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.

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.

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.

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.

A lesson aimed at key stage 3 geographers, discussing where we get from from in the UK. Also looking at which countries import and export more produce and why. The lesson involves a think pair share, a task for students to work out the meaning of key terms in context and paragraph practise using a handout. There is also a plenary which involves peer assessment.

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.

An introduction to epidemiology. Asks students to place certain events on a timeline to show how the disease has spread, locate 4 countries and then complete a line graph to show the number of cases in these countries. Students will then describe their graphs, create a prediction as to what will happen next and think about how social distancing will affect their predictions. There is a KS4 and KS5 version of this lesson also available and I hope to write a follow up lesson over the Easter Holidays.

Continues from the first lesson a couple of weeks ago. Asks students to look back at their predictions to see how the virus has increased, calculate the cases per million of the population and then the fatality rate. Students will then think about why the fatality rate varies in different countries and come up with a prediction of how the number of deaths will change over the next few weeks. There is a KS3 and KS5 version of this lesson also available and I hope to write a third lesson about coronavirus hotspots in the UK over the next couple of weeks.

This is the third lesson in the coronavirus series. This lesson looks at 4 risk factors for the disease and explores the reasons behind these risk factors (Ethnicity, Poverty, Health and Age). Students will then look at maps to show the distribution of these risk factors across the country and make predictions as to where they think the death toll will be highest. They will then compare their predictions to a death map created by the ONS and comment on which of the risk factors provided the most/least accurate prediction. There is a key stage 4 version of this lesson which uses slightly more tricky terminology, but there isn’t a large difference in these lessons.

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.