Students during this lesson will be able to accurately describe the characteristics of the taiga forest and its vegetaion. Then will be able to create their own climate graphs that show the taiga. Finally students will be able to identify plants and animals found in the taiga forest and how they have adapted to the conditions. Task 1: Starter- Knowledge recall Task 2: Describe the climate of the taiga Task 3: Create your own climate graph of the taiga Task 4: Interpret your climate graph Task 5: Adaptation to climate or lack of sunlight Task 6: Main Task: Explain how vegetation and animals have adapted to the taiga using named examples. Task 7: Plenary: Knowledge Noughts and Crosses Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet

Students will identify different biomes throughout Russia and understand how climate affects the locations of biomes. Students will also be able to describe the vegetation and animals that are located through the biomes of Russia. Task 1: Starter: Key words match up Task 2: Describe location of the biomes in Russia Task 3: Fill in sheet with characteristics of different biomes Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe what vegetation/ animals they would see throughout their journey. Task 5: Plenary: Quiz at the end of the lesson to summarise learning.

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.

Introductory lesson into Russia, students will be able to locate Russia along with its physical and human features. This is lesson 1 in a series of 8 lessons.

Students will compile what they have learnt over the past 9 lessons to understand how people in the UK affect conflicts, how conflict affects us and then evaluate the effect of conflict. Task 1: Starter/ recall of knowledge Task 2: How do we personally affect conflicts?- Fill in the sheet Task 3: Evaluate the effects of conflict Lesson 9 of 9

Students will understand the timeline the led to the Sailsbury incident, they will be able to explain why this incident happened. Videos are linked in the download. Students to complete a sheet to show understanding of the topic. Lesson 8 of 9

Students will understand the definition of geopolitics, along with identifying the features of Russia’s soft power then finally explaining how Russia uses its power to influence politics. Task 1: Located and describe Russia Task 2: Overview of Russian history and Soviet Union Task 3: Video of Ukraine Russia conflict Task 4: Write a news report about conflict and its impact on peoples lives. Lesson 7 out of 9

Students will be able to describe the location of Afghanistan, outline how conflict can affect development of a country and will finally explain in a mini essay how geography in the Middle East and conflict is linked. Task 1: Starter- Recall Activity Task 2: Define key words Task 3: Locate Afghanistan Task 4: Describe bar graph of development of Afghanistan Task 5: Explain how geography in the Middle East and conflict are linked

Students will learn where Iraq is located, its physical geography and then explain how physical geography affected the war in Iraq. Task 1- Describe where Iraq is Task 2- Watch video about Iraq war Task 3- Create timeline about the Iraq War Task 4- Colour in physical map about Iraq Lesson 5 out of 9.

Students will state where the Middle East is along with recognising the countries in that area along with the physical geography of the Middle East. The final task is where students describe the physical features of the Middle East to show comprehension. Lesson 4 of 9 about conflict.

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how physical geography and its features can effect conflict. A recap on what physical geography is, features of physical geography that can affect conflict. Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning with 5 questions. Task 2: Define physical geography Task 3: Read through the battle of hastings and identify how the physical geography of the area affected the battle. Task 4: Match up the key terms and how they affect conflict Task 5: Main Task- Using an Atlas students to look at global maps and topographical maps and decide which country would be easiest and hardest to invade and why. Task 6: Plenary - What are some of the ways countries avoid being invaded. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will explain how conflict affects the different human, environment and physical geography of an area. Starter activity to recap on previous learning then discussion on how these affect geography. Resources attached to this but also on last slide of powerpoint Lesson 2 in a series of lessons regarding conflicts and its implications on the physical and human world

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? **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

This is lesson 2 in a series of lessons about location and introduction to geography. Throughout the lesson students will aim to: To explain where the seven continents are located To identify the oceans that are present on Earth. Explain the features of a certain continent.

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the continents and countries of the world, an introduction into scale, at both local, national and global. Task 1: Starter - Name as many countries using the alphabet as possible. Task 2: Student to put the locations in order of size Task 3: Students to name each continent on Earth Task 4: Students use an Atlas to fill in as many countries as possible in the Europe map. Task 5: Label the 4 countries that make up Great Britain. Task 6: Main Task - Describe where we live in the world using scale. Task 7: Plenary **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

The first PowerPoint in a series to help students to recap their knowledge of OS maps and other Cartographic skills. The first few slides recap the importance of using maps and some historical knowledge on why we use OS maps. This lesson contains: Task 1: Students are asked in groups to match up a key map term along with a definition and example of the feature. Recap on compass directions Task 2: Stick the compass direction on the sheet and then differentiated further task to encourage looking into orientation. Four figure grid reference recap Task 3: Find harry potter characters on the sheet and write the grid coordinates for them. Plenary: Confidence check on how students are feeling about the coordinates.