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The Climate of Africa
Students will be able to recap the difference between weather and climate then identify the different climates of Africa. Students then learn the three components that affect biome distribution. Then using four different climate graphs of different countries in Africa students cement their knowledge through 4 different questions. Finally students will investigate the animals and plants that are adapted to two places of contrasting climate, e.g. Egypt and DRC.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the area that receives the most direct sunlight
Task 2: Describe the different climate areas in Africa using latitude
Task 3: Analyse four different climate graphs of contrasting areas in Africa
Task 4: Main Task: Compare the adaptation of the plants and animals of two different climates in two countries in Africa
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Physical Features of Africa - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to locate Africa using the previous lessons learning and the map on screen, then students will investigate the misconceptions that they may hold about Africa. Next students learn what relief is and describe the areas of relief in Africa and then the river and climate of Africa, then the culture and religion of people in Africa.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the location of Africa
Task 2: Describe the relief of areas in Africa using compass directions
Task 3: Explain the rivers in Africa and their direction of flow.
Task 4: Explain the vegetation zones in Africa
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Mapping Africa using GIS - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the location of the continent of Africa using longitude and latitude, then describe the physical features of Africa that are present. Finally students will log into laptops and use the worksheet provided to produce a GIS map of the different physical features of Africa along with annotations of their maps and what they see.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Description of Africa using longitude and latitude.
Task 2: Describing the physical features using compass points in Africa.
Task 3: Main Task: Using GIS online students will create a map with different physical features present in Africa.
Task 4: Plenary: Home Learning on the physical features of Africa (On last slide of powerpoint)
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
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Human Features of Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 Year 7 about the human features of Europe including the countries in Europe, the European Union, along with its positives and negatives, Brexit and migration and migrant crisis in Europe.
This bundle contains 5 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately identify where Europe is, along with several counties and seas contained within it. Then students will be taught what the EU is, when it formed and the positives and negatives of the Eu along with why the UK chose to leave. Finally students will learn the different types of migration and explaining the migrant crisis currently happening in Europe.
Lesson 1: Location of Europe
Lesson 2: Introduction to the EU
Lesson 3: Positives and Negatives of the EU
Lesson 4: Migration in Europe
Lesson 5: The Migrant Crisis in Europe
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation, map skills, and climate graph interpretation.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
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Features of the UK and Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
An introductory topic for KS3 geography this bundle is great for Year 7 in their first term at school. This gets students familiar with geographical concepts of fieldwork, data, human and physical geography. This bundle contains 7 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will firstly conduct fieldwork investigation into the environment of their school to get them engaged in geography and explain why it is important along with data collection and presentation. Then students will investigate the location of the UK, this is done to provide a strong basis for all students regardless of primary school. This includes continents, countries, seas and the use of longitude and latitude. Students will then learn about the climate and weather of the UK, the case study of the River Severn along with its basic features of a river and the Holderness Coast along with headlands and bays and a quick introduction of geology. Then students will investigate human geography and its features of human settlements and scales along with identifying major UK cities and the density/sparseness. Finally students end on the case study of Leeds and its importance as a UK city.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Fieldwork
Lesson 2: Data and Fieldwork
Lesson 3: Climate of the UK
Lesson 4: Rivers of the UK
Lesson 5: Coasts of the UK
Lesson 6: Cities of the UK
Lesson 7: Importance of Leeds
Students will gain a variety of skills such as fieldwork, data collection and manipulation along with manipulation. Along with OS map reading and bar chart analysis
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
The Migrant Crisis in Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the land and sea routes that migrants take to get into Europe using geographical terms. They will be able to describe the location of Calais and the issues that boat crossings cause including migrant deaths and the dangers of crossing with identification of graphs. Finally students will condense the text of a news article about the migrant crisis and identify the stakeholders points of view. Students will be asked to demonstrate their learning by creating a profile for each of the stakeholder groups.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning.
Task 1: Describe the routes that migrants take to get into Europe
Task 2: Using the bar graph describe the dangers of boats crossing into Europe.
Task 3: Condense the newspaper article about the dangers of migrant crossings.
Task 4: Main Task: Create a stakeholder profile about each of the stakeholders and why they might feel that way.
Task 5: Plenary: Using the red and green planner sheets students are to show true or false answers.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Migration in Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe what a migrant is, along with examples of who would be classed as a migrant. Then students will identify the difference between, migrant, immigrant, refugee and emigrant. Finally students will learn the causes of migration and the use of the terms push and pull factors. Along with the impacts of migration on the host and country of origin.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Key term match up with migrant, emigrant, refugee with definitions.
Task 2: Identification of push and pull factors in terms of migration
Task 3: Impacts of migration for host and country of origin.
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the impact of migration of the country of origin and the host country.
Task 5: Plenary: Purposeful retrieval of information from the lesson.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Positives and Negative of the EU - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the main reasons why countries decide to join the EU initially, this includes free movement and the single market. Then students will identify the benefits and costs of membership. Then Brexit will be introduced to students, explaining what it is, the voting % and main figures along with a quick video about the positives and negative of the EU. Finally students identify the positives and negatives of the EU and then work on formulating a debate either for or against staying in the EU.
Starter: Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 1: Recap of the terms free movement and single market, along with the benefits and drawbacks of EU membership
Task 2: Introduction to what Brexit is and when it happened.
Task 3: Identification of advantages and disadvantages of EU membership
Task 4: Main Task: Choose a side for the debate, for or against the EU then be prepared to write an argument for it.
Task 5: Plenary: Recap on learning and answer 6 quick questions.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Introduction to the EU - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe what the European Union is, when it formed and its purpose. INtroduction to the concepts of Freedom of Movement and Single Market. They will also be able to explain why it formed and its main countries that made up the EU.
Starter: Knowledge retention from previous learning
Task 1: Assessment for learning - Students to write down everything they know about the EU.
Task 2: Explain the history of the EU and its formation through time.
Task 3: Difference between the EU and Europe (geography misconception)
Task 4: Main Task: Create a newspaper article for Newsround about what the EU is and what it does.
Task 5: Plenary: Fill in the spider diagram from the start of the lesson with new learning about the EU.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Location of Europe - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe where the continent of Europe if located using hemisphere, lines of latitude and longitude. Then using an atlas students will located each country in Europe and its seas on the handout
Starter: Knowledge retention about previous learning
Task 1: Describe the location of Europe globally
Task 2: Describe the location of Europe using latitude and longitude
Task 3: Main Task: Identify the countries of Europe on the sheet as well as the seas, and Alps, and climate areas if possible.
Task 4: Plenary: Recap of information.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
The Importance of Leeds - KS3
Students will be able to describe the location of Leeds globally, continentally, country and county. Students will recap what social, economic and environmental issues are and then read information about the importance of Leeds and highlight the categories. Students will learn about the Burgess Model of cities and then identify examples of these in Leeds. Finally students will learn about the ethnic background of Leeds and the distributions of ethnic groups.
Starter: Knowledge retention of previous learning.
Task 1: Describe the location of Leeds using as much information as possible.
Task 2: Identify the social, economic and environmental factors that make Leds important.
Task 3: Draw the settlements onto the Burgess Model
Task 4: Main Task: Describe the distribution of each ethnic group in relation to the Burgess Model.
Task 5: Plenary: SPaG clean up.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Cities of the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will recap on what human geography is and its features along with investigating what a human settlement is and what scales they come in. Then students will investigate where certain cities in the UK are located. Students will be introduced to the terms dense and sparse and asked to identify areas in the UK that are densely and sparsely populated. Finally students will be introduced to key aspects of human geography such as social, economic and environmental and then asked to identify those features on images of the Leeds city.
Starter: Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe what is human geography and its features.
Task 2: What is a settlement and put the settlements in order of scale.
Task 3: Fill in the cities of the UK on a blank map using an atlas
Task 4: Describe the density and distribution of each football match, then areas in the UK.
Task 5: Main Task:Identify social, economic and environmental human impacts in each image.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Coasts of the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe what coastlines are, where they are located and a specific focus on the Holderness Coast. This lesson will cover features such as geology and features such as headland and bays. Finally this lesson will work on improving students OS map reading skills.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Recap on what the coast is along with the closest coast to us.
Task 2: Describe the location of the Holderness Coast
Task 3: Describe the type of rock found on the Holderness coast and what features these create.
Task 4: Main Task: Using an OS map, complete the sheet on OS map skills
Task 5: Plenary: Home Learning on A3 research project.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Rivers of the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the journey of a river from source to mouth. This is an introduction to rivers and should be used at the start of Year 7 to consolidate any information they have about them and then teaching from this point. Students will learn to use terms such as highland, lowland, low,middle and upper course as well as river bank and river bed. Finally students will consolidate their knowledge to describe the location of River Severn’s location.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous lessons
Task 1: Recap on the different countries that make up the UK
Task 2: Describe the distribution of highland and lowlands in the UK
Task 3: Annotate the diagram of the river with key words
Task 4: Main Task: Describe the location of River Severn using the key terms learnt today.
