A fully resourced lesson exploring the costs and benefits of urban sprawl and the growth of commuter settlements.
It includes a pre-made worksheet and challenge tasks which do not require the use of any other resources such as textbooks.
A guided reading worksheet on inequalities in Bristol as part of the Urban Issues and Challenges unit. Focuses on the economic and social inequalities between Filwood and Stoke Bishop.
Can be used as a standalone activity or added to a lesson that you already.
Perfect for homework or cover work if needed.
A summary worksheet on the causes of, and strategies to reduce, the UK’s ‘North-South Divide’. Contains a gap fill activity using key words to explain the causes followed by a colour coding activity based around strategies to reduce it.
A scaffolded mind-map worksheet which is designed to be used with pages 172-173 of the Oxford University Press textbook ‘GCSE Geography AQA’.
The worksheet is design to give a simple structure to guide students on retrieving key information from the material in the above textbook.
A lesson designed for Year 7 which introduces the different types of resources and the concept of sustainability.
Includes the following:
key terms and definitions (inc. non-renewable, renewable)
identify and naming the different types of resources
video link to sustainability (in notes of powerpoint)
gap fill explanation paragraph on linking sustainability and resources
MS Forms quiz to assess progress (in notes of powerpoint)
Each extended independent task has a challenge.
A bundle of two fully resourced lessons on environmental opportunities and challenges in Bristol, which are linked directly to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification.
A worksheet designed to provide a template for making notes on the location and importance of Bristol. This worksheet is perfect for a cover lesson or for setting as homework. It is designed to be used with pages 166-167 of the Oxford University ‘GCSE Geography AQA’ textbook.
Three board games (made on publisher) for Paper 2 of the 8035 GCSE Geog. Sepcification.
One board game for Section A (Urban Issues and Challenges), one board game for Section B (Changing Economic World) and one board game for Section C (Challenge of Resource Management, with a focus on water).
The board games include some questions focused around named examples and case studies, however these can be very easily adapted in publisher by just changing the names to those relevant to your school/department
Case studies and examples included:
Board Game 1:
Bristol as a UK city
Rio de Janeiro as a city in an NEE
Board Game 2:
India as a country in an NEE
Tourism in India
Board Game 3:
South to North Transfer Scheme in China for large scale water
Ice Stupas in Ladakh for sustainable water supplies
A revision sheet that summarises the strategies to reduce the development gap as part of the changing economic world unit in the 8035 GCSE Geography course (AQA).
Can be used as a standalone activity or with the blue GCSE AQA Geography textbook. Ideal for revision or as use as a long-term catch up activity for students with poor attendance.
Best enlarged onto A3 when printed.
A standalone guided reading worksheet on tourism in Jamaica, which focuses on how it is being used a strategy to reduce the development gap.
This does not need to be used with any other resource and could be set as a homework or main class activity.
Jamaica is often a named example used in the Changing Economic World part of Paper 2.
Recommended to enlarge the worksheet to A3 when printing.
A double sided revision sheet for the fieldwork part of the 8035 GCSE Geography course.
It includes a recap of the fieldwork enquiry process and then has a section on each strand in more detail.
It includes a recap on key words and their meanings and sections for students to add details on their own fieldwork investigations e.g. their enquiry questions/hypothesis, data collection, data presentation, conclusions etc.
There are also some practice style questions to apply knowledge, understanding and skills.
Can be easily adapted if needed and can be used as a standalone resource which is ideal for revision or catch-up.
Recommended to enlarge onto A3 when printing.
A summary revision sheet to cover the following parts of the Changing Economic World topic as part of the GCSE AQA Geography course (8035):
development indicators
causes of the development gap
consequences of uneven development
Can be used as a standalone worksheet or with the blue AQA GCSE Geography textbook. Ideal for summarising revision or as catch up resource for students who have large amounts of learning.
A worksheet aimed at KS3 but could be used at KS4 on the main development indicators. First activity involves adding the correct name of the indicator to the correct definition and the second activity requries them to decide if they increase or decrease as a country develops.
Two revision summary sheets on resource management for section C of Paper 2 (AQA 8035 GCSE Geography).
First revision sheet covers food, water and energy in the UK (question 3) and the second covers water (question 4) and uses examples of CAP (Central Arizonia Project) and sand dams in Makeuni, Kenya, however these examples can be easily adapted on the worksheet to match your own.
Great for revision and can be used as a standalone resource and/or with the blue AQA GCSE Geography textbook. Also useful as a catch up tool for students with poor attendance.
Recommended to enlarge to A3 when printing.
A lesson on the causes and impacts of the Beast from the East (2018).
It explores the causes of the Beast from the East, with the aid of a short video and gives students a written activity based on explaining this.
The second part of the lesson focuses on some of the impacts - with an activity on categorising the impacts into social / economic / environmental and then an extended written piece using a PEEL structure to explain the impacts. The extended written task also includes a model example before students are expected to complete their own independent explanation.
Designed to last 1 hour.
Three sets of self-reflection worksheets for Paper 1, 2 & 3 of the AQA GCSE Geography (8035) exams from May/June 2019.
These are a useful template for students self-reflecting on these exam papers if used as mock exams or general practice papers.
They contain a column for writing their own mark for each exam question as well as a set of self-reflection questions at the end, focusing on their performance in each of the x3 sections of Papers 1 and 2 and in the sections of Paper 3.
A very simple PDF and word document for Year 7 students to complete remotely based on identifying types of extreme weather in the UK, explaining the impacts of extreme weather in the UK and of the Indian Monsoon.