 1-9. (I have it printed in A4 by my desk, and A3 around the room)

Geography AQA A Plate Margins for first teaching in 2016, exams in 2018. Starter: A bridge between two continents video of Iceland. What is happening here? how are the plates moving? Building on prior knowledge, pupils to identify the different ways in which plates can move. Main Task: Pupils are to use information sheets to label diagrams of the different plate margins. Task is modelled. Feedback on slides, discussing/ensuring pupils diagrams are correct. Plenary: Exam Question - with model answer.

Resource to support the new AQA A GSCE Geography Course (start teaching in 2016) looking at topic 2.1 Tectonic Hazards - Distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes. PPT looks at What is an earthquake? Where do earthquakes occur? and Why do earthquakes happen at plate margins. What is a volcano? Where do volcanoes occur? and Why do volcanoes happen at plate margins?. Example of Chile Practise Exam Question Homework Task - North Anatolian Fault Worksheet - Map for location of earthquakes and volcanoes for pupils to describe and annotate.

New resource for the new AQA A Geography Specification for Teaching in September 2016. First lesson looking at What are Natural Hazards? Definition Types of natural hazards Factors that increase hazard risk Practise exam style question Geographical skills - drawing pie charts/divided bar graph and describing pattern on a map. Also included are key words that will be used in the Tectonic Hazard topic.

PowerPoint Slides to look at the difference between weather and climate - plenary activity of statements that relate to either weather and climate. Card sort activity to support different aspects of the weather and how we measure it - great to use if you don't have the equipment in school to demonstrate with. Used with a mixed ability Year 7 class. Very visual resources, fully animated.

Decision making exercise looking at flood zoning. "Town Planners" Pupils are to decide where several aspects of the town should be built in relation to a river that has been known to flood. Pupils have to justify how they have planned the town. Used with a Year 7 mixed ability set. The river document was printed on A3 paper and pupils had to draw on the scale of past flood levels. They also cut and stuck their decisions around their town. Differentiation via the different roles involved - Team Leader, Land Advisor, Architect, Reporter

Information Sheets for the case studies used in Geography AQA A Specification Topic Living World. Amazon Rainforest Atlantic Rainforest Epping Forest Hot Desert MEDC - Australian Outback Hot Desert LEDC - Sahara Desert Also past 8 mark exam questions from 2011-2015

PowerPoint slides to discuss how to identify glacial feature on an OS map. Corrie, Arêtes, Pyramidal Peak, U-shaped Valley, Truncated Spurs.

Following the AQA A Specification for cliff collapse at Christchurch Bay. The lesson examines the causes and the effects of cliff collapse. Includes a sketch map of the coastline and exam style question.

Starter activity using peoples opinion of wind power - who do you most agree with? Card sort activity / worksheet whereby information is categorised into facts and statistics surrounding wind power, advantages or disadvantages. Pupils evaluate if the UK should use wind power - written task Finish with an opinion line - pupils stand up/ post it note where they fit along the line. Lesson used with top set and middle set and bottom set Year 8 pupils in the topic of Resources. Additional SEN resources - colour code, facts statistics, advantages and disadvantages also a writing frame.

PowerPoint and resources to be used for AQA A - Rising Sea Levels. A comparison of the impacts of sea level rise on both the Maldives and the UK. Pupils can annotate facts around a map of the Maldives, create a table of the social, economic, environmental and political impacts of SLR. Pupils can use the ripple diagram, to identify, global, regional and local scale impacts. Compare to the issues that could result if sea levels rise in East England, and answer an exam style question with mark scheme.

Social, economic, environmental impacts and the response to Hurricane Katrina.

PowerPoint and resources to be used when teaching AQA A Coastal Habitats using Studland Bay as a case study. Looking at the the ecosystem, issues, solutions and conflict. NEW: Overview of the topic to be used as a revision aid.

A biome card sort with coniferous forest, desert, mountain, Mediterranean, savannah, temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, tropical forests and tundra