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 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 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.
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.
A visual progress tracker to give students the ‘bigger picture’ and record their end of topic tests and reflect on their results and progress in comparison to their target grades. Includes visual icons to help engage students.
Also includes alternative options depending on what your school has chosen. These are in red font so you can simply delete the appropriate option, drag the correct icon into the box and change the font to black.
Designed to be stuck into the front/back of each book.
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.
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.
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.
**A 13 page work booklet for Year 11 GCSE AQA Geography students to use either independently as homework or guided during lessons to interpret and understand the Paper 3 pre-release issue evaluation - tropical rainforests and development.
Includes:**
Introduction to paper 3
Guidance on using the booklet
A range of short and simple activities designed to help students engage with, understand and interpret each of the figures
A 9 mark exam question based on whether or not the road in the Peruvian Amazon should be built (plus guidance on structure)
A mark scheme for students to self assess
A list of keywords linked to each of the three Figures in the booklet
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.
A simple, colourful and easy to use revision workbooklet with activities to help students revise the coasts section to the AQA GCSE specification.
Includes Holderness Coast case study.
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.
A simple yet detailed workbooklet and accompanying ppt covering all aspects of the case study of India for AQA’s Changing Economic World specification. Includes videos, exam practice and WAGOLLs.
It is designed to be used alongisde the CGP Complete Revision and Practice book (page numbers are on the sheet). The booklet uses information from the revision guide plus extra detail to enable students to access higher marks. Includes bright colours and pictures to make it more appealing to students.
Simple activities include word fill, reading and highlighting key text and making mind maps from information in the revision guide.
Particularly useful as a revision tool for Year 11 or those short on time teaching the content.
Includes PDF for printing plus word document to edit if you prefer.
A simple yet detailed workbooklet covering all aspects of the case study of India for AQA’s Changing Economic World specification.
It is designed to be used alongisde the CGP Complete Revision and Practice book (page numbers are on the sheet). The booklet uses information from the revision guide plus extra detail to enable students to access higher marks. Includes bright colours and pictures to make it more appealing to students.
Simple activities include word fill, reading and highlighting key text and making mind maps from information in the revision guide.
Particularly useful as a revision tool for Year 11 or those short on time teaching the content.
Includes PDF for printing plus word document to edit if you prefer.
A full scheme of learning aimed at teaching KS3 students weather and climate, designed to prepare them for GCSE geography.
Includes 7 fully differentiated lessons (including specially adapted resources for children with dyslexia). All lessons have ‘further thinking’ tasks designed to stretch and challenge higher ability and scaffolded worksheets for lower ability students.
Also includes progress tracker for students to complete at the end of each lesson with new knowledge.
Includes peer assessment mid-topic and end of topic assessment with mark scheme.
Whole lesson on ‘What is the Climate of the UK?’ for KS3 students.
**Objectives: **To understand how and why the climate varies within the UK.
Outcomes:
I can describe (AO1) how the UK climate varies
I can explain (AO2) why the UK climate varies
Includes:
Starter,
Success criteria,
Main activity with information sheets and differentiated student worksheets (including one for lower ability and a second for dyslexic students),
Challenge activities for higher ability students (called ‘Further Thinking’),
Solo time (for students to apply new knowledge),
Review and reflect plenary
Download also includes full scheme of work for KS3 Weather and Climate topic.
Whole lesson on ‘How does air pressure affect weather?’ for KS3 students.
**Objectives: ** To understand how air pressure systems bring different types of weather.
Outcomes:
I can describe (AO1) the weather that a depression brings
I can describe (AO1) the weather that an anti-cyclone brings
I can compare (AO3) differences between these two pressure systems
Includes:
Starter,
Success criteria,
Main activity with information sheets and differentiated student worksheets (including one for lower ability and a second for dyslexic students),
Challenge activities for higher ability students (called ‘Further Thinking’),
Solo time (for students to apply new knowledge),
Review and reflect plenary
Download also includes full scheme of work for KS3 Weather and Climate topic.