2 resources:
Comprehensive revision guide explicitly linked to the specification. Case studies included.
Student revision work booklet with a variety of activity and exam questions linked to the different sections of the specification.
AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we look at what valuable commodities and services the rainforest provides.
The lesson has a rainforest themed retrieval practice starter. We look at what value the rainforest has to indigenous peoples and why these people may be at threat. Focusing on the Achua tribe we look at a video and complete some guided reading with the students completing some questions relating to the text. We then look at the valuable medicines that come from the rainforest, the students have to complete an annotated ‘rainforest cabinet’ using information from the slide. We then look at essential services. The students read the information on the various services the rainforest provides and rate them according to how important they are and explain why they think this. We finish with a GCSE-style practice question with some guidance and structure provided for the students.
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the 2016 specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we look at how ecosystems operate, from small-scale ecosystems to biomes.
We start with a retrieval practice task based around coats. We begin by looking at what the biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem are.
The students are given an example ecosystem and have to categorise the components according to whether they think they are biotic or abiotic. We then look at different scales of ecosystems and look at trophic levels. The students work out which examples belong with which trophic level . We then explore an example of a food chain, using a small-scale ecosystem (a pond) the students have to work out which creatures belong in which trophic level. We then look at biomass in the food chain and discuss why biomass declines at each level. We finish with a 4-mark GCSE style question and there is some tips for students who need it on how to answer it.
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we look at what the physical characteristics of tropical rainforests are.
The lesson has a retrieval practice starter quiz on rivers to begin with. We then look at what it is like to be in the rainforest with a short video clip of walking through the forest. We then look at the location of tropical rainforests and the students have a map with some questions of differing difficulty to answer. The students are provided with a worksheet to draw a climate graph of the rainforest with some additional skills questions to answer (works well with a visualiser). The students complete an annotated profile of the rainforest latosol soil, describing and explaining its characteristics. We then look at the nutrient cycle and the students annotate a diagram making sure they eliminate the incorrect word from the annotation. We finish with a GCSE-style practice question with some guidance and structure provided for the students.
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This lesson is part of a wider cross-curricula unit called London Zoo which is designed for KS1 and lower KS2 students (Y2-4).
The animals have escaped at the zoo and the keeper needs your help! The presentation first encourages students to describe the features of animals. It then challenges students to match animals to their names, description and habitat. It includes a variety of animals including fish, birds, mammals, insects and amphibians.
There is a group activity and an individual activity:
Group Activity:
Students match animals to their names, description and habitat (KS1 and KS2 versions).
Individual Activity:
Students match animals to their names, description and habitat on a worksheet. This is differentiated three ways:
Easier – Students match animals to their habitats.
Medium – Students match animals to their description and habitat.
Harder – Students fill in the names of the animals and match them to their description and habitat.
Extension – Students classify animals as fish, birds, mammals, insects or amphibians.
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*** World biomes (11 lessons)**
• Lesson 1: Ecosystems
• Lesson 2: Food webs
• Lesson 3: Global biomes introduction
• Lesson 4: Mediterranean biome
• Lesson 5: Coral Reefs
• Lesson 6: Bamboo forests
• Lesson 7: Tropical Rainforests
• Lesson 8: Hot deserts
• Lesson 9: Polar biomes
• Lesson 10: Assessment lesson
• Lesson 11: Peer feedback/marking lesson
River landscapes of the UK (7 lessons)
• Lesson 1: Where are the UK’s rivers?
• Lesson 2: What are the UK’s rivers like?
• Lesson 3: What processes happen inside a river?
• Lesson 4: How do waterfalls form?
• Lesson 5: Meanders… they’re forever changing
• Lesson 6: The Landforms of the Lower Course
• Lesson 7: The Somerset levels floods 2014
• Lesson 8: How can we our manage rivers?
• Lesson 9: Rivers Assessment lesson
*** Weather and climate of the UK (9 lessons)***
• Lesson 1: What is weather and climate?
• Lesson 2: Recording the Weather
• Lesson 3: Who cares about the weather?
• Lesson 4: Where does the UK’s weather come from?
• Lesson 5: The Beast from the East
• Lesson 6: How can the UK use it’s wind?
• Lesson 7: Does the UK need so much rain?
• Lesson 8: What are Urban Micro climates and how do they affect London?
• Lesson 9: Assessment and feedback
Tropical Rainforests (12 lessons)
• Lesson 1: What and where are our rainforests?
• Lesson 2: What is the structure of the Rainforests?
• Lesson 3: What is the climate like in the Rainforest?
• Lesson 4: How are plants and animals adapted to the rainforest?
• Lesson 5: How do we benefit from the Rainforest?
• Lesson 6: What is Deforestation?
• Lesson 7: What are the effects of Deforestation?
