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 - 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.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Erosion and Deposition Features of a river - Meanders and Oxbow lakes
Students will learn:
How river landforms are created by deposition and erosion such as meanders and oxbow lakes
How a meander is formed
How an oxbow lake is formed
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 - Levees, flood plains and estuaries
Students will learn:
How river features such as Levees, flood plains and Estuaries are created by deposition and erosion
Geography skills - Choropleth map
OS map skills
How levee are formed
How are floodplains formed
Key features in an estuary
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 - V shaped valley
Students will learn:
How a river erodes their valleys to form distinctive landscapes such as a How a river erodes their valleys to form distinctive landscapes such as a V Shaped Valley
Field sketch skills
Weathering, erosion and transportation recaps
Key physical features of a V shaped valley
How a V shaped valley is formed
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 - Waterfall and gorges
Students will learn:
How a river erodes their valleys to form distinctive landscapes such as waterfalls
How a waterfall is created
How a gorge is created
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 int the UK - River landscapes - Fluvial / River Processes - Erosion & Transportation
Students will learn: How rivers erode rocks, transport their load and finally how they deposit their load
River erosion
River transportation
Hjulstrom curve
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 - River Landscapes - Weathering
Students will learn:
How the weather and other naturally occurring physical processes break down rocks
Weathering
Biological weathering
Chemical weathering
Physical weathering
Climate based weathering
Freeze thaw 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 int the UK - River landscapes - Long river profile
Students will learn:
How rivers and their valleys change down stream.
Maps skills
Long profile of a river
Upper course of a river
Middle course of a river
Lower course of a river
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 - River landscapes - Water Cycle & Drainage Basin
Students will learn:
How the water cycle / hydrological cycle moves water through our environments and the key term of the drainage basin
Hydrological cycle
Key Terms in the hydrological cycle
Drainage basin
Key terms in the drainage basin
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.
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 Lesson Bundle - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - All seven lessons
Students will learn:
Characteristics of a rainforest
Climate of a rainforest
Plant adaptations in the rainforest
Animal adaptations in the rainforest
Deforestation in the Amazon
Impact of deforestation
Managing the Amazon rainforest
Sustainable management of the rainforest
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 lessons is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Sustainable management of rainforests
Students will learn:
About the different strategies for managing rainforest sustainability
Sustainable management of rainforests
Selective logging
Sustainable farming
Ecotourism
Appropriate technologies to protect forests
How to regenerate rainforests
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.