A lesson that uses a clip from a BBC news report about World Population Growth to explain how and when we reached 8 billion and how this is predicted to change in the future.
Students will complete a line graph, read information together, label countries onto a map and answer questions based on the reading.
This lesson was designed for a year 7 group, however it could easily be used with year 8 or year 9 depending on when population is taught in the key stage 3 curriculum.
I have differentiated the powerpoint for a lower ability year 7 group with SEN students and have also made a copy of the reading that is dyslexia friendly.
Lesson 6 for KS3 unit of work on food. Students will learn the concept of ‘food miles’ through a video, discussion and a play your cards right activity. They will then use this knowledge, along with information from a differentiated handout (according to reading level) to create a booklet on food miles. This can take 1-2 lessons and can be set as a homework to complete if not completed in class.
A revision lesson that has a starter and a plenary based on urban challenges. The main activity is to complete an A3 revision sheet on the 2 case studies for this topic and to show how ideas from each section work together. I’ve also included a complete version of each revision sheet for the case studies that we taught in our school, which were Lagos and Manchester, however the lesson is fully usable if these aren’t your case studies.
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A lesson designed to be used with year 8, although I have used the resources with sixth form before to help them understand economic development with a detailed case study!
The lesson focuses on the city of Shenzhen in China and looks at rapid population and economic growth. Pupils will create a storyboard to show why the city has grown so rapidly. There is also a video interview with a farmer to show his perceptions of how the city has developed.
This is a revision lesson I’ve created to revise the 3 topics: The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Living World and Physical Landscapes of the UK. It is tailored towards the sub-topics that we have selected as a school, which are ‘Tropical Rainforests’ and ‘Hot Deserts’ in the Living World topic and ‘Coasts’ and ‘Rivers’ in the Physical Landscapes of the UK topic.
The lesson is designed to be delivered in 1 hour, with a starter which recaps a little from each topic, and then 3 packs of tasks which are split up on different tables. Students will have 15 minutes to complete the activities in each pack, before a plenary to discuss how prepared they are for their exam. The packs contain a range of tasks including exam questions, marking exam questions, card sorts with key words and exploring photographs they have been given.
All of the resources are hidden slides in the powerpoint.
Please note, this lesson follows the same format at the ‘GCSE AQA Paper 2 Revision: Human’ lesson. The tasks are different, but you may be interested in purchasing this lesson if you find ‘GCSE AQA Paper 1 Revision: Physical’ works well.
I’ve planned a revision timetable for year 11 which includes the topics we teach at GCSE (AQA Geography) broken down into manageable chunks.
Each week, students have topics to revise, suggested ways to revise and an exam question to do the following lesson. There are 2 options for the exam question, 1 without annotations and another that has the questions annotated and scaffolded to help. There is also a detailed mark scheme, including example answers for the longer questions.
Questions range from 1 mark to 9+3 SPaG.
I’ll be adding more of these as I plan them so that our entire course is covered.
Hopefully this will be easy to edit if you use different case studies, or sub-topics.
This first set includes:
The Changing Economic World
Key terms (indicators of development etc.)
Demographic Transition Model
Causes of uneven development
Consequences of uneven development
Strategies to reduce the development gap
Tourism in Jamaica- example
The Challenge of Resource Management
Food in the UK- imports, seasonal food, organic produce, carbon footprint, food miles, local produce, agribusiness
Water in the UK- changing demand, water quality, pollution, matching supply and demand, surplus and deficit, water transfers
Energy in the UK- changing energy mix, reliance on fossil fuels, move towards renewables, decreasing UK supplies of fossil fuels, economic and environmental issues associated with exploiting natural resources
A revision lesson that includes a variety of different activities to help pupils revise different aspects of the ‘Changing Economic World’ unit for AQA GCSE Geography. The tasks include developing a pre-created mind map to help pupils make links between ideas and to define key words, a gaps fill, developing an answer to a 9 mark question, based on an example answer, a quiz quiz trade activity, a quiz and a silent debate. The idea of the quiz, quiz, trade is to improve students short term memory skills and to help them remember key facts. The silent debate draws together different concepts discussed during the topic and helps pupils to start to engage in critical debate based on evidence. All resources are on the powerpoint, aside from the quiz, quiz, trade, which is a separate word document.
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This is a 30 mark end of unit assessment on the topic of ‘Physical Landscapes in the UK’. There are questions on Coasts, Rivers and Glaciers. Pupils will only answer 2 of the 3 questions, so you can decide as a school to only print the necessary parts to save printing money if necassary. The Paper 1 GCSE exam, ‘Living with the Physical Environment’ will test this topic in 30 marks, hence the length of the test.
I have also written a detailed mark scheme using a similar format to AQA, so this can be used in departments or with students to grade and analyse the assessments. This is saved in the same document as the test.
I’ve planned a revision timetable for year 11 which includes the topics we teach at GCSE (AQA Geography) broken down into manageable chunks.
Each week, students have topics to revise, suggested ways to revise and an exam question to do the following lesson. There are 2 options for the exam question, 1 without annotations and another that has the questions annotated and scaffolded to help. There is also a detailed mark scheme, including example answers for the longer questions.
