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Hello, I'm Natasha and I provide high-quality geography resources for KS3 and KS4.
https://linktr.ee/planetgeography
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GCSE Geography Revision - Paper 2 (AQA)
A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 2- Challenges in the human environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 36 slides with full information and case studies for each topic.
Content Includes:
Urban Issues and Challenges
Definition and causes of urbanisation
Emergence of megacities
Case Study of Rio as an NEE along with opportunities and challenges.
Case Study - Urban change in a Major UK City - Leeds
Sustainable Urban Living - Leeds Greenhouse Project
Traffic Management in Leeds
The Changing Economic World
Measuring development
Measuring population and causes of uneven development
Tourism in Jamaica
UK national and global links
Case Study- Nigeria - TNCs causing development
Economic and Industrial Change in the UK
Modern Industrial Developments in the UK - Cambridge Science Park and Torr Quarry.
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Introduction to Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the importance of fieldwork along with why do fieldwork in geography. This lesson contains the basis for a fieldwork investigation around your school that includes a liter count and bi-polar environmental quality survey.
Task 1: Describe which is more accurate data sample set
Task 2: Writing a hypothesis
Task 3: Conducting research at 3 different locations along with the research sheet.
Task 4: Main Task: Write up _ Describe what the research found about the school site.
Task 5: Plenary: Homework for litter pick for further data
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Data & Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the difference between Primary and Secondary data as well as give examples for each type. Then students will investigate Quantitative versus Qualitative data and what types of data these represent. Finally students will explain why it is important to display data in different methods, specifically bar chart. This lesson was created to be part of a two lesson plan, so the previous lesson will be included in the download to help with planing.
Starter: Knowledge Retention on previous learning
Task 1: Testing the difference between primary and secondary data
Task 2: Testing the difference between quantitative and qualitative
Task 3: Why do we choose to present data in a certain way?
Task 4: Main Task: Describe the quality of the environment at our school
Lesson contains two powerpoints and one worksheet.
Measuring Distance - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to measure distance on a map, both through straight lines and also through curved lines.
Task 1: Starter - 15 questions recall previous lesson learning.
Task 2: Students to work together on how you can find two whole cities in an inch of space
Task 3: On the worksheets, students have a go at using the scale on the sheet to measure the distance between each image.
Task 4: On the worksheet students use a curved line and measure the distance.
Task 5: Main Task - Tertiary Assessment - “Explain the importance of cartography” with success criteria and sentence starter
Task 7: Plenary: Odd One Out
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GCSE Geography Revision - Paper 1 (AQA)
A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 1- Living in the Physical Environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 30 slides with full information and case studies for each topic.
Case studies include:
Ecosystems - UK Pond
Tropical Rainforest - Malaysia
Hot Desert - Thar Desert
Rivers - River Tees
Coasts - Holderness Coast
Tectonic Hazards - Christchurch vs Haiti
Weather Hazards - Typhoon Haiyan
UK Weather Hazards - Beast from the East
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Introducing Consent - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what is consent, why do we need consent, and what consent looks like.
Task 1: Starter - On whiteboards, class discussion and ask students opinion.
Task 2: Describe consent to someone who doesn’t know what it it.
Task 3: Create a spider diagrams on situations where you would need consent.
Task 4: What are the signs of consent, how do you know if you’ve been given consent
Task 5: With sheet students to work in pairs to answer questions about consent
Task 6: Plenary - Consent Quiz
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Features of the UK and Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 geography this bundle is great for Year 7 in their first term at school. This gets students familiar with geographical concepts of fieldwork, data, human and physical geography. This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly conduct fieldwork investigation into the environment of their school to get them engaged in geography and explain why it is important along with data collection and presentation. Then students will investigate the location of the UK, this is done to provide a strong basis for all students regardless of primary school. This includes continents, countries, seas and the use of longitude and latitude. Students will then learn about the climate and weather of the UK, the case study of the River Severn along with its basic features of a river and the Holderness Coast along with headlands and bays and a quick introduction of geology. Then students will investigate human geography and its features of human settlements and scales along with identifying major UK cities and the density/sparseness. Finally students end on the case study of Leeds and its importance as a UK city.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Fieldwork
Lesson 2: Data and Fieldwork
Lesson 3: Climate of the UK
Lesson 4: Rivers of the UK
Lesson 5: Coasts of the UK
Lesson 6: Cities of the UK
Lesson 7: Importance of Leeds
Students will gain a variety of skills such as fieldwork, data collection and manipulation along with manipulation. Along with OS map reading and bar chart analysis
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Haiti Earthquake-2010 Case Study - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the 2010 Haiti earthquake, this lesson establishes what an earthquake is. Where Haiti is located globally and background on what happened during the earthquake, and the effects including, social, economic and environmental effects. Then students finish off by looking at the long-term and short-term effects of the quake.
Task 1: Starter: Knowledge recall on previous topic (Coasts)
Task 2: Describe the location of Haiti
Task 3: Identify the primary and secondary effects then place them into social, economic and environmental.
Task 4: Watch the news video about the Haiti quake.
Task 5: Exam question: Exam question: “Earthquakes are another example of tectonic activity.” Using an example, describe the primary and secondary effects of an earthquake. (6 marks)
Task 6: Peer Feedback
Task 7: Using a volcanic eruption or an earthquake you have studied, describe the short-term responses to the disaster. (4 marks)
Task 8: Peer Feedback
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Mapping Africa using GIS - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the location of the continent of Africa using longitude and latitude, then describe the physical features of Africa that are present. Finally students will log into laptops and use the worksheet provided to produce a GIS map of the different physical features of Africa along with annotations of their maps and what they see.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Description of Africa using longitude and latitude.
Task 2: Describing the physical features using compass points in Africa.
Task 3: Main Task: Using GIS online students will create a map with different physical features present in Africa.
Task 4: Plenary: Home Learning on the physical features of Africa (On last slide of powerpoint)
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
The Russia Ukraine Conflict 2022 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to accurately locate Ukraine, identify the build up to the war through the annexation of Crimea and other reasons. Students will then identify the human and physical features of Ukraine and how that has helped to limited the invasion of the country.
Task 1: Knowledge Recap on last lesson (Chernobyl)
Task 2: Located Ukraine on the map
Task 3: Watch video about the build up to the 2022 war.
Task 4: Identify the physical features of Ukraine and how they have limited invasion
Task 5: Discuss which of the human features have had the largest impact on the war.
Task 6: Main Task: Identify Ukraine, Identify one physical factor that has limited Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Identify one human factor that has limited Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Explain which factor (human or physical) is the most important to why Russia hasn’t taken over Ukraine.
Task 7: Plenary: How has the war affected people in the UK?
Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet.
Effects and Reponses to Typhoon Haiyan - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on Typhoon Haiyan, the location, case study, primary and secondary effects along with planning, preparation and monitoring.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Students to accurately describe the path of the typhoon.
Task 3: Read through the information sheet and add the effects and responses on their sheet.
Task 4: Main Task - Exam question practice, "Using an example, describe the primary and secondary effects of a tropical storm. (6 marks)
Task 5: Exam Question Practice - "Using an example, describe the short-term responses to a tropical storm (4 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - Explain why planning and preparation is the best option for reducing the effects of tropical storms.
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Changing Economic World - UK Case Study - (Full SOW) (KS4 - Key Stage 4)
An introductory topic for KS4 geography about the changing economic world of the UK. This will include how employment structure has changed through time, how industry affects the environment along with changes to rural areas and transport infastructure.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately
outline how/ why the UK’s employment has changed. Investigate the change in rural areas due to population increase and decrease. How Heathrow’s expansion can be a benefit and a drawback along with the UK’s connections to countries in the wider world.
Lesson 1: Changing Employment Structure in the UK
Lesson 2: Impacts of Industry on the Physical Environment
Lesson 3: Changing Rural Landscapes in the UK
Lesson 4: North-South Divide in England
Lesson 5: Changing UK Transport Infrastructure
Lesson 6: Heathrow Expansion
Lesson 7: UK’s Connection to the Wider World
Lesson 8: The UK and the Wider World - EU and Commonwealth
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation and interpretation along with graph analysis.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Resource Management - Provision of energy in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how the UK’s demand for energy has changed, why it has changed along with how the mix of energy the UK has used has changed. This lesson covers fracking, wind and nuclear energy as case studies for the impacts of energy exploitation.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Graph analysis: Describe how consumption in the UK has changed over time.
Task 3: Pie chart analysis: Energy mix of the UK through time.
