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 - Climate Change - Impacts of climate change
Students will learn:
About the global impacts of climate change on the environment
How can we manage climate change
What are the likely effects of climate change
How people and the environment may be affected by climate change around the world
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 - 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 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 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 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.
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 - 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.
This map skills lesson bundle contain all the lessons you will need to teach map skills to KS3 or higher ability KS2.
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It also includes a complete work booklet that you can either use alongside the lessons or for independent study as it contains everything a student needs to complete their own learning.
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
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Natural hazards - All lessons
Students will learn:
What is a natural hazard
Global distribution of plate boundaries
Physical processes at plate boundaries
Chile & Nepal earthquake case studies
Chile & Nepal Earthquake comparing earthquakes
Reducing the risk of tectonic activity
Living near a volcano
This lesson 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 eight 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geogrpahy GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Natural Hazards - What is a natural hazard
Students will learn:
About the risk from natural hazards and they types of human activities they affect.
What is a natural hazard
What is a hazard risk
What factors affect hazard risk
What are the different types of natural hazard
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 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 - Physical landscapes in the UK - River Landscape - River Landform of the River Tees -Case study Booklet
This is a self study booklet and contained everything a student needs to complete this learning. It also have QR codes with links through to external resources making it perfect for homework.
Students will learn about the erosional and deposition landforms along the river Tees in County Durham in the North East of England
Where is the RIver Tees
High Force Water Fall and Gorge
Meanders, Levees near Darlington
Map 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.