THE LIVING WORLD (with Hot Deserts) - AQA GCSE GEOGRAPHY - Looking for a scheme of work which covers everything in this topic? Look no further - this has been created by myself as I was tired of using out of date / inaccurate resources. It is also suitable for non-specialists who may be teaching this unit.
This is a FULL scheme of work for the topic The Living World - it is based on the AQA GCSE specification. It has been created from scratch and includes a total of 15 lessons, a FREE AQA knowledge organiser which has been adapted to include the relevant case studies (Brazil and Sahara), and summative assessment. Each lesson has a challenge question as its title, tasks throughout, retrieval practice at the start of each lesson, a starter, main and plenary. There is a lot of exam practice, with AQA exam styled questions in most of the lessons.
All the lessons come with worksheets and PowerPoint - the lessons are fully adaptable to your requirement - and will approximately last 1 hour. The lessons were originally created on Google Slides / Google Docs, and have since been converted to Microsoft Powerpoint / Word for you when you download them.
The CGP Geography revision guide (2020) has been used alongside the creation of these lessons.
A breakdown of each lesson are as follows:
Lesson 1 - Ecosystems
Lesson 2 - Unbalanced Ecosystems
Lesson 3 - The Nutrient Cycle
Lesson 4 - Biomes
Lesson 5 - Rainforest Characteristics
Lesson 6 - Rainforest Layers
Lesson 7 - Causes of Deforestation
Lesson 8 - Impacts of Deforestation
Lesson 9 - Sustainably Managing Rainforests
Lesson 10 - Hot Desert Characteristics
Lesson 11 - Plant and Animal Adaptations in Deserts
Lesson 12 - Opportunities and Challenges in Deserts
Lesson 13 - Desertification
Lesson 14 - Revision Lesson
Lesson 15 - Summative Assessment (Section of a past exam paper)
Also included: Knowledge Organiser and a summative assessment.
A fully resourced unit - which includes PowerPoints, worksheets, knowledge organiser and a summative assessment (and mark scheme). The unit has been carefully sequenced and planned, and can be adjusted to suit you.
The lessons are as follows:
Why has the world’s population reached 8 billion?
Why is Asia the most densely populated continent?
Why do people migrate from one country to another?
What is the UK’s population pyramid like compared to Zimbabwe’s?
How is birth rate, death rate and population growth linked to development? DTM.
Why are more people now living to 100 years old?
Why did China introduce a one-child policy?
What did Malthus and Boserup believe would happen if the population grew rapidly?
What are the challenges facing Jakarta, Indonesia?
How is the government trying to fix the challenges in Jakarta?
What are the opportunities and challenges of population growth in our local area?*
As cities grow, how can they be made more sustainable?
Why is our view of world wrong? Population growth and quality of life.
Is global population growth impacting climate change?
Revision Lesson
Summative Assessment
*this lesson will need to be adapted to suit your local area.
AQA GCSE Geography Bundle - Coastal Landscapes, The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Changing Economic World and Urban Issues and Challenges and The Living World (including Hot Deserts) bundle!
Looking for a scheme of work which covers everything in The Challenge of Natuaral Hazards Unit? Look no further - this has been created by myself as I was tired of using out of date / inaccurate / long and boring resources.
This is a FULL scheme of work for the unit The Challenge of Natural Hazards - it is based on the AQA GCSE specification. It has been created from scratch and includes a total of 11 lessons, a FREE AQA knowledge organiser which has been adapted to include the relevant case studies, and formative assessments throughout. Each lesson has a challenge question as its title, tasks throughout, retrieval practice at the start of each lesson, a starter, main and plenary. There is a lot of exam practice, with AQA exam styled questions in most of the lessons.
All the lessons come with worksheets and PowerPoint - the lessons are fully adaptable to your requirement - and will approximately last 1 hour. The lessons were originally created on Google Slides / Google Docs, and have since been converted to Microsoft Powerpoint / Word for you when you download them.
The CGP Geography revision guide (2023) has been used alongside the creation of these lessons.
