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 - 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 - 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 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 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 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.
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 - 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 - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Social Opportunities and Challenges in Rio de Janeiro
Students will learn about:
The different social opportunities, the inequalities and challenges facing people living in Rio De Janeiro
Social opportunities in Rio
Social challenges in Rio
Health care in Rio
Education in Rio
Water supplies in Rio
Energy in Rio
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 - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Economic Challenges in Rio de Janeiro
Students will learn about:
The different economic opportunities and challenges facing Rio De Janeiro
Economic opportunities for growth in Rio
The challenges of Unemployment in Rio
Formal economy in Rio
Informal economy in Rio
Crime in Rio
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 - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Managing the growth of squatter settlements in Rio De Janeiro
Students will learn about:
Students will learn about the poor housing in Rio De Janerio
Why have favelas / squatter settlements grown
Where favelas are located in Rio De Janeiro
Case study of Rocinha
Growth of favelas in Rio
Challenges in squatter settlements in Rio
Construction in favelas
Health services in favelas
Crime in favelas
Education in favelas
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 - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World - Introduction to Rio de Janeiro
Students will learn about:
Where Rio De Janeiro is located, its primary land uses and why is to growing so rapidly
Introduction to Rio De Janeiro
Location of Rio De Janeiro on a map
Flipped learning. City zones and migration
Exam question and scaffolding
AFL of previous lessons
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 Geogrpahy GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Physical processes at plate boundaries
Students will learn about the physical processes that occur at plate margins and plate boundaries
Destructive plate boundary
Constructive plate boundary
Conservative plate boundary
Collision plate boundary
This lesson includes
Starter
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 a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Global Distribution of plate boundaries
Students will learn:
The location of the plate boundaries and where earthquake and volcanic eruptions occur and link this to plate tectonics
What is the structure of the Earth
How do tectonic plates move
Plate boundaries introduction
Where are earthquakes and volcanoes located
This lesson includes
Starter
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 a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Chile & Nepal comparing earthquakes
Students will learn the similarities and differences between the earthquakes in Nepal and Chile.
How development affects the effects and responses to a tectonic hazard
Evaluation skills
Exam question practice with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Exam questions
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 a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
This Contour lines lesson has been downloaded over 960 times
It lessons allows students to experiance building their own “potato” mountain with contour lines.
Contour lines, Height and Relief - map skills lesson - This map skills lesson is about contour lines, spot heights and colour layering and how these show relief on a map
This map skills lesson enables students to work out the height and gradient of slopes by using contour lines as well as how to use colour layering and spot heights. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map symbol lesson has been downloaded over 1400 times
6 figure grid references - map skills lesson - This map skills lesson is about six figure grid references. It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map skills lesson about grid references includes how to work out a six figure grid reference on an Ordnance Survey map. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This 4 figure grid reference lesson has been downloaded over 330 times
4 figure grid references - map skills lesson - This map skills lesson is about four figure grid references.
This map skills lesson about grid references and compass points includes how to work out a four figure grid reference on an Ordnance Survey map. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
This map symbol lesson has been downloaded over 580 times
Ordnance Survey Map symbols lesson - This map skills lesson is about O S map symbols.
This map skills lesson about map symbols lesson includes some creative writing where students substitute words for map symbols. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
It is suitable for higher ability key stage 2 students and Key stage 3. The lesson takes 50 mins to 1 hour.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Urban Environment - Urban Issues and Challenges - The Urban World -Megacities
Students will learn about:
The location and rate of growth of mega cities
Megacities
Distribution of megacities
Urbanisation
Push and pull factors
Natural increase
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