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.
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 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 lesson that explores Nigeria’s quality of life, which includes:
- 5 question quiz starter based on aid in Nigeria to re-cap previous learning
- graph activity to describe changes to Nigeria’s HDI
- development indicator activity for students to explore different ways Nigeria’s quality of life has changed
- consolidation activity which brings together the concept of quality of life improving in the south far more than the north. This builds on the knowledge and understanding from the rest of the unit however is available in two differentiated versions to support students at different ability levels.
A worksheet designed to be used with the Oxford University Press ‘GCSE Geography AQA’ textbook, pages 204-207, for 8035 specification. A great resource for cover lessons.
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 fully resourced lesson exploring the environmental opportunities in Bristol, focusing on urban greening and integrated transport systems.
It includes a worksheet which requires students to use pages 172-173 in the Oxford University ‘AQA GCSE Geography’ textbook. It also includes an activity focused around how the environmental opportunities can benefit the population’s quality of life.
A fully resourced lesson exploring the environmental challenges in Bristol, focusing on dereliction, brownfield sites, urban sprawl and waste.
It includes pre-made worksheets and challenge tasks which requires the Oxford University Press textbook for ‘GCSE Geography AQA’.
**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.
**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
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 2 – Challenge of Resource Management - Water
This x12 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.
If this powerpoint is printed as a 2 slide handout, each powerpoint slide can be cut out and forms a very handy one-sided summary flashcard for students to use. These can then be treasury tagged together to form a set of flashcards to revise from.
Included examples of:
• Large Scale Water Transfer Scheme – South to North, China
• Local Scheme in a LIC/NEE – Ice Stupas, Ladakh
Six A3 revision board games which can be printed and laminated to provide an interactive revision games for students to test their knowledge of Papers 1 & 2 of the AQA GCSE Geography course. Each board game can be edited in publisher to match school’s own case studies and examples, if needed.
The board games included are:
Paper 1:
Section A- Natural Hazards (inc. Nepal and Chile earthquake, Typhoon Haiyan and Somerset Levels Floods)
Section B - The Living World (inc. Malaysian rainforest, Sahara Desert and pond ecosystem)
Section C - Physical Landscapes (inc. coasts and rivers)
Paper 2:
4. Section A - Urban Issues & Challenges (inc. Bristol and Rio de Janeiro as cities)
5. Section B - Changing Economic World (inc. India and UK economy)
6. Section C - Resource Management - focusing on water (inc. examples of South to North Transfer Scheme in China and Ice Stupas in Ladakh)
Workbook used to cover the location, impacts and responses of Super Typhoon Haiyan.
Includes:
gap fill activities
true or false quiz
categorising information into tables
photograph analysis skills
flashcard tick list
Two A4 summary sheets which includes:
summary of why airports, ports, roads and railways are important for the UK economy
improvement / increasing capacity schemes (colour coding activity for each type of transport focusing on: Heathrow expansion, Liverpool2, dualling of A30 in Cornwall and HS2.
Can be used as as stand alone worksheet.
PDF and word copies available in download.
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 2 - Urban Issues and Challenges - UK City - Bristol
This x34 slide powerpoint provides a useful summary of the case study on Bristol and 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.
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 knowledge organiser for some of the numeracy skills that students studying GCSE Geography (AQA) may be asked to use in exams.
It’s a 2 page document which includes:
definition of each numeracy measure
step by step guide on how to calculate it
a worked/model example for each
advantage and disadvantage for each measure
top tip reminders
Includes the following numeracy/statistical skills:
mean (average)
median
mode
range
percentage change
interquartile range
A double sided revision sheet on fieldwork for the Paper 3 exam as part of the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography course. The revision sheet has a section on each strand of the enquiry process, which includes opportunities to consolidate students own fieldwork investigations.
Unseen fieldwork questions is a double sided A3 worksheet which gives students the opportunity to practice the unseen style fieldwork questions.