I have been a Geography teacher for many years and enjoy reshaping schemes of learning and creating corresponding lessons. I hope to share these with others who need them! Please ask any questions and rate my resources for others to see! :)
I have been a Geography teacher for many years and enjoy reshaping schemes of learning and creating corresponding lessons. I hope to share these with others who need them! Please ask any questions and rate my resources for others to see! :)
Whole lesson for sustainability in the Savanna biome.
Created for KS3- but suitable for low ability KS4.
Includes challenge tasks, and sentence starters for lower ability.
Depth into desertification- definition and concept.
Entire lesson focusing on knowledge of coasts and applying it to map skills- grid references and identifying landforms on an OS map. Ideal for GCSE revision.
Why is Antarctica threatened?
You will be able to use this to:
Describe Antarctica’s unique environment.
Outline the four main threats to Antarctica.
Explain how international laws are directed to protect Antarctica. (Antarctic Treaty)
This is part of a sequence of lessons for the AQA topic- Global Systems and Governance.
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
A Level Geography- World Cities- AQA- Contemporary Urban Environments lesson
Lesson objectives: To understand the definition of a world city.
To be able to describe the characteristics of world cities and assess reasons for their global distribution.
Lesson: Defines world cities, maps the location of them and addresses how the numbers have changed, looks at characteristics of world cities, gives students their own opportunity to research a world city, addresses some challenges and the realities of world cities, finalised with a differentiated progress check plenary.
Lesson has challenge tasks embedded throughout and images to support mental stimulation of ideas.
Any questions, just ask!
Updated unit of work- Where in the World?
Clear Sequencing of learning suited to the new Ofsted Framework.
SOL attached within. Clear homework opportunities and opportunities for public speaking and oracy.
Theses lessons are aiming to welcome and introduce year 7 students into geography. They look at key skills such as location, maps, grid referencing, current events analysis and more…
Tasks are all differentiated, lessons are engaging and many have videos and animations embedded into them.
Challenges misconceptions about location and countries within the British Isles and UK.
Includes two current event lessons from the Summer of 2019- Brexit and Whaley Bridge Dam.
Any Questions, please ask.
Lesson teaching the continents + a focus on European countries within. Key map skills embedded.
Briefly looks at current events and importance of knowing about the continents- links to new Ofsted framework.
Clear differentiated tasks and plenary.
Homework and SOL clearly embedded.
Please ask if you have questions.
How does globalisation cause economic and political interdependence?
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
Includes information about the World Bank, IMF and WTO
Why does globalisation make some countries more powerful than others?
Wise: You will be able to use this to:
Using the Human Development Index (HDI), identify the richer and poorer countries.
Explain why globalisation can be seen to make some countries more powerful than others.
Using the example of China’s expansive foreign policy, explain how they are exerting their political and economic power to influence geopolitical
This is part of a sequence of lessons for the AQA topic- Global Systems and Governance.
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
Whole lesson- GCSE Geography AQA Paper 2- Resource Management- Energy
Energy insecurity- key terms and solutions.
Drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic- case study- economic, social and environmental impacts of exploiting resources.
Embedded videos and differentiated tasks.
Entire lesson for plant and animal adapatations int he Savanna biome- ecosystems topic. Suitable for KS3 or lower ability KS4.
Suitable for AQA Spec.
Differentiated tasks for low and high ability- sentence starters + challenge tasks.
Exam question implemented for AfL.
Entire Unit for KS3 Geography- Brazil- human and physical features. Set includes the lessons and assessment.
Topics of the lessons: The location of Rio, Poverty and Population of Rio, Opportunities and challenges in Brazil, Favelas, Tourism and Christ the Redeemer, the Amazon Rainforest- layers of the tropical rainforest + opportunities and challenges.
Please ask any questions.
AQA A Level Geography- Urban Air Quality- Contemporary Urban Environments- whole lesson.
LO: To understand the causes of poor air quality in urban areas.
To be able to assess the extent to which solutions can improve urban air quality.
Content- what is air pollution + photochemical smog- definition, causes and impacts. - Links to London Smog event.
Solutions- congestion charge, pedestrianisation, pubic transport, car sharing, legislation etc.
Students must gather knowledge on the solutions using an attached worksheet- aims, successes and limitations to then apply it to an exam question.
Exam question is differentiated with sentence starters for lower ability students.
Please ask if you have any questions.
LOs: To know the structure of the Earth.
To understand plate tectonic theory of crustal evolution: tectonic plates; plate movement; gravitational sliding; ridge push, slab pull; convection currents and seafloor spreading.
To understand magma plumes and their relationship to plate movement.
Utilises maps to show plates and boundaries.
Teaches 3 theories:
Convection Currents.
Slab Pull.
Ridge Push.
Students produce a fact sheet for the theories.
Addresses Iceland and its changing landscape with tectonics.
LOs: To know destructive, constructive and conservative plate margins. To understand characteristic processes: seismicity and vulcanicity. To describe formations of associated landforms: young fold mountains, rift valleys, ocean ridges, deep sea trenches and island arcs, volcanoes.
Students end up going through slides and producing a page split in 4 for the following plate boundaries: conservative, constructive, destructive, and magma plumes. Assesses all types of plate boundaries- continental and oceanic.
AFL independent questions and challenges incorporated.
First lesson for year 7 topic.
Asks questions such as : What is geography? What is human and physical geography? + In depth thinking about why we study it and why it is useful in the wider world.
Starts learning with the location of countries and capital cities in the British Isles and the UK.
Clear SOL embedded within + homework options.
Please ask if you have any questions.
How has globalisation affected the volume and pattern of international trade and investment?
This lesson includes a worked Spearmans Rank example.
You will be able to use this to:
Describe the pattern of international trade.
Explain how different factors have influenced trade.
Outline which countries have received the most Foreign Direct investment (FDI), comment on the trends.
This is part of a sequence of lessons for the AQA topic- Global Systems and Governance.
Slides included also present an entire scheme of learning for the global systems and governance topic.
Includes copied information from the CGP Alevel AQA Geography revision guide to support learning. Also includes figures from Hodder textbook fifth edition (Whittaker).
