A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the River Aire. Students will learn about the source and mouth of the river along with the erosional and depositional features found along the river. Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt in the previous lesson. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson. Task 2: Geography Skills: Using an OS map identify the 6 figure grid reference of Janet’s Foss and other features of the upper course. Task 3: In 5 steps explain how Janet’s Foss has formed and what features will be left behind. Task 4: Students to use an OS map to identify any meanders on the OS map and watch videos to explain how meanders form and where floodplains along the River Aire is located. Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Suggests how this feature along the River Aire at Woodlesford has formed (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 - Link Up Learning- Link the information in today’s lesson to other lessons on previous topics. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on what hard engineering along a river is, and the four management strategies involved. Students will then identify the cost and benefits of each strategy and then will evaluate which is the most effective and why Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt in the previous lesson. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson. Task 2: A quick recap on what hard engineering strategies are and why they are used. Task 3: Students to read through information and analyses what each strategy is and identify their costs and benefits. Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "To what extent are hard engineering schemes sustainable (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 - Fill your hard hat, describe and identify hard engineering strategies. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the middle course. Students will learn about the erosional features and depositional features such as meanders and oxbow lakes. Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt in the previous lesson. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson. Task 2: Field sketch and describe the cross-section of a meander. Task 3: Watch a video about how meanders turn into oxbow lakes Task 4: Students to draw and label how a meander forms. Task 5: Students to label the five steps to the formation of an oxbow lake Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Explain how an ox-bow lake could form on the river shown in Figure 1 (6).” 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 - Odd one Out **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the different types of erosion and transportation. Then students will link erosion, transportation, are deposition to velocity and particle size. Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt in the previous lesson. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson. Task 2: Watch the video and make notes on what transportation is. Task 3: Using the key terms students sort the transportation descriptions to the key term. Task 4: Students then label the key terms on a diagram to cement knowledge. Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “How does velocity affect transportation and deposition (4).” 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 - Write down four pieces of knowledge they have gained today. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on an introduction into Nigeria. Students will be able to describe the location of Nigeria, the importance of Nigeria, both globally and regionally along with explaining how the changing demographics have resulted in Nigeria developing into an NEE. Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how ox-bow lakes are formed Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe the location of Nigeria (4 marks) Task 3: Watch the video on facts about Nigeria Task 4: Students to describe the population structure of Nigeria using a population pyramid (4 marks) Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Nigeria is becoming a NEE”. To what extent do you agree? (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 - True or False about Nigeria **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on types of aid in Nigeria. Students will be able to describe why Nigeria needs aid, why international aid is useful for the country and why it is not always used effectively. Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Exam question on how an ox-bow lake is formed Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe the trend in aid received by Nigeria (3 marks) Task 3: Students to priorities which they think is the main reason for aid and why. Task 4: Geography Skill: Graph Analysis: Identify how much aid Nigeria gave and how much the EU gave. Task 5: Main Task - Describe the living conditions in the figure, explain how aid should be spent in the area and then justify why small scale projects are more likely to be successful in Nigeria. Task 5: Plenary - Revision for next geographical process, levee and floodplain formation. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

