I am a secondary school Head of department and I love to teach engaging, vibrant and interesting lessons. I try to inspire students with what greets them when they come into my classroom and try to move away from the chalk and talk teacher at the front lessons and make learning interactive and fun!
I am a secondary school Head of department and I love to teach engaging, vibrant and interesting lessons. I try to inspire students with what greets them when they come into my classroom and try to move away from the chalk and talk teacher at the front lessons and make learning interactive and fun!
This is a resource that I have used alongside the pre-release booklet for students that are taking the exam in the Autumn term that did not sit in the Summer as AQA are using the same booklet that they made for the exams that did not go ahead in the Summer.
There are some questions I have attempted to forecast at the end based on the format of the usual paper question strands.
I hope that you find it helpful.
This booklet contains an extensive set of question and answers for Paper 2 with water being the optional unit (it does not have food or energy).
The purpose of these booklets is so that students can put them onto flash cards as well as parents using the book to test their child. This resource has been compiled for students to access and use as an additional tool if they are working from home prior to the examinations.
This booklet contains an extensive set of question and answers for Paper 1 with Rivers and Coasts being the optional units (it does not have glaciation).
The purpose of these booklets is so that students can put them onto flash cards as well as parents using the book to test their child. This resource has been compiled for students to access and use as an additional tool if they are working from home prior to the examinations.
This lesson is an introduction to the hazardous earth module to classify, define and describe patterns of hazards over time. Students have to identify the clues given by the celebrities that initially identify the hazard followed by the type and if possible the event. There is also a starter activity that identifies the different hazard types and extends understanding so students are aware of the difference between hazard and a disaster.
Students have the opportunity to complete a variety of tasks on the task sheet that is structured in the same style as the GCSE examination paper with the multiple choice and then a data task. There is also an extended activity to demonstrate challenge and embed learning.
This lesson is a good starter lesson for looking at LIC’s and how the world is divided up. It looks at the economic divisions and the changes to describing how the world is divided up. It exams key terms such as LIC and GNI a nd then applies geographical skills such as describing locations and applying knowledge to an exam question with a case study in Malawi.
This lesson is the final lesson in Theme 2 for Urban and rural links. It looks at the changes rates of urbanisation including push and pull factors and industrial changes over time.
The lesson then looks on further to global and world cities and considers New York as one of these cities and looks at how successful it has become as a result of the 5 factors that influence global cities.
Students then compare and contrast two global cities, Mumbai in an NIC and Manchester in the UK (HIC) they look at a variety of factors such as challenges, reasons for growth and management of these cities.
The last task is concerned with an examination question that summarises all of the information and evaluates it in an AO3 question.
This lesson considers the issues associated with malaria ad HIV/AIDS in Malawi sub-Saharan Africa, both case studies are delivered separately and there are materials for both.
Students examine the reasons for the patterns in the health, the issues with the spread of the diseases and management at local and global scales.
Students then complete an examination question for homework and link in other information that they completed about Malawi as part of their response. See shop for previous lessons in this sequence or to purchase as a bundle.
This is the first lesson in the Social development unit, it is a double lesson and has the addition of homework and consolidation exercise with an exam question.
The start of the lesson looks at the different ways in ehich social development can be regarded and classified, focusing on education and health and then looking at HDI and comparing the indicators (there are support sheets to go with this).
Students then start to look for patterns in economic and social development data and evaluate which is preferable to give a representation of development.
Students then look at other factors that can directly impact development such as child labour and the refugee crisis (homework). There are clips that have been added and resources for the revision guide that I have included into the lesson (a full copy of the revision guide can be found in my shop. All resources attached, just need to print.
This is a full lesson with homework covering regional inequality and links on from the previous lesson about water resources and inequality.
The first part of the lesson looks at the differences across Brazil in terms of the climate, wealth and infant mortality. Students have to make links between the maps and there are prompts on the board in the form of questions to look at the differences and draw conclusions.
The second part of the lesson looks at the differences in the UK and compares the North and the South of the UK. Students have a map to annotate with AO1 sentence starters before looking at what is being done to reduce the gap in the form of HS2.
My students completed the HS2 for homework but we structured the extended examination question together.
This is a double lesson with homework for both lessons that embeds content and exam practice. This lesson covers the following:
Water security and scarcity
Water footprints
Case study on water management in South Africa (Lesotho Highlands)
Rain harvesting
Over abstraction in India
There are task sheets and work sheets throughout and I have provided notes for any case study materials.
This booklet contains question and answer for all of the topics that are contained in component 2 for Eduqas and also suitable for AQA GCSE Geography.
