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! :)
Whole lesson for sustainability in the Savanna biome.
Created for KS3- but suitable for low ability KS4.
Includes challenge tasks, and sentence starters for lower ability.
Depth into desertification- definition and concept.
Geography GCSE Lesson- Resource Management- Energy- Sustainability- AQA Paper 2 Section C- Singapore Gardens by the Bay case study.
Lesson addressing national sustainability- Singapore Gardens by the Bay case study.
Embedded videos and challenge tasks for PAH.
Structured exam question.
Homework option available on the website of the Gardens by the bay, instructions embedded.
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.
A Level Geography- Urban Waste- AQA Contemporary Urban Environments
LOs: To know the types of urban waste.
To understand how economic development affects urban waste.
To be able to evaluate the environmental impacts of different approaches to urban waste disposal.
Lesson teaches types of waste (industrial, lifestyles, attitudes), factors influencing disposal and how this is managed + the environmental impacts of waste disposal.
Final exam question with sentence starters:
Evaluate the environmental impacts of different approaches to urban waste disposal. [9 marks]
Includes graphs, figures, images- skills embedded. Engaging and prompts research and discussion.
Please ask if you have questions.
Entire lesson focusing on thunderstorms- causes and formation, plus differences and formation of thunder and lightening.
Stretch and challenge tasks for more able. Differentiated learning objectives.
Embedded videos and interactive tasks. Homework option at the end of the powerpoint.
More suitable for KS3 Geography.
Whole lesson around UK flooding- looks at causes, effects and responses to flooding.
Videos imbedded.
Stretch and challenges and sentence starters for differentiation.
Exam question to embed knowledge and check understanding + AfL tasks.
Whole Lesson- Climate of the Tropical Rainforest.
Compares climate of the TRF to local study.
Exam question and climate graph drawing skills.
Differentiated exam question with support and challenge at the end of the lesson.
Collection of short weekly tests- GCSE Geography- Urban Issues and Challenges. Paper 2- AQA Section A.
I use these for weekly tests throughout the term to recap knowledge for 15 minutes at the beginning the lesson. Each slide has 5 questions related to case studies and knowledge for urban issues and challenges. There are 8 sets of quick quizzes.
Entire Unit for KS3- Endangered Earth- Focus on Fossil Fuels and how we are damaging the Earth.
Includes lessons, activities and assessments.
Topics of lessons: fossil fuels, carbon footprint, climate change, greenhouse effect, sustainable energies and renewable energy.
Please ask any quesitons.
LOs: To give three hazards environmental impacts of seismic hazards.
To describe possible ways of increasing preparedness for a seismic hazards.
To assess whether secondary impacts caused by seismic hazards are more dangerous than the primary impacts.
Locational Knowledge + causes of earthquakes using maps.
Research task requires students to have internet access.
Exam Question structured at the end:
Assess whether the secondary impacts caused by seismic hazards are more dangerous than the primary impacts. (9 marks)
LOs: To know what the focus of an earthquake is.
To outline differences between the Richter Scale and Mercalli Scales.
To assess the trend between magnitude and frequency.
Revisits GCSE content of how earthquakes are formed and scales in which we measure them.
AFL and research tasks embedded.
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.