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. **

A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on how the economic development of Nigeria has led to environmental problems. Students will be able to explain how the environmental problems affect both the natural and human environments and then outline the Bodo Oil Spill case study. Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Describe how a Levee is formed Task 2: Indicate which of the environmental problems affect the natural vs human environment. Task 3: Watch the video on the Bodo Oil Spill. Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “The impacts of economic development have been only positive in Nigeria”.Do you agree with this statement?Justify your opinion (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 - Revise for Levee Read, Write, Wipe as starter for next lesson. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on educational inequality, an introduction into what educational inequality is, the difference between state and public school and how this affects the UK. Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning Task 2: Define educational inequality then writing the definition on their worksheet Task 3: Read through the different facts and graphs about educational inequalities and students have to describe the difference between the north and south Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- students to define what educational inequality is, outline how it changes depending on where they live using facts and figures. Then to give examples of how the government reduce education inequality through the UK. Task 5: Plenary - Explain why the life expectancy of poor people are lower than their rich peers. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what climate change mitigation is, the positives and negatives of using fossil fuels. Then mitigation is broken into four sections: Reduction of GHG, artificially alter global temperatures, GHG capture and storage and finally international agreements. Task 1: Starter - 3 exam questions OR describe the impact of each picture, then if it is a social, or economic impact. Task 2: Students to come up with a definition of mitigation then copy out the real definition. Task 3: Overview of the formation of coal, oil and gas. Then students identify the advantages and disadvantages of using fossil fuels. Task 4: Using the PowerPoint attached (can be printed for a handout) students fill in each type of renewable energy on their sheets. Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- Complete two exam questions “Describe how GHG emissions from energy production could be reduced?" “explain how alternative energy production and planting trees may help to reduce the rate of climate change” **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the effects of human-caused climate change and how they impact different areas on the planet. Students will look at food production, migration, holidays and other factors that will be affected by climate change. Task 1: Starter - 5 Quick Questions- students to recap on previously learnt information. Task 2: Students to identify the data on the bar and pie chart and identify the amount of greenhouses gases in total emissions and which gas traps the most heat. Task 3: Students are given an information sheet with the impacts of climate change on the UK and Bangladesh. They are then to sort the impacts into social, economic or environmental impacts. Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Compare and contrast the possible impacts of climate change on a poorer part of the world with those on a richer part of the world” (6 marks) **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the global atmospheric model, its components and its function along with pressure belts and surface winds and how the Coriolis force affects trade winds and westerlies. Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning Task 2: Definition of global atmospheric circulation Task 3: Complete two exam questions about pressure belts and conditions. Task 4: Complete GAC sheet. Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain how the global atmospheric system affects the weather and climate at the equator” (4 marks) Task 6: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to help countries develop equally. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the human causes of climate change. An introduction to the human-enhanced greenhouse effect, and how the greenhouse gases humans contribute increase this factor unnaturally. Breaks the GHG content into how the world produces emissions. Task 1: Starter - Five Quick Questions - A quick recap on what students have previously learnt. Task 2: Students to identify the graph they have previously seen but identify the “hockey-stick” curve. Task 3: Students glue the sheet in their books and explain the greenhouse effect in 20 words. then look at the two global heat maps and identify countries that are most at risk of rising temperatures. Task 4: Describe how two human activities can contribute to climate change (4 marks). Task 5: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Evaluate the extent to which human factors are responsible for climate change. With reference to a named example, evaluate the extent to which you agree with this statement. .” (9+3spag) Task 6: Evaluate the extent to which human factors are responsible for climate change. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the future of tropical storms and what could potentially happen to people living in these areas. Contains lots of graph analysis for students. Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning Task 2: On white boards students to make notes on the video about tropical storms Task 3: Read through the information on the sheet and analyse the graphs about the future of tropical storms. Task 4: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Suggest how the distributiion of tropical storms could change in the future if the trend in temperature change continues” (4 marks) Task 5: Plenary - True or false about formation of tropical storms **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will be able to define the enhanced greenhouse effect, then identify the effects of climate change in the UK, rank which is the most impactful and justify why. Then students will evaluate is the government is doing enough to help tackle climate change. Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics Task 2: Identify the effects of climate change on the UK. Task 3: Rank the effects of climate change on the UK from most significant to least significant. Task 4: Read through the statements on the worksheet and evaluate if the UK government is doing enough. Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of climate change on the UK Task 5: Plenary: What are the challenges with responding to climate change as a low-income country? The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the continents and countries of the world, an introduction to scale, at both local, national and global. Task 1: Starter - Recap the last few lessons and information they have learnt. Task 2: Students to identify which pictures are bigger and smaller depending on the scale. Task 3: Students to watch a video about the scale and then answer questions about the video and scale. Task 4: Main Task - Finish the sentences in books about what the scale is used for in books and how you would use scale. Task 5: Plenary 3,2,1 **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 1- Living in the Physical Environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 34 slides with all the key physical processes broken down into 5 easy steps along with examples of what good and bad answers look like. In the final half of the PowerPoint we cover case studies that students will need when completing paper 1. Key Physical Processes include: Rivers -Waterfalls & Gorges Meanders & Oxbow Lakes Levee formation Coasts Rotational Cliff Slumping Headlands and Bays Formation of a Sea Stack Wave-cut Platforms Spits & Bars Weather Hazards -Formation of a Hurricane 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

In this lesson students will identify what a natural hazard is, types of natural hazards and how hazards and their risks change depending on several factors. Task 1: Identify natural hazards based on pictures Task 2: Write down the different types of natural hazards Task 3: Complete structure of the Earth sheet. Task 4: Exam style 4 mark question Task 5: Plenary: GCSE pod Lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet.

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. **Download contains PowerPoint **

These home learning/ homework sheets are a good way to test students knowledge and comprehension of the “changing economic world” topic. Each sheet provides upwards of 7 research questions, with two AQA specified exam questions to ensure that students are applying their knowledge correctly. It is recommended giving 1-2 weeks for students to complete the sheet (depending on student ability) This home learning sheet is specifically designed for the Changing Economic World lessons that are also on Planet Geography, so if you want some engaging and challenging lessons, head over to the lessons and get them too!!