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Tectonic Hazards: 18 Edexcel A-level Lessons

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18 ready-to-teach one-hour lessons for Pearson Edexcel A-level Geography (9GE0) Topic 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards (Paper 1, Section A): PowerPoints, two-sided resource sheets, full teacher notes, a START-HERE guide and a printed 36-mark assessment. It is a complete teaching sequence for all three enquiry questions, with a minute-by-minute timeline in every set of teacher notes. What a lesson looks like: A five-question starter quiz retrieves earlier learning. An outcome slide sets the big question, then key words and a lesson outline. Each lesson is taught in three learning cycles: short explanation slides, a check for understanding with a reveal slide, and a practice task with a feedback slide. Every task carries an A* stretch, answered on the feedback slide. Tasks vary from lesson to lesson: calculations, block-diagram and seismogram reading, Spearman’s rank, data-reliability judgements, diamond nines, a mystery, a structured debate on the 2010 airspace closure, role cards on the Sichuan school collapses, “spot the mistakes” on the L’Aquila trial, a futures model of a Nankai Trough megaquake, and three independent research tasks (Haiti’s competing death tolls; a Philippine hazard-interaction profile; GIS risk zones with free map viewers). Exam preparation: every lesson ends with an original exam-style question in the 9GE0 format, a levels mark scheme with AO weightings, and two full example answers, at C and A standard, annotated paragraph by paragraph against AO1, AO2 and the levels*. The sequence: (1) where tectonic hazards occur; (2) hotspots and intra-plate earthquakes; (3) plate tectonic theory; (4) plate margins, magnitude and depth; (5) earthquake hazards: Wenchuan 2008; (6) volcanic hazards and tsunamis; (7) vulnerability and the PAR model: Haiti 2010; (8) measuring and profiling hazards; (9) impacts across development levels; (10) inequality, governance and vulnerability; (11) same magnitude, different disaster; (12) disaster trends and data reliability; (13) tectonic mega-disasters; (14) the Philippines as a multiple-hazard zone; (15) prediction, forecasting and the management cycle; (16) Park’s model, modifying the event and GIS; (17) modifying vulnerability and loss; (18) review and a printed assessment. Before you buy: the exam-style questions are original and are not taken from Pearson papers. This resource is not endorsed by Pearson. The video slides link to IRIS/EarthScope, NOAA, PBS, Time for Geography, The B1M and YouTube, so you need internet access and a school network that allows them; please preview each clip.
Resource Management (Water): 15 AQA GCSE LessonsQuick View
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Resource Management (Water): 15 AQA GCSE Lessons

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15 ready-to-teach one-hour lessons for AQA GCSE Geography’s The Challenge of Resource Management, covering the compulsory overview and the water option (Paper 2, Section C): PowerPoints, printable resource sheets, teacher notes with answers, a START-HERE guide and a printed Section C-style assessment. Case studies: China’s South–North Water Transfer Project and Hitosa, Ethiopia. What a lesson looks like: A five-question starter quiz retrieves earlier learning. An outcome slide sets the big question, then the key words and a lesson outline. Three learning cycles: short explanation slides, a check for understanding with a reveal slide, and a practice task with a feedback slide. Each task has a Challenge. One varied activity per lesson, never repeated: a mystery, the winter basket challenge, pollution detective, a diamond nine, Energy Top Trumps, odd one out, water doctor, spot the mistakes, a Dragons’ Den-style pitch, a route race, the SNWTP on trial, the 50-litre challenge, a sustainability scorecard and an examiner’s desk. Each lesson closes with a video slide (link, QR code, watch-for questions), an original exam-style question with a student mark scheme and example answer, and an exit quiz. The sequence: Resources and well-being Food in the UK UK water: demand and quality UK water: surplus, deficit, transfer Energy in the UK A thirsty planet Why some places run short When water runs out Finding more water The SNWTP: why and how The SNWTP: worth it? Using less, not finding more Hitosa: a local water scheme Exam technique: Section C Review and a printed assessment (25 marks) Specification: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, 3.2.3.1 (Resource management overview, Question 3) and 3.2.3.3 (Water, Question 5). Each set of teacher notes includes a specification map. Before you buy: The exam-style questions are original and not taken from AQA papers. Not endorsed by AQA. The video slides link to YouTube (tutor2u). You need internet access and a network that allows YouTube; please preview each clip. The lessons refer to a matching homework booklet, sold separately.
AQA GCSE Geography Paper 1 + 2 Topic BundleQuick View
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AQA GCSE Geography Paper 1 + 2 Topic Bundle

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Everything you need to teach AQA GCSE Geography Papers 1 and 2 in one bundle: 96 one-hour lessons, six 12-week homework booklets and six spaced retrieval packs. It covers all six topics taught in this series: Paper 1 (Living with the physical environment) Natural Hazards, The Living World and Physical Landscapes in the UK; Paper 2 (Challenges in the human environment) Urban Issues and Challenges, The Changing Economic World and Resource Management. How the parts fit together: each unit has three pieces. The lessons teach it. The homework booklet sets about 45 minutes a week of independent practice, with help withdrawn across the term. The retrieval pack gives a weekly do-now that brings earlier blocks back, then two long-interval boosters. A table in each unit’s START-HERE guide shows how lessons, homework weeks and retrieval blocks line up. [Do not add “block n follows week n” until blocking item 2 is settled.] The lessons (96): editable PowerPoints with timings in the notes, a video slide (linked, not embedded), original exam-style questions with mark schemes and example answers, teacher notes with answers and a specification map, printable resource sheets (Natural Hazards 6, Living World 6, Physical Landscapes 7, Urban 8, Changing Economic World 12, Water 11) and a printed assessment paper per unit. Every unit ends with an exam-technique lesson and a review lesson. Natural Hazards, Physical Landscapes, Urban and Water follow the structure (starter quiz, three learning cycles with checks and practice, exit quiz). The Living World and Changing Economic World lessons use a shorter format (do now, learn-it slides, tasks with stretch, exit ticket). The homework booklets (6 x 12 weeks): about 45 minutes a week in five short chunks: retrieval and word work, a dated reading, check questions, a “think deeper” task and exam-style practice. Support pages, trackers, full answers and a teacher section. The retrieval packs (6 x 12 starters + 2 boosters): weekly do-nows, early ones short, later ones eight to ten minutes, with answers and class tracking. Later starters interleave questions from other units on purpose. Please note: Not included: the cold environments option, glacial landscapes, the food and energy options in Section C, and Paper 3. Living World covers hot deserts; Physical Landscapes covers coasts and rivers; Resource Management covers water. Lesson videos link to YouTube and a few other sites; please preview each before teaching. Maps and charts are original. Exam-style questions are original, not taken from AQA papers. Not endorsed by AQA. Each part is also sold separately.
AQA GCSE Geography Paper 2: Complete Topic BundleQuick View
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AQA GCSE Geography Paper 2: Complete Topic Bundle

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Everything you need to teach AQA GCSE Geography Paper 2 (Challenges in the human environment) in one bundle: 47 one-hour lessons, three 12-week homework booklets and three spaced retrieval packs, covering Urban Issues and Challenges (Section A), The Changing Economic World (Section B) and The Challenge of Resource Management, water option (Section C). How the parts fit together: each unit has the same three pieces. The lessons teach it. The homework booklet sets about 45 minutes a week of independent practice, with the help withdrawn as the unit goes on. The retrieval pack gives a weekly do-now that brings each block back one, two and five weeks later, then two long-interval boosters. In every unit, retrieval block n is written to follow homework week n, and the lessons’ title and exit slides name the homework week. A table in the bundle shows which lesson goes with which week and block. Section A: Urban Issues and Challenges (18 lessons). Rio de Janeiro (NEE), with Favela-Bairro, and London (HIC), with the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; sustainable urban living and transport. 8 printable resource sheets, an exam-technique lesson, and a printed 30 + 3 SPaG Section A-style assessment with mark scheme. Section B: The Changing Economic World (14 lessons). Measuring development, the development gap, Jamaica (tourism), Nigeria and Shell, the UK economy (including Torr Quarry, the north–south divide and the UK in the wider world), with rural change in South Cambridgeshire and the Outer Hebrides. 12 printable resource sheets, an exam-skills lesson, and a printed 30-mark assessment paper. Section C: Resource Management, water option (15 lessons). The overview (food, water and energy; UK food, water and energy), global water supply and demand, factors affecting availability, impacts and strategies, the South–North Water Transfer Project (China) and Hitosa (Ethiopia). 11 printable resource sheets, a Section C technique lesson, and a printed 25-mark Section C paper. Every lesson: an editable PowerPoint with timings in the notes, a video slide (linked, not embedded), original exam-style questions with a mark scheme, and teacher notes with answers and a specification map. The homework booklets (3 x 12 weeks): five chunks a week (5/5/10/10/15 minutes): retrieval and word work, a dated reading box, check questions, a Think Deeper task and an exam-style question. Weeks with a research task have a printed no-internet alternative. Support pages give Tier 3 vocabulary with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters and cloze versions of the hardest answers. Each booklet has a parent page, a confidence tracker and a removable teacher section with answers, level descriptors and a specification map. The retrieval packs (3 x 12 starters + 2 boosters): one starter per week for a do-now (short at first, then 8–10 minutes), with answers, a class tracking grid, vocabulary, a number bank and a specification map. Later starters include a section that interleaves a question from another unit; this is deliberate.
Resource Management (Water): Complete Topic BundleQuick View
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Resource Management (Water): Complete Topic Bundle

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Everything you need to teach AQA GCSE Geography’s The Challenge of Resource Management (Paper 2, Section C, 3.2.3) with the water option, in one bundle: 15 ready-to-teach lessons, a 12-week homework booklet and a retrieval pack, built around the same two case studies and the same dated, sourced figures. What’s included: The lessons (15 x 60 minutes, 525 slides): Each has a starter quiz, three learning cycles with checks and practice tasks (every task has a Challenge), one varied activity, a video slide, an original exam-style question with a mark scheme and an example answer, and an exit quiz. There are 11 printable two-page resource sheets with original maps and charts, and teacher notes with a 60-minute timeline, answers, misconceptions, a specification map and sources. Lesson 14 teaches how Section C 6-markers are marked. Lesson 15 is a printed 25-mark Section C paper (the Question 3 overview and the water option) with a full mark scheme. The homework booklet (12 weeks): about 45 minutes a week in five short chunks: word work (with retrieval questions from earlier weeks from Week 3), a dated reading box, check questions, a Think Deeper task and an exam-style question. The help shrinks as the unit goes on: a full plan in Weeks 1–5, the shape only in Weeks 6–10, none in Week 12. Weeks 2 and 11 are research tasks with printed no-internet alternatives. Support pages give Tier 3 vocabulary with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters and cloze versions of the hardest answers, plus a parent page and a confidence tracker. A removable teacher section has full answers with level descriptors, a specification map, a “figures in most textbooks that are now wrong” table and a class tracking grid. The retrieval pack (12 starters + 2 boosters): a do-now for the start of a lesson, once a week. Starters 1–5 are short; from Starter 6 each sheet has four sections: A (last lesson’s block), B (two weeks back), C (five weeks back) and D (a question from another unit, to keep the links alive). Two long-interval boosters (a 30-day and a 90-day check) bring the whole unit back. It comes with Tier 3 vocabulary, a number bank, sentence starters and cloze versions of the hardest answers, a full answer key, a class tracking grid, a specification map and a RAG box on every sheet. Before you buy: The exam-style questions are original and not taken from AQA papers. This resource is not endorsed by AQA. The lesson videos link to YouTube (tutor2u clips); please preview them before you teach. Maps and charts are original. This covers the water option only; food and energy are covered by the overview lessons (1, 2 and 5) but have no option-specific lessons. Each part is also sold separately.
Urban Issues and Challenges: Complete Topic BundleQuick View
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Urban Issues and Challenges: Complete Topic Bundle

