This Knowledge Organiser is only suitable for the 2024 summer exam series. The knowledge organiser covers what is required to answer questions about a Methodological Approach for Change over time (2024) and the Conceptual Framework for Mitigating Risk (2024).

A quick look at population growth.

A lesson designed to fulfil the Specification key idea for Theme 2 for WJEC Geography A

community tourism ecotourism

An overview of the issue.

I use this to teach non-fiction writing skills to develop extended writing technique.

An exploration of why Mexicans risk their lives to get to the USA - I wanted to explore empathy with the Y8s and show them that the Mexicans are a desperate people and almost resigned to getting caught by US Border Patrols.

The lesson examines the physical and human attractions of Malham, then explores the positive and negative impacts of tourism: socially, environmentally and economically. The lesson was originally designed to be used with Edexcel Spec. A for the Tourist World Unit.

Designed to work with the WJEC A Specification, Theme 7.

An exploration of reducing the effects of desertification, especially reducing the inefficient burning of fuelwood by encouraging the use of 'upesi' stoves. The lesson also touches on the empowerment of women through the manufacture of the clay stoves and then selling them.

Aimed at teaching the skill of matching landforms and orienting the features in a photograph to a map, to then state which direction the photographer is facing when they took the picture.

Aimed at introducing the skill of matching landforms in maps to photographs or photographs to maps. The worksheet is to promote conceptual thinking to wonder what a landscape was like in the past and what it might look like in the future.

A pretty basic lesson about the effects of climate change in an LIC.

PPt with 3 differentiated information text sheets.

The lesson is an opportunity to get out of the classroom and do some on site fieldwork. You will need some watering cans, 2 ltr drinks bottles or buckets of water. The sites in the PPt were photographs I took on my phone and uploaded, you will need to change this to suit your sites within your school grounds.

A lesson that explores house building in a sustainable way - greenfield v brownfield.

Basic revision cards. I split the halves of the question up and put into capsules (I have been scrounging Kinder egg capsules for years, very useful for games) and did a treasure hunt and encouraged swapping of halves to get as many right pairs as possible.

The lesson explores how human activity can negatively affect the environment.

An exploration of flood defences at Oxford, UK.

A case study of the flood defences at Oxford - The lesson explores the hard and soft engineering approaches used. Then the conflicts from each type of approach upon different groups of people.

This is aimed at getting the students to think about the impact their lifestyle choices can have on other people. An interesting discussion to have is to carry out a class poll of who has an old phone at home in a drawer that their shiny new one replaced. In a recent lesson a student owned up that between her and her brother and parents, there were 11 mobile phones out of use (but still working) on top on the 4 latest smart phone. The lesson can be as richly developed as you want it to be.