I have been a Geography teacher for many years and enjoy reshaping schemes of learning and creating corresponding lessons. I hope to share these with others who need them! Please ask any questions and rate my resources for others to see! :)
I have been a Geography teacher for many years and enjoy reshaping schemes of learning and creating corresponding lessons. I hope to share these with others who need them! Please ask any questions and rate my resources for others to see! :)
Full Lesson looking at the formation of tropical storms and the effects- Hurricane Katrina used as a case study.
Key words and clear learning objectives.
Videos embedded.
Clear tasks- differentiated- stretch and challenge for higher ability.
Homework task included.
Geography Lesson- Climate of the Savanna ecosystem and Climate Graph skills.
Exam question utilised for learning.
Sentence starters, success criteria and stretch and challenge for all abilities.
Whole Geography lesson around human uses of the Savanna. Suitable for KS3 and KS4 in line with AQA spec.
Differentiated tasks for mixed abilities- challenges for higher ability and sentence starters/images for less able.
Any questions please ask.
Entire Unit for KS3 Geography- Brazil- human and physical features. Set includes the lessons and assessment.
Topics of the lessons: The location of Rio, Poverty and Population of Rio, Opportunities and challenges in Brazil, Favelas, Tourism and Christ the Redeemer, the Amazon Rainforest- layers of the tropical rainforest + opportunities and challenges.
Please ask any questions.
LOs: To know destructive, constructive and conservative plate margins. To understand characteristic processes: seismicity and vulcanicity. To describe formations of associated landforms: young fold mountains, rift valleys, ocean ridges, deep sea trenches and island arcs, volcanoes.
Students end up going through slides and producing a page split in 4 for the following plate boundaries: conservative, constructive, destructive, and magma plumes. Assesses all types of plate boundaries- continental and oceanic.
AFL independent questions and challenges incorporated.
Lesson to teach students about Brexit. Embedded into a scheme of work about global location, this teaches the students about current events in the world and allows them to access the news further.
Differentiated tasks, videos and images used to teach our students about what Brexit is and the advantages and disadvantages as we know them at the moment. (as of 4/9/19).
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives: To know our current Brexit situation.
To understand the location and importance of the key countries involved.
To be excellent in forming an opinion on whether we should leave the European Union.
Extended writing at the end for students to form an opinion on Brexit.
Please ask if you have questions.
How does globalisation cause economic and political interdependence?
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
Includes information about the World Bank, IMF and WTO
Why does globalisation make some countries more powerful than others?
Wise: You will be able to use this to:
Using the Human Development Index (HDI), identify the richer and poorer countries.
Explain why globalisation can be seen to make some countries more powerful than others.
Using the example of China’s expansive foreign policy, explain how they are exerting their political and economic power to influence geopolitical
This is part of a sequence of lessons for the AQA topic- Global Systems and Governance.
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
Updated unit of work- Where in the World?
Clear Sequencing of learning suited to the new Ofsted Framework.
SOL attached within. Clear homework opportunities and opportunities for public speaking and oracy.
Theses lessons are aiming to welcome and introduce year 7 students into geography. They look at key skills such as location, maps, grid referencing, current events analysis and more…
Tasks are all differentiated, lessons are engaging and many have videos and animations embedded into them.
Challenges misconceptions about location and countries within the British Isles and UK.
Includes two current event lessons from the Summer of 2019- Brexit and Whaley Bridge Dam.
Any Questions, please ask.
AQA A Level Geography- Contemporary Urban Environments- Megacities
Lesson for students to research and map the megacities of the world.
Looks at: location of megacities, characteristics, + opportunity to discuss named examples.
Differentiated with challenge questions- students will never sit there with nothing to do!
Used for a lot of student led work for them to research the location of megacities- a map of this could be provided to students though if they did not have internet access.
Whole lesson- GCSE Geography AQA Paper 2- Resource Management- Energy
Energy insecurity- key terms and solutions.
Drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic- case study- economic, social and environmental impacts of exploiting resources.
Embedded videos and differentiated tasks.
Geography Lesson:
Learning Objectives:
To know the definition of wreathing.
To understand the three types of weathering: physical, chemical, biological.
Excellent if we are able to explain the impacts of weathering on a river system.
Introduces students to new key word- weathering- Plus three types- physical, chemical and biological.
Embedded videos and questioning to aid understanding plus differentiated plenary.
Also included in this lesson is exam questions and practice to recap prior learning- characteristics of the river, erosion, transportation and deposition. Model answers provided. Challenge tasks embedded for more able.
Please ask questions.
Geography Lesson- Aid, NEE- Nigeria Case study, Development and Quality of Life.
Differentiated tasks- key terms, photograph analysis, graphs, mindmaps and exam style questions.
Focus on differences between emergency and international aid, the aid Nigeria receives, ideas of corruption and how they are using the aid. Quality of life defined plus data tables to analyse- key skills.
Geography lesson- Links to AQA spec- Paper 2- The changing economic world.
Nigeria case study with TNC case study- Shell oil.
Lesson looks at environmental challenges of TNCs and oil spills example.
Differentiated tasks- fill in the gaps, newspaper examples, cartoons, embedded videos and extended writing tasks for exam practice.
Lesson as part of a scheme of learning for the case study Rio- Development and TRF- See my shop.
This lesson focuses on Poverty and Jobs in Rio. Differentiated with key words, challenge tasks and objectives.
LOs: To outline the characteristics of a tropical storm.
To describe social and economic impacts of tropical storms.
To evaluate the role of adaptation in reducing the impacts of tropical storms.
Addresses what a tropical storm is, their conditions needed to form, their characteristics, distribution and common impacts.
Applies mitigation and adaptation to a 9 mark exam question.
LOs: To understand the difference between primary and secondary (short term and long term) impacts of natural hazards.
To understand key ideas relating to the management of natural hazards.
To explain the Park Response Model and the Hazard Management Cycle.
Interactive tasks with diagrams, opportunities for oracy and AFL.
LOs: To know the structure of the Earth.
To understand plate tectonic theory of crustal evolution: tectonic plates; plate movement; gravitational sliding; ridge push, slab pull; convection currents and seafloor spreading.
To understand magma plumes and their relationship to plate movement.
Utilises maps to show plates and boundaries.
Teaches 3 theories:
Convection Currents.
Slab Pull.
Ridge Push.
Students produce a fact sheet for the theories.
Addresses Iceland and its changing landscape with tectonics.
A Level Geography- Sustainability in UK cities- Birmingham- Contemporary Urban Environments.
LOs: To be able to describe the social and economic issues in Birmingham.
To be able to explain ways in which Birmingham is becoming more environmentally sustainable.
To evaluate whether urban issues affect poorer communities more than richer ones.
Interactive lesson looks at the current state of Birmingham in terms of social and environmental issues. Discusses ideas of social and environmental sustainability and regeneration projects in place.
Exam question embedded with hints/tips and suggested structure for answering.
Exam Question: To what extent do you agree with the view that urban issues affect poorer communities than richer ones. [20 marks]
please ask if you have any questions.