A set of six knowledge organisers / topic summaries for GCSE topics. Each topic is summarised on one A3 sheet of paper (apart from The Changing Economic World which is extended). Topics included are: Physical landscapes in the UK Challenge of natural hazards Challenge of resource management Changing economic world Living world Urban issues and challenges An excellent revision resource to help students cope with the high level of content. Will also help support weaker students who may have disorganised notes.

A worksheet that guides students through the causes and effects of floods in Bangladesh. Activities include a word fill, drawing, and text analysis.

Lesson covers the formation and causes of tropical storms, and the impacts and responses of Hurricane Florence 2018. Activities include sequencing statements, describing maps and images, and analysing information. All worksheets included within the ppt.

Lesson covers the causes, impacts and responses to the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand 2011. There is also a discussion around why some countries have more devastating impacts from earthquakes than others (comparison with Haiti). Activities include a video, statement coding, and brainstorm around impacts affecting earthquake impacts. Worksheets included within the ppt.

Lesson covers Haiti’s background, a youtube video with a timeline of events before, during and after the earthquake, and a focus on the impacts and responses to the earthquake. Activities include statement describing a location, video and coding activities. All worksheets included within the ppt.

Lesson covers oceanic and continental crust, and constructive, destructive and conservative plate boundaries. Activities include annotating diagrams of each type of plate boundary and quizzes to check learning. Worksheets included within the ppt.

Lesson covers the layers of the earth and their characteristics, plate movement theory, convection currents and evidence for plate movement. Activities include identifying the layers, describing the earth’s plates and describing the sequence of convection currents. All worksheets included within the ppt.

Lesson covers the different types of hazard, describing hazard distribution, and graphing different types of hazards. Activities include describing a map, plotting bar charts, and brainstorming. All worksheets and answers included within the ppt.

Summary information covering temperature, rainfall, animals, plants, and locations of six major world biomes (tundra, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, savanna, polar, and desert) Accompanying activity to summarise and locate biomes on a world map

Contains seven rounds with all answers supplied Round 1 - general knowledge Round 2 - flags Round 3 - country capitals Round 4 - country outlines Round 5 - sport Round 6 - famous landmarks Round 7 - atlas knowledge (worksheet within ppt)

KS5 but can be adapted for KS4 use. Based around physical geography case studies on the AQA spec Contains blank sheets for students to fill in to consolidate their learning Case studies include: Carlisle floods Amazon rainforest Holderness Coast Bangladesh Eyjafjallajokull eruption Haiti Christchurch Hurricane Sandy Typhoon Haiyan Black Saturday, Australia Los Angeles Japan tsunami

Lesson covers the location of the Carlisle 2005 flood, its causes, effects and responses, comparison with 2015 floods (Storm Desmond) and 15 mark essay practice. Activities include video, card sort, internet research and exam questions. All worksheets and activities included within the ppt.

Lesson covers the processes that cause change in the water cycle over time (farming, deforestation, abstraction etc) and different types of floods (flash floods, monsoon floods etc). Activities include group research, structured note taking, and extended exam pratice (including a 20 mark essay with model answer) All worksheets and answers included within the ppt.

Lesson covers the features of a hydrograph, sequence of a hydrograph, and factors that affect it. Activities include a ‘graphs from memory’ group task, labelling a hydrograph, identifying affecting factors, and extended exam practice with model answers. All worksheets and resources are included within the ppt.

Lesson covers the glacial balance and concept of accumulation & ablation, and advance & retreat. Focus on the Athabasca Glacier and how it has retreated over the decades. Exam question practice included with full answers. All worksheets and activities are included within the ppt. Reference is made to the DVD ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ which is useful to show if you have a copy available (relevant minutes are noted in the ppt).

A powerpoint and a 4-page workbook of short answer questions to help students practice reading water budget graphs and analysing what they show. Questions vary from reading direct totals from graphs, to describing patterns, to explaining differences between graphs in the northern and southern hemisphere.

Lesson covers the processes that occur within the water cycle, e.g. evaporation condensation, sublimation… Activities include questioning on each process and brainstorming to create a mind map of all the key terms, along with a glossary Worksheets included within the ppt.

Lesson covers the concept of the water cycle, flows and stores, and key words such as evaporation, surface runoff, drainage basin, watershed etc. Activities including matching key terms, coding flows/stores, exam question practice with model answer, and quiz plenary. All worksheets included within the ppt

Lesson covers the different water stores and their characteristics with some exam questions around describing the global distribution of water stores. All worksheets and exam questions are included within the ppt.

Lesson covers an introduction to the course and the different types of systems, including key words, postive feedback and negative feedback Activities include brainstorming and card sorts All worksheets and activities included within the ppt