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Hello, I'm Natasha and I provide high-quality geography resources for KS3 and KS4.
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Map Skills Revision - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
The first PowerPoint in a series to help students to recap their knowledge of OS maps and other Cartographic skills. The first few slides recap the importance of using maps and some historical knowledge on why we use OS maps.
This lesson contains:
Task 1: Students are asked in groups to match up a key map term along with a definition and example of the feature.
Recap on compass directions
Task 2: Stick the compass direction on the sheet and then differentiated further task to encourage looking into orientation.
Four figure grid reference recap
Task 3: Find harry potter characters on the sheet and write the grid coordinates for them.
Plenary: Confidence check on how students are feeling about the coordinates.
Introducing Consent - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what is consent, why do we need consent, and what consent looks like.
Task 1: Starter - On whiteboards, class discussion and ask students opinion.
Task 2: Describe consent to someone who doesn’t know what it it.
Task 3: Create a spider diagrams on situations where you would need consent.
Task 4: What are the signs of consent, how do you know if you’ve been given consent
Task 5: With sheet students to work in pairs to answer questions about consent
Task 6: Plenary - Consent Quiz
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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.
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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.
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Identifying height on a map - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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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Effects of Climate Change in Bangladesh - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to locate Bangladesh and identify the two main impacts of climate change. The students will be able to evaluate which effect is more impactful, floods or extreme weather.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Describe the location of Bangladesh
Task 3: Read through the following statement on extreme weather and flooding and evaluate which is worse and why.
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of climate change on Bangladesh
Task 5: Plenary: Using a map, identify what countries would be impacted if the sea level rose by 1 m.
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Using a compass - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to use a compass, why we use compass directions and then how to apply compass directions to find places. This lesson also comes with an assessment at the end to test student’s knowledge of previous skills lessons.
Task 1: Starter -Recap the previous lessons and answer questions about them.
Task 2: Identity which students know the four-point compass directions and then the eight-point compass to stretch students.
Task 3: Discussion on why we use north orientated maps instead of other orientations.
Task 4: Complete a worksheet using compass directions and identifying what characters they end up at.
Task 5: Main Task - Secondary Assessment- using an atlas to answer all the questions on the worksheet, this puts all the skills students have previously acquired and puts them to use identifying places in an atlas.
Task 6: Plenary
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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
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Map Reading - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on an introduction to OS maps, how to read map symbols and why we use map symbols on maps
Task 1: Starter - Recap over the last 3 lessons
Task 2: Students identify the different symbols on the map
Task 3: Students to explain why we use symbols on maps
Task 4: Students identify all the symbols and what they mean.
Task 5: Main Task - Describe why we use symbols on a map and when would we use them
Task 6: Plenary - Map symbol bingo
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Climate Change Effects in the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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?
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Cartography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what cartography is, how maps are created, what features are needed in maps and why they are important.
Task 1: Starter - Identify the human or physical features
Task 2: Students to mind map what maps are and how many maps they can think of
Task 3: Students look through the different types of map about Cramond Island and what they think is the positives and negatives of each.
Task 4: Students identify different types of maps and explain what it is used for.
Task 5: Main Task - Students to answer 7 questions about which map is the best and why
Task 6: Plenary - Sleeping gophers game related to different types of maps.
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Effects of Climate Change in the Maldives - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to locate the Maldives and evaluate the impacts of climate change in the Maldives, then evaluate if they are adapting well enough to climate change. Then students will complete a secondary assessment about the past 5 lessons they have learnt about.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Describe the location of the Maldives
Task 3: Read through the impacts of climate change in the Maldives and evaluate which is the most significant.
Task 4: Then evaluate which is the best strategy to combat climate change.
Task 5: Main Task: Secondary Assessment - Evaluate the impacts of climate change globally (9 marks)
Task 6: Plenary: How can the school can reduce its contribution to climate change.
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Scale on a map - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
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
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Different Types of Geography - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the different types of geography (physical, human and environmental). Students are to define what geography is and identify the three different types, then they have to attribute pictures to the types of geography.
Task 1: Starter - True or False questions about the previous lesson
Task 2: Students write down what they think geography is, then write the correct definition of geography.
Task 3: Write down details on what human, physical and environmental geography
Task 4: Main Task - Primary Assessment, using the information they have learnt from the previous lessons answer the question “Describe where you live in the world”
Task 7: Identify the physical features in the picture provided.
