A range of revision activities designed to work alongside the CGP revision guide. Includes a revision clock to be completed at the beginning and then returned to at the end of the revision session (it is probably best printed in A3).
The rest of the ppt can be printed as a booklet or separate sheets to aid Year 11 GCSE Geography revision.
Includes simple tasks, bright colours and diagrams for ease of understanding.
Includes Holderness Coast as example of UK landforms and management - can be amended if necessary.
A range of revision activities designed to work alongside the CGP revision guide. Includes a revision clock to be completed at the beginning and then returned to at the end of the revision session (it is probably best printed in A3).
The rest of the ppt can be printed as a booklet or separate sheets to aid Year 11 GCSE Geography revision.
Includes simple tasks, bright colours and diagrams for ease of understanding.
Includes River Tees as example of UK landforms and Boscastle flood management example - can be amended if necessary.
Suitable For: Full Lesson or Intervention or Revision Session
AQA GCSE GEOGRAPHY - Changing Economic World - India Case Study
Development of India and Quality of Life
Information / Revision Techniques / Exam Techniques / Self Assessment / Differentiated
This worksheet and presentation is designed to enable students to learn and answer a 9 mark question:
‘Economic development in a country improves the quality of life for its people.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? [9 + 3 SPaG marks]
This relates to the specification bullet point in the Changing Economic World section for AQA GCSE geography:
Some LICs and NEEs are experiencing rapid economic development which leads to significant social, environmental and cultural change. A case study of one LIC or NEE to illustrate: the effects of economic development on quality of life for the population. The case study is India.
The worksheet and presentation was designed to be delivered during an intervention session with students lasting approximately 30 minutes, however it can easily be adapted to suit a full 60 minute lesson.
The worksheet begins with giving students information about how quality of life has changed for many but also reasons why it hasn’t for everyone. The accompanying PowerPoint will enable the teacher to summarise this and provide visuals for students. Students shouldthen read and highlight the information before creating an infographic summary on the worksheet - this teaches them a good revision technique. Students are then required to write a 9 mark exam answer and there is a structure strip to support lower ability students.
If you have a full lesson, you could then give students the tasks on the back of the A3 worksheet and ask them to use the mark scheme to self assess their answer. There is also space for them to recreate their infographic using retrival practice. Finally, there is a list of other exam questions based around case studies in the Changing Economic World section.
Complete lesson with stretch and challenge questions for higher ability students, worksheets and exam question practice. Includes a range of activities to engage students and opportunities to demonstrate progress.
Introduces what a coral reef biome is - describing the distribution activity (map work, WAGOLL) - 15 mins of Blue Planet II ‘coral reef’ documentary with worksheet for lower ability students (my students made notes in their book) and teacher Q&A - opportunituy to review and reflect learning in plenary - final ‘just a minute’ game (one student stands up at the front and begins talking about the lesson - if they hesitate, deviate or repeat a work, another student takes over, the winner is the one speaking when the 60 seconds ends).
This lesson was designed for Year 9 students as part of a topic on ecosystems (closely linked to the GCSE AQA specification ‘Living World’ - it is suitable to be adapted to any KS3/4 class
NB - purple pen is used in my school to show progress/improve work, PPT instructions on the last slide can be adapted as appropriate for your school.
An introductory lesson for GCSE AQA Geography students beginning the UK Physical Landscapes topic.
Includes: PPT, worksheets, differentiation, stretch and challenge, links to specification, exam practice
Specification point: The UK has a range of diverse landscapes - An overview of the location of major upland/lowland areas and river systems.
This PowerPoint follows a complete lesson introducing students to the UK's major upland and lowland areas. Students must use an atlas to complete a checklist and plot the major rivers and upland areas on a map of the UK. There is a 'Further Thinking' activity to stretch higher ability students. The lesson finishes with two practice exam questions and has scaffolding support for lower ability students.
NB: Lesson requires atlas’ for students.
This lesson is designed for GCSE AQA Geography students completing the specification point:
River Landscapes UK - Distinctive fluvial landforms result from different physical processes - an example of a UK river to identify its major landforms of erosion and deposition
It includes a presentation, step-by-step instructions and WAGOLL to enable students to use the Digimap for schools software to plot the major landforms of the River Tees (it can be adapted to use for different case studies). Students will produce a map of the course of the River Tees with details of its major landforms and summaries of how they are formed. This lesson is an excellent opportunity to enhance students’ map work skills.
NB - this lesson does require a login for Digimap for Schools website (there is space to put these details on the PPT and worksheet).
Includes ‘further thinking’ activities to stretch higher ability students.
This complete lesson pack includes a PowerPoint, video clips, reading material and lesson plan.
It is designed for the A Level Geography Edexcel Globalisation:
3.8 Key Idea: Social, political and environmental tensions have resulted from the rapidity of global change caused by globalisation.
3.8C = Some groups seek to retain their cultural identify within countries and seek to retain control of culture and physical resources, whereas others embrace the economic advantages of globalisation.
The lesson includes an extension activity for higher ability students.
A survey for students to complete to help them evaluate their areas of strength and challenges and to help the teacher get to know the student and how best to support them going forward.
A complete lesson designed for the AQA GCSE Geography specification:
'UK Physical Landscapes: An example of a flood management scheme in the UK to show:
why the scheme was required
the management strategy
the social, economic and environmental issues."
Includes WAGOLLS, differentiated worksheets, exam practice question, starter, plenary, main activity and stretch and challenge questions. Also includes improvement section with answers (shown as ‘purple pen improvements’ but can be adapted to suit your school’s policy.
Also includes links to video clips showing the floods and the impact of the management strategy.
Complete GCSE AQA Geography lesson for students to learn the features of a drainage basin, draw a long profile of a river and explain why the river profile changes.
Includes simple starter activity to engage students, success criteria, teacher explaination, fun ‘snap-chat’ style fact learning activity for the features of a drainage basin, instructions on how to plot the long profile of the River Tees and simple exam practice (students study WAGOLL and delete the incorrect words).
Plotting the long profile of the River Tees introduces students to the different landforms found along there and is excellent practice to develop their graph skills. It also includes a WAGOLL so students can self assess.
This is designed to be lesson 1 of the AQA GCSE Geography ‘UK River Landscapes’ topic but can be adapted to suit KS3 or KS5.
A comprehensive PowerPoint presentation designed to cover all aspects of the Paper 2 Section A) Urban Issues and Challenges, complete with Mumbai and London case studies (can be changed to suit your school’s case studies).
Bright and colourful with lots of photographs and graphs. Easy to use with exam hints and tips.
Could be suitable to print out slides for students and/or to deliver as part of a pre-exam booster or revision session.
High quality revision pack for the AQA GCSE Geography topic: ‘River Landascapes in the UK’
Includes:
Colourful and comprehensive knowledge organiser
Revision checklist linked to the specification
Activity booklet linked to the CGP 9-1 AQA revision guide
A complete revision checklist for AQA GCSE Geography ‘UK River Landscapes’ topic with areas for students to RAG rate knowledge pre and post revision and to reflect on focus areas to revise.
A comprehensive and colourful 2 page knowledge organiser for the AQA GCSE Geography topic of ‘River Landscapes in the UK.’ Designed to support students with their revision.
Includes all elements of the specification, including two case studies which can be amended to suit your school’s.
Case studies included:
River Tees - river landforms
Boscastle 2004 floods - flood management
A comprehensive powerpoint summarising all of Section C for GCSE AQA Geography Paper 2 ‘Resource Management’ with the option of water. Useful to go through with class if you have them for revision prior to going into the exam.
A lesson to introduce students to global issues and the sustainable development goals.
Activities designed for a 1 hour lesson. Includes a variety of tasks e.g. think pair share, placing issues along a continuum line and justifying choices, video clip with a question and answer sheet and a final creative task. All can be adapted to suit your class.
Designed for KS3, Year 9 geography but would be suitable for citizenship lessons too.
This resource contains a summary of three recent articles about different solutions to the prominent issue of too much plastic in our oceans, as highlighted by Blue Planet.
The three articles summarise three different approaches to the issue and can easily be compared and assessed against each other. They can be used as stimulus material for a longer writing piece by KS3 and KS4 geography students or in PSHE or citizenship classes.
They would be particularly suitable to give to students after they have watched a YouTube clip on the state of plastics in our oceans - there are many clips from Blue Planet suitable for this.
A detailed lesson plan suitable for KS3 and KS4 geography students. Successfully used in interview. Includes timings for a one hour lesson on plastics in the ocean for ‘geography in the news’ interview theme.
Also includes opportunities for differentiation, starters, plenaries and links to assessment objectives.
An AQA GCSE Geography exam style question and mark scheme worth 6 marks, testing pupils AO1 and AO2 skills.
Question requires students to analyse impacts of the recent volcanic eruption in Hawaii. Social and environmental impacts are clear from the photograph, students will have to use own knowledge to bring in economic impacts.