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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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The Population of Africa - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to use key terms such as dense, sparse and distribution then describe the distribution and density for different countries in Africa. Students will then be given key terms with population such as birth rate, death rate, life expectancy and infant mortality rate. Then students will be introduced to population pyramids and asked to compare the three different areas of Africa that have these population pyramids. Finally using factors used in HDI students will compare which is the best country to live in Africa according to statistics and why.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the density and distribution of populations of a football match, then the countries in Africa
Task 2: Join the key word with the definition.
Task 3: Explain the population pyramid for the continent of Africa, then describe the population pyramids between Uganda, Botswana and Tunisia.
Task 4: Using the profile of Africa you have built up over the lesson, describe which of the three countries in Africa would be the best place to live currently and why.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Nigeria and its Importance - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to locate Nigeria using the locational information from previous lessons as well as the map on the board. Students will then read through the information sheet and highlight why Nigeria is important socially, economically and environmentally. Students will then identify the scale on Nigeria’s importance between nationally or globally and then create a tourist brochure about why people should visit Nigeria.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the location of Nigeria
Task 2: Identify on the information sheet the social, economic and environmental importance of Nigeria.
Task 3: Explain the global and national importance of Nigeria.
Task 4: Create a travel brochure on Nigeria and why tourists should visit there.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Introduction to intimate and sexual relationships
A fully resourced and up to date lesson introducing students to intimacy and sexual relationships. This should form the basis of discussions about what intimacy is and how to prepare for intimacy in a relationship.
Task 1: Starter - Create class ground rules on SRE
Task 2: Students to discuss what intimacy is and what it means to them
Task 3: In pairs come up with 5 or more characteristics of a positive intimate relationship.
Task 4: What are the positives of having healthy intimacy, what are the negatives of intimacy.
Task 5: Main Task: Students must give advice to 4 different scenarios.
Tropical Storms - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
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.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Population Distribution in Russia - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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 Conflict Affects Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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
Body Image and Social Media - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on body image and body dysmorphia, an introduction into what body image is, what social media can do.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge recap on what students previously learnt about hygiene.
Task 2: Create a spider diagram about what is body image using prompts on the board.
Task 3: Using example of filters, students have to identify what has changed and why that person may have changed it.
Task 4: What can be done to promote body positivity?
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to reduce inequality.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Migration in Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe what a migrant is, along with examples of who would be classed as a migrant. Then students will identify the difference between, migrant, immigrant, refugee and emigrant. Finally students will learn the causes of migration and the use of the terms push and pull factors. Along with the impacts of migration on the host and country of origin.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Key term match up with migrant, emigrant, refugee with definitions.
Task 2: Identification of push and pull factors in terms of migration
Task 3: Impacts of migration for host and country of origin.
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the impact of migration of the country of origin and the host country.
Task 5: Plenary: Purposeful retrieval of information from the lesson.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Upper Course River Features - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the upper course. Students will learn about the erosional features such as interlocking spurs, waterfalls and gorges.
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 appearance of interlocking spurs.
Task 3: Watch a video about how waterfalls form and then turn into a gorge.
Task 4: Students to draw and label how a waterfall is formed.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Describe how a feature found in the upper course of a river is formed (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 - Using only 20 words, try to summarise how gorges form from waterfalls.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Evidence of Climate Change - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe how our climate has changed over time, why it has changed over time and interpret graphs that link CO2 to temperature to sea-level rise. Then students will identify the natural causes of climate change and the human causes of climate change.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: On whiteboards come up with theories about how we know the climate has changed in the past.
Task 3: Using the worksheet, students evaluate which is the most accurate/ best proxy for climate reconstruction and place them in a diamond 9.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe how we know our climate is changing through evaluation of proxies.
Task 5: Plenary: What do we think our planet was like during the last Ice Age?
Lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
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.
Measuring Distance - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Bundle
Features of the UK and Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 geography this bundle is great for Year 7 in their first term at school. This gets students familiar with geographical concepts of fieldwork, data, human and physical geography. This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly conduct fieldwork investigation into the environment of their school to get them engaged in geography and explain why it is important along with data collection and presentation. Then students will investigate the location of the UK, this is done to provide a strong basis for all students regardless of primary school. This includes continents, countries, seas and the use of longitude and latitude. Students will then learn about the climate and weather of the UK, the case study of the River Severn along with its basic features of a river and the Holderness Coast along with headlands and bays and a quick introduction of geology. Then students will investigate human geography and its features of human settlements and scales along with identifying major UK cities and the density/sparseness. Finally students end on the case study of Leeds and its importance as a UK city.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Fieldwork
Lesson 2: Data and Fieldwork
Lesson 3: Climate of the UK
Lesson 4: Rivers of the UK
Lesson 5: Coasts of the UK
Lesson 6: Cities of the UK
Lesson 7: Importance of Leeds
Students will gain a variety of skills such as fieldwork, data collection and manipulation along with manipulation. Along with OS map reading and bar chart analysis
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
The Migrant Crisis in Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the land and sea routes that migrants take to get into Europe using geographical terms. They will be able to describe the location of Calais and the issues that boat crossings cause including migrant deaths and the dangers of crossing with identification of graphs. Finally students will condense the text of a news article about the migrant crisis and identify the stakeholders points of view. Students will be asked to demonstrate their learning by creating a profile for each of the stakeholder groups.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning.
Task 1: Describe the routes that migrants take to get into Europe
Task 2: Using the bar graph describe the dangers of boats crossing into Europe.
Task 3: Condense the newspaper article about the dangers of migrant crossings.
Task 4: Main Task: Create a stakeholder profile about each of the stakeholders and why they might feel that way.
Task 5: Plenary: Using the red and green planner sheets students are to show true or false answers.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
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Conflict - (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about conflict and its features. This bundle contains 10 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately
define conflict, its effects on people and the environment. How conflict has affected the Middle East along with countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and how Russia is involved in modern conflicts. Finally asking the questions of how do we affect conflict.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Conflict
Lesson 2: How Conflict Affects Geography
Lesson 3: How Physical Geography Effects Conflict
Lesson 4: Middle East’s Physical Geography
Lesson 5: War in Iraq, Physical Geography
Lesson 6: Development in Afghanistan
Lesson 7: Russia and Conflict
Lesson 8: Russia Ukraine Conflict 2022
Lesson 9: Salisbury Poisoning
Lesson 10: How do we cause conflict?
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.
Climate of the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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.
Lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
Adapting to Climate Change - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how humans are adapting to a changing climate. Students will define adaptation, learn about the three different types of adaptations then evaluate if adaptation is better than mitigation
Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, using the pictures on screen students must choose which is a mitigation technique, how it works and how it mitigates climate change.
Task 2: Students to write out their definition of adaptation on a whiteboard then the actual definition in their books.
Task 3: Students to watch the video in PowerPoint and make notes about adaptation. Then make notes on the following slides about agricultural adaptation, water supply management and reducing risk from sea-level rise.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- Evaluate if we should be mitigating climate change or adapting to it.
Task 5: Plenary - As global citizens are we all doing enough to limit climate change?
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Beast from the East - UK Weather Hazard - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the Beast from the East - an extreme weather event in England in 2018. Students will investigate the location, causes of the storm, the social, economic and environmental impacts along with the short term and long term responses.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Using the images on the screen, come up with what you think caused the Beast from the East.
Task 3: Complete the learning clock with information in the PowerPoint starting with identifying where the beast was affected. Then identify the causes of the storm, next to
the social and economic and environmental factors and finally the long term and short term responses.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Suggest how extreme weather in the UK can have economic and social impacts.” "(6 marks)
Task 5: Plenary - How could we have responded to the event better?
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Introduction to WW1 - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on World War 1, an introduction into world war 1, where did it occur, and who did it effect.
Task 1: Starter - Key Vocabulary of terms used this week that students must go away and research.
Task 2: Students to draw a spider diagram and fill it with information they already know.
Task 3: Read through information about weapons, battlefields and technology on slides.
Task 4: Main Task - create a cover page in their book about what WW1 is and use key facts figures and links to other topics.
Task 5: Plenary - With green pen students to fill in their earlier spider diagram with any information they have learnt in this lesson.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Hygiene and Keeping Clean - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on hygiene during puberty and how to stay clean, students will learn the importance of hygiene and what routines they should keep in order to stay hygienic.
Task 1: Starter - Create a definition of what hygiene is and examples of hygiene.
Task 2: To label on an image areas that could end up unhygienic if not looked after.
Task 3: Put hygiene options in order of importance to keep hygienic and clean
Task 4: Main Task - Complete their own hygiene plan to ensure that students know what routines they need to do to stay hygienic
Task 5: Plenary - Quiz about how to stay clean and tidy.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **