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Russia's Importance In Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Russia's Importance In Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will understand the location and distribution of Russia’s fuel resources, from this they should explain how Europe receives its energy from Russia. They will be able to investigate the advantages and disadvantages from getting fuel from Russia. Task 1: Starter: Knowledge recall of previous lessons Task 2: Key words match up Task 3: Analyse the pie chart to gain information to complete task Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of the Chernobyl disaster (6 marks) Task 5: Plenary- Pick 5 words from the lesson and write a question about them Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet
Effects of Chernobyl - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Effects of Chernobyl - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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Students will be able to outline the main long term and short term effects of Chernobyl and the consequences of these effects. Students will be able to evaluate the severity between the long term and short term consequences of Chernobyl. Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons Task 2: Using an atlas identify countries affected by the radiation leak Task 3: Looking at the information on the worksheet students to rank these effects 1-9 in terms of significance. Task 4: Main Task: Students to answer one of two questions about Chernobyl and its effects Task 5: Plenary: What things would students pack in their bags if they had to evacuate. Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet
Chernobyl, What Happened? - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Chernobyl, What Happened? - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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. Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet.
Taiga Forest Threats - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Taiga Forest Threats - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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In this lesson students will be able to state 4 or more threats to the taiga forest and explain why they are occurring. Then they will understand the social, economical and environmental factors that are involved in deforestation. The final task will be a form of formative assessment where students will bring all their knowledge to complete this. Task 1: Starter: True or False Task 2: Identification of different causes of deforestation Task 3: Advantages and disadvantages of deforestation in the taiga Task 4: Main Task- “Describe the characteristics of Russia and assess the threat to Russian biomes” (9 marks) Task 5: Plenary: Tweet about it
Plants and Animals In Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Plants and Animals In Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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
Biomes of Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Biomes of Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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.
Population Distribution in Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Population Distribution in Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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.
How Do We Cause Conflict? - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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How Do We Cause Conflict? - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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
Salisbury Poisoning - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Salisbury Poisoning - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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
Russia and Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Russia and Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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
Development in Afghanistan - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Development in Afghanistan - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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
War in Iraq, Physical Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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War in Iraq, Physical Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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.
Middle East's Physical Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Middle East's Physical Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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.
How Physical Geography Effects Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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How Physical Geography Effects Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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. **
How Conflict Affects Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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How Conflict Affects Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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
Introduction to Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Introduction to Conflict - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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. **
Continents and Oceans - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Continents and Oceans - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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.
Continents and Countries - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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Continents and Countries - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

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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. **
WW1 - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
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WW1 - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)

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An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about WW1 and its features. This bundle contains 6 lessons that are fully resourced. Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe who fought during WW1, which countries were affected and investigate the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and look into propaganda and recruitment. Lesson 1: Introduction to WW1 Lesson 2: Events That Led to WW1 Lesson 3: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lesson 4: Causes of WW1 Lesson 5: Propaganda in WW1 Lesson 6: Recruitment Processes in WW1 Students will develop language skills, map reading, sources analysis, investigation skills and able to write full assessments using key terms accurately. This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.