Questions range from 1 mark to 9+3 SPaG.
I’ll be adding more of these as I plan them so that our entire course is covered.
Hopefully this will be easy to edit if you use different case studies, or sub-topics.
This third set includes:
The Changing Economic World
LIC/NEE- Case Study
Economic futures in the UK
Environmentally sustainable industry- example
The Challenge of Resource Management
Large scale water transfer scheme- example
local scheme in LIC/NEE to increase sustainable supplies of water- example
Living World
Hot Desert- Case Study
Physical Landscapes of the UK
Wave types and characteristics
Coastal Processes
Coastal Landforms- example
Coastal management- example
This is a revision lesson I’ve created to revise the 3 topics: Urban Issues and Challenges, The Changing Economic World and The Challenge of Resource Management. It is tailored towards the sub-topic that we have selected as a school, which is ‘Water’, rather than Food, or Energy.
The lesson is designed to be delivered in 1 hour, with a starter which recaps a little from each topic, and then 3 packs of tasks which are split up on different tables. Students will have 15 minutes to complete the activities in each pack, before a plenary to discuss how prepared they are for their exam. The packs contain a range of tasks including exam questions, marking exam questions, card sorts with key words and exploring photographs they have been given.
All of the resources are hidden slides in the powerpoint.
Includes 7 lessons and a differentiated assessment on the topic of food. Lesson look at famine in the Horn of Africa and discuss how drought can lead to famine. The post assessment lesson/s are creating a leaflet on food miles, which makes nice display work and allows for peer assessment
This is a powerpoint which was originally used as 2 summer school sessions for years 5&6. It would be fine for KS2-3 between years 5 & 8, but ideally as an introduction to continents. The first session allows pupils to use the information sheets provided to decorate a continent with physical features (such as waterfalls, mountains, forests etc.). The second session looks at how humans live across the different continents of the world and asks pupils to focus on one area and create a person from that country and then create a display where the people are labelled onto the physical geography world map.
The continent maps are to be printed on A3. If possible, try and print the Asia continent larger so it fits better, but I know this isn’t always possible- I did mine all on A3.
The 2 sessions are based on allowing 1 hour for each, but between 1 hour and an hour and a half for each session should work well.
I also photocopied some pages to go with the handouts. A favourite book of mine is ‘Children Just Like Me’ by Unicef. Unfortunately I can’t scan these in for copyright reasons, but there’s loads of information in the handouts. These are just really an added bonus.
This lesson is currently used towards the end of year 7, but would be equally useful for any KS3 group, or as an introduction at GCSE. Pupils will be asked at the start of the lesson to justify whether or not they think that India is developed. During the lesson, a card sort will help pupils to create a map showing the development of different regions of India. At the end of the lesson, pupils are asked to look back at their answer to the question of how developed India is and see explain whether or not they’ve changed their mind. There is a second bellwork included in the powerpoint incase you don’t get through it all in one lesson.
This lesson follows the same format as my, ‘How Developed is China?’ lesson
Lesson 10 of the challenge of resource management topic. In this lesson, pupils will use back to back drawing to located Kajiado in Kenya and also to draw a diagram of a sand dam. They will watch a video which explains how they are used in this region on Kenya and they are asked to think about why this level of technology is appropriate for LICs.
Year 12 model answers to 3 questions from the changing places topic and 3 from the carbon/water cycle topic. 1 4 mark, 1 6 mark and 1 20 mark for each topic.
Answers have been marked and are worth full marks.
The 20 mark question is colour coded to show which parts of the question link to each part of the mark scheme.
Lesson in the Resource Management Scheme of Work. Pupils will define the term ‘energy security’ and complete a venn diagram from a card sort, assessing the sustainability of various sources of energy. They will then look at how the UK’s energy mix links to energy security.
A lesson focussing on techniques for revision. Examples used are from the topics of: Resource Management, Rivers, Coasts and Tropical Storm Hazards, . I have written it for the AQA 9-1 GCSE, however I would assume that most, if not all of the ideas are on most specs. The lesson looks at memorising key words, mnemonics, use of pictures to jog memory, ways to summarise and revise processes, practice questions and mind mapping. Slightly more than a lesson’s worth, but you can select what activites your students require. Please note that there is some overlap betweent this lesson and the ‘Revision Technique: GCSE Rivers’ lesson.
I’ve planned a revision timetable for year 11 which includes the topics we teach at GCSE (AQA Geography) broken down into manageable chunks.
Each week, students have topics to revise, suggested ways to revise and an exam question to do the following lesson. There are 2 options for the exam question, 1 without annotations and another that has the questions annotated and scaffolded to help. There is also a detailed mark scheme, including example answers for the longer questions.
Questions range from 1 mark to 9+3 SPaG.
I’ll be adding more of these as I plan them so that our entire course is covered.
Hopefully this will be easy to edit if you use different case studies, or sub-topics.
This is a sample set which includes questions on:
-small scale ecosystem you have studied
-post industrial economy
-UK North/South divide
10 Marks worth of exam questions on development indicators to use as part of revision. No mark scheme as (hopefully) the questions should be fairly straightforward to mark.