These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment - Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Measuring Development
Students will learn about:
How to measure development using a range of development indicators using “top Trump” style cards.
A range of development indicators
Gross National Income
Birth rate
Death rate
Life expectancy
Human development index
Happiness index
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
Key Stage 3 Lesson - United Kingdom - Human and Physical Geography.
This lesson is designed to help teach students the key human and physical features in the United Kingdom onto the worksheets provided with the lessons.
The students will learn:
The largest ten cities in the UK
Key Motorways, ports and airports
Highlands and lowlands
Longest three rivers
Seas and Oceans
This lesson is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 is suitable for a two lessons each 50 mins - 1 hour lesson.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Progress checker
Printable resource
In addition to the lesson you will need an atlas.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson Bundle - Living with the physical environment - River Landscapes - All Fourteen lessons
Students will learn:
UK relief and landscape
Water cycle / Hydrological cycle
Long profile of a river
Weathering
River erosion and transportation
V shaped valley
Waterfall and gorges
Meanders and Oxbow lakes
Levess and estuaries
Hydrological Graph
What causes a river to flood
Soft engineering
Hard engineering
River Tees case study (workbook)
Banbury Case study
These Lessons include:
Starters
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. These lessons are suitable for fifteen 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Physical Landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - All lessons
Students will learn:
Wave types and their characteristics
Coastal erosion
Coastal weathering and Mass movement
Coastal erosional landforms - Headlands and bays
Coastal transportation & Long Shore Drift
Coastal deposition spits, bars and tombolo
Coastal landforms at Swanage (Case Study)
Managing coasts - Hard engineering
Managing coasts - Soft engineering
Manging coasts = Managed retreat
Managing Coasts - Lyme Regis (Case Study)
Starters
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for all eight 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson = Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Erosion Landforms Headlands and bays
Students will learn about:
The characteristics and formation of coastal landforms - Headland, Bays,cliffs and wave cut platform
How headland and bays are formed
How headlands are eroded
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Management at Lyme Regis
Students will learn about:
The case study of Lyme Regis in Dorset and the 4 phases of coastal defenses that have been added to provide a coastal management scheme.
Location of Lyme Regis
Physical and human geography at Lyme Regis
Coastal defenses at Lyme Regis
Why Lyme Regis needs coastal defenses
Impacts of coastal defenses at Lyme Regis
How successful has the management scheme been
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
These are two lesson suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for two single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Managing Coasts - Managed retreat
Students will learn about:
How managed retreat can protect coastline from the effects of erosion and other physical processes.
Managed retreat
Case study - Medmerry near Chichester, West Sussex
Coastal Monitoring and adaptation
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Soft engineering
Students will learn about:
The benefits and challenges of soft engineering and how it can protect coastlines from the effects of erosion
Soft engineering
Dune regeneration
Beach replenishment
Dune fencing
Managed retreat
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Managing coasts - Hard Engineering
Students will learn about:
How hard engineering coastal defenses can protect coastlines from the effect of erosion
Hard engineering
Groynes
Sea walls
Rock wall
Gabions
Field sketch skills
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Landforms at Swanage
Students will learn about:
Formation of sand dunes
Physical and human landforms at Swanage
Exam questions
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes -Coastal deposition, spits and tombolo
Students will learn about:
The charactoristics and formation of coastal deposistion landforms such as Spits and tombolo.
Coastal deposition
Traction
Solution
Saltation
Suspension
Formation of a spit, bar and tombolo
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Mass movement and longshore drift
Students will learn about:
The processes of weathering and how these lead to cliff collapse at the coast as well as how Long Shore Drift transports material along a coastline.
What causes a cliff to collapse
Mass movement
Landslide
Mudslide
Rotational slip
Rock slide
Longshore Drift
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Weathering
Students will learn about:
About the processes of weathering and how this breaks up rocks.
Weathering
Physical weathering
Freeze thaw weathering
Biological weathering
Chemical weathering
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes -Coastal erosion processes
Students will learn:
About the processes of erosion on the coastline
Coastal erosion
Hydraulic action
Attrition
Abrasion
Corrosion
Solution
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Wave types and their characteristics
Students will learn about:
About the formation and Characteristics of constructive waves, destructive waves and Tsunamis
How a tsunami is formed
How a constructive waves is formed
How a destructive waves is formed
Exam questions with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
GCSE geography - Virtual River field work - Physical geography field trip
These lessons have everything you need to complete a virtual river field trip or to complete the classroom work following your own river field work.
Students will learn:
Recap typical features found in the long profile of a river
The location of Carding Mill Valley
Risk assessments
Methodology
Fieldwork equipment
Field sketches
River data
Presentation of data
Field wok analysis
Fieldwork conclusions and evaluation
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
These lessons are suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. There are five lesson 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson as well as a workbook to accompany the lessons.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - River Landscape - Managing Floods at Banbury
Students will learn:
How the flood management schemes at Banbury have made it less likely that catastrophic floods will happen in the future
Location of Banbury
History of flooding in Banbury
Flood management improvements in 2007
Exam question with resources
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Double Lesson -Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - river Landscapes - River Soft & Hard Engineering
Students will learn:
About the costs and benefits of managing river flooding using both soft and hard engineering.
River management
Soft engineering on rivers
Floodplain Zoning, Wetland storage areas, Tree planting
Hard engineering on rivers
Dams, Channel straighting, Embankments and flood relief channels
Flood warnings and preparations
Exam style question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. These twp lessons are suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - River Landscapes - What causes a river to flood?
Students will learn:
Factors that affect flooding
Physical factors that affect flooding
Human factors that affect flooding
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Deposition Features of a river - Hydrological graph
Students will learn:
About the physical and human factors that increase or decrease the risk of flooding
What is flooding
Causes of flooding
Hydrological graph
River discharge
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.