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GCSE Geography Key Processes & Case Studies - Paper 1 (AQA)
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
GCSE Geography Revision - Paper 1 (AQA)
A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 1- Living in the Physical Environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 30 slides with full information and case studies for each topic.
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
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The Challenge of Natural Hazards - (Full SOW) (KS4 - Key Stage 4)
An AQA specification topic for KS4 in GCSE geography about Natural, Tectonic and Weather Hazards around the world and the effects they have on both LICs and HICs. This bundle also covers the climate change topic as well.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Natural Hazards
Lesson 2: Structure of the Earth
Lesson 3: Plate Tectonics and Plate Boundaries
Lesson 4: Christchurch Earthquake
Lesson 5: Haiti Earthquake
Lesson 6: Tectonic Hazards Mitigation and Adaptation.
Lesson 7: Comparing the Christchurch and Haiti Earthquakes
Lesson 8: Global Atmospheric Circulation Model (GAC)
Lesson 9: Tropical Storms
Lesson 10: Future of Tropical Storms
Lesson 11: Effects and Responses to Typhoon Haiyan
Lesson 12: UK Weather Hazards
Lesson 13: Beast from the East
Lesson 14: Climate Change: Natural Causes
Lesson 15: Climate Change: Human Causes
Lesson 16: Climate Change: Effects
Lesson 17: Mitigating Climate Change
Lesson 18: Adapting to Climate Change
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe what natural hazards are, different types of natural hazards, and describe the structure of the earth. Then students will investigate the structure of the Earth along with learning about plate tectonic theory and continental drift, this will then be used to describe the plate boundaries along with their characteristics and physical features. Finally students will learn about the Christchurch 2011 (HIC) case study and the Haiti 2010 (LIC) as two areas of contrasting wealth along with the effects and long term/short term responses.
In weather hazards students will be able to accurately describe the distribution of the climate globally using the GAC. Then describe the location and formation of tropical storms along with their effects through the case study of Typhoon Haiyan. Next students will look at the weather of the UK and finally describe an extreme UK weather event. In the last few lessons students will look at our changing climate and how this occurs both naturally and also anthropogenically, they will identify the effects and how we can adapt and mitigate them.
Map Skills for GCSE - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the different cartographic skills for students at GCSE. This lesson includes:
Atlas Skills including reading longitude and latitude and identification of physical and human atlas maps.
Ordnance Survey Maps including using a key, scale, four and six figure references and reading contours and spot height.
Maps in association with photographs including direction of photograph, identification of features, use of satellite imagery and sketch/ field maps.
Task 1: Identify the longitude and latitude of 12 points on an atlas.
Task 2: Measuring the distance between features on an OS map
Task 3: Identifying four and six figures on a simple OS map
Task 4: Identify the maximum and minimum height of the OS map
Task 5: Identify the direction the photograph was taken
Task 6: Explain the social, economic and environmental impacts of a earthquake from satellite imagery.
If you get time you could take your students outside and get them to do a sketch map of the school ground and a birds eye view of the school.
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Resource Management - Provision of energy in the UK - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how the UK’s demand for energy has changed, why it has changed along with how the mix of energy the UK has used has changed. This lesson covers fracking, wind and nuclear energy as case studies for the impacts of energy exploitation.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Graph analysis: Describe how consumption in the UK has changed over time.
Task 3: Pie chart analysis: Energy mix of the UK through time.
Task 4: Compound line graph analysis: Energy mix of the UK through time.
Task 5: Colour code the positives and negatives of wind and nuclear power.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain why the UK’s energy mix will include both renewable and non-renewable sources in the future. (6 marks)"
Task 6: Plenary - What are some of the main uses for water in the UK?
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Resource Management - Reducing Food Miles and Agribusiness - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what consumer demand is, strategies to reduce carbon footprint and the importance of agribusiness.
Task 1: Starter - Application of geographical skills, 3 exam style questions about previous learning.
Task 2: Definition of consumer demand
Task 3: Students are to complete a table of the positives and negatives of; seasonal produce, locally produced food and limit Uk food imports along with subsistance farming.
Task 4: Using your table, categorise the following into positives and negatives of the agribusiness process.
Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the extent to which agribusinesses are a beneficial change in food production” (6 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - What ways has the energy consumption in the UK changes?
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