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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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Investigating Cold Environments - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 9 students as the lessons revolve around cold environments and are a great starting point for students who want to study GCSE geography as many themes are similar to the cold environments topic at GCSE and provides great foundational knowledge. Students firstly start identifying the difference between the Arctic and Antarctic, then the features of their climates and the adaptation they cause in plants and animals that survive there. Finally students learn about the opportunities and challenges of living in these areas and link them to development.
Lesson 1: Arctic versus Antarctic
Lesson 2: Features of Cold Environments
Lesson 3: Plant and animal adaptation to cold environments
Lesson 4: Opportunities in Cold Environments
Lesson 5: Challenges in Cold Environments
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data collection and manipulation along with creation of graphs and reading OS maps.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets, knowledge organiser and learning journey.
TNCs in Nigeria (Shell) - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on an what Transnational corporations (TNC’s) are and why they have chosen Nigeria to develop in. Students will be able to explain the positives and negatives of Nigeria and then answer the question on if TNCs are a positive force in Nigeria.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how ox-bow lakes are formed
Task 2: Outline the positives and negatives of TNCs on the worksheet.
Task 3: Geography Skills: Describe the distribution of oil fields in Nigeria (3 marks)
Task 4: Students to watch a video explaining the positives and negatives of Shell in Nigeria.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “To what extent are TNCs a positive force for the host country?" (6 marks)
High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words.
Task 5: Plenary - Revision on exam question about ox-bow lakes.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Impacts of Industry on the Physical Environment - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on how economic industry affects the environment. Use of Torr Quarry for the case study.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Using 5 steps, draw 5 diagrams that show the process of rotational cliff slumping.
Task 2: Geography Skills: Image inference “What evidence is there of environmental damage?”
Task 3: Watch the video on thepositives and negatives of quarrying in England.
Task 4: Geography Skills: Describing location - Describe the location of Torr Quarry.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “To what extent do you think that the quarry is being managed in an environmentally sustainable way? (6 marks)”
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for exam question on rotational cliff slumping.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
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?
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
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
Where is Russia? - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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.
Middle East's Physical Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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.
Continents and Countries - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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. **
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.
Comparing the Christchurch and Haiti Earthquakes - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on comparing the 2010 Haiti earthquake with the 2011 New Zealand quake. This lesson is the last in the series and works really well with the others in the series. Students recap the effects and impacts of the quakes and then identify to what extent they agree with the statement “The effects of tectonic hazards are worse in LICs.”
This 9 mark question has high levels of scaffolding that allow students of all abilities to access to question and work through each section with sentence starters and key words on each.
Task 1: Starter: Recall on each type of graph and revision of coast topic.
Task 2: Recap quiz on plate tectonics to see how confident they are on the lessons.
Task 3: Identify the relevant differences in the quake between the two locations.
Task 4: The effects of tectonic hazards are worse in LICs. To what extent do you agree? (9 marks +3 Spag)
Task 6: Peer Feedback
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
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Human Features of Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 Year 7 about the human features of Europe including the countries in Europe, the European Union, along with its positives and negatives, Brexit and migration and migrant crisis in Europe.
This bundle contains 5 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately identify where Europe is, along with several counties and seas contained within it. Then students will be taught what the EU is, when it formed and the positives and negatives of the Eu along with why the UK chose to leave. Finally students will learn the different types of migration and explaining the migrant crisis currently happening in Europe.
Lesson 1: Location of Europe
Lesson 2: Introduction to the EU
Lesson 3: Positives and Negatives of the EU
Lesson 4: Migration in Europe
Lesson 5: The Migrant Crisis in Europe
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation, map skills, and climate graph interpretation.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Resources in the Middle East - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students recap the physical features of the Middle East from the previous topic and lesson. Students will then recap what resources are and be told about energy as a resource. Students are then asked to categorise energy into renewable and non-renewable. Using a map of the middle east students are then to describe the resource present in each country and then also describe the distribution of each oil producer. Then students demonstrate their learning through describing the distribution of oil in the Middle East and its effects on the Middle East
Task 1: Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Recap renewable and non-renewable energy
Task 3: Using the table and map, describe where the world’s oil reserves are
Task 4: Describe the distribution of non-renewable resources in the Middle East.
Task 5: Using the pie chart describe the distribution of the world’s biggest oil producers. (4 marks)
Task 6: Describe the distribution of oil in the Middle East and its effects on the Middle East
This download contains a fully completed powerpopint and worksheet.
Grid Referencing in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students to start by recapping their learning of core knowledge of the physical features of South America with 5 quick questions.
Students are then introduced what OS maps are and why we need them, they will then begin to identify symbols that are commonly used in OS maps. The students get shown how to do 4 figure grid references using different places in Brazil, with increasing difficulty. Then students are shown how to do this in 6 figure grid reference.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention
Task 2: Identify OS map symbols
Task 3: Identify four figure grid references
Task 4: Identify six figure grid references
Task 5: Independent Practice with a mix of four and 6 figure grid references to test learning.
This lesson contains a fully resourced powerpoint and worksheet with high resolution maps for printing.
The Climate of Africa
Students will be able to recap the difference between weather and climate then identify the different climates of Africa. Students then learn the three components that affect biome distribution. Then using four different climate graphs of different countries in Africa students cement their knowledge through 4 different questions. Finally students will investigate the animals and plants that are adapted to two places of contrasting climate, e.g. Egypt and DRC.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the area that receives the most direct sunlight
Task 2: Describe the different climate areas in Africa using latitude
Task 3: Analyse four different climate graphs of contrasting areas in Africa
Task 4: Main Task: Compare the adaptation of the plants and animals of two different climates in two countries in Africa
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Tourism in Jamaica - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on how tourism in Jamaica has improved the development of the area. Students will investigate where Jamaica is located, describe how tourism has increased in the last 50 years and how tourism has improved the economy of the area.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how waterfalls are formed (6 marks)
Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe the location of Jamaica (4 marks)
Task 3: Watch the video on how tourism affects Jamaica.
Task 4: Students to complete the multiplier effect circle.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Evaluate, the role of tourism in reducing the development gap in an area you have studied (9 marks).” High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words.
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for next physical revision - Meanders/ Oxbow Lakes
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
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Case Study of Nigeria (NEE) - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography “The Changing Economic World”. This topic will briefly cover where is Nigeria, why is it important, both nationally and globally. Then students will investigate the benefits and drawbacks of TNCs in Nigeria (specifically Shell) then the types of aid Nigeria receives. Students will identify if this aid is beneficial or what problems may arise with aid. Finally students will explore the impacts of economic development on the environment of Nigeria, with a specific look at the Bodo Oil Spill and its effects on the local people.
Lesson 1: Importance of Nigeria
Lesson 2: TNCs in Nigeria (Shell)
Lesson 3: International Aid in Nigeria
Lesson 4: Environmental Impacts of Economic Development in Nigeria.
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
BONUS- Will include homework research sheets that will span over the four lessons (one sheet every two lessons )
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Weather Hazards - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about Weather Hazards and their formation along with effects.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe the distribution of the climate globally using the GAC. Then describe the location and formation of tropical storms along with their effects through the case study of Typhoon Haiyan. Next students will look at the weather of the UK and finally describe an extreme UK weather event. In the last few lessons students will look at our changing climate and how this occurs both naturally and also anthropogenically, they will identify the effects and how we can adapt and mitigate them.
Lesson 1: Global Atmospheric Circulation Model (GAC)
Lesson 2: Tropical Storms
Lesson 3: Future of Tropical Storms
Lesson 4: Effects and Responses to Typhoon Haiyan
Lesson 5: UK Weather Hazards
Lesson 6: Beast from the East
Lesson 7: Climate Change: Natural Causes
Lesson 8: Climate Change: Human Causes
Lesson 9: Climate Change: Effects
Lesson 10: Mitigating Climate Change
Lesson 11: Adapting to Climate Change
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
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Introduction to Geography and Map Skills - (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 in geography introducing students to geography, its different types, and map skills. This bundle contains 9 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to identify the continents, countries and oceans of Earth, discuss the different types of geography and begin to read and interpret graphs.
Lesson 1 - Continents and Countries
Lesson 2 - Continents and Oceans
Lesson 3- Different Types of Geography
Lesson 4 - Cartography
Lesson 5- Reading Maps
Lesson 6 - Compass Points
Lesson 7- Scale on a Map
Lesson 8 - Height on a Map
Lesson 9 -Measuring Distance
Students will gain a variety of skills such as map reading, interpreting data, and applying the information to maps.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets
Location, Climate and Importance of Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will identify the location of Brazil globally, continentally and the physical features of Brazil such as the Andes, Atacama desert and the Amazon. Students will then create a climate graph to show the temperature of Brazil and the climate. Finally, they will identify why Brazil is an important country internationally.
Task 1: Located and describe Brazil
Task 2: Using the worksheet students will draw on where the physical features of South America and Brazil are.
Task 3: Climate graph of Brazil (Amazon Rainforest)
Task 4: Main Task: Describe the location of Brazil and explain Rio de Janeiro’s importance.
Task 5: Plenary: Class question- why do people what to move to Rio?
Lesson 1 out of 8
Health Inequalities in the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on health inequality in the UK, an introduction into what health inequality is, how life expectancy varies between the north and south. Contains a full assessment to test comprehension on the topic.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Define life expectancy then writing the definition on their worksheet
Task 3: Read through the different factors on life expectancy and explain which has the biggest effect on life expectancy and why
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing assessment- students to define what inequality is, briefly explain the north south divide in the UK and outline the effects of inequality in the UK using education and health as examples.
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how the UK could make life expectancy in the UK more equal.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **