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
This map skills lesson is about 6 figure grid references. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. This includes a template for the 4 cm Pac Man which fits the OS Explorer maps to help students work out 6 figure grid references. The work starts with from works sheets and allows the most capable students to progress to activities students on a full OS explorer map.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Pac Man templates to fit OS explorer maps
Video Engaging game activity
Printable resource
This map skills lesson is about contour lines height and relief including contour lines, spot heights and layer colouring. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes how to use potatoes as hills and add contour lines and then analysis the results.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
This map skills lesson is about map symbols. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes some creative writing where students substitute words for map symbols. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
It contains:
Three Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Printable material
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
This map skills lesson is about scale and distance including estimating, ruler and string. This lesson is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and you may wish to do this over either 1 or 2 lessons for younger students or those that learn at a slower pace.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Printable resource
worksheet
A company called Zipline from Silicon Valley is working with the Governments of Rwanda and Tanzania to deliver blood and emergency medicines by drone. This cost effective and appropriate use of technology is now saving lives every day. Let your students learn how zipline are; delivering their service, creating high value jobs, saving lives, reducing infant mortality and increasing life expectancy.
This gives students a contemporary case study which they can relate to with technology that they are familiar with. This project gives the students the opportunity to understand the previous challenges of transporting blood projects across rural Rwanda across vast distances where there are no formal roads. They can also see how this had a direct effect on the death rate of women in child birth. Finally, students can discover the dramatic impact this simple but appropriate technology has had in reducing the death rate in Rwanda.
This homework is suitable for both key stage three and four.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Full instructions in a single slide.
Links to resources
Video
This Map Skill lesson reviews all on the previous Map Skills lessons and test the students skills with increasing difficulty. This lesson reviews all the maps skills covered in the first 5 lessons - Map Symbols, 4 & 6 figure grid references, height, scale and distance
In addition to the lesson you will require an Ordnance Survey Map.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Printable resource
This map skills lesson is about compass directions and 4 figure grid references. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes an adapted game of Tic Tac Toe incorporating 4 figure grid references.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
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 Double Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Effects and Responses to an Earthquake - Chile & Nepal earthquake case studies
Students will learn:
about the difference between the effects and responses of earthquakes in contrasting countries. Nepal (Low Income Country) and Chile (Newly Emerging Country)
Primary effects
Secondary effects
Immediate response
Long-term response
Chile earthquake case study
Nepal earthquake case study
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This is a double lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for two 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 - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Tropical Rainforests - Deforestation in the Amazon
Students will learn:
About the reasons for deforestation in the Amazon
Deforestation in the Amazon
Threats to the Amazon Rainforest
The scale of deforestation
Common causes of deforestation
Deforestation in the Amazon
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 - Improving Rio de Janeiro’s Environment
Students will learn about:
how Rio De Janeiro is responding to it’s environmental challenges
Environmental Challenges in Rio
Air pollution in Rio
Water pollution in Rio
Waste pollution 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 - 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 - 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 - Challenges in the human environment - Challenges of Resource Management - Resource Management - Provision of energy in the UK
Students will learn about:
The opportunities and challenges faced by the UK in the supply of energy
Energy generation over time in the UK
Population growth in the UK
Energy demand in the UK
Fracking in the UK
Impacts of renewable energy
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 - 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.
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 - 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 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.