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Everything you need to teach AQA GCSE Geography’s Urban Issues and Challenges (Paper 2, Section A, 3.2.1) in one bundle: 18 ready-to-teach lessons, a 12-week homework pack and a 12-week spaced retrieval pack, all built around the same case studies, Rio de Janeiro and London, and the same up-to-date figures. What’s Included: The lessons (18 x 60 minutes): Each has a starter quiz, three learning cycles with checks and practice tasks (each task with a Challenge), one varied activity, a video slide, an original exam-style question with a mark scheme and example answer, and an exit quiz. There are 8 printable resource sheets with original maps and charts, and teacher notes with a 60-minute timeline, answers, misconceptions and a specification map. Lesson 17 teaches Section A exam technique. Lesson 18 is a printed 30 + 3 SPaG assessment with a full mark scheme. The homework pack (12 weeks): about 45 minutes a week in five short chunks, including a reading box, questions, a Think Deeper task and an exam-style question. Weeks 1 and 12 end with a research task that has a printed no-internet alternative. Scaffolding is withdrawn as the unit goes on. Support pages include Tier 3 vocabulary with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters and cloze versions of the hardest answers. A removable teacher section has the full answers, a specification map and a tracker. The retrieval pack (12 starters + 2 boosters): one side of A4 per week, ready to photocopy as a do-now. It comes with answers, a class tracking grid and a specification map. Case studies: Rio de Janeiro (NEE), with Favela-Bairro and its successors. London (HIC), with the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Sustainability and transport comparators: Singapore, Bunhill 2, BedZED, Curitiba, Bogotá and Freiburg/Vauban. Before you buy: The exam-style questions are original and not taken from AQA papers. This resource is not endorsed by AQA. The lesson videos link to YouTube (tutor2u), one Oak National Academy video and one UN news package; please preview them.
Urban Issues and Challenges: 18 AQA GCSE LessonsQuick View
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Urban Issues and Challenges: 18 AQA GCSE Lessons

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18 ready-to-teach one-hour lessons for AQA GCSE Geography’s Urban Issues and Challenges (Paper 2, Section A): PowerPoints, printable resource sheets, teacher notes with answers, a START-HERE guide and a printed Section A-style assessment. It is a complete teaching sequence for the unit, using Rio de Janeiro and London as the case studies, with a minute-by-minute outline in every set of teacher notes. What a lesson looks like: A five-question starter quiz retrieves earlier learning. An outcome slide sets the big question, then come the key words and a lesson outline. The lesson is taught in three learning cycles: short explanation slides, a quick check for understanding with a reveal slide, and a practice task with a feedback slide. Each task has a Challenge for higher attainers. One task per lesson is a varied activity. Examples: “Higher or lower?” with megacities; “Census v community: the jury” on Rocinha’s population; a Favela-Bairro report card; “Three Manchesters”, a game about city boundaries; a Green Belt planning inquiry; an Olympic Park convergence scorecard; a BedZED myth-buster; “Transport minister”, where students build a congestion package for an invented city; and “be the examiner”. Lessons close with a video slide (link, QR code and watch-for questions), an original exam-style question with a student-friendly mark scheme and an example answer, and a five-question exit quiz. The sequence: A planet of cities? Megacities, and why cities grow Rio de Janeiro: location and importance Rio: why it grew, and the surprise Rio: opportunities Rio: favelas, water and services Rio: jobs, crime and environment Favela-Bairro: planning for the urban poor The UK’s cities and why London matters London: migration and character London: opportunities London: deprivation and inequality London: land, waste and sprawl The Olympic Park Sustainable urban living Transport and congestion Exam technique for Section A (command words, 6- and 9-mark levels, SPaG) Review and a printed assessment Specification: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, section 3.2.1 (Urban issues and challenges), Paper 2 Section A. Each set of teacher notes includes a specification map. Before you buy: The exam-style questions are original and are not taken from AQA papers. This resource is not endorsed by AQA. The video slides link to YouTube (tutor2u), one Oak National Academy video and one UN news package. You need internet access and a school network that allows them; please preview each clip. The lessons refer to a matching homework pack and retrieval pack, which are sold separately.
Coasts and Rivers: 18 AQA GCSE LessonsQuick View
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Coasts and Rivers: 18 AQA GCSE Lessons

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18 ready-to-teach one-hour lessons for AQA GCSE Geography’s Physical Landscapes in the UK: coastal and river landscapes (Paper 1, Section C): PowerPoints, printable resource sheets, teacher notes with answers, a START-HERE guide and a printed Section C-style assessment. It is a complete teaching sequence for the coasts and rivers options, with a minute-by-minute outline in every set of teacher notes. What a lesson looks like: A five-question starter quiz retrieves earlier learning. An outcome slide sets the big question, then the key words and a lesson outline. The lesson is taught in three learning cycles: short explanation slides, a quick check for understanding with a reveal slide, and a practice task with a feedback slide. Each task has a Challenge for higher attainers. One task per lesson is a varied activity: a High Force mystery, “be the pebble”, a public meeting role-play at Walton-on-the-Naze, a coastal-defence budget game, a flood-management diamond nine, “take a stand” on the Jubilee River, “fix the leaflet”, “be the examiner” and more. Lessons close with a video slide (link, QR code and watch-for questions), an original exam-style question with a student-friendly mark scheme and an example answer, and a five-question exit quiz. The sequence: (1) UK physical landscapes; (2) waves, weathering and mass movement; (3) erosion, transport and deposition; (4) geology and erosional landforms; (5) depositional landforms; (6) Dorset: the Jurassic Coast; (7) defending the coast; (8) Walton-on-the-Naze; (9) river processes and profiles; (10) waterfalls, gorges and interlocking spurs; (11) meanders and ox-bow lakes; (12) levées, flood plains and estuaries; (13) the River Tees; (14) flood risk and hydrographs; (15) managing floods; (16) the Jubilee River; (17) exam technique for Section C (4- and 6-mark levels, using figures); (18) review and a printed assessment. Specification: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, section 3.1.3 (3.1.3.1 UK physical landscapes; 3.1.3.2 coastal landscapes; 3.1.3.3 river landscapes). Each set of teacher notes includes a specification map. Before you buy: the exam-style questions are original and are not taken from AQA papers. This resource is not endorsed by AQA. The video slides link to YouTube (and one to Oak National Academy), so you need internet access and a school network that allows them; please preview each clip. The slides contain no photographs and no OS map extracts, so add your department’s OS practice. The lessons refer to a matching homework pack and retrieval pack, which are sold separately.
AQA GCSE Geography Paper 1: Complete Topic BundleQuick View
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AQA GCSE Geography Paper 1: Complete Topic Bundle

