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 - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Extreme weather in the UK - Somerset Levels Flood 2014 (Case study)
Students will learn:
About the flooding on the Somerset levels in 2014 as well as the social, economic, environmental and political impacts of these floods.
The Somerset levels flood
What caused the flood
Social impacts
Economic impacts
Environmental impacts
Immediate responses
Long-term responses*
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 two 50 minutes - 1 hour lessons.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Extreme weather in the UK - Weather Hazards in the UK
Students will learn:
How the UK is affected by a range of weather hazards
The different types of extreme weather in the UK
Storm events
Flooding
Drought
Extreme cold
Inc all printable 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 - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Weather Hazards - Extreme weather in the UK - Is it getting worse?
Students will learn:
To evaluate if the weather in the UK is getting worse using a range of different resources and sources of data.
Multiple forms of evidence of extreme weather in the UK
Evaluation skills of the evidence
Exam style 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 - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Weather hazards - Global atmospheric circulation
Students will learn:
How global atmospheric circulation works.
Features of global atmospheric circulation
Structure of global atmospheric circulation
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geogrpahy GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Weather hazards - How global circulation affects the worlds weather
Students will learn:
How global circulation affects global weather and climate
Global Circulation
Global Weather
Climate Graphs
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geogrpahy GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Challengesof Natural Hazards - Weather hazards - Typhoon Haiyan (Case Study)
Students will learn:
About the primary & secondary effects as well as the immediate and long term responses to typhoon Haiyan
How are tropical storms measured
Location of the Philippines
Storm Haiyan fact file
Primary & secondary effects
Immediate and long-term responses
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 two lessons 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Double Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Weather hazards - How are tropical forms formed / structure of tropical storms
Students will learn:
About the distribution, formation and structure of a tropical storm.
What are tropical storms
Distribution of tropical storms
Structure of tropical storms
Coriolis effect
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geogrpahy GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a double lesson of 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards Weather hazards - Reducing the Effects of Tropical Storms
Students will learn:
How the effects / impacts of tropical storms can be reduced
Monitoring tropical storms
Predicting tropical storms
Planning for tropical storms
Protection from tropical storms
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 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 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 - 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 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.
Key Stage 3 Geography Lesson - Watercycle / Water Cycle / hydrological cycle
Students will learn:
Defining precipitation
All the key elements of the water cycle
Written AFL to check understanding
Works sheeps to support the lesson
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 3 Geography and science students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - The challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate Change - Human causes of climate change
Students will learn:
About the Green House Effect and human causes of climate change and how fossil fuels , agriculture and deforestation all lead to increased global temperatures.
The green house effect
The enhanced green house effect
How human activity is contributing to climate change
The different type of human activities and how they contribute to climate change
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 - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Extreme weather in the UK - Weather hazards Depressions and Anticyclones
Students will learn:
About the formation and characteristic of the extreme weather created by Anticyclones and depressions weather systems.
Synoptic charts
Anticyclones
Depressions
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
All printable resources needed to support the lesson
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 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.
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The students will learn:
Map Symbols
Longitude and Latitude
4 figure Grid references
6 Figure grid references (using Pac Man)
Contour Lines, Height and relief (using potatoes)
Measuring distance
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson Bundle - Living in the physical Environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Extreme weather in the UK - All Lessons
Students will learn:
Weather Hazards in the UK
Weather Hazards Depressions & Anticyclones
Somerset Levels Flood 2014
Extreme Weather in the UK - Is it getting worse
These lessons includes
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 five 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 Bundle - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate change bundle - All seven lessons
Students will learn:
Evidence for climate change
Natural factors affecting climate change
The greenhouse effect
Human causes of climate change
Global social and environmental impacts of climate change
How to mitigate climate change
How to adapt to climate change at a local level
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 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson