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Hello, I'm Natasha and I provide high-quality geography resources for KS3 and KS4.
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Factors Affecting Flood Risk - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the human and physical causes of flood risk. Students will learn about how different features contribute to flooding events and evaluate if HICs or LICs are more significantly affected.
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: Which of the drainage basins are more likely to flood and why?
Task 3: Key Term Match Up
Task 4: Students to read through the different causes of flooding and put them into human or physical factors
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Explain why the town of Boscastle in Cornwall is likely to suffer from flooding (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 - Home Learning - Explain why the effects of flooding are worse in LICs.
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Flooding - Hard Engineering - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
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.
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Lower Course River Features - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the lower course. Students will learn about depositional features such as levees, floodplains and estuaries.
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 a floodplain.
Task 3: Create labels on how levees form
Task 4: Students to draw and label how a meander forms.
Task 5: Describe how the tide causes an estuary to occur.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Describe how a features found in the lower 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 - Key Term Trade
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Introduction to Rivers - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on what rivers are, what their main features are and how they change through the upper, middle and lower course.
Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt on their coasts topic students are to complete what they know. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson.
Task 2: Label two diagrams with the keywords used during the topic. The HA students will be given an extra map showing relief, and identify more features.
Task 3: Using the information given students are to complete a graph showing a long profile of the river Severn. Then they label their diagram with annotations and images.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Explain why the upper course of a river valley has a different cross profile from the lower course (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 - Dingbat theme rivers
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Environmental Impacts Of Economic Development In Nigeria - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
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.
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Effects of Chernobyl - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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
Changing UK Transport Infrastructure - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on the transport infrastructure in the UK. This lesson covers, port, road and railways - specifically looking at HS2.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Exam Question on processes of slumping.
Task 2: Why is transport important in the UK?
Task 3: Watch the video and make notes on HS2.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Describe how the UK is improving its transport network (4 marks)
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 5: Peer Assessment
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for headlands and bays as questions will be coming next week.
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The UK and the Wider World - EU and Commonwealth - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on how the UK is connected to the wider world through the Commonwealth and the European Union. This will cover the economic and political advantages of each system.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Exam question “Explain the formation of the physical features of the coastline shown in the images above (6)
Task 2: Watch the video about the Commonwealth
Task 3: Geographic Skills: Description of graphs - Describe what the graph is and analyze the data.
Task 4: Watch the video about the EU.
Task 5: Identify the economic, political, social, and environmental advantages of the EU.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Suggest how the UK benefits economically and politically from its membership of either the EU or Commonwealth. (6 marks)”
High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help.
Task 6: Plenary - Revise for the formation of a sea stack.
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North-South Divide of England -(KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on the historical reasons for the North-South divide and how it affects social, economic and political aspects of the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Read, Write, Mark, students have 4 minutes to recap learning on rotational cliff slumping. Then write down as much as they can remember, then mark accuracy.
Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe location - Describe the location of the north-south divide border.
Task 3: Watch the video and make notes on the north-south divide.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Suggest how we can resolve regional differences in the UK? (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.
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River Landscapes in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about river landscapes in the UK. Covering aspects such as erosion, transportation, deposition and features formed from these
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe how and why a river changes from source to mouth, with references to features on each course along with the erosional, depositional and transportations reasons for each formation. Students will then identify what causes flooding to happen, identifying features of a hydrograph and what natural and human factors cause flooding. Finally students will look at a case study about how management strategies are used to minimise the effects of flooding. With a specific case study at a management strategy used.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Rivers
Lesson 2: Erosion, Transportation and Deposition
Lesson 3: Upper Course River Features
Lesson 4: Middle Course River Features
Lesson 5: Lower Course River Features
Lesson 6: Case Study of the River Aire
Lesson 7: Factors that Affect Flood Risk
Lesson 8: Understanding Hydrographs
Lesson 9: Flooding- Hard Engineering
Lesson 10: Flooding - Soft Engineering
Lesson 11: York Flood Management scheme
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Changing Rural Landscapes in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on two contrasting rural areas with population increase and decrease. This lesson covers South Cambridgeshire (population increase) and Outer Hebrides (population decrease)
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Read, Write, Mark, students have 4 minutes to recap learning on rotational cliff slumping. Then write down as much as they can remember, then mark accuracy.
Task 2: Geography Skills: Graph Analysis - Describe the type of graph, describe the change in urban population in the UK.
Task 3: Geography Skills: Describe location - Describe the location of the Outer Hebrides, then describe the location of South Cambridgeshire.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Contrast the economic challenges associated with rural areas of population growth and decline (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.
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Inequalities - A Case Study (Full SOW) (KS3 - Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about inequality and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately
define inequality, global debt, positives and negatives of aid in developing countries and how to measure development. Finally students will focus on how the UK has inequalities in education, health and the North South divide.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Inequality
Lesson 2: Debt in Developing Countries
Lesson 3: Aid Positives and Negatives
Lesson 4: Measuring Development
Lesson 5: Global Inequalities
Lesson 6: Inequalities in the UK: North South Divide
Lesson 7: Education Inequality
Lesson 8: Health Inequalities in the UK
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
Importance of the Amazon Rainforest - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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
Exploitation of the Amazon Rainforest - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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
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.
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Inequality in Brazil - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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
Introduction to Inequality - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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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Measuring Development - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **