Full scheme of work with lessons and additional wider reading articles for relevant lessons. Includes theory, lesson activities as well as homework tasks. There is also some exam practice and 20 mark framework lesson material as well.
I have also have all GCSE units if you are looking for those.
Lesson 1: Intro
Lesson 2: Megacities
Lesson 3: World cities
Lesson 4+5: Changes in Contemporary Urban Environments
Lesson 6+7: Reasons for change: deindustrialisation
Lesson 8: Reasons for change: decentralisation
Lesson 9: Reasons for change: Urban resurgence
Lesson 10 Urban form
Lesson 11+12: Social and economic issues
Lesson 13: 20 mark planning
Lesson 14: Urban climate
Lesson 15: Urban drainage
Lesson 16: River restoration
Lesson 17: Waste
Lesson 18: Air pollution
Lesson 19: Water pollution and dereliction
Lesson 20: Sustainable urban developments
Lesson 21: Case studies
Additionally in the folder are some mini quizzes using Google Forms and checklists/note reviews.
An engaging, in-depth full scheme of work of 30 lessons. It includes a variety of learning tasks, videos, exam practice and interleaving of knowledge. Exemplar uploaded so that you can preview the type of content.
Supported by Oxford Press textbook.
Breakdown of lessons
What is development?
Limitations of development measures
DTM
Development and population
Differences in development
Consequences of development: inequality
Consequences of development: migration
The development gap
Reducing the development gap: aid
Reducing the development gap: intermediate technology
Reducing the development gap: free and fair trade (2 lessons)
Reducing the development gap: debt relief and micro finance
Reducing the development gap: Tourism in Jamaica case study
Exam technique
Exploring Nigeria (2 lessons)
Nigeria: political and global links
Nigeria: TNCs
Nigeria: TNC environmental impact
Aid and quality of life
Review
UK: Changing UK economy
UK: Post industrial economy
UK: Science parks
UK: Environmental impact of industry
UK:Changing rural landscapes
UK: Transport improvements
UK: North-south divide
UK: Links to wider world
A full and engaging scheme of work for The Challenge of Natural Hazards GCSE.
25 lessons in total that include a variety of tasks, videos, exam practice and interleaving of knowledge. Exemplar lesson uploaded to give you an idea of content.
Lesson breakdown:
Earth’s structure and plates
Plate boundaries
Earthquakes
Nepal/Chile: contrasting case studies
Why do people live on plate boundaries
Plan, predict, prepare
Revision (2 lessons)
Global circulation
Tropical storms 2 lessons
Haiyan mapping
UK weather hazards
UK extreme weather
Case study: extreme weather
Application of case study/map skills
Climate change
Natural causes of climate change
Human causes of climate change
Managing climate change
Adapting to climate change
Review lesson
Revision lesson
A full and engaging scheme of work for Urban Issues and Challenges.
19 Lessons in total that include a variety of tasks, videos, exam practice and interleaving of knowledge. Exemplar lesson uploaded to give you an idea of content.
Check my page for other geography schemes of work.
Lesson breakdown:
An urban world
Why do cities grow (2 lessons)
Rio: introduction
Rio: social challenges
Rio: economic challenges
Rio: environmental challenges
Rio: favelas
Rio: favela development
UK: urban areas
Bristol: location and importance
Bristol: social and economic opportunities
Bristol: environmental challenges
Bristol: dereliction and urban sprawl
Bristol: new housing
Bristol: regeneration
Bristol: creating a clean environment
Bristol: social inequalities
Freiburg: urban sustainability
Make revision more diagnostic and allow it to show progress.
These revision checklists can have a significant effect on your results.
They can be regularly RAG rated to show progress - this could be in class or set as homework
They ensure students revise all parts of the specification
They can be delivered either through printing, electronically or as a live document via Google classroom.
They are a student friendly version of the GCSE specification ensuring that all content is covered in revision.
If you use the Oxford Press textbook, there are links to the page numbers as well.
Topics covered:
Paper 1
Tectonic and weather hazards
Living world
River environments of the UK
Coastal environments of the UK
Paper 2
Urban issues and challenges
The changing economic world
Resource management
Energy
Please check my page for other resources such as a condensed presentation of all case studies as well as entire SOW.
In this amazing bundle is all that you need to teach the AQA GCSE in Geography and more. This will save you hundreds of hours of preparation (which is what it took to make). Many reviews are 5 star and I have used and adapted these resources over the years to achieve consistently positive progress figures. Buying this bundle will save you over £20.