• Lesson 8: How can we use the rainforest sustainably?
• Lesson 9: Saving the Rainforest!
• Lesson 10: Assessment lesson
• Lesson 11: Assessment feedback and peer marking lesson.
• Lesson 12: Extended project: Researching a rainforest.
*** UK landscapes and processes (7 lessons) **
• Lesson 1: introduction to UK landscapes
• Lesson 2: How does geology shape the UK?
• Lesson 3: Chemical weathering and limestone plateaus
• Lesson 4: Mountains in the UK: Their birth and erosion
• Lesson 5: Forests in the UK
• Lesson 6: Map reading and tourist developments in the lake district.
• Lesson 7: Assessment lesson with feedback PPT.
Hot deserts (9 lessons)
Lesson 1: What is a hot desert and where are they found?
Lesson 2: Drawing a climate graph for hot deserts
Lesson 3: How can animals and plants survive in hot deserts?
Lesson 4: What is desertification and why is it happening?
Lesson 5: Can desertification be stopped?
Lesson 6: Tourism in a hot desert far far away…
Lesson 7: Can you navigate through a hot desert?
Lesson 8: Assessment lesson
Lesson 9: Peer marking and assessment feedback
**Globalisation 12 lessons: **
Lesson 1: An introduction to globalisation
Lesson 2: How has globalisation happned?
Lesson 3: Why do companies go global? Mcdonalds
Lesson 4: What is a TNC and why do they work in so many countries?
Lesson 5: The pros and cons of globalisation
Lesson 6: The dark side of globalisation
Lesson 7: A TNC in Nigeria: Shell
Lesson 8: How is globalisation helpful? NGOs
Lesson 9: IGOs: WHO will stop Malaria?
Lesson 10: Assessment lesson
Lesson 11: Peer marking and assessment feedback
Lesson 12: Optional project on a TNC
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This lesson is part of Tropical Rainforests, a Geography unit designed for students in KS2, but can also be taught as a stand alone lesson. All resources are compatible with both Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
The presentation introduces students to tropical rainforests, including some of the flora and fauna that live in them. Students then learn about the Earth’s tropical belt and the location of the various rainforests within it.
The activity challenges students to label features of a world map including the Equator, the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Students then locate 8 of the world’s tropical rainforests.
Easier - Students use a prompt map and have activity clues.
Harder - Students use a prompt map but have no activity clues.
Extension - Students fill in the missing words in a paragraph about tropical rainforests.
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we look at what how plants and animals have adapted to the environmental conditions in the rainforest.
The lesson has a retrieval practice starter to begin with. We then look at what biodiversity is and why the rainforests are particularly diverse. We then look at rainforest stratification and plant adaptations. The students have a sheet to complete and some information slides to use to complete the sheet. This could be used as a carousel or group work task. The sheet can even be coloured in! Then the students complete a mix and match up task on the most common types of animal adaptations. The students then complete a rating task with explanation as to how significant are threats to biodiversity in the rainforest. We finish with a GCSE-style practice question with some guidance and structure provided for the students.
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For AQA GCSE Geography. You need the Oxford AQA GCSE Geography Textbook for the new specification
The lesson includes.
Photo interpretation starter.
Questioning activity
Video clips
Large A3 worksheet with a variety of different activities covering the required content.
Plenary activity.
All worksheets for photocopying included. Hope this helps.
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This is a six lesson bundle for the AQA GCSE Geography Specification for Hot Deserts.
Each lesson is roughly one hour long and include a variety of activities, video clips and GCSE practice questions with guidance on how to answer them, The lessons use the examples of the Thar Desert and Badia in Jordan. Lesson titles include:-
Environmental Characteristics
Plant & Animal Adaptations
Opportunities for Development
Challenges of Development
Causes of Desertification
Reducing Desertification
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we examine the distribution of the global ecosystems or biomes.
The lesson has an ordnance survey map skills retrieval practice starter quiz. We then look at what a global ecosystem or biome is and what the general pattern of their distribution is. The students complete a cloze exercise and write a paragraph introducing the concept of global ecosystems. The students then complete a colouring by numbers worksheet to familiarise them with the distribution of the global ecosystems. They then complete a worksheet on where these ecosystems can be found, using atlases to give named examples of countries that feature those particular biomes. There is another extension to this where the students create a diagram to show the importance of latitude in the distribution of global ecosystems. We finish with a GCSE-style practice question with some sentence starters and a mark scheme provided for the students.
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This lesson is part of Tropical Rainforests, a Geography unit designed for students in KS2, but can also be taught as a stand alone lesson. All resources are compatible with both Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
First, the presentation introduces students to the different layers of the rainforest and some of the animals that live in each layer.
Students then complete a range of activities:
Activity 1:
In pairs, students match the layers of a tropical rainforest to descriptions.
Easier - Students have multicoloured descriptions. They match each layer to one green, blue and purple description.
Harder - Students have plain black descriptions. They match each layer to three other descriptions.
Activity 2:
Students identify and label the four layers of a tropical rainforest.
Easier - Students write one word for each layer.
Harder - Students write two words for each layer.
Extension:
Students cut out pictures of tropical rainforest animals and stick them in the layer in which they live.
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This is a complete planning and resources for the book, The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. Over 90 slides (PowerPoint and PDF version). Aimed at KS1 and LKS2.
Slide 2: The Great Kapok Tree blurb.
Slide 4: Lesson 1 – What do you already know
Slide 12: Lesson 2 - Forming a discussion / bullet pointing facts / gathering information
Slide 28: Lesson 3 - Introduction to our book – using imagination and inference
Slide 30: Lesson 4 - Using learnt information – extending learning using imagination and inference
Slide 32: Lesson 5 - Using onomatopoeia
Slide 35: Lesson 6 - Creating a fact file
Slide 38: Lesson 7 – Alliteration
Slide 43: Lesson 8 – Collective nouns
Slide 46: Lesson 9 - Prepositions and direction
Slide 52: Lesson 10 - Design your own rainforest animal
Slide 56: Lesson 11 – Reading comprehension
Slide 61: Lesson 12 - Why are plants important? (research)
Slide 64: Lesson 13 - Five ways I can help our Earth (using my learning) – recap rainforest lesson 2 (trees)
Slide 68: Lesson 14 - Testing you environmental awareness & completing surveys (using my learning)
Slide 70: Lesson 15 - Other cultures fact file
Slide 80: Lesson 16 – Rainforest riddles
Slide 84: Lesson 17 - Using descriptive vocabulary and my senses
Slide 89: Lesson 18 - The Great Kapok Tree story recount
Slide 92: Lesson 19 - What did the man do? (inference – story paragraph)
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The SoW:
An awesome scheme of work on global biomes and ecosystems that investigates climates, landscapes and the animals and people that are adapted to them! The scheme of work is for KS3 geography and includes introductory lessons on foodwebs, habitats, foodchains and more. The rest of the Scheme of work focuses on global biomes like hotdeserts , rainforests, coral reefs and the animals that live there as well as how humans are changing these. This scheme of work would also work well as a Science and Biology Scheme of work.
All answers on PPT!
All resources ready!
Clear titles, objectives, starters, tasks and extensions (+challenges and plenaries!)
Includes assessment with all answers!
The Scheme of work includes 11 interesting and engaging lessons more that will impress OFSTED or observers!
Lesson 1: Ecosystems
Lesson 2: Food webs
Lesson 3: Global biomes introduction
Lesson 4: Mediterranean biome
Lesson 5: Coral Reefs
Lesson 6: Bamboo forests
Lesson 7: Tropical Rainforests
Lesson 8: Hot deserts
Lesson 9: Polar biomes
Lesson 10: Assessment lesson
Lesson 11: Peer feedback/marking lesson
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AQA GCSE Geography Lesson
This lesson requires the Oxford GCSE Geography for the AQA specification
This lesson includes a number of activities including photograph interpretation, a worksheet to help the students with an evaluation question and further skills such as map and graph interpretation. The actvities are based around the Oxford GCSE Geography for AQA.
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Title: Why are rainforests important?
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I can…
Identify…
Describe…
Explain/Evaluate ….
…the goods and services that tropical rainforests provide.
Includes key words, categorization task, extended writing (with peer assessment), with a differentiated option for lower ability students.
AQA Geography GCSE Revision Mat for the Living World - TROPICAL RAINFORESTS
Comes with answers (apart from case study section - feel free to add this for your school’s individual case study).
This is an A3 resource.
Introductory lesson to tropical rainforests. Features a variety of tasks including mapping tropical rainforest distribution, studying layers of the rainforest, selecting key terms relating to rainforests and creating/analysing climate graphs. For the new GCSE Geography courses.
The Great Plant Hunt develops children's understanding of the natural world and is an ideal free resource to help you teach the primary science curriculum.
In this teachers booklet you will find activities for 6-7 year-olds. This age group are the ‘Discoverers’, hunting for the amazing plants that grow in their part of the world. They will see the similarities and differences between plants in different habitats, collect specimens and study them in simple experiments.
For fun extras and further information visit: http://www.greatplanthunt.org/yeargroup-2
The Great Plant Hunt is produced by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Lesson covers the causes of deforestation (using Bruce Parry’s DVD ‘The Amazon’) and analyses the impacts on nature, people and the economy
Activities include watching a DVD (episodes and times noted), coding statements and describing impacts
All worksheets and resources included within the ppt
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