A breakdown of each lesson are as follows:
Lesson 1 - What is a natural hazard?
Lesson 2 - What is the structure of the Earth? Continental Drift Theory.
Lesson 3 - How do the tectonic plates move?
Lesson 4 - What were the effects and responses to the New Zealand 2016 earthquake?
Lesson 5 - What were the effects and responses to the Nepal 2015 earthquake?
Lesson 6 - How do we reduce the effects of tectonic hazards?
Lesson 7 - What is Global Atmospheric Circulation?
Lesson 8 - How do tropical storms work?
Lesson 9 - What were the effects and responses to the Typhoon Haiyan storm in 2013?
Lesson 10 - Is there a link between tropical storms and climate change?
Lesson 11 - Is the UK’s Weather becoming more extreme? Somerset.
KO also included.
UK COASTAL LANDSCAPES - AQA GCSE GEOGRAPHY
Looking for a scheme of work which covers everything in this topic? Look no further - this has been created by myself as I was tired of using out of date / inaccurate resources.
This is a FULL scheme of work for the UK Coastal Landscapes topic - it is based on the AQA GCSE specification. It has been created from scratch and includes a total of 10 lessons, a FREE AQA knowledge organiser which has been adapted to include the relevant case studies (Dorset / Lyme Regis), and a formative and summative assessment. Each lesson has a challenge question as its title, tasks throughout, retrieval practice at the start of each lesson, a starter, main and plenary. There is a lot of exam practice, with AQA exam styled questions in most of the lessons.
All the lessons come with worksheets and PowerPoint - the lessons are fully adaptable to your requirement - and will approximately last 1 hour. The lessons were originally created on Google Slides / Google Docs, and have since been converted to Microsoft Powerpoint / Word for you when you download them.
The CGP Geography revision guide (2020) has been used alongside the creation of these lessons.
A breakdown of each lesson are as follows:
Lesson 1 - What is the landscape like in the UK?
Lesson 2 - What are the coastal processes? - Mechanical and Chemical Weathering
Lesson 3 - What are the coastal processes? - Waves and erosion.
Lesson 4 - How is material (sand) moved from one place to another? Transportation and Deposition.
Lesson 5 - How are coastal landforms formed? Part 1.
Lesson 6 - How are coastal landforms formed? Part 2.
Lesson 7 - What is the Dorset Coast like? - Case Study
Lesson 8 - What is hard and soft engineering?
Lesson 9 - How is Lyme Regis in Dorset being protected against coastal erosion?
Lesson 10 - Summative Assessment
Also included: Knowledge Organiser and a formative assessment (which can be completed after Lesson 5).
Looking for a scheme of work which covers everything in this topic? Look no further - this has been created by myself as I was tired of using out of date / inaccurate resources.
This is a FULL scheme of work for the topic The Changing Economic World - it is based on the AQA GCSE specification. It has been created from scratch and includes a total of 19 lessons, a FREE AQA knowledge organiser which has been adapted to include the relevant case studies (Nigeria, Kenya, UK), and formative assessments. Each lesson has a challenge question as its title, tasks throughout, retrieval practice at the start of each lesson, a starter, main and plenary. There is a lot of exam practice, with AQA exam styled questions in most of the lessons.
All the lessons come with worksheets and PowerPoint - the lessons are fully adaptable to your requirement - and will approximately last 1 hour. The lessons were originally created on Google Slides / Google Docs, and have since been converted to Microsoft Powerpoint / Word for you when you download them.
The CGP Geography revision guide (2020) has been used alongside the creation of these lessons.
A breakdown of each lesson are as follows:
Lesson 1 - How is development measured across the world
Lesson 2 - DTM
Lesson 3 - Causes of uneven development
Lesson 4 - Consequences of uneven development
Lesson 5 - Development Gap
Lesson 6 - Tourism in Kenya
Lesson 7 - Nigeria and development
Lesson 8 - Nigeria’s political, social, cultural and environmental aspects
Lesson 9 - How Nigeria’s political links have changed, as well as their trading relationships
Lesson 10 - Shell in Nigeria
Lesson 11 - Aid in Nigeria
Lesson 12 - Environmental issues in Nigeria
Lesson 13 - Quality of life in Nigeria
Lesson 14 - Changing UK Economy
Lesson 15 - Science / Business Parks
Lesson 16 - Environmental impacts of industry
Lesson 17 - UK transport
Lesson 18 - Change in UK rural areas
Lesson 19 - North / South divide in the UK
Also included: Knowledge Organiser and a formative assessment.