Lessons have diverse pedagogical techniques and link to numerous past question applications. Lessons include exam structures for 4, 6 and 9 mark questions, videos, group work, individual focused work, questioning and application.
The units are:
Paper One:
The challenge of natural hazards
The living world
UK Landscapes: River landscapes
UK landscapes: coastal landscapes
Paper Two:
Urban issues and challenges
The changing economic world
Resource management
Energy
There are also other materials include.
Case study overview for revision
Learning checklists for revision
Revision booklets for some topics.
Lessons can utilise the textbook pictured. Enjoy!
All lessons have diverse pedagogical techniques and activities. These include: Do it Now tasks, video tasks, independent work, group work, quizzes, maths skills, leaflet creation. There are key links to the GCSE specification - skills, fossil fuel case study, hot deserts and adaptations.
There is also a short written assessment included as part of the scheme of work.
Lesson 1: Countries
Lesson 2: Climate of the Middle East
Lesson 3 Adaptations
Lesson 4 Population distribution
Lesson 5: Oil
Lesson 6: How has the UAE developed?
Lesson 7: Why is Yemen so poor?
Lesson 8 Conflict in the Middle East
Lesson 9: Assessment
This is an attractive condensing of all of the GCSE case studies for Paper 1 and Paper 2.
It highlights all of the key elements of the case studies for:
Paper 1:
Hazards - weather and tectonic
Living World
UK river landscapes
UK coastal landscapes
Paper 2:
Urban Issues
Changing economic world
Resource management
Energy
Something a little different but both engaging and foundational for introducing the themes in the GCSE course.
This is a full scheme of work that is ready to go and has been taught. It has a range of different pedagogical strategies throughout the scheme of work. It also builds skills around the describe, explain and evaluate command words needed for GCSE. This is suitable for Year 8 or 9.
Lesson Outlines
The geography of crime - exploration of crime and using the ‘explain’ command word
Crime and place - 4 mark exam question structure as well as evaluating a policing strategy in a specific place
Fear of crime - work on 4 and 6 mark exam question structures
Mapping crime - choropleth mapping exercise
Designing out crime - drawing exercise will need to be adapted to your location by changing the location)
Jack the Ripper - how human geography affected crime
Oceanic crime - modern day piracy, exploring development
Rainforest crime - group work task with evaluation
The heroin trail - atlas tasks as well as exploring development/GDP.
Civil war - explores Syria and the resulting migration
Assessment - full written assessment pro forma included
If you like this scheme of work, please do give it 5 stars and check out my other schemes of work as I have both KS3, KS4 and KS5 resources.
This is a full scheme of work for the ‘Resource Management’ unit. After this unit, teachers/students have a choice of specialising in Food/Water/Energy for questions 4/5/6. I have included my SOW lessons for Energy at no extra cost in case this is useful.
Lessons include starters, a range of learning exercises supported with exam application, as well as learning checks.
Resource management lessons.
Lesson 1+2 Essential resources
Lesson 3 UK demanded for food
Lesson 4 UK demand for water
Lesson 5 Water pollution
Lesson 6 UK energy
Lesson 7 Energy debate
Lesson 8 Exam practice
Energy lessons:
Lesson 1 Energy insecurity
Lesson 2 Impacts of energy insecurity
Lesson 3 Strategies to increase energy production
Lesson 4 Fossil fuel case study
Lesson 5 Sustainable energy use
Lesson 6 Micro hydro scheme: Chambamontera
A scheme of work that lasts a half term which includes a diverse range of lesson activities from videos, group work as homework.
Lesson outlines
Ice and ice ages
Melting ice
Glacial landforms
Tourism in Antarctica
Living with ice
Glacial map skills
Mapping landforms
Mapping landforms 2
Tourism in the Alps
Protecting Antarctica
If you need any further KS3 or GCSE SOW please do check out my page for 5* rated resources.
A scheme of work that lasts a half term which includes a diverse range of lesson activities from videos, group work as homework. An assessment is also included.
Lesson outlines
Globalisation
TNCs
Globalisation and textile industry
Positives and negatives of globalisation
Globalisation leaflet lesson
Globalisation and development
Global food supply
If you need any further KS3 or GCSE SOW please do check out my page for 5* rated resources.
A complete working document for students to complete either as revision or as a working from home document.
It is created in Powerpoint to allow students to be a little more interactive with it through setting it on Google classroom etc.
It could just as easily be set as a Word or paper based document if needed.
Includes different revision exercises and links to application through exam questions. Case studies are: Malaysian rainforest and Thar desert.
Powerpoint and PDF files are included.
A full scheme of work with a range of different learning activities to engage all.
I have all of the AQA units for GCSE geography on my page if you like the style of these.
Lesson 1: Hydrological cycle
Lesson 2: Drainage basin
Lesson 3: Long profile
Lesson 4: Erosion and transportation
Lesson 5: Upper course features
Lesson 6: Upper course features cont.
Lesson 7: Middle course features
Lesson 8: Lower course features
Lesson 9: Hydrographs
Lesson 10: Engineering strategies
Lesson 11: UK flood case study
Lesson 12: Application
There are also some revision parts in there. I also have the exam checklists available for all units, so please download them to guide revision.
A full unit of work with a range of different learning tasks and exam question practice built in. There are also some Google self marking quizzes that you can use in Google classroom, if you use this.
I have all units of work for all of the Human and Physical geography if you enjoy these.
Lesson 1: Weathering and introduction
Lesson 2: Erosion
Lesson 3: Transportation
Lesson 4: Erosional Landforms
Lesson 5: Erosional Landforms
Lesson 6: Erosional Landforms recap
Lesson 7: Waves
Lesson 8: Spit formation
Lesson 9: Cliff collapse
Lesson 10: Geology of a UK coastline
Lesson 11: Hard engineering
Lesson 12: Soft engineering
Lesson 13: Coastal Management
Lesson 14: Command words
Lesson 15: Revision task
Lesson 16 Revision task
A full and engaging scheme of work for The Challenge of Natural Hazards GCSE.
12 lessons in total that include a variety of pedagogical tasks including videos, exam practice and interleaving of knowledge.
Supported by the Oxford Press textbook
Please check my other page for further 5* rated full schemes of work for the GCSE course.
Lesson breakdown:
Small scale ecosystems
Changes to ecosystems
Global ecosystems
Location and climate of rain forests
5.+6. Case study: Malaysia rain forest (2 lessons)
Managing rainforests
Hot deserts
Opportunities in hot deserts
Challenges to development in hot deserts
Causes of desertification
Exams skills
An engaging scheme of work that lasts a half term which includes a diverse range of lesson activities. I have also included an optional set of lessons that links to the movie Avatar if you have the facilities to play the movie.
Lesson outlines
Location and features
Climate
Layers of the rainforest
Rainforest resources
Pressures on tribes
Rainforest adaptations
Malaysia case study
Managing rainforests (AQA textbook required)
Avatar based lessons
If you need any further KS3 or GCSE SOW please do check out my page for 5* rated resources.
A complete set of lessons with varied pedagogical methods and learning tasks. It also includes skills based work. Lessons have ‘Do it Now’ starter activities. I have numerous 5 star reviews on other SOW, so please do check them out.
I have also included an assessment with potential targets to make marking easier.
Lesson 1+2 Introduction to Russia - mapping and physical features
Lesson 3: Russia’s climate
Lesson 4: Russia’s population
Lesson 5: Russia’s natural resources
Lesson 6: Reflection and mini assessment
Lesson 7: Where is the Middle East
Lesson 8: Climate of the Middle East
Lesson 9: Adaptations
Lesson 10: Oil
Lesson 11: Revision and assessment
This booklet will be invaluable in helping you to gather evidence in the coming weeks and months to give CAGs. They help you to ascertain:
Level of content knowledge
Ability to apply knowledge in exam questions.
The booklet can be either set as a paper copy or electronically with some engaging tasks where students need to be more active in their learning. This is done through Powerpoint.
I have also included a learning checklist to help with revision.
I have other booklets and so if you wish for more than one, there is a bundle at a significant discount.
Powerpoint and PDF versions are both included.
This booklet will be invaluable in helping you to gather evidence in the coming weeks and months to give CAGs. They help you to ascertain:
Level of content knowledge
Ability to apply knowledge in exam questions.
The booklet can be either set as a paper copy or electronically with some engaging tasks where students need to be more active in their learning.
I have also included a learning checklist for help with revision.
I have other booklets and so if you wish for more than one, there is a bundle at a significant discount.