The following topics are covered:
Climate change
Extreme weather (Hurricanes and Drought)
Extreme weather in the UK (anticyclones and depressions)
Ecosystems and biomes
Managing ecosystems (tropical rainforests and semi-arid grasslands)
Development gap
Development continuum
Aid and management
Health and development
Regional development - North South divide
This booklet was used to distribute to parents in order to assist parents quiz their child to revise, parents that did not attend were sent the packs home (I have included the instructions on the front). These booklets are also used for students to test each other and make their own flash cards. There is a booklet for component 1 also - please see my shop.
This booklet contains question and answer for all of the topics that are contained in component 1 for Eduqas and also suitable for AQA GCSE Geography.
The following topics are covered:
Distinctive landscapes
River landscapes, landforms and flooding
Coastal landscapes, landforms and processes
Urban and rural links
Urban challenges and sustainability
Rural challenged and sustainability
UK population including ageing populations
Coastal vulnerability
Coastal management (with case studies)
SIDS and LECZ’s with case studies
This booklet was used to distribute to parents in order to assist parents quiz their child to revise, parents that did not attend were sent the packs home (I have included the instructions on the front). These booklets are also used for students to test each other and make their own flash cards. There is a booklet for component 2 also - please see my shop.
As the end of the course is nearing completion this lesson is focused on condensing the course to cover the key material. This therefore is largely case study based with information from the revision guide (I have attached the specific pages if you have not purchased the guide itself).
The students consolidate their learning at the end of the lesson with an examination question.
These are revision guides that are printable for students that have all information that is needed for all examinations on component 1 and 2. Both revision guides cover all physical and human topics and are listed below including all case studies;
Revision guide paper 1: Distinctive landscapes, river landscapes and processes, flooding, coastal landscapes, coastal management. Population, urban change, rural change, global cities in the UK and an LIC. Coastal hazards including vulnerable coastlines, management, decision making.
Revision guide 2: Global development, north south global divide, development continuum, MNC's/TNC's and Nike, Tata steel in the UK and Mumbai, India, tourism impacting development, NIC Cancun and the Gambia, North-south divide in the UK, regional inequalities, health issues that impact social development, education of children and water security impacting development, UN and Millennium development goals.
This revision guide is 72 pages and covers everything that is needed for component 2 on the Eduqas specification for Geography.
The revision guide is very detailed and has all case studies and accompanies all lessons that are on my store that match with the revision guide.
The revision guide covers the following; climate change, evidence for climate change, the greenhouse effect, extreme weather including a hurricane and drought case study, extreme weather in the UK including depressions and anticyclones, ecosystems and their distribution, threats to tropical rainforest, threats to the grasslands and sustainable management of both.
Global development, north south global divide, development continuum, MNC's/TNC's and Nike, Tata steel in the UK and Mumbai, India, tourism impacting development, NIC Cancun and the Gambia, North-south divide in the UK, regional inequalities, health issues that impact social development, education of children and water security impacting development, UN and Millennium development goals.
Students learn about the key terms associated with MNC's (TNC's) and where they are distributed globally and the reasons why.
Students apply their knowledge to Nike as a case study using the large task sheets and the information hand out. Then students complete the information on Tata steel for homework and how MNC's can also impact on the UK. Questions on the homework sheet are structured from AO1-3.
This is a very big lesson! It is covering a lot of material in one lesson as we near the end of the course, the homework is also larger than a normal task. The students start off comparing how the world is divided up, gni and gdp as well as the modern changes and critique it. Students then look into the development continuum to see how countries can fit into different areas.
Brazil and Malawi are used on a task sheet and a hand out to give the concepts of trade, trade blocs, subsidies, tariffs and quotas more depth and application.
Homework is comparing exports and imports with the second part being on free trade and fair trade.
This lesson covers the use of wave and tidal energy and is largely case study based to consolidate learning on a task sheet.
Students need to understand the key terms associated with energy production at the coast in addition to the positive and negative issues associated with the production. Assessment objectives are prompted on the case study resource.
This lesson is two lessons worth of teaching if lessons as 1 hour in duration. The lesson covers the issues with human intervention such as farming and water extraction as well as climate change.
Students focus on Lake Chad and the Great Green Wall of Africa as named examples as well as grass roots strategies such as managing water gulley's. Students also look at the issues associated with GM crops and the lessons have exam questions throughout.
All materials for both lessons and the lesson are provided.
This lesson is to do with the hot semi-arid ecosystems largely focused on African countries, vegetation and climate. The full lesson is planned with examples, all worksheets and a homework research activity with an AO3 justification question to complete the research activity.
The lesson also covers examples and activities to complete food chains, nutrient cycles and biodiversity.