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 - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Managing the Amazon rainforest
Students will learn:
About the rates of deforestation and why rainforests need to be protected
Rate of deforestation in the Amazon
Biodiversity in the Amazon
Soil erosion
Challenges and benefits of deforestation
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.
This map symbol lesson is new to my map skill lessons
Longitude and latitude lesson - This map skills lesson is about both latitude and longitude. 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 longitude and latitude includes key terms. 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
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the human environment - Resource Management - Provision of Food in the UK
Students will learn about:
The opportunities and challenges faced by the UK in the provision of food.
Why consumers demand imported food into the UK
How much of the price of food makes its way back to farmers in developing countries
What is the impact of importing food
Food miles and carbon footprint
UK farms adapting to consumer demand
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 human environment - Challenges of Resource Management - Resource Management - Provision of water in the UK
Students will learn about:
The opportunities and challenges faced by the UK in the provision of Water
Water consumer in the home
Water surplus
Water deficit
Water transportation in the UK
Safe drinking water
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 - World Population and Urbanisation
Students will learn about:
How the global population is distributed and the movement of people from the rural to Urban environment.
World population
Urbanisation
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.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Investment and Tourism
Students will learn about:
How tourism can help reduce the development gap
How tourism aids development
How eco tourism aid development
How tourism promotes the economy and employment
How industrial development aids development
How tourism can aid infrastructure
How tourism can aid the quality of life
The impact of tourism on the environment
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 Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Wealth and Health
Students will learn about:
How uneven development leads to inequalities of Wealth and health between rich and poor countries.
What is the imbalance between rich and poor
How does uneven development lead to differences in wealth between countries
Differences in health between countries
Case study - Malaria
Independent learning through Gap Minder’s Dollar Street.
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 Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Aid and Intermediate Technology
Students will learn about:
How investment, Industrial development and tourism can reduced the development gap.
Which strategies can reduce the development gap
How different forms of aid can aid development and reduce the development gap
How industrial development can help reduce the development gap.
How tourism can help reduce the development gap
How intermediate / appropriate technology can aid development
How NGO’s can aid development through providing goats to families
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 Human Environment Changing Economic World - Our Unequal World
Students will learn about:
The global variations in economic development and quality of life
What is development
How to measure development
What is Gross domestic income
What is the Human development index
How to measure quality of life
A range of maps and data representing global development
Brandt line
Topological Map
Choropleth Map
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
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 Human Environment - Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Changing Population Pyramids & Population Structure
Students will learn about:
How population structures and contrasting countries are changing
Understanding Population pyramids
How development can be observed through population pyramids
How to compare population pyramids
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 - Challenges in the Human Environment Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Demographic Transition Model
Students will learn about:
How levels of development can be linked to levels of development through the demographic transition model.
What is the Demographic Transition Model
How to link the demographic transition model to development
The five stages of the Demographic transition model
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 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 - 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 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 - 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 - The Living World - Ecosystems - How does change affect ecosystems
Students will learn:
How changes to the ecosystem affect the other components within that ecosystem
WHat causes change in an ecosystem
Human and natural factors that affect ecosystems
Example of how changes can affect a food chain
Example of how the reintroduction of a species can affect a whole ecosystem
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 - The Living World - Ecosystems - A small-scale ecosystem - Fresh Water Pond
Students will learn:
How the components of a small scale ecosystem in the UK interact.
What is an ecosystem
How ecosystems operate
Producers, consumers and decomposers
How ecosystems are linked
Food chain and food webs
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 - The Living World - Ecosystems - Global biomes and ecosystems
Students will learn:
The global distribution and characteristics of global ecosystems and biomes
Introduction to biomes
Distribution of Global biomes and ecosystems
Characteristics of the global biomes and ecosystems
Definitions of habitat, ecosystems and biomes
Descriptions of 8 key global biomes
Printable worksheets for global biomes
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 - The challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate Change - Natural causes of climate change
Students will learn:
About three natural forms of climate change
Climate Change is a natural phenomenon
How solar activity affects climate change - Solar output and Sun Spots
How Volcanic activity affects climate change - Volcanic Eruptions
How the Earths orbit affects climate change - Milankovitch Effect / Cycles
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 - Challange of natural hazards - Climate Change - Evidence for climate change
Students will learn:
How Climate has changed
Evidence for climate change
How evidence is gathered with Ice cores
How evidence is gathered with Tree rings
How evidence is gathered with pollen in sediment
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 two 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.