Our aim is simple, to save you time with quality, well planned resources that are ready to teach. We offer Geography schemes of work for KS2-5 including full resources for the new GCSE specifications (AQA, OCR, Edexcel, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas). We also offer a range of individually packaged lessons to help you in specific areas of the curriculum.
Our aim is simple, to save you time with quality, well planned resources that are ready to teach. We offer Geography schemes of work for KS2-5 including full resources for the new GCSE specifications (AQA, OCR, Edexcel, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas). We also offer a range of individually packaged lessons to help you in specific areas of the curriculum.
Full KS3 unit of work for Environmental Issues (also known as Fragile Environments). This unit explores the world’s environmental issues including the Antarctic, coral reefs and endangered animals. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required. Most suitable for KS3 or high ability KS2.
All lessons have a starter and learning objectives. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - Introduction
2 - Climate change
3 - What are fragile environments?
4 - Antarctic fact file
5 - Coral reefs
6 - Human impact of coral reefs
7 - Protecting coral reefs
8 - Antarctic ICT
9 - Endangered species
10 - Endangered animals group work
11 - Endangered animals group presentations
12 - Saving our environment
13 - Revision
14 - End of unit test
Also includes Geography Literacy mat and Geography Numeracy/Map Skills mat.
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
13 part lesson series for the whole of the GCSE module The Challenges of an Urbanising World. This is the complete module - Urbanisation and Mumbai. Specifically designed for the new Edexcel Geography GCSE but also suitable for AQA and OCR. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. Extension tasks and homework also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - The urban world
2 - Megacities
3 - Urban process and change
4 - How urban economies differ
5 - The changing face of New York ICT
6 - Land use of cities
7 - Mumbai a growing megacity
8 - Mumbai’s changing population
9 - Quality of life in Mumbai
10 - Challenges facing Mumbai
11 - Sustainable Mumbai (1)
12 - Sustainable Mumbai (2)
13 - Trade Game
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
Full unit of work for UK, Weather & Climate. This unit explores the physical and human geography of the UK with a central focus on the weather and climate of the UK. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required. Most suitable for KS3 or high ability KS2.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - UK introduction
2 - What is the UK?
3 - Different aspects of the UK
4 - UK, Europe and Flags
5 - Weather and climate in the UK
6 - Climate graphs
7 - Measuring the weather
8 - The water cycle
9 - Clouds
10 - Rainfall
11 - Microclimates
12 - Migration
13 - Human vs physical features of the UK
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
2 part lesson series originally designed as part of the AQA GCSE module Cold Environments. This covers key aspects of Svalbard.
Full module the Living World available for £12
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
105 lessons for IGCSE geography themes 1, 2 and 3. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
Population:
1 - Introduction to population
2 - Malthus vs Boserup
3 - Migration
4 - The demographic transition model
5 - Anti-natalist policy, the one-child policy
6 - Over vs underpopulation
7 - Cause of migration
8 - Voluntary vs forced migration - refugees
9 - Ageing population
10 - Population structure
11 - Youthful population
12 - Dense vs sparse population
13 - Jelly baby population
Settlement:
1 - Settlement provision
2 - Settlement structure
3 - Settlement services
4 - Rural settlement service provision
5 - Urban settlement service provision
6 - Burgess model and the CBD
7 - Green and brownfield sites
8 - Problems in urban areas
9 - Manchester
10 - Urban regeneration
11 -Urbanisation
12 - Impacts of urbanisation
13 - Squatter settlements
14 - Squatter settlement case study - Dharavi
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
1 - What are hazards?
2 - Structure of the earth
3 - Types of volcano
4 - Why live in hazardous areas?
5 - Volcano case study
6 - Earthquakes
7 - Disaster response in Haiti
8 - Disaster response in New Zealand
Rivers:
1 - Hydrological cycle and drainage basins
2 - Erosion and deposition
3 - Landforms in the upper course
4 - Landforms in the middle course
5 - Landforms in the lower course
6 - Flooding
7 - Hard and soft engineering
8 - Rivers case study - Somerset
9 - Rivers GIS
Coasts:
1 - Waves
2 - Coastal processes
3 - Landforms processes
4 - Erosional landforms
5 - Depositional landforms
6 - Coral reefs
7 - Threats to coral reefs
8 - Mangroves
9 - Hard and soft engineering
10 - Coastal case study
11 - Assessment
Weather:
1 - Atmospheric circulation
2 - Measuring the weather
3 - Clouds
Climate and Natural Vegetation
1 - Climate zones
2 - Hot deserts
3 - Climate graphs and deserts
4 - Ecosystems
5 - Rainforests
6 - Soil and biodiversity
7 - Opportunities in hot deserts
8 - Causes of deforestation
9 - Impacts of deforestation
10 - Managing the rainforest
11 - Desertification
12 - Sustainable management of the world
Development
1 - Development indicators
2 - Industry
3 - Globalisation
4 - TNCs
5 - TNC case study
6 - Trade game
Food production
1 - Introduction to agriculture
2 - Food shortages
3 - Food supply and shortages (1)
4 - Food supply and shortages (2)
5 -Food production (Indus Valley)
6 - Famine (Horn of Africa)
Industry
1 - Industrial systems
2 - Types of industry
3 - Industrial zones case study
Tourism
1 - Growth of tourism
2 - Pros and cons of tourism growth
3 - Eco tourism
4 - Tourism case study (Jamaica)
Energy
1 - Growing consumption
2 - Non-renewable energy
3 - Renewable energy
4 - Fuelwood and other energy
5 - Nuclear energy
6 - Hydro-electric power case study
7 - Increasing energy
Water
1 - Water supply and use
2 - Water stress
3 - Water management
4 - Lesotho Highland project
Environmental Risk of Development
1 - Soil fertility and threats
2 - Deferestification
3 - Climate change and the enhanced greenhouse effect
4 - Managing the environment
5 - Conserving the environment
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
15 part lesson series for the whole of the GCSE module Development Dynamics. This is the complete module - Development, Malawi, Globalisation and India. Specifically designed for the new Edexcel Geography GCSE but also suitable for AQA and OCR. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. Extension tasks and homework also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - Measuring development
2 - Development and population
3 - Global inequality
4 - Reducing the gap ICT
5 - Student presentations
6 - Malawi 1
7 - Malawi 2
8 - Development in a globalised world
9 - Introducing India
10 - How TNCs operate in India
11 - Impacts of change in India
12 - Unequal development
13 - Top down project
14 - Bottom up project
15 - India - Which way now?
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
Full unit of work for the Glacial aspect of the UK Physical Landscapes module. Specifically designed for the new AQA A Geography GCSE but also suitable for Edexcel and OCR. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. Extension tasks and homework also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - Processes in glacial environments
2 - Glacial erosional landforms
3 - Glacial deposition and transport landforms
4 - Glacial case study: Llyn Cau
5 - Economic opportunities in glacial environments
6 - Conflict in glacial environments
7 - Tourism in glacial environments
8 - Revision
9 - End of unit test
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
5 part lesson series for the Edexcel GCSE module Hazardous Earth. This is part of the module to be taught alongside Atmosphere, Climate and Hurricanes. Specifically designed for the new Edexcel Geography GCSE but also suitable for AQA and OCR. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. Extension tasks and homework also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - Inside the earth
2 - Earthquakes
3 - Haiti case study
4 - New Zealand case study
5 - Volcanoes
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
22 part lesson series for the whole of the GCSE module The UK’s Evolving Physical landscape. This is the complete module - The UK, Coasts, Rivers and Flooding. Specifically designed for the new Edexcel Geography GCSE but also suitable for AQA and OCR. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. Extension tasks and homework also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - UK physical landscape
2 - Rocks
3 - Physical processes in the landscape
4 - People in the landscape
5 - Coastal erosional landforms introduction
6 - Coastal erosional landforms 2
7 - What are waves?