Conflict is a relatively new topic for KS3 Geography - I have created a knowledge organiser for this topic. Can be adapted, and is spread over one A4 page.
Looking for a scheme of work which covers everything in this topic? Look no further - this has been created by myself as I was tired of using out of date / inaccurate resources.
This is a FULL scheme of work for the topic Urban Issues and Challenges - it is based on the AQA GCSE specification. It has been created from scratch and includes a total of 15 lessons, a FREE AQA knowledge organiser which has been adapted to include the relevant case studies (Lagos and Liverpool), and a formative assessment. Each lesson has a challenge question as its title, tasks throughout, retrieval practice at the start of each lesson, a starter, main and plenary. There is a lot of exam practice, with AQA exam styled questions in most of the lessons.
All the lessons come with worksheets and PowerPoint - the lessons are fully adaptable to your requirement - and will approximately last 1 hour. The lessons were originally created on Google Slides / Google Docs, and have since been converted to Microsoft Powerpoint / Word for you when you download them.
The CGP Geography revision guide (2020) has been used alongside the creation of these lessons.
A breakdown of each lesson are as follows:
Lesson 1 - To explain what urbanisation is.
Lesson 2 - To analyse the factors as to why people want to live in urban areas.
Lesson 3 - To describe where Lagos is, and to understand why it is an important city.
Lesson 4 - To outline the opportunities and challenges which Lagos faces.
Lesson 5 - To analyse the environmental issues in Lagos.
Lesson 6 - To explore the ways in which Lagos has managed urban growth.
Lesson 7 - To examine how urban areas have changed in the UK.
Lesson 8 - To justify the importance of Liverpool, and describe the location.
Lesson 9 - To examine how urban change has brought opportunities to Liverpool.
Lesson 10 - To examine how urban change has brought social and economic challenges to Liverpool.
Lesson 11 - To examine how urban change has created environmental challenges in Liverpool.
Lesson 12 - To explain what urban sprawl is, and the impacts it has.
Lesson 13 - To analyse a regeneration project - Anfield, Liverpool.
Lesson 14 - To explore ways in which urban living can be made more sustainable (Curitiba, Brazil).
Lesson 15 - To outline ways in which traffic can be managed in urban areas (Curitiba, Brazil).
Also included: Knowledge Organiser and a formative assessment.
I have created a knowledge organiser for the topic ‘Sustainable Citizen’. The Knowledge Organiser is based on the following lessons: What is sustainability? / Greenhouse Effect / Antarctica / Plastic Pollution / Food / Fashion / Energy / Water and the Olympics.
It can be adapted to your requirement, as there is a PowerPoint and PDF version when you download the resource. The knowledge organiser is two pages. The knowledge organiser is mainly for use by KS3, as this is a topic I am currently teaching to Year 7, however can be used for other KS3 year groups.
Climate Change SOW for KS3 - includes 5 lessons, which all come equipped with a PowerPoint. There is also an end of topic assessment and worksheets for some of the lessons.
There are a total of 8 lessons - each lesson comes equipped with a PowerPoint and adaptable/printable worksheets. There is also a Africa knowledge organsier and end op topic test (the end of topic test is also adaptable to suit your pupils needs). The lessons are based on the KS3 Hodder in Education Textbook.
India resources based on the Hodder for Education Textbook - there are 6 lessons. A PowerPoint for each lesson, and adaptable work sheets. Also included is a knowledge organiser for the topic.
What is an Economy? There are 9 lessons in total, each comes with adaptable worksheets and PowerPoints. There is also two versions of the end of topic assessment - a lower ability assessment, and higher ability assessment depending on set.