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Everything you need to teach AQA GCSE Geography Paper 1, Living with the Physical Environment, in one bundle: 49 one-hour lessons, three 12-week homework booklets and three spaced retrieval packs. Each topic’s three products follow the same content order and use the same case studies, key terms and sourced figures, so what you teach in a lesson comes back in homework and in your starters, with spacing built in. What is in the bundle 49 one-hour lessons as editable PowerPoints, with printable resource sheets, teacher notes with answers and mark schemes, a START-HERE guide for each topic, and a printed assessment for each topic (Section A: 30 marks plus 3 SPaG; Section B: 25 marks; Section C: 30 marks). Natural Hazards and Coasts and Rivers follow the Oak National Academy lesson model: a five-question starter quiz, an outcome and big question, key words, three learning cycles (explanation, a check for understanding with a reveal, and a practice task with a feedback slide and a Challenge), a video slide with QR code and watch-for questions, an original exam-style question with a student-friendly mark scheme and example answer, and a five-question exit quiz. The Living World lessons are in a shorter format: a Do Now with answers, “Learn it” teaching slides built around original diagrams, varied tasks each with a stretch, a video slide, an original exam question with mark scheme and model answer, and an exit ticket. Each topic ends with an exam-technique lesson and a review lesson. Three 12-week homework booklets. About 45 minutes a week in five short chunks: word work with retrieval from earlier weeks, a short reading, check questions, a “think deeper” task and original exam practice, with the scaffolding withdrawn across the term. Full answers, support pages, student trackers and a teacher section. Three spaced retrieval packs: weekly “do now” starters and long-gap boosters, with a mark scheme for every question. Specification: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, Paper 1, sections 3.1.1 (Natural hazards), 3.1.2 (The living world) and 3.1.3 (Physical landscapes in the UK: coastal and river landscapes). Support and accessibility: the homework booklets and retrieval packs include Tier 3 vocabulary lists, sentence starters and gap-fills, set in Verdana with 1.5 line spacing and bold rather than italics. Please note: Not included: the cold environments option (Section B), glacial landscapes (Section C), Papers 2 and 3. The Living World covers the hot deserts option only; Physical Landscapes covers coasts and rivers only. The lessons link to YouTube videos (and a few other sites), so you need internet access and a school network that allows them. Please preview each clip before teaching. The slides contain original maps, charts and diagrams but no photographs and no OS map extracts. Exam-style questions are original and are not taken from AQA papers. This bundle is not endorsed by AQA. The Physical Landscapes retrieval pack interleaves some Urban Issues questions (Paper 2 content) on purpose, for spacing.
Coasts and Rivers: AQA GCSE Topic BundleQuick View
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Coasts and Rivers: AQA GCSE Topic Bundle

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Everything you need to teach the coasts and rivers parts of AQA GCSE Geography’s Physical Landscapes in the UK (Paper 1, Section C) in one bundle: 18 one-hour lessons, a 12-week homework booklet and a spaced retrieval pack. The three products follow the same content order and use the same case studies, key terms and sourced figures, so what you teach in a lesson comes back in homework and in your starters, with spacing built in. What is in the bundle 18 one-hour lessons as editable PowerPoints (618 slides), with seven printable resource sheets (Word and PDF), teacher notes for every lesson (timings, answers, mark schemes, specification map, sources), a START-HERE guide and a printed 30-mark Section C-style assessment with a full levels mark scheme. The lessons: a five-question starter quiz, an outcome and big question, key words, three learning cycles (explanation, a check for understanding with a reveal, and a practice task with feedback and a Challenge), a video slide with QR code and watch-for questions, an original exam-style question with a student-friendly mark scheme and example answer, and a five-question exit quiz. Lesson 17 teaches Section C exam technique and Lesson 18 is a review with the printed paper. A 12-week homework booklet. about 45 minutes a week in five short chunks, full answers, support pages, student tracker, teacher section. A spaced retrieval pack: 12 blocks of “do now” starters, with a mark scheme for every question. It interleaves some Urban Issues (Paper 2) questions on purpose, for spacing. Case studies: Dorset’s Jurassic Coast (Lulworth, Durdle Door, Old Harry, Chesil Beach); Walton-on-the-Naze (coastal management); the River Tees (source to sea, High Force); the Jubilee River (flood relief channel). Supporting examples: Holderness and Spurn, Christchurch Bay, Clacton, Medmerry, the Leeds and Pickering flood schemes and the River Lambourn. Specification: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, 3.1.3 (3.1.3.1 UK physical landscapes; 3.1.3.2 coastal landscapes; 3.1.3.3 river landscapes). Every set of teacher notes includes a specification map. Please note: Not included: glacial landscapes (the third option in 3.1.3) and the rest of Paper 1. The lessons link to YouTube videos (and one to Oak National Academy), so you need internet access and a school network that allows them. Please preview each clip before teaching. The slides contain original maps, charts and diagrams but no photographs and no OS map extracts; add your department’s OS practice. Exam-style questions are original and are not taken from AQA papers. This bundle is not endorsed by AQA.
Natural Hazards: 17 AQA GCSE LessonsQuick View
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Natural Hazards: 17 AQA GCSE Lessons

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17 ready-to-teach one-hour lessons for AQA GCSE Geography’s The Challenge of Natural Hazards (Paper 1, Section A): PowerPoints, printable resource sheets, teacher notes with answers, a START-HERE guide and a printed Section A-style assessment. It is a complete teaching sequence for the unit, with a minute-by-minute outline in every set of teacher notes. What a lesson looks like: A five-question starter quiz retrieves earlier learning. An outcome slide sets the big question, then the key words and a lesson outline. The lesson is taught in three learning cycles: short explanation slides, a quick check for understanding with a reveal slide, and a practice task with a feedback slide. Each task has a Challenge for higher attainers. One task per lesson is a varied activity: a diamond nine, a tsunami-warning mystery, role cards, a jury (“the climate case: who is responsible?”), a “Protect Port Marina” token game, a response report card, an adaptation advice desk and more. Lessons close with a video slide (link, QR code and watch-for questions), an original exam-style question with a student-friendly mark scheme and a Level 3 example answer, and a five-question exit quiz. The sequence: (1) hazards, disasters and risk; (2) plate tectonics; (3) plate margins; (4) Nepal 2015; (5) Chile 2010; (6) responses compared; (7) living with tectonic hazards; (8) global atmospheric circulation; (9) tropical storms: distribution, formation and structure; (10) Typhoon Haiyan 2013; (11) reducing storm risk in a warming world; (12) UK weather hazards; (13) the Somerset Levels floods 2013–14; (14) climate change: evidence and causes; (15) climate change: effects, mitigation and adaptation; (16) exam technique for Section A (command words, levels, SPaG, planning a 9-marker); (17) review and a printed assessment. Specification: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, section 3.1.1 (3.1.1.1–3.1.1.4). Each set of teacher notes includes a specification map. Case studies: Nepal 2015 and Chile 2010 (contrasting wealth), Typhoon Haiyan 2013, and the Somerset Levels floods 2013–14. Before you buy: the exam-style questions are original and are not taken from AQA papers. This resource is not endorsed by AQA.
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Natural Hazards: AQA GCSE Topic Bundle

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The whole of AQA GCSE Geography’s The Challenge of Natural Hazards (Paper 1, Section A) in one bundle: seventeen one-hour lessons, a 12-week homework booklet and a spaced retrieval pack. All three follow the same content order and use the same case studies, key terms and sourced figures, so what you teach in a lesson comes back in homework and in your starters, with spacing built in. What is in the bundle 17 one-hour lessons. Seventeen editable PowerPoints (585 slides in all), six two-sided printable resource sheets, a 4-page Section A-style assessment paper (30 marks plus 3 for SPaG), seventeen sets of teacher notes with answers and mark schemes, and a START-HERE guide. The lessons: a five-question starter quiz, an outcome and big question, key words, three learning cycles (short explanation slides, a check for understanding with a reveal slide, and a practice task with a feedback slide and a Challenge), a video slide (YouTube link, QR code and watch-for questions), an original exam-style question with a student-friendly mark scheme and a Level 3 example answer, and a five-question exit quiz. One task in each lesson is a varied activity: a diamond nine, a tsunami-warning mystery, a jury, a “Protect Port Marina” token game, an adaptation advice desk and more. Lesson 16 teaches exam technique for Section A; Lesson 17 is a review lesson with the printed paper. A 12-week homework booklet (100 A4 pages). Each week has five short chunks of about 45 minutes in all: word work with retrieval from earlier weeks, a short reading, check questions, a “think deeper” task and original exam practice, with the scaffolding withdrawn across the term. Full answers, support pages, student trackers and a teacher section are included. A spaced retrieval pack: twelve weekly “do now” starters and two long-gap boosters, with a mark scheme for every question. Starters revisit the previous block, then earlier content at spaced gaps. Specification and case studies: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, section 3.1.1 (3.1.1.1 to 3.1.1.4, climate change included). Case studies: Nepal 2015 (lower-income country at the time), Chile 2010 (high-income), Typhoon Haiyan 2013 and the Somerset Levels floods 2013/14.
The Living World: 14 AQA GCSE Geography LessonsQuick View
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The Living World: 14 AQA GCSE Geography Lessons

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Fourteen ready-to-teach one-hour lessons for AQA GCSE Geography’s The Living World (Paper 1, Section B): PowerPoints, printable resource sheets, teacher notes with answers, and a printed 25-mark assessment paper. It is a complete teaching sequence, planned to fit 60-minute lessons, with a minute-by-minute outline in the teacher notes. What a lesson looks like: a Do Now with answers that revisits earlier lessons, then teaching slides (“Learn it”) built around clear original diagrams, so the explanation sits between the tasks. Each lesson has three or four tasks, each with a stretch for higher-attaining students. Tasks vary: card sorts, data and climate-graph work, a mystery, diamond nines, myth-busters, spot-the-mistakes, map tasks, “take a stand” debates, a development compass and a mark-it-like-an-examiner task. Each lesson contains a video slide linking to a YouTube clip with a QR code and watch-for questions. Lessons 1–13 end with an original exam-style question (2 to 9 marks), a student-friendly mark scheme for peer marking and a Level 3 model answer. An exit ticket with a red/amber/green check closes every lesson. The sequence: (1) a UK pond as a small-scale ecosystem; (2) balance, change and global biomes; (3) rainforest climate, soils and interdependence; (4) adaptations and biodiversity; (5) changing rates and causes of deforestation; (6) impacts of deforestation; (7) value and sustainable management; (8) hot deserts and the Thar; (9) desert adaptations and biodiversity, including the Great Indian Bustard; (10) opportunities in the Thar; (11) challenges in the Thar; (12) desertification; (13) exam technique for 6- and 9-mark questions; (14) topic review and a printed assessment. Specification: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, section 3.1.2, The Living World. Case studies: a UK pond (small-scale ecosystem), the Amazon (tropical rainforest) and the Thar Desert (hot desert). Each teacher-notes file includes a specification map. The cold environments option is not covered. Formats and design: editable PowerPoint and Word files, plus PDFs of the printable pieces and teacher notes. Set in Verdana, with bold rather than italics. All diagrams, maps and charts are original. Before you buy: the exam-style questions are original and are not taken from AQA papers. This pack is not endorsed by AQA.
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The Living World: AQA GCSE Geography Homework

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A 12-week GCSE Geography homework booklet for AQA’s The Living World. Every week is planned for you: five short chunks of about 45 minutes in total, current sourced data, original exam-style practice and full answers. It gives you a term of purposeful, specification-mapped homework without the planning. The weeks run in this order: Weeks 1–2: ecosystems. A UK pond as the small-scale example, then balance, change and the distribution of global biomes. Weeks 3–7: tropical rainforest. Climate, soils and interdependence; adaptations and biodiversity; rates and causes of deforestation; impacts; value and sustainable management. Weeks 8–12: hot deserts. Characteristics and the Thar; adaptations and biodiversity; opportunities for development; challenges of development; desertification. Case studies: a small-scale UK ecosystem (a pond), the Amazon rainforest, and the Thar Desert in India and Pakistan. Please note that the cold environment option in 3.1.2.3 is not covered. Each week has five chunks: Word work (5 min): key vocabulary, plus two from-memory retrieval questions on earlier weeks from Week 2 onwards. Read it, twice (5 min): a short information box. Check it (10 min): short questions answered from the reading. Think deeper (10 min): a question that asks students to weigh things up. Exam practice (15 min): original 4-, 6- and 9-mark questions. Weeks 1 and 12 end with a short research task instead, each with a printed no-internet alternative. Scaffolding and challenge: Exam-practice support is withdrawn on purpose: a full paragraph plan in Weeks 2–5, the shape only in Weeks 6–10, and no scaffold in Weeks 11–12. Support pages at the back: a Tier 3 vocabulary list with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters, and gap-fill versions of the hardest answers. Dyslexia-friendly layout throughout: Verdana, 1.5 line spacing, left-aligned, no italics. Answers and teacher material: answers to every question, matching-task keys, and levels-based success criteria for the extended exam questions. Also included: a student homework tracker and confidence (RAG) tracker a parents’ and carers’ page a specification map a class tracking grid teacher notes on terminology and figures to re-check before reuse a full sources list
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The Living World: AQA GCSE Starters

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A spaced retrieval pack for AQA GCSE Geography’s The Living World: twelve weekly “do now” starters and two long-gap boosters, each with a full mark scheme. It gives you ready-made, low-stakes retrieval practice for the whole unit, so you do not have to write a quiz every week or decide what to revisit. How it works: each starter is one side of A4. Section A asks about last lesson’s content. Section B revisits the block from two weeks earlier (one week on Starter 2). Section C revisits the block from five weeks earlier, from Starter 6. Section D is a geographical skills question (range, mean, median, percentage change, ratio, scale, grid references, contours, climate graphs), using real data from the unit, so it never assumes another unit has been taught. Questions are 1 or 2 marks with one ruled answer line, and every sheet ends with a red/amber/green box. Starters 1 and 2 are short while the early blocks build; from Starter 6 a starter takes about 8–10 minutes. The two boosters (a 30-day and a 90-day check) ask one question from every block and suit the end of the unit and the revision period. Specification: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, Paper 1 Section B, 3.1.2 The Living World. It covers ecosystems (a UK pond, balance and change, global biomes), tropical rainforests, and hot deserts. The cold environments option is not covered. A specification map in the teacher section shows which block covers each content bullet. The 12 blocks: a UK pond ecosystem; balance, change and biomes; rainforest characteristics; rainforest adaptations; deforestation rates and causes; deforestation impacts; rainforest management; hot deserts and the Thar; desert adaptations; Thar opportunities; Thar challenges; desertification. Case studies: a UK pond, the Amazon rainforest (Manaus climate, Belo Monte, Carajás, the Soy Moratorium, ARPA, Ecuador’s debt-for-nature swap) and the Thar Desert (Jaisalmer climate, Bhadla Solar Park, Indira Gandhi Canal, the Great Indian Bustard, Aravalli Green Wall). Zaï pits in Burkina Faso appear as an example of water and soil management. Support and accessibility: a 35-word Tier 3 vocabulary list with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters by question type, and gap-fill versions of four hard answers. The Word file is set in Verdana at 1.5 line spacing, left-aligned, with no italics. Teacher material: a mark scheme for every starter and booster; a specification map; a class tracking grid; a student confidence tracker; a sources table; and notes on terminology, such as how decomposers and detritivores are credited.
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Changing Economic World: 14 AQA GCSE Lessons

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14 ready-to-teach one-hour lessons for AQA GCSE Geography’s The Changing Economic World (Paper 2, Section B): PowerPoints, printable resource sheets, teacher notes with answers, and a printed assessment paper. It is a complete teaching sequence, so you don’t have to build the topic lesson by lesson. Each lesson is planned to fit 60 minutes, and the teacher notes give a minute-by-minute outline. What a lesson looks like: a Do Now with answers, then three to six tasks, each with a stretch activity for higher-attaining students. Tasks vary from lesson to lesson. They include sorting and classifying, data and graph work, puzzles, matching, timeline ordering, odd-one-out, “take a stand” debates and a “Shell on trial” role task. Each lesson contains a video slide linking to a YouTube clip with a QR code and watch-for questions. Lessons 1–13 end with an original exam-style question, a student-friendly mark scheme for self- or peer-marking, and (in Lessons 1–12) a Level 3 model answer. An exit ticket with a red/amber/green check closes every lesson. The sequence: (1) measuring development; (2) the Demographic Transition Model and causes of uneven development; (3) consequences and strategies for closing the gap; (4) Jamaica: tourism; (5–8) Nigeria: why it matters, its changing economy, Shell in the Niger Delta, and Nigeria’s place in the world; (9) UK deindustrialisation and the post-industrial economy, including Cambridge Science Park; (10) Torr Works and rural change in South Cambridgeshire and the Outer Hebrides; (11) UK infrastructure and the north–south divide; (12) the UK’s links with the wider world; (13) exam technique for 6- and 9-mark questions; (14) topic review and a printed assessment. Resource sheets and paper: Lessons 1–12 each have a two-sided A4 sheet with the maps, graphs and data that students need on paper. Everything else is done in exercise books, so you only print what you must. Lesson 14 has a six-page, 30-mark paper in the style of a Paper 2 Section B (plus 3 SPaG marks), with a full mark scheme and an indicative grade guide in the teacher notes. Formats and design: editable PowerPoint and Word files, plus PDFs of the printable pieces. The files are set in Verdana, with bold rather than italics, to suit a wide range of readers. Maps and charts are original. Before you buy: the exam-style questions are original and are not taken from AQA papers. This pack is not endorsed by AQA. The lessons link to YouTube videos, so you need internet access and a school network that does not block YouTube. Please preview each clip before you teach it. The slides contain original maps, charts and icons, but no photographs. It does not include a homework booklet or a retrieval pack.
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The Living World: AQA GCSE Topic Bundle

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The whole of AQA GCSE Geography’s The Living World (Paper 1, Section B, hot deserts option) in one bundle: fourteen one-hour lessons, a 12-week homework booklet and a spaced retrieval pack. All three follow the same topic order and use the same case studies, key terms and sourced figures, so what you teach in a lesson comes back in homework and in your starters, with spacing built in. What is in the bundle 14 one-hour lessons. Fourteen editable PowerPoints (258 slides in all), six two-sided printable resource sheets, a four-page, 25-mark assessment paper, fourteen sets of teacher notes with answers and mark schemes, and a START-HERE guide. Each lesson has a Do Now with answers that revisits earlier lessons, “Learn it” teaching slides built around original diagrams, three or four varied tasks that each carry a stretch with its answer, a video slide (a YouTube link with a QR code and watch-for questions) and an exit ticket. Lessons 1–13 end with an original exam-style question, a student-friendly mark scheme and a Level 3 model answer. A 12-week homework booklet (89 A4 pages). Each week has five short chunks of about 45 minutes in all: word work with retrieval from earlier weeks, a short reading, check questions, a “think deeper” task and original 4-, 6- and 9-mark exam practice, with the scaffolding withdrawn across the term. It includes full answers, support pages, student trackers and a teacher section. A spaced retrieval pack (38 A4 pages). Twelve weekly “do now” starters, each one side of A4, and two long-gap boosters, with a mark scheme for every question. Starters revisit the previous lesson, then content from two and five weeks earlier, and end with a geographical skills question. Specification and case studies: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, section 3.1.2 The Living World. Case studies: a UK pond (small-scale ecosystem), the Amazon rainforest and the Thar Desert in India and Pakistan. Each product maps its content to the specification. The cold environments option in 3.1.2.3 is not covered.
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AQA GCSE Geography: Changing Economic World Homework

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A complete 12-week homework pack for AQA GCSE Geography (8035) on The Changing Economic World (Paper 2, Section B). It gives Key Stage 4 Geography teachers a full term of print-ready, scaffolded homework with answers, so you do not have to write weekly tasks from scratch. How it works Each week has five short chunks, about 45 minutes in total, or roughly nine hours across the pack: Retrieval practice on earlier weeks. Word work. A short reading with questions. A data task with “Think deeper” and “Challenge” prompts. An original 6- or 9-mark exam-style question. Weeks 1 and 12 end with a research task instead. Each has a no-internet alternative, so no student is disadvantaged by home access. What it covers Weeks 1–3: Measuring development, why the development gap exists, and its consequences and the strategies used to reduce it. Week 4: Jamaica, using tourism to reduce the development gap, including Hurricane Melissa and leakage. Weeks 5–8: Nigeria as a country experiencing economic change, including its changing industry and Shell in Nigeria. It also covers trade, aid and quality of life. Weeks 9–12: The UK economy. This includes the shift from industry to services, Cambridge Science Park, Torr Quarry, South Cambridgeshire and the Outer Hebrides. It also covers transport and the north–south divide, and the UK’s place in the wider world. Differentiation and support Scaffolding is withdrawn over the pack. Weeks 2–5 give a full paragraph plan, Weeks 6–10 give the shape only, and Week 11 is unscaffolded. The Support Pages contain a vocabulary list with pronunciation (about 42 terms), a number bank, and eight sentence starters. They also hold fill-in-the-gap versions of the Week 4, 7 and 11 reading tasks. The pack is set in a dyslexia-friendly format: Verdana in the Word file, 1.5 line spacing, left-aligned text, and bold in place of italics. Before you buy The case studies are Jamaica, Nigeria, Shell and Torr Quarry. If your department teaches different case studies, the general development and UK weeks will still work, but the case-study weeks will not. Data is checked to September 2026. Some items are live and will date, and they are listed in the teacher section. All exam-style questions are original. None come from past papers. The pack contains no photographs, maps or logos. This resource is independent. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by AQA. The pack needs only a printer. The research tasks are the only ones that use the internet, and each has an offline alternative.
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Changing Economic World GCSE Geography Starters

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Twelve weekly spaced-retrieval starters and two long-gap boosters for AQA GCSE Geography Paper 2, “The Changing Economic World”. Written for GCSE teachers who want a ready-made, low-prep way to keep this content from fading, and who are tired of writing a new starter every week. Each starter fits on one side of A4 and takes about 5 to 10 minutes. Every sheet asks about last lesson, about two weeks ago, and about five weeks ago, plus one interleaved question from a different unit. Each block of content comes back at increasing intervals, so students keep retrieving it rather than re-reading it. Where a block is taught too late in the unit to be retrieved three times, the two boosters cover the gap, and the teacher section says so. What is included: Cover and a one-page “how this works” explanation for students 12 weekly starters, one side of A4 each 2 boosters, a 30-day check and a 90-day check Support pages: a Tier 3 vocabulary list with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters by question stem, and cloze versions of the hardest extended answers A RAG confidence tracker Full answers and mark guidance (7 pages) A teacher section (10 pages): print notes, live items, teaching sequence, retrieval schedule, coverage check, class tracking grid, specification mapping, a table of figures commonly given in textbooks that are now out of date or disputed, and a source list Content covered: Measuring development and the Demographic Transition Model Causes and consequences of uneven development, and strategies to reduce the gap Jamaica (tourism and the development gap) Nigeria as a lower-income country or newly emerging economy: location, industry, trade, aid, environment and quality of life Shell in Nigeria (the role of a TNC) UK economic change and the post-industrial economy, including Cambridge Science Park Torr Quarry and changing rural areas, including the Outer Hebrides UK infrastructure and the north–south divide The UK’s place in the wider world Differentiation and skills: questions run from recall to application, interpretation and short extended answers. Support pages are built in for every student and are not a separate version. The teacher section shows how to credit an answer for its idea rather than its exact wording. Please note: All questions are original. The pack contains no photographs or maps, and uses no copyrighted exam questions. Statistics were checked against World Bank, ONS, ILO, NBS, WTTC and other published sources and were current at 30 September 2026. Some are news-reported figures, and the source table says which. Figures and “live items” such as recent events will date, and the teacher section tells you which to refresh. It is designed to print on plain A4, black and white. No special equipment is needed. It supports your teaching and does not replace it. It does not include a lesson sequence or teaching slides.
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Resource Management Water: AQA GCSE Homework

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A 12-week GCSE Geography homework booklet for AQA’s The Challenge of Resource Management with the Water option. Every week is planned: five short chunks of about 45 minutes in total, real dated data, original exam-style practice and full answers. It gives you a term of purposeful, specification-mapped homework without the planning. Weeks 1–4 cover the compulsory 3.2.3.1 overview: why food, water and energy matter, global inequalities, and UK food, water and energy. Weeks 5–12 cover 3.2.3.3 Water: global surplus and deficit, reasons for rising demand, factors affecting availability, impacts of water insecurity, strategies to increase supply, and a sustainable water future. A specification map shows which week covers each content bullet. Please note that the Food and Energy options (3.2.3.2 and 3.2.3.4) are not covered. Case studies: China’s South–North Water Transfer Project (the large-scale transfer scheme). Two weeks cover why it was built, how the three routes work, and its advantages and disadvantages. The Hitosa gravity-fed scheme, Ethiopia (the local scheme in an LIC). Supporting examples include Cape Town, the Aral Sea, Chennai, the Nile (GERD), the Indus, Singapore NEWater, Israel’s desalination, and UK transfers and reservoirs. Each week has five chunks: Word work (5 min): key vocabulary. From week 3 it adds two from-memory questions on earlier weeks. Read it (5 min): a short information box. Check it (10 min): short questions answered from the reading. Think deeper (10 min): a question that asks students to weigh things up. Exam practice (15 min): eight original 6-mark questions across the booklet, plus a data-skills set. Weeks 2 and 11 are short research tasks instead. Scaffolding and challenge: Exam-practice support is withdrawn on purpose: a full paragraph plan in weeks 1–5, the shape only in weeks 6–10, and an unscaffolded question in week 12. The support pages include a 48-word Tier 3 vocabulary list with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters by AQA command word, and gap-fill versions of the three hardest answers. The layout is dyslexia-friendly throughout: Verdana, 1.5 line spacing, left-aligned text and no italics. Answers and teacher material: Answers for every question. Indicative content and levels-based success criteria for each 6-mark question. Answers to the gap-fills. A specification map. A class tracking grid. A student homework tracker and confidence (RAG) tracker. A parents’ and carers’ page. Teacher notes on terminology and on figures to re-check before reuse. A full sources list.
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Resource Management Water: AQA GCSE Starters

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A spaced retrieval pack for AQA GCSE Geography’s The Challenge of Resource Management (Water option): twelve weekly “do now” starters and two long-gap boosters, each with a full mark scheme. It gives you ready-made, low-stakes retrieval practice for the whole unit, so you don’t have to write a quiz every week or decide what to revisit. How it works: each starter is one side of A4. Section A asks about last lesson’s content; Section B revisits the block from two weeks earlier; Section C the block from five weeks earlier (from Starter 6); Section D links to a different unit, such as natural hazards, rivers or urban issues. Questions are 1 or 2 marks with one ruled answer line, and every sheet ends with a red/amber/green box. Starters 1–5 are short, while the early blocks are still building. From Starter 6 a starter takes about 8–10 minutes. The two boosters (a 30-day and a 90-day check) ask one question from every block and suit the end of the unit and the revision period. The 12 blocks: resources and global inequality; UK food; UK water; UK energy; global surplus, deficit and rising demand; factors affecting availability; impacts of water insecurity; strategies to increase supply; the South–North Water Transfer Project (why and how); SNWTP advantages and disadvantages; a sustainable water future; the Hitosa scheme. Case studies: China’s South–North Water Transfer Project (large-scale transfer) and the Hitosa gravity-fed scheme, Ethiopia (local scheme in an LIC). Supporting examples include Cape Town, the Aral Sea, the Nile (GERD), Singapore NEWater, Windhoek, Israeli desalination, Kielder and other UK reservoirs and transfers. Support and accessibility: a 38-word Tier 3 vocabulary list with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters by question type, and gap-fill versions of three hard answers. The Word file is set in Verdana at 1.5 line spacing, left-aligned, with no italics. Teacher material: a mark scheme for every starter and booster; a specification map; a class tracking grid; a student confidence tracker; sources; and notes on terminology (LIC and NEE as AQA uses them). Before you buy: this is a retrieval resource. It tests recall and short explanations, but doesn’t teach content, and has no 6-mark questions or slides. The questions are original and are not taken from AQA papers. Prints on A4, black and white; cream or pastel paper is recommended. No internet or equipment needed.