8 - Coastal processes
9 - Coastal deposition
10 - Coastal management
11 - Coastal management case study
12 - Holderness coast ICT research
13 - Long profile of river
14 - Landforms in the upper course
15 - Landforms in the middle course
16 - Landforms in the lower course
17 - River Tees ICT research
18 - Hydrographs
19 - Rivers GIS
20 - Flooding introduction
21- Flooding engineering
22 - Flooding ICT case study
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
Full KS3 unit of work for Natural Hazards. This unit explores Natural Hazards, from plate tectonics to volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter and learning objectives. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 – Structure of the earth
2 – Plate tectonics
3 – Destructive plate boundaries
4 – Constructive and conservative plate boundaries
5 – Volcanoes
6 – Volcano ICT fact file
7 – Mt St Helens
8 – Mt Vesuvius
9 – Why live near a volcano?
10 - Earthquakes
11 – Measuring earthquakes
12 – Kobe, Japan
13 - Tsunami
14 – Japanese 2001 Tsunami
15 – Japanese Tsunami documentary
16 – Formation of a tropical storm
17 – Hurricane Katrina ICT fact file
18 – Hurricane Katrina documentary
19 – Comparing MEDC and LEDC disasters
20 – Revision
Also includes Geography Literacy mat and Geography Numeracy/Map Skills mat.
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
4 part lessons series originally designed for the KS3 module Rivers.
Lesson sequence:
1 - Flooding
2 - Boscastle mystery
3 - Boscastle research
4 - Flooding in Bangladesh
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
Designed for the module The Challenge of Resource Management. This is lesson 4 of 6 as part of the optional food management series of lessons.
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
7 part lesson series originally designed as part of the AQA GCSE Geography module the Urban World.
Full module the Urban World available for £12
Lesson sequence:
1 – Introducing Bristol
2 – How can urban change present social opportunities?
3 – Bristol’s economy ICT research
4 – How can urban change effect the environment?
5 – Environmental challenges and change in Bristol
6 – Social Inequality
7 – New Housing in Bristol, regeneration of the Temple Quarter ICT
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
17 part lesson series for the whole of the Edexcel GCSE module Hazardous Earth. This is the complete module - Atmosphere, Climate Change, Hurricanes and Plate Tectonics. Specifically designed for the new Edexcel Geography GCSE but also suitable for AQA and OCR. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. Extension tasks and homework also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - Introduction to Hazardous Earth
2 - Atmospheric circulation and ocean currents
3 - The Coriolis effect and the ITCZ
4 - Causes of climate change
5 - Managing climate change
6 - Past climates and the greenhouse effect
7 - UK weather
8 - Climate change and tropical storms
9 - Tropical storms
10 - Hurricane Katrina ICT project
11 - Hurricane Katrina project review
12 - Management to reduce risk
13 - Inside the earth
14 - Earthquakes
15 - Haiti case study
16 - New Zealand case study
17 - Volcanoes
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
5 part lesson series for the Edexcel GCSE module Forests Under Threat. This is part of the module to be taught alongside Tropical Rainforests. Specifically designed for the new Edexcel Geography GCSE but also suitable for AQA and OCR. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. Extension tasks and homework also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - What is a taiga like?
2 - Direct threats to taiga’s
3 - Taiga under pressure
4 - Conserving the taiga wilderness
5 - Balancing exploitation and protection in the taiga
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
114 lessons for Edexcel GCSE geography topics unit 1 and 2. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
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1 x lesson for resource theory. Originally designed for OCR but also suitable for other exam boards
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Full unit of work for Depleting Resources. This unit of 14 lessons explores the human use of resources including food and energy whilst exploring significant imbalances in the world. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required. Most suitable for KS3, and perfect for preparing pupils for the new 1-9 GCSE modules.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - How are the world’s resources distributed?
2 - Why is farming and fishing changing?
3 - What are fossil fuels?
4 - Can we provide enough water for the UK?
5 - What are the challenges of feeding the UK’s population?
6 - What is food insecurity?
7 - Could we run out of resources?
8 - What resources issues face Tanzania?
9 - Can we change Tanzania with goat aid?
10 - How successful is Tanzania’s bid to grow wheat?
11 - What is the shape of Tanzania’s current food security bid?
12 - What is sustainable food production?
13 - How can we manage our food supply?
14 - What is the Indus Basin Irrigation System?
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
Clear displays of the most common command words in the GSCE Geography exam. Display around the classroom as a point of reference for students.
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
A sheet for students to complete during detention to reflect on their actions
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
