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 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 identify the inequalities in Brazil, through identifying the urban and rural areas in Brazil and why people migrate to urban areas. This will lead on to urbanisation and its causes.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: Identify the positives and negatives of both rural and urban areas.
Task 3: Causes of urbanisation through push and pull factors
Task 4: Main Task - Describe how inequality has developed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Task 5: Plenary: Class question- What are some of the social, economic and environmental issues with rapidly urbanising areas
Lesson 2 out of 8
Students will be able to accurately locate Chernobyl and be able to discuss the time-line of events that led to the Chernobyl disaster. Students will begin to look at the magnitude of the event and the effects of the disaster.
Task 1: Starter- True or False- Knowledge recap of previous learning
Task 2: Located Ukraine/ Chernobyl on maps
Task 3: Watch various clips about Chernobyl
Task 4: Sort the effects of Chernobyl into social, economic and environmental effects
Task 5: Choose which of the effects are most significant and why.
Task 6: Main Task:Outline what happened in Chernobyl, identify which effect is most significant and describe its size, severity and length of time.
Task 7: Plenary: Write a sentence about how they, thought, liked, hated, wanted to learn more.
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Students to identify where the world’s tropical rainforests are located and where in South America does the largest amount of the Amazon Rainforest is found.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: On whiteboards, come up with as many reasons you think the Amazon Rainforest is important.
Task 3: Which of the benefits of the Amazon Rainforest is most important and why?
Task 4: Main Task - Describe the importance of the Amazon Rainforest
Task 5: Plenary: 3,2,1 - Class Discussion - Why do people cut down the rainforest?
Lesson 6 out of 8
Students will identify the increase in urbanisation over time and predicted increases. Then will investigate the social, economic and environmental challenges of urbanisation in Rio, and how they will impact the area.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: Describe the trend on the graph on screen (3 marks)
Task 3: Using the factors on the worksheet identify which is the most important social, economic and environmental challenges.
Task 4: Main Task - Describe how urbanisation has created challenges in Rio de Janeiro.
Task 5: Plenary: Class question- What are some of the negatives about living in favelas in Rio.
Lesson 3 out of 8
Students will be able to define weather and precipitation along with identifying the climate of the UK. Students will then read through what creates weather and complete challenge tasks for each.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Describe the climate of the UK using the term “Temperate”
Task 3: Using the worksheet, students will read through how each factor affects the weather and then complete challenge tasks.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe the weather conditions of the UK.
Task 5: Plenary: What are some of the ways climate change will affect the UK.
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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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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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Students to define what deforestation is and the economic reasons that deforestation occurs. Then students will interpret a pie chart showing the reasons for deforestation. Then after reading through the information students must choose which is the most impactful reason for the amazon rainforest being deforested and why.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: On whiteboards, come up with as many reasons you think the Amazon Rainforest is important.
Task 3: Which of the benefits of the Amazon Rainforest is most important and why?
Task 4: Main Task - Explain how development in tropical rainforests creates economic advantages
Task 5: Plenary: 3,2,1 - Class Discussion - Why do people cut down the rainforest?
Lesson 7 out of 8
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on inequality in the UK and the north south divide, an introduction on the differences between regions in the UK
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Using the infographic students are to write down three differences between the north and south of England.
Task 3: Students to watch a video about the north south divide in the UK and make notes.
Task 4: Read through the information on worksheets and evaluate which of them is the most effective and why.
Task 5: Main Task - Long form writing- describe the north south divide and its effects on England.
Task 6: Plenary - Students to look at GCSE grade results in the UK and explain what the knock on effects for students are in the north of England
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Students to recap on urbanisation and identify the ways that it could bring positives to Rio. Students will investigate Rochina and if this has been a benefit to the area.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: Identify the positives and negatives of urbanisation
Task 3: Main Task - Primary Assessment - Explain how increasing urbanisation affects the urban people of Brazil.
Task 5: Plenary: 3,2,1 - What have we learnt about Rio, summarise?
Lesson 5 out of 8
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on inequality, an introduction into what inequality is, types of inequality and an evaluation on how they affect people.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Define inequality then writing the definition on their worksheet
Task 3: Read through the different facts about inequalities and students are to pick which they think is the most important factor and why
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- students to define what inequality is, outline how inequality effects people and then justify which inequality factor is and why
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to reduce inequality.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to measure development, introduction to economic and human development and what the HDI is.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Define development then write the definition on their worksheet
Task 3: Read through the different measures of development and students to pick one, and justify why they have. Then pass the sheet to the next student and they debate the point.
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- students to define what development is, outline which development indicator they have chosen and why, the state other measures of development and which is the best one to use.
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to help countries develop equally.
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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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Students will be able to define what a glacial and interglacial period is along with the conditions of each. They will also interpret graphs to show the glacial/interglacial cycle on Earth and describe the extent of ice during the last Ice Age. Students will then investigate the causes of the Ice Age and how humans survived the conditions.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Students describe the Earth’s climate over the past 450,000 years by interpreting a graph.
Task 3: Using the map of Earth students are to describe the extent of ice during the Ice Age.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe the last Ice Age and its effects on Earth, using success criteria.
Task 5: Plenary: Why is our planet not able to enter an Ice Age currently? Would we adapt now to an Ice Age? How would we adapt?
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Students will be able to describe what megafauna are, what their adaptations were during the Ice Age and how they came to be extinct.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Using the worksheet students are to describe the features of the animal and explain how its features help to adapt to the conditions of the Ice Age.
Task 3: Make notes about the extinction of the Giant Ground Sloth
Task 4: Main Task: Primary Assessment, describe how our climate has changed. (Sentence starters, PEEL structure provided and Success Criteria)
Task 5: Plenary: Why is our climate temperate when we are on the same latitude as Russia?
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the weather of the UK, with background on ocean currents, distance from the equator, altitude and prevailing winds. This will help students to understand the many reasons we have a temperate climate in the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Students to watch a video on why the UK climate varies, and divide the UK into four sections, describing the summer and winter of each section.
Task 3: Explain why convectional rainfall is common in the southeast of England during the summer (4 marks)
Task 4: Read through the sheet and justify which weather condition the UK faces is most impactful and why.
Task 5: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Which extreme weather condition impacts the UK most significantly. Justify your opinion.” (6 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - How can the UK prepare for extreme weather conditions?
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the distribution of tropical storm, a look into how they form, where they form and the conditions surrounding tropical storms
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Write a detailed description explaining where tropical storms form (3 marks)
Task 3: Complete description of formation of tropical storms
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "Study the map below which shows the path of a tropical storm. With the help of the map, describe the life cycle of a tropical storm. (4 marks)
Task 5: Plenary - Using the information on graph students must infer what tropical storms will be like in the future.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to identify height on a map, why we need to know height on a map and what it can be represented as.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning from previous lessons
Task 2: Students on worksheets to join up the high lines to show the height of the land.
Task 3: Then they are to colour in each height to show the height of the land.
Task 4: Main Task - Explain why contour lines are important.
Task 5: Plenary
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