A lesson on the causes and impacts of the Hurricane Irma (2017) with a focus on the impacts on Antigua and Barbuda.
It explores the causes of Hurricane Irma, 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.
Starter questions
A range of explanation slides
A range of short knowledge focused tasks
Opportunity for exam practice at the end
Stretch/challenge tasks on each power-point slide.
Lesson is designed for 55-65 minute lessons.
*Lesson will require students to have access to the GCSE Geography AQA Student Book (GCSE Geography AQA 2016) Paperback – 28 April 2016
A joint bundle of handouts for parents. One set includes an option evening handout which is helpful to outline the GCSE AQA Geography course for parents and students. The second set is a handout for use at parents’ evening for GCSE Geography students.
Both can easily be adapted as they come as powerpoint documents.
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 3 – Challenge of Resource Management - Water
This x36 slide powerpoint provides a useful summary of the content on the water topic of Section C of Paper 2. It is matched to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification. It contains pit-stop questions and summarised content to help with planning and delivering revision sessions, which is specifically linked to the specification.
Included examples of:
• Large Scale Water Transfer Scheme – South to North, China
• Local Scheme in a LIC/NEE – Ice Stupas, Ladakh
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 worksheet on weather, which includes:
Task 1 - students read the different elements of weather and match them to the correct definition.
Task 2 - students have to identify the type of weather shown in the photographs.
Task 3 - students read some examples of weather and categorise them to show if they have a positive or negative impact on people.
Task 4 - students read a short paragraph explaining the impacts of high temperatures and highlight the connectives and weather elements in two different colours.
Task 5 - students write their own PEEL paragraph to explain how heavy snow can impact people.
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 1 – Living with the Physical Environment – Natural Hazards
This x10 slide powerpoint provides a simple lesson covering what a natural hazard is, categorising the different types of hazard and exploring how urbanisation, development and climate change can affect hazard risk. It also contains a skills based activity which requires students to make a graph showing the fatalities of three natural hazards. It is matched to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification and does not require any other resources.
A lesson which covers the importance of resources for economic and social well being as part of the AQA 8035 Geography course.
Lesson features:
Starter questions
A range of explanation slides
A range of short knowledge focused tasks
Opportunity for exam practice at the end
Lesson is designed for 55-65 minute lessons.
Lesson will require students to have access to the GCSE Geography AQA Student Book (GCSE Geography AQA 2016) Paperback – 28 April 2016
by Simon Ross (Author), Nick Rowles (Author)
A worksheet based on Bristol’s traditional industries and why they have changed.
Part 1 - reading comprehension based on Bristol’s traditional industries. Students read a piece of text and then answer a set of questions.
Part 2 - students highlight the causes and impacts of industrial change using two different colours.
A worksheet on the different types of land use and the links to settlement hierarchy.
Task 1 - students read descriptions of each type of land use and match them to the correct meaning.
Task 2 - students highlight each land use into rural or urban
Task 3/4 - students add the different types of land use for the different settlements in the settlement hierarchy.
Challenge - explain why large settlements have a wider range of land-use.
A set of worksheets, which can be used standalone or as a booklet on the Urban Issues and Challenges unit of work for the AQA (8035) GCSE Geography specification. Examples focus on Bristol and Rio de Janeiro.
Sheets requires the blue Oxford University Press textbooks for the 9-1 GCSE Geography AQA Course.
Three board games (made on publisher) for Paper 1 of the 8035 GCSE Geog. Sepcification.
One board game for Section A (Natural Hazards), one board game for Section B (Living World) and one board game for Section C (Rivers and Coasts only).
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:
Chile earthquake (2010)
Nepal earthquake (2015)
Typhoon Haiyan
Somerset Levels Floods (2014)
Board Game 2:
Freshwater pond ecosystem
Malayisa (TRF)
Sahara (Hot Desert)
Board Game 3:
Swanage coastline for coastal landforms
Holderness coastline for management
Boscastle floods