Task 4: Compound line graph analysis: Energy mix of the UK through time.
Task 5: Colour code the positives and negatives of wind and nuclear power.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain why the UK’s energy mix will include both renewable and non-renewable sources in the future. (6 marks)"
Task 6: Plenary - What are some of the main uses for water in the UK?
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Fieldwork Skills for GCSE - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
In this lesson students will be introduced to what fieldwork skills are, how to do them and why we do them. This is to get them farmiliar with the types of sampling and data collection ahead of a fieldtrip and why they choose that.
In this lesson students cover:
Primary vs Secondary Data
Qualitative vs Quantative Data
Types of sampling: Cluster, Stratified, Systematic and Random, along with the benefits and drawbacks of each type of sampling.
Finally students cover why we do risk assessments and why it is important.
Students finish off with an exam question practice that will be completed in their booklets.
Protecting the Amazon Rainforest - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students to define what sustainability is and how social, economic and environmental factors must be taken into account to make something sustainable. Then students will read through the worksheet and choose which option is the best for sustainability. Finally, students will put everything they have learnt together in a final secondary assessment.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: On whiteboards, come up with a definition of sustainability
Task 3: Identify which management strategy is the most sustainable and why.
Task 4: Main Task - Secondary Assessment - Evaluate the protection of the Amazon Rainforest.
Task 5: Plenary: 3,2,1 - Class Discussion - Why do people cut down the rainforest?
Lesson 8 out of 8
Introduction to Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on conflict, an introduction into what conflict is, types of conflict and how they affect us on a local, national and global scale and how patterns of conflict have shaped the world today.
Task 1: Starter - Define what conflict and war is.
Task 2: Decide which conflicts are local, national and international
Task 3: Interpret the map on which things are good about the map and which are bad.
Task 4: Using an Atlas and the patterns of conflict to design their own map illustrating the patterns of conflict today
Task 5: Main Task - Long form writing- students to use the map they have created to describe the patterns of conflict in the world today.
Task 6: Plenary - Class discussion- which conflict was the worst and why?
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Colonisation of Africa - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to explain what colonisation is, where in Africa was colonised and by which country/ empire. Students will then learn about the scramble for Africa post slave trade and the reasons for the scramble. Students will then identify the social, economic and environmental. issues that colonisation caused for Africa. Then students will evaluate which is the worst effect and why. Finally they will create a newspaper article about the effects of colonisation on Africa.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the countries that were colonised and by which country/ empire.
Task 2: Identify the social, economic and environmental. issues that colonisation
Task 3: Evaluate which of the effects of colonisation was the worst and why.
Task 4: Create a newspaper article explaining what colonisation is, why it happened and its effects on the African people.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Aid Positives and Negatives - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on aid, introduction to different types of aid, when do we use it and how the UK gives aid to Pakistan
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Define aid then writing the definition on their worksheet
Task 3: Read through the different facts about aid in Pakistan and students are to outline if the facts are positives of negatives to Pakistan
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- students to define what aid is, how it can benefit and be a negative to Pakistan. Then they are to state overall if aid is a good or bad thing and justify if the UK should keep giving aid.
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how Pakistan can improve development in their country.
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Population Distribution in Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the distribution of population across Russia, using key terms such as dense and sparse to describe the spread. Students will then be able to use human and physical evidence as to why humans are distributed this way.
Starter: True or False
Task 1: Describe the distribution of population density using a map
Task 2: True or False
Task 3: Human and physical factors that affect population
Task 4: Main Task: Explain one physical and one human factor to why Russia’s population is distributed this way.
Task 5: Plenary: Peer assessment- swap books with partner and mark the question.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Resource Management - Water Management in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how water in the UK is managed. This includes areas of surplus and deficit along with the case study of Kielder Dam, Northumberland. This lesson also discusses the impacts of water pollution in the UK and ways that is it managed.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Key word match up for water deficit, water surplus, water stress.
Task 3: Three choropleth maps of the UK and students must suggest if there is a relationship between rainfall, population density and water stress.
Task 4: Describe the location of Kielder dam and the location of the water transfer scheme (4 marks)
Task 5: Colour code the positives and negatives of Kielder Dam.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the extent to which water transfer systems bring opportunities to local areas (6 marks)"
Task 6: Plenary - What questions would you ask to find out more about global water scarcity?
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