This is a skills lesson based on the country of Nigeria. It fits into the topics of ‘The Changing Economic World’ and ‘Geographical Skills’ for AQA GCSE. Students will calculate Birth Rate and GDP per capita for different states of Nigeria. This should help them to understand these development indicators more clearly and be able to distinguish between Birth Rate and Fertility Rate. They will then create a choropleth map to show the variation in Birth Rate in different states of Nigeria. They will also complete 2 scatter graphs (axes are provided) to show the relationship between Birth Rate and GDP per capita and Birth Rate and Fertility Rate. There are then some exam style questions to help them understand the data and analyse it. Suggested answers are also provided. All worksheets are ‘hidden slides’ on the Powerpoint so that it can be saved as one file.

This lesson is currently used towards the end of year 7, but would be equally useful for any KS3 group, or as an introduction at GCSE. Pupils will be asked at the start of the lesson to justify whether or not they think that China is developed. During the lesson, a card sort will help pupils to create a map showing the development of different regions of China. At the end of the lesson, pupils are asked to look back at their answer to the question of how developed China is and see explain whether or not they’ve changed their mind. There is a second bellwork included in the powerpoint incase you don’t get through it all in one lesson.

This is a key stage 3 lesson that we currently use in our food unit. The main part of the lesson is a decision making exercise where students have to read an annotated map with information about countries where we might source food from. They then have to make a decision on where to source 6 products for their supermarkets. The planning stage involves thinking about price, environmental, animal and worker standards. The plenary asks students to think about the demographics of who will shop at their supermarket. There is also a glossary for students to stick in their books and refer to, in order to help them with the main task.

For AQA GCSE Geography Grades 9-1 Economic Features of the UK. Main task is learning about Jaguar Land Rover through videos and handouts. All resources included

This is a 30 mark end of unit assessment on the topic of ‘Physical Landscapes in the UK’. There are questions on Coasts, Rivers and Glaciers. Pupils will only answer 2 of the 3 questions, so you can decide as a school to only print the necessary parts to save printing money if necassary. The Paper 1 GCSE exam, ‘Living with the Physical Environment’ will test this topic in 30 marks, hence the length of the test. I have also written a detailed mark scheme using a similar format to AQA, so this can be used in departments or with students to grade and analyse the assessments. This is saved in the same document as the test.

A Simple lesson which recaps what factors help to define a place, helps students to revise their place studies in a way that is focussed on the AQA specification, looks at an example 4 mark question and marks it and provides a 20 mark question for students who need 20 mark question practice.

This lesson is designed as a recap/revision lesson prior to the Paper 3 exam. It is to help prepare students with 6 and 9 mark questions for the first section of the paper which is based on the pre-release booklet, which this year, is on road building in the Peruvian Amazon. Pupils will brainstorm their own questions based on the structure of questions from last year’s exam. They will then look at some example questions and answers and at the mark scheme. There is also a 9 mark question for them to practise and a mark scheme to help facilitate this.

This lesson was created for a KS3 year 8 class, although I would suggest that it would work for year 9 too. The lesson involves using prior knowledge about latitude and longitude (although this can be gone over quickly if needed) to plot the towns along the Camino de Santiago. Pupils will create a route across northern Spain and then use altitude data to plot this on a line graph. There are a range of questions based on this map & graph which ask students to analyse the data provided and improve their geographical/mathematical skills. The plenary involves asking pupils to work out where each photo was taken, using their map and graph to help.

Made for Edexcel A2 Unit 4, but useful for KS4 and KS5 in all Exam Boards

Includes Powerpoints, lesson plans and resources to teach a SOW on the Olympics. Assessment material included. Keywords: Brownfield, Greenfield, Transport, Developers, Urban

Pupils have to select, from a range of points, how best to develop the initial idea. This particular example is for Storm Desmond, but could easily be adapted for a different question. The aim is to help pupils to move beyond simple statements and to model a Level 3 paragraph for AQA 9-1 GCSE.

2 starters which follow the same format to try and help pupils to improve their SPAG. Addresses common mistakes that I’ve come across whilst teaching.

Doesn't contain all of the lessons, but most of them. Scheme of Work to use with A Level AQA Geography.

Lesson 3 for KS3 unit of work on food. I have adapted this resource from someone else. Excellent activity based on the ‘hunger games’. Students will have to try and solve world hunger by cutting out bananas. Cards will be given to either help or hinder their production, based on real life scenarios facing farmers overseas.

Students have £100 per group to bid on real or fake coastal images. The aim is to get as many authentic ones as possible. Starter or plenary idea to revise coastal features and coastal management

Lesson 3 in the Resource Management Scheme of Work. Pupils will be creating a map to show water stress across the UK and then completing a comprehension activity based on an article from the RGS about Water Stress and Water Policy in the UK

10 Marks worth of exam questions on development indicators to use as part of revision. No mark scheme as (hopefully) the questions should be fairly straightforward to mark.

Lesson 2 in the Resource Management Scheme of Work. Discusses the causes and impacts of the UK’s reliance on importing food. Pupils will create a pie chart about the breakdown of the cost of purchasing mangetout. They will then use 2 handouts to define, or contrast ‘Agribusiness’ and ‘Organic Farms’.

Lesson 1 of he Manchester set of lessons for the Urban Case Study. Other lessons available to purchase if you like this introduction lesson. For AQA grades 9-1 Geography GCSE. Includes a booklet for students to work through. Includes sharing own knowledge of Manchester, looks at different viewpoints of Manchester through marking on a map of the city, includes a video and structured note taking on the history of Manchester, and completing a compound bar chart based on census data.