New resource for the new AQA A Geography Specification for Teaching in September 2016. First lesson looking at What are Natural Hazards? Definition Types of natural hazards Factors that increase hazard risk Practise exam style question Geographical skills - drawing pie charts/divided bar graph and describing pattern on a map. Also included are key words that will be used in the Tectonic Hazard topic.

Following the AQA A Specification for cliff collapse at Christchurch Bay. The lesson examines the causes and the effects of cliff collapse. Includes a sketch map of the coastline and exam style question.

PowerPoint and resources to be used for AQA A - Rising Sea Levels. A comparison of the impacts of sea level rise on both the Maldives and the UK. Pupils can annotate facts around a map of the Maldives, create a table of the social, economic, environmental and political impacts of SLR. Pupils can use the ripple diagram, to identify, global, regional and local scale impacts. Compare to the issues that could result if sea levels rise in East England, and answer an exam style question with mark scheme.

Information Sheets for the case studies used in Geography AQA A Specification Topic Living World. Amazon Rainforest Atlantic Rainforest Epping Forest Hot Desert MEDC - Australian Outback Hot Desert LEDC - Sahara Desert Also past 8 mark exam questions from 2011-2015

10 “Geog your memory” worksheets with answers for Paper 1 AQA A Geography. Topics included: natural hazards, tectonic hazards, weather hazards, climate change, ecosystems, tropical rainforests, hot deserts, river landscapes, coastal landscapes I set these for homework and then using the answers pupils mark their work the following lessons.

I have used this task at the start of a revision session with my KS4 pupils. Pupils have the definitions of the 15 main command words used by AQA and have to match up the definitions with the command words. Answers are included. PDF is purely a copy of the Word document. I have also included the command words which I have pupils stick in the front of their exercise books.

Definition grids of key terms used within each topic of the new GCSE course. I will be using as a starter activity to recap previous learning, or within revision lessons to ensure pupils know what key terms mean. They can either be printed or shown using a projector/smart board. Answers are included in the notes section of the Powerpoint. There are definition grids for paper 1 and paper 2 topics including: tectonic hazards, weather hazards, climate change, ecosystems, tropical rainforests, hot deserts, river landscapes, coastal landscapes, the urban world, urban change in the UK, sustainable urban development, the development gap, a newly emerging economy, the changing UK economy, resource management and energy management. This resource can be easily adapted if you study a different optional topic.

Each PowerPoint slide contains 5 Geography general knowledge questions. The first 9 slides focus on Britain and the next 4 are worldwide Geography. Answers are included. I usually have this slide on the board when I am going around checking homework to try and increase pupils general Geography knowledge who will answer the questions in the back of their books I will then go over the answers and pupils are scored out of 5. Blank templates of each are included.

Revision booklet for pupils to complete independently on the topic of Hot Environments from Paper 1 Section B using their exercise books/ textbooks. (Page numbers relate to blue Oxford University Press Textbook). Case study included is Thar Desert. Thought Quilt covers the topics of tropical rainforest and hot deserts – answers are included.

Here is my greatly loved and appreciated country of the month display. Each month I focus on one country around the world. The countries included are: Mexico, Peru, Mongolia, Italy, Iceland, Portugal, Nepal, Uganda, Qatar, Russia, Japan, South Korea. For each country there is the name of the country, 5 facts about the country and the country’s flag. This is displayed around my world map. I often get pupils asking what country is next, or wondering where the country is and encouraging them to use an atlas to locate it they frequently comment or ask about the facts displayed.

Random facts about our world that are displayed on my classroom wall to inspire pupils. I have them laminated and backed on different coloured paper and added a title “Did you know…” I frequently refer to them in lessons, for example when discussing the deepest hole ever dug, or the distance from Land’s End to John O Groats.

Revision booklet for pupils to complete independently on the topic of Weather Hazards from Paper 1 using their exercise books/ textbooks. The case studies included are: Typhoon Haiyan and the Somerset Levels

AQA OXFORD GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOK NEEDED FOR THIS LESSON. Lesson comparing the primary effects, secondary effects, immediate responses and long term response to the 2010 Chile earthquake and 2015 Nepal earthquake. Starter - what do you already know about Nepal and Chile. Using indicators HDI and GDP what can we find out about these countries. Introducing new vocab. Videos demonstrating the effects of the earthquakes. Pupils are creating fact files about the two earthquakes using the textbook. Two exam questions for pupils to answer. Also looking at how the primary effects, secondary effects, immediate response and long term response to volcanic eruptions differ to earthquakes. Worksheet to colour code. Video to create a case study of Montserrat 1997.