This activity was created soon after the Beast from the East struck the UK in February/March 2018. An excellent example of a recent extreme weather event. Course content is relevant to the AQA GCSE specification. Student activities: In pairs annotate your map to describe the impacts of the extreme weather event. Find the answers around the room and use the Atlas to help you locate the impacts accurately. Can you find examples of social (people), economic (money) or environmental impacts? Challenge Are the impacts of extreme weather always negative?

Revision sheets for the entire OCR A-Level Changing Spaces; Making Places topic. Great for revision purposes or for leading up to synoptic preparation. There are 8 A3 revision sheets in total. Each can be downloaded as either a Word document for editting or a PDF document.

This worked brilliantly! A complete set of revision pit stops for Yr10 or Yr11 pupils, enabling them to target their Tectonics revision. Once pupils have completed one pit stop they can move on to another. In saying this, one activity may take the whole lesson! You will need to ensure appropriate resources are available per station, however, once this is achieved the lesson should move by itself. I have also included the handouts referred to on the PP presentation. Each pit stop has an associated GCSE exam question and 'extension tips'. There are also a number of geographical skills embedded in each task. Everything in this resource matches 2017 AQA GCSE Specification requirements.

A PowerPoint presentation with details of this year’s competition for pupils in KS2, 3 and 4.

A skills based activity centred around Swanage, Dorset. This lesson is perfect for the end of a GCSE Coasts topic or for fieldwork preparation in the area. Student activities: a) Stick the OS map of Swanage in the centre of an A3 page. a) Cut out the eight images and use the evidence in each photograph to work out where it was taken on the OS map of Swanage. b) Once all photographs have located, stick each image onto the A3 sheet to label the OS map. Draw a clear arrow using a ruler. c) For each photograph, add a six-figure grid reference and write a description of its location. Challenge: Add the direction of which the photograph taken. Please note that the OS map I used for my lesson was from an OCR skills textbook. I have therefore included an alternative map but this will need re-sizing if you wish to use the 1:25000 scale (i.e. 4cm = 1km).

Great for students to identify and collate key terms over the academic year. As seen on Twitter. Can be adapted for other subjects.

A fun and highly engaging lesson where pupils can put their map skills (specifically grid references) to the test and track the spread of a mysterious but deadly disease in the continent of Africa. Pupils will take on the role of a Senior Official of the World Health Organisation and work in mixed ability pairs to create a choropleth map - integrating even more skills! This lesson is perfect for KS3. I use it as a consolidation lesson with year 7 after I have taught them how to find 4 and 6 figure grid references.

This ia a 40 minute Year 9 lesson that I created for an interview and that was very successful. Based on the AQA GCSE specification. Possible to take further with some written work. Lesson Objectives: To describe prediction, protection and planning strategies. To explain how each strategy can reduce the risk of earthquakes and to give examples. To evaluate the effectiveness of prediction, protection and planning strategies.

I designed this booklet to support my A-Level students with an investigation of their local place (Harrogate) during lockdown. This is to cover the 3.2.2.4 section of the AQA Changing Places topic. The booklet contains a thorough investigation of place with tasks that guide students to explore historical maps, census and geo-located data, IMD as well as develop skills in data presentation and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative information. I adapted many of these tasks from examples I have found on Twitter and Schoology. I hope you find it useful - perhaps Harrogate could be your contrasting and distant place study? Twitter: @MrsReedGeo

I created this resource for my Year 9 class as a part of their weekly remote learning tasks. This can be easily adapted for any country in the world. Pupils use the internet to research a country of their choice in a particular region of the world and complete the worksheet with their findings. Pupils then find one article (this should ideally be a news article) in which their selected country is featured and complete a simple summary and critical analysis of it. This a great activity to encourage KS3 pupils to be independent learners, critical thinkers and also boost their knowledge of a country in depth, looking at it’s human, physical and political geographies. Thank you to @MrsHumanities who inspired the template for the ‘Geography in the News’ worksheet.

Why is the South China Sea so important to China? This is a Power and Borders topic focus activity for Year 11 students preaparing for OCR A-Level. Students use the links provided on the sheet to write notes that answer the following questions: Where is the South China Sea? Why is the South China Sea of strategic importance to China? Why is China building islands in the South China Sea? Why do countries feel threatened by China’s militarisation of the South China Sea? What do you think the future holds for the South China Sea? Using their notes, pupils are then asked to write a one-page report that answers the key question: ‘Why is the South China Sea so important to China?’ ** Please note the referenced extract to Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’ is not included.**

A bridging activity for Year 11 students working remotely from home to prepare them for A-Level Geography. This is aimed to introduce Ss to the concept of place in the OCR Changing spaces; Making Places topic. I have used Digimaps for Schools however Ss can access OS maps from Bing maps for free online.

A remote learning guide for pupils in Key Stages 2, 3 and 4 who would like to take part in the 2020 RGS Young Geographer of the Year Competition: ‘The world beyond my window’ FREE to download.

I am using this structured template to help students to investigate a focused aspect of the A-Level course at home. Targeted for Year 11 students. Free editable version.