An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about WW1 and its features. This bundle contains 6 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe who fought during WW1, which countries were affected and investigate the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and look into propaganda and recruitment.
Lesson 1: Introduction to WW1
Lesson 2: Events That Led to WW1
Lesson 3: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Lesson 4: Causes of WW1
Lesson 5: Propaganda in WW1
Lesson 6: Recruitment Processes in WW1
Students will develop language skills, map reading, sources analysis, investigation skills and able to write full assessments using key terms accurately.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about Brazil and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately locate Brazil and its surrounding countries, the distribution of its population due to human and physical factors and how urbanisation has impacted Rio with favelas and squatter settlements. Finally, students will investigate the Amazon Rainforest
Lesson 1: Location, Climate and Importance of Brazil
Lesson 2: Inequalities in Brazil
Lesson 3: Impacts of Urbanisation in Brazil
Lesson 4: Life in a favela
Lesson 5: Positives of urbanisation in Brazil
Lesson 6: Importance of the Amazon Rainforest
Lesson 7: Exploitation of the Amazon Rainforest
Lesson 8: Protecting the Amazon Rainforest
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, creation of climate graphs and case study analysis.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 geography about Earth’s past climate and today’s climate change and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately
outline how the Earth’s climate has changed over time, and accurately define the enhanced greenhouse effect. Students will investigate the Ice Age and its effects on Homo-Sapiens and megafauna. Students will investigate why the UK has a temperate climate, how climate change affects the UK, and look globally at how areas with contrasting wealth (Bangladesh and Maldives) are affected by climate change and how they plan to mitigate/adapt to it.
Lesson 1: Climate Change
Lesson 2: Evidence of Climate Change
Lesson 3: Animals of the Ice Age
Lesson 4: Ice Age and the Effects on Earth
Lesson 5: Climate of the UK
Lesson 6: Climate Change Effect in the UK
Lesson 7: Effects of Climate Change in Bangladesh
Lesson 8: Effects of Climate Change in the Maldives
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation and interpretation along with map reading and climate graph reading.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Students will be able to describe what megafauna are, what their adaptations were during the Ice Age and how they came to be extinct.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Using the worksheet students are to describe the features of the animal and explain how its features help to adapt to the conditions of the Ice Age.
Task 3: Make notes about the extinction of the Giant Ground Sloth
Task 4: Main Task: Primary Assessment, describe how our climate has changed. (Sentence starters, PEEL structure provided and Success Criteria)
Task 5: Plenary: Why is our climate temperate when we are on the same latitude as Russia?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the future of tropical storms and what could potentially happen to people living in these areas. Contains lots of graph analysis for students.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: On white boards students to make notes on the video about tropical storms
Task 3: Read through the information on the sheet and analyse the graphs about the future of tropical storms.
Task 4: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Suggest how the distributiion of tropical storms could change in the future if the trend in temperature change continues” (4 marks)
Task 5: Plenary - True or false about formation of tropical storms
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
In this lesson students will be able to state 4 or more threats to the taiga forest and explain why they are occurring. Then they will understand the social, economical and environmental factors that are involved in deforestation. The final task will be a form of formative assessment where students will bring all their knowledge to complete this.
Task 1: Starter: True or False
Task 2: Identification of different causes of deforestation
Task 3: Advantages and disadvantages of deforestation in the taiga
Task 4: Main Task- “Describe the characteristics of Russia and assess the threat to Russian biomes” (9 marks)
Task 5: Plenary: Tweet about it
Students will be able to describe the location of Afghanistan, outline how conflict can affect development of a country and will finally explain in a mini essay how geography in the Middle East and conflict is linked.
Task 1: Starter- Recall Activity
Task 2: Define key words
Task 3: Locate Afghanistan
Task 4: Describe bar graph of development of Afghanistan
Task 5: Explain how geography in the Middle East and conflict are linked
Students will state where the Middle East is along with recognising the countries in that area along with the physical geography of the Middle East. The final task is where students describe the physical features of the Middle East to show comprehension.
Lesson 4 of 9 about conflict.
This is the sixth lesson in a series of PSHE lesson about relationships and sex. In this lesson students should learn about what sexting is and the dangers/ consequences of sexting.
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to measure distance on a map, both through straight lines and also through curved lines.
Task 1: Starter - 15 questions recall previous lesson learning.
Task 2: Students to work together on how you can find two whole cities in an inch of space
Task 3: On the worksheets, students have a go at using the scale on the sheet to measure the distance between each image.
Task 4: On the worksheet students use a curved line and measure the distance.
Task 5: Main Task - Tertiary Assessment - “Explain the importance of cartography” with success criteria and sentence starter
Task 7: Plenary: Odd One Out
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Students will be able to define the enhanced greenhouse effect, then identify the effects of climate change in the UK, rank which is the most impactful and justify why. Then students will evaluate is the government is doing enough to help tackle climate change.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Identify the effects of climate change on the UK.
Task 3: Rank the effects of climate change on the UK from most significant to least significant.
Task 4: Read through the statements on the worksheet and evaluate if the UK government is doing enough.
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of climate change on the UK
Task 5: Plenary: What are the challenges with responding to climate change as a low-income country?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what cartography is, how maps are created, what features are needed in maps and why they are important.
Task 1: Starter - Identify the human or physical features
Task 2: Students to mind map what maps are and how many maps they can think of
Task 3: Students look through the different types of map about Cramond Island and what they think is the positives and negatives of each.
Task 4: Students identify different types of maps and explain what it is used for.
Task 5: Main Task - Students to answer 7 questions about which map is the best and why
Task 6: Plenary - Sleeping gophers game related to different types of maps.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the different cartographic skills for students at GCSE. This lesson includes:
Atlas Skills including reading longitude and latitude and identification of physical and human atlas maps.
Ordnance Survey Maps including using a key, scale, four and six figure references and reading contours and spot height.
Maps in association with photographs including direction of photograph, identification of features, use of satellite imagery and sketch/ field maps.
Task 1: Identify the longitude and latitude of 12 points on an atlas.
Task 2: Measuring the distance between features on an OS map
Task 3: Identifying four and six figures on a simple OS map
Task 4: Identify the maximum and minimum height of the OS map
Task 5: Identify the direction the photograph was taken
Task 6: Explain the social, economic and environmental impacts of a earthquake from satellite imagery.
If you get time you could take your students outside and get them to do a sketch map of the school ground and a birds eye view of the school.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how the UK’s demand for food has changed through time and how food miles, organic food and seasonal food have changed in the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Three choropleth maps on food resources, recap of previous lesson and improve graph reading skills/ data analysis.
Task 2: Match up the key terms to their correct description.
Task 3: Describe how the demand for food in the UK has changed.
Task 4: Describe how importing food for Kenya has positives and negatives for the people of Kenya.
Task 5: Using an Atlas, map where the food comes from and how many miles, creating a flow line map.
Task 6: Exam Question: Using the table and your own knowledge, discuss the advantages of buying local food products (6 marks)
Task 7: Plenary - Which would be the best for UK carbon emissions?
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on an introduction to resource management, this lesson covers the significance of water, food and energy along with the economic and social well being that these resources provide. This lesson also covers the distribution of these resources.
Task 1: Starter - Answer questions from previous topics.
Task 2: Sort the resources into economic well-being and social well-being.
Task 3: Describe the distribution of resources globally.
Task 4: From slides 8-11 students have different maps to describe the resources being distributed and how they are linked.
Task 5: Exam Question: Using the map and your own understanding, suggest how inequalities in the consumption of resources influence well-being.
(3 marks) + Using the graph, suggest how the percentage of income spent on food may influence well-being.
(2 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - Which lack of resource will cause the most issues and why?
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For KS3 geography, this bundle is great for Year 9 in their second term back at school, and is designed to flow with the “Physical Features of Africa Bundle”. This bundle allows students to investigate the human side of Africa with specific looks at countries as case studies with links to key geographical concepts such as development, population and slums.
This bundle contains 6 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly begin by identifying population densities and sparsities in different countries in Africa as well as introducing population pyramids to students to link to development. Then students will investigate the importance of Nigeria and why it is globally and nationally important. Next students will find out what development is, and why some countries are less developed than others, which will directly link to colonisation and the reason some countries struggle to develop. Then once students are clear with population and development the concept of slums is introduced and linked to favelas in Brazil and what issues these cause for the people and how to fix them
Lesson 1: The Population of Africa
Lesson 2: Nigeria and its Importance
Lesson 3: Development in Africa
Lesson 4: Colonisation of Africa
Lesson 5: Slums in Africa
Lesson 6: Solutions to Slums
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data collection and manipulation along with creation of graphs and reading OS maps.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Students will be able asked to recap the layers of the Earth and their characteristics, then students will recap plate tectonic and locate the African plate, this will then quickly cover the 3 types of plate boundaries of constructive, destructive and conservative. Finally students will be asked to explain the formation of a rift valley and explain the two types of volcanoes that occur on these boundaries.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Recap on structure of the Earth and plate tectonics
Task 2: Recap on the three types of plate boundaries.
Task 3: Describe the location of the Great African Rift Valley.
Task 4: Main Task: Explain the formation of the East African Rift Valley and give one physical feature within.
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Students will be able to describe where tropical rainforests are located globally using lines of latitude and other descriptors of location that students have learned. Then students will describe the location of the Amazon Rainforest in South America using the same skills as before. Next students will investigate why rainforests are in that area and how convectional rainfall occurs. After that students will learn about the layers of the rainforest and then describe what they have learnt about the Amazon Rainforest in their books.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe where tropical rainforests are located globally
Task 2: Describe where the Amazon Rainforest is located in South America
Task 3: Create a comic about how convectional rainfall creates rainforests
Task 4: Match the layers of the rainforest to its description.
Task 5: Main Task: Describe your learning about tropical rainforests and their characteristics.
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Students will understand the timeline the led to the Sailsbury incident, they will be able to explain why this incident happened.
Videos are linked in the download.
Students to complete a sheet to show understanding of the topic.
Lesson 8 of 9
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on how tourism in Jamaica has improved the development of the area. Students will investigate where Jamaica is located, describe how tourism has increased in the last 50 years and how tourism has improved the economy of the area.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how waterfalls are formed (6 marks)
Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe the location of Jamaica (4 marks)
Task 3: Watch the video on how tourism affects Jamaica.
Task 4: Students to complete the multiplier effect circle.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Evaluate, the role of tourism in reducing the development gap in an area you have studied (9 marks).” High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words.
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for next physical revision - Meanders/ Oxbow Lakes
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