PowerPoint Slides to look at the difference between weather and climate - plenary activity of statements that relate to either weather and climate.
Card sort activity to support different aspects of the weather and how we measure it - great to use if you don't have the equipment in school to demonstrate with.
Used with a mixed ability Year 7 class.
Very visual resources, fully animated.
New resource for the new AQA A Geography Specification for Teaching in September 2016.
First lesson looking at What are Natural Hazards?
Definition
Types of natural hazards
Factors that increase hazard risk
Practise exam style question
Geographical skills - drawing pie charts/divided bar graph and describing pattern on a map.
Also included are key words that will be used in the Tectonic Hazard topic.
Following the AQA A Specification for cliff collapse at Christchurch Bay.
The lesson examines the causes and the effects of cliff collapse.
Includes a sketch map of the coastline and exam style question.
Lesson used with Year 9 looking at flooding events in Pakistan in 2010.
Starting with a 5Ws of an image of flooding
Locating Pakistan and writing a description of location
Causes of flooding
Video clip to show impacts
Impacts of flooding -categorise statements into social, economic and environmental impacts
Immediate aftermath of the flooding again with a video clip.
Plenary - Is Pakistan a risky place?
Also include a document that I used with my lower end.
Information Sheets for the case studies used in Geography AQA A Specification Topic Living World.
Amazon Rainforest
Atlantic Rainforest
Epping Forest
Hot Desert MEDC - Australian Outback
Hot Desert LEDC - Sahara Desert
Also past 8 mark exam questions from 2011-2015
18 questions to be displayed around the classroom - not the typical "geography questions", examples: Which is the only city to be located in two continents? Which county in the UK has two coasts? Which country has the most volcanoes? Which country has the highest life expectancy? How many Great Lakes are there in the North America?
My intention is to have the pages printed back to back on A4 (obviously only get pages 2-37 printed not the first page), on card and in colour and the page folded therefore the question is on the top and you open it to reveal the answer (I am going to use velcro dots also).
10 “Geog your memory” worksheets with answers for Paper 1 AQA A Geography.
Topics included: natural hazards, tectonic hazards, weather hazards, climate change, ecosystems, tropical rainforests, hot deserts, river landscapes, coastal landscapes
I set these for homework and then using the answers pupils mark their work the following lessons.
Each PowerPoint slide contains 5 Geography general knowledge questions. The first 9 slides focus on Britain and the next 4 are worldwide Geography. Answers are included. I usually have this slide on the board when I am going around checking homework to try and increase pupils general Geography knowledge who will answer the questions in the back of their books I will then go over the answers and pupils are scored out of 5.
Blank templates of each are included.
Revision booklet for pupils to complete independently on the topic of Hot Environments from Paper 1 Section B using their exercise books/ textbooks. (Page numbers relate to blue Oxford University Press Textbook). Case study included is Thar Desert.
Thought Quilt covers the topics of tropical rainforest and hot deserts – answers are included.
Random facts about our world that are displayed on my classroom wall to inspire pupils.
I have them laminated and backed on different coloured paper and added a title “Did you know…”
I frequently refer to them in lessons, for example when discussing the deepest hole ever dug, or the distance from Land’s End to John O Groats.
Revision booklet for pupils to complete independently on the topic of Weather Hazards from Paper 1 using their exercise books/ textbooks.
The case studies included are: Typhoon Haiyan and the Somerset Levels
PowerPoint and resources to be used when teaching AQA A Coastal Habitats using Studland Bay as a case study.
Looking at the the ecosystem, issues, solutions and conflict.
NEW: Overview of the topic to be used as a revision aid.
3 lessons on the topic of Ecosystems for the new GCSE specification.
AQA OXFORD GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOK NEEDED FOR THESE LESSON
5.1 Introducing small-scale ecosystems
5.2 How does change affect ecosystems?
5.3 Global distribution of ecosystems.