Task 5: Plenary: Home Learning reminder along with SPAG cleanup.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Climate of the UK - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe where the UK is located globally using a variety of descriptors such as; longitude and latitude, recapping of the continents and surrounding seas and oceans. Student should also be able to describe the countries that make up the UK, British Isles and GB. Finally students will learn the difference between weather and climate and then asked to describe the climate of the UK in Winter and Summer.
Starter: Knowledge Retention - Recapping on previous learning
Task 1: Describe the importance on why describing a place accurately is important.
Task 2: How to read longitude and latitude, then describe the UK’s longitude and latitude.
Task 3: Recap on the continents and oceans.
Task 4: What is the difference between weather and climate, and what is the UKs climate zone.
Task 5: Main Task: Describe the UK’s temperature in Summer and in Winter.
Task 6: Plenary: Home learning of an A3 poster of several physical features in the UK.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Data & Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the difference between Primary and Secondary data as well as give examples for each type. Then students will investigate Quantitative versus Qualitative data and what types of data these represent. Finally students will explain why it is important to display data in different methods, specifically bar chart. This lesson was created to be part of a two lesson plan, so the previous lesson will be included in the download to help with planing.
Starter: Knowledge Retention on previous learning
Task 1: Testing the difference between primary and secondary data
Task 2: Testing the difference between quantitative and qualitative
Task 3: Why do we choose to present data in a certain way?
Task 4: Main Task: Describe the quality of the environment at our school
Lesson contains two powerpoints and one worksheet.
Introduction to Fieldwork - KS3 (Key Stage 3)
Students will be able to describe the importance of fieldwork along with why do fieldwork in geography. This lesson contains the basis for a fieldwork investigation around your school that includes a liter count and bi-polar environmental quality survey.
Task 1: Describe which is more accurate data sample set
Task 2: Writing a hypothesis
Task 3: Conducting research at 3 different locations along with the research sheet.
Task 4: Main Task: Write up _ Describe what the research found about the school site.
Task 5: Plenary: Homework for litter pick for further data
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
Fieldwork Skills for GCSE - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
In this lesson students will be introduced to what fieldwork skills are, how to do them and why we do them. This is to get them farmiliar with the types of sampling and data collection ahead of a fieldtrip and why they choose that.
In this lesson students cover:
Primary vs Secondary Data
Qualitative vs Quantative Data
Types of sampling: Cluster, Stratified, Systematic and Random, along with the benefits and drawbacks of each type of sampling.
Finally students cover why we do risk assessments and why it is important.
Students finish off with an exam question practice that will be completed in their booklets.
GCSE Geography Issue Evaluation 2023 Cayman Islands - Paper 3 (AQA) (Pre-Release)
This lesson is the introduction to the Paper 3 Pre-Release section for 2023. It introduces the first 3 pages of the booklet, discussing what tourism is, the benefits of tourism including job opportunities and the positive multiplier effect it creates.
Then an evaluation into which countries rely on tourism the most, along with a discussion on the compound line graph and how to read it, then the growth of cruise tourism in the Caribbean.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention - Answer questions students have previously learnt.
Task 2: Describe how tourism creates jobs and what knock on effects these have.
Task 3: Describe the trends that are present in the graph
Task 4: Which country receives the most tourism? Description and evaluation of a compound line graph.
Task 5: Describe the trends seen in the bar chart of number of cruise passengers.
Task 6: Evaluation of infographic on cruise ships in the Caribbean.
Task 7: Describe the location of the Cayman Island.
Final Task: What are the social, economic, and environmental effects of cruise tourism in the Caribbean.
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **
Resource Management - Water Supply, Insecurity, and Sustainability - (KS4 - Key Stage 4) (GCSE)
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to increase water supplies through; dams/ reservoirs, desalination plants and diverting supplies. The South-North Transfer Scheme in China an example of a large scale water transfer scheme to show how its development has both advantages and disadvantages. Then the lesson focuses on moving towards a sustainable future with water conservation, groundwater management, recycling, ‘grey’ water
an example of a local scheme in an LIC or NEE to increase sustainable supplies of water. The case study for this is WaterAid in Mali.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning
Task 2: Class discussion on how to increase water supplies.
Task 3: Class to watch two videos about the South- North Water Transfer Scheme in China
Task 4: Class Discussion on how to create a sustainable supply.
Task 5: Watch the clip from water aid and identify three things WaterAid does in Mali to support people.
Task 6: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the sustainability of the Water Aid Project in Mali. (6 marks)"
Task 7: Plenary - Time to revise.
In line with the AQA exam board
**Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **