This lesson is part of the examination assessed unit 1 2013 onwards specification. It covers the role of consumer technologies ; multimedia and online booking systems and their advantages and disadvantages for consumers and businesses. There is so very little out there on this that I hope someone else may benefit from my hours of preparation!

A differentiated main activity to allow students to find important places within the city of Manchester using an OS map. Could easily be adapted to other cities. Good for a range of abilities and incorporates 4 and figure grid references and extention task for independant work of more able using online Bing maps GIS free website.

Made for a year 7 Manchester SOW, this promoted numeracy, literacy and independant research skills. Student pick 10 key historical events that shaped Manchester and present them in a timeline format. Help given to ensure students draw accurate and appropiate scales for their work. Can easily be adapted for another named city.

A greater revision or starter resource to recap on the meanings of keywords from the AQA specification A GCSE curriculum. Students must select the odd word out from sets of 4 to identify differences between types of aid, causes of inequality etc. Answers/ justifications are also provided. Great revision tool for the paper 2 examination. Keywords could also be cut out and used in a ‘pass- the parcel’ revision game- this worked well with my year 11’s.

A versatile and very popular A3 knowelge organiser based on all aspects of enquiry for the human fieldwork element of the AQA specification A curriculum. This is designed on the investigation of the regeneration process in Salford Quays. Completed model-copies can be displayed as a learning tool poster within the classroom. It’s a great way to summarise all their revision in one place.

This is an independant revision activity designed for the Edexcel Unit 1 examination. Students follow the link provided to a slide-share presentation on the UK travel industry and complete a series of short questions to test their knowlege & understanding on tourist boards, man-made & human attractions and the roles of different organisations within the sector. The worksheets prompt students to look at particular slides for their answers. Ideal for use as a homework or with ICT/ internet access.

A good worksheet aimed at exam skills of photo annotation ( of a an arch and a bay) and describing a UK named coastline. Students refer to processes of erosion and deposition to explain the formation of landforms along the Dorset/ Swanage Bay area, which is an ‘example’ needed for the Paper 2 examination for AQA . Students then complete a gap fill exercise to answer a 6 mark examination question; '“Describe the human and physical features of a UK coastline you have studied ( 6 marks).

I have put together a 6 page student workbook to guide GCSE students through the content of the pre-release material on tropical rainforests for 2019 AQA summer examination series. This A4 booklet allows student to work through content at their own pace and includes a series of 3 and 4 mark questions to test their understanding on the visual and written sources. There are also links to numeracy skills like mean/ median and mode. We used this format very successfully last year within our department and it is made accessible for all abilities groups.There is a 9 mark question at the end with a differentiated pupil writing frame to help structure their response. This content should take 2-3 hours to complete.

This brief PowerPoint presentation provides links to fee revision resources suitable for most GCSE Geography specifications. Pinterest is a large collection of ideas and productions that can be shared at a glance using eye catching images. Most students use social media so I printed this out and gave it my year 11 classes to inspire them revise in some alternative ways.

This worksheet has 20 questions about the poem ‘Remains’ by Simon Armitage. The worksheet is differentiated with multiple choice options and suitable for lower and middle abilities to complete via distance learning, at home. The poem ’ Remains’ is part of the compulsory literature of poetry that students must study for their GCSE English Literature exam from the ’ power and conflict’. The questions test the student’s ability to independently analyse the language, structure and themes of the poem. There are links to guide the student to support resources for help; including a youtube clips and appropriate BBC Bitesize pages. There are a full set of answers included also, so students or parents can self mark / asses their work.

Bullet journals are a quick and creative way to track your actions, habbits and thoughts over time. This KS2 & KS3 bullet journal colouring exercise, encourages students to reflect on how sustainable they are in their day -to day habits. They are asked to colour in each vertical ’ strand’ of the rainbow to show whether they have completed any of the environmentally helpful actions on a daily basis, over a 25 day period. The students could do this just as a starter at the beginning of each each geography lesson, or consecutively as an ongoing homework task. The aim of the bullet journal is to develop student’s accountability as global citizens by teaching them to lead sustainable lives. This lesson/ worksheet would make a perfect addition to a SOW on sustainability or Earth Day theme. There is also a set of de-brief questions provided for students to answer in class, or as a discussion framework, for them to reflect on how well they have done after the 25 day period. These could be blown up onto A3 and made into colourful displays for the classrooms also.

This introduction lesson on our year 7 topic ‘Pole to Pole’ / Cold climates looks at the climate and landscape features of the Tundra biome. Students analyse a climate graph to look at climatic features, and complete a differentiated reading comprehension exercise to pick ou features of the physical geography and landscape of the tundra. The rest of the 6 lesson on this mini scheme of work can be bought separately, or as a bundle for £8 from my tes shop, see resource entitled ’ Tundra Biome Year 7 SOW’ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/tundra-biome-year-7-sow-siberia-antarctica-12231148

I have picked out 4 separate exam questions from the AQA GCSE Geography specimen papers with the mark scheme attached for mock exam practise. Student must be familiar with statistical analysis and be able to interpret and draw conclusions from unfamiliar data sets. This counts towards the numeracy strands assessed in the new curriculum framework.

During the nationwide corona virus lock-down this Spring I created this resource for fellow parents, struggling to home-tutor their kids whilst remotely working. Each of these Geography learning activities are simple, encourage a range of skills and does not require computer access. Most Primary school aged children should be able to complete relatively independently. please share widely.

This lesson includes simple tasks to work through and was designed for year 7 / 8 Geography at Ks3. The lesson focusses on the Geograhy of the North West England region to build up understanding in preparation for the GCSE Geography focus on the UK. Suitable for distance or remote learning.

I’m sharing this super-useful tool I have devised for getting feedback from your student’s on their confidence and understanding on your curriculum. This proforma has focussed on GCSE Geography Physical topics from paper 1 -UK physical landscapes, and Human paper 2 ’ Changing Economic World’. I have broken down each topic into 8 broad sections for ease, although you can alter the radial diagram if you wish. I used this for my year 11 classes to find out exactly where to focus my revision and intervention strategy for maximum impact. The segments that were less shaded/ left blank were areas of weakness. As it is visual feedback, you can almost instantly where gaps in knowledge are across multiple students, without the need for counting and data analysis. The added benefit is that student are learning about another data presentation technique for Paper 3 in the process! These can be stuck into student books/ revision folders as evidence of self assessment and used to set themselves appropriate target for revision also. This could be adapted for any subject or stage level.

A pond is an example of a small-scale ecosystem that we typically student at GCSE Geography. Pond ecosystems depend on balance and equllibrium of all the interdependant parts that make it up; both the living ( biotic) and non-living ( abiotic). This lesson presumes you are lucky enough to have a pond on, or close to your school site to visit and carry out the field sketching tasks. However, if not, there is a detailed picture of a pond ecosystem on the slide they can copy if needed. Students start with a discussions, recap on producers, consumers and decomposers ( this lesson assumes a base-line understanding on food chains). Students sketch the pond with guidance and label appropriately using the mini-beasts spotter card to help them identify animals found on the pond, or through pond-dipping There is an exit card/ small write up task at the end.

Earth day occurs in Spring, on April 22nd each year, however this lesson resource can be used all year round to encourage Primary and KS3 aged students to appreciate and show gratitude to our amazing world. There is a blank 28 day calendared worksheet that students fill in using the gratitude reflections and prompts on the accompanying sheet. It can be used during any month of the year. The tasks are varied between human and physical geography elements and also include active tasks and skills like Yoga, languages, field-sketching and describing landscapes. The daily tasks are in keeping with the earth day theme of ‘observing the need to protect the earth’s environment’. These calendars could be stuck into pupil workbooks and be used as a reference point for starters and plenaries to lessons. More able students could be challenged to create their own 28 plan for gratitude after completing the one given. The completed gratitude calendars could be photocopied and blown up onto A3 to make stimulating classroom displays for open-evenings or parents evening. etc. A couple of the daily ideas have weblinks attached, which are shown at the bottom of the resource.

Population refers to the total number of people living permenantly in one city of region. Populations rise and fall based on a number of external and internal factors; birth rates, disasters, health care access and so on. This game can be played in groups of any size at GCSE or key stage 3 and helps explain the impact of different factors on the total overall population of an area. All students start with a population of 500,00 and must roll the dice in turns to see what happens to their population size. For example; a famine might strike nd reduce numbers, or a government might incentivise young people to have children. They must calculate the increase or reduction of their population as they go along on a ’ score card’ .There are a small set of de-brief questions on their score card that they could write the answers to, or discuss in their groups to consolidate their understanding.

Natural hazards come in the form of earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, These are Geological, land based hazards which require careful planning, prediction and preparation strategies in order to reduce the risk to life. This set of printable revision flash cards was designed for some-learning and study, which goes simply beyond cutting them out. Firstly, the student have to complete the gap-fill sections to test their knowledge on key examination types questions, in order to get a full set. The first letter of each word is given, to support lower ability learners and differentiate. This activity was done with lower and middle ability GCSE geography students in mind. It covers core content and theory without testing specific case study information. Questions on the flash cards include the following examples; ’ Give 2 differences between continental and oceanic crust ’ ’ Describe the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes across the world ’ There is a comprehensive set of 20 flash cards for the topic ’ Challenge of Natural Hazards’ which is tested on the Physical Geography paper 1 exam in the AQA GCSE Geography specification.However, these are also suitable for other GCSE Geography specifications, as this content is covered by all major exam boards. There is a full set of answers for all the gap fill sections included, so that students can complete this task independently at home, or in the classroom. Once complete, these flash cards could be used for students to test each other, by asking other peers the questions on the cards.