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Pre-Release 2024 - preparation sheet (AQA GCSE Geography)
A worksheet that aims to recap key words and concepts linked to the pre-release for GCSE Geography (AQA) 2024.
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9-1 - Geography - Kevin McCloud: Slumming It - Episode 1 - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support Kevin McCloud: Slumming It - Episode 1. This worksheet focuses on the slum in Dharavi and how an outsider views the conditions and community within it.
It includes a variety of data collection activities and higher order thinking tasks to differentiate.
I have written this for GCSE students studying World Cities, Urbanistaion, Urban Issues and Resource Management. This can also be adapted for A Level studnents.
I have also included a statistical-analytical comparison table as an extension resource.
Written in Publisher formatted to A3 but I have also included a PDF which can be printed in A4.
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The Changing Economic World
27 part lesson series for the whole of the GCSE module The Changing Economic World. This is complete three sections, the Development Gap, NEE case study (Nigeria) and causes of economic change in the UK. Specifically designed for the new AQA A Geography GCSE. All lesson are for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
All lessons have a starter, lesson aim, tasks and extensions. Homework is also included. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
Development Gap:
1 - Measuring development
2 - Classifying development
3 - Demographic transition model
4 - Reducing the Gap (ICT)
5 - Student presentations
6 - Reducing the gap correlation
7 - Managing development disparities
8 - Health and wealth
9 - Development migration
10 - Quality of living and development
11 - Tourism
Nigeria:
12 - Introducing Nigeria
13 - Exploring Nigeria
14 - Nigeria in the wider world
15 - Manufacturing and TNCs in Nigeria
16 - Aid to Nigeria
17 - Managing Environmental Issues
18 - Quality of life in Nigeria
19 - A different perspective: 2 x short documentaries
Causes of economic change in the UK:
20 - Causes of economic change in the UK
21 - Post industrial economy
22 - Science and business parks
23 - Environmental impacts of industry
24 - Rural economies
25 - UK infrastructure development
26 - North South divide
27 - The UK in the wider world
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AQA A-level Geography Human and Physical case studies
Includes multiple case studies for each of the following topics:
- Population and the Environment
- 1 x Overall population change - Bangladesh
- 1 x Relationship between place and health -
Knowsley, UK
- Coasts
- 1 x coastal landscape beyond the UK -
Sundarbans, Bangladesh
- 1 x local coastal environment - Holderness,
UK
- Global systems and Global Governance
- 1 x a global common - Antarctica
- 1 x a TNC - Apple
- 1 x global food commodity - Coffee
- Hazards
- 1 x multi-hazardous environment - Haiti
- 1 x local hazardous setting - Port-au-
Prince, Haiti
- 1 x HIC recent tropic storm - Hurricane
Katrina 2005
- 1 x LIC recent tropical storm - Typhoon
Haiyan 2013
- Changing Places
- 1 x Local place study - Ladywood,
Birmingham
- 1 x Distant place study - Detroit, USA
- Water and Carbon cycles
- 1 x river catchment at a local scale - River
Brock
- 1 x a tropical rainforest setting - The
Amazon
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Human Impact on Coasts KS2 Geography
A detailed lesson covering coasts and how they can change. Includes a 38 slide PowerPoint, a detailed plan, 2 writing templates and a challenge activity including another writing template. Covers the impact of tourism, shipping, urbanisation, overfishing and communities on the coast.
Written for UKS2 but can easily be used by all year 3, 4, 5 and 6.
An engaging starter, mixture of independent, paired and group work.
Plenty of opportunities for discussion and for children to share ideas.
Full of lots of interesting images to prompt discussion about geographical features.
An extension activity to challenge the higher ability.
Plenary for children to move on in their learning.
Covers national curriculum learning objectives:
Learn about diverse places, people and resources
Learn about natural and human environments
Learn about the interaction between physical and human processes
Learn about the formation, use of and change of landscapes and environments
All resources included.
All reviews welcome.
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Fashion's dirty secrets - the problem of waste in the fashion industry, sweat shops & child labour
An extended powerpoint that includes a large range of activities all to do with exploring the problem of the fashion industry, based around the recent BBC documentary ‘Fashion’s Dirty Secrets’. Activities can be taken from it to make 1-2 lessons, or if watching the documentary, it could be used as a mini scheme of work.
Contents:
Video - slides and worksheet to accompany the documentary ‘Fashion’s Dirty Secrets’;
Impacts – a statement sorting activity around the environmental, social and economic impacts of the fashion industry
Glossary activity - key words and terminology from the documentary
Persuasive writing activity – persuading an MP to act on the fashion industry
Mapping fashion activity – plotting the areas affected by the fashion industry
Bar chart activity – plotting the world’s biggest textile exporters
Role play activity – looking at each person’s opinion from all aspects of the fashion industry
Campaign – create and design a new item of clothing that is ecofriendly
Sweatshops – a series of activities based around another controversial aspect of the fashion industry: sweatshops and child labour
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Africa: Physical and Human Geography (People and Places)
This interesting and highly-stimulating lesson enables students to describe and understand the key aspects of physical geography (e.g. climates, vegetation belts, flora, fauna, mountains, and rivers) and human geography (e.g. types of settlement, populations, use of resources, and trade) in the vast and varied continent of Africa. Whilst gaining a wide range of knowledge about the content, students also become familiar with a wide range of vocabulary pertinent to the geography curriculum.
The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards relevant and constructive learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to:
Identify Africa on a map, and identify the countries and regions within the continent;
Understand key information about the physical and human geography of the continent, through a fun, interactive quiz;
Retrieve, share, and describe their understanding of the physical and human geography of specific locations in Africa (Sahara Desert, Cape Town, The African Savanna and the Mount Kilimanjaro) through a jigsaw model task;
Complete a case study of the physical and human geography of their own place in Africa, and describe their findings to others;
-Peer assess each others’ descriptions using the learning objectives.
This resource pack includes:
A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;
Key case-study information sheets on the Sahara Desert, Cape Town, the African Savanna and Mount Kilimanjaro (in both PDF and Word - inside the zip-folder);
A blank case study template.
All images are licensed for commercial use. Note: The final task works best with access to ICT/internet resources.
This resources within this lesson can be easily adapted to suit home/remote learning.
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AQA A Level Geography- Contemporary Urban Environments
AQA A Level Geography- Contemporary Urban Environments
Lessons include the following content: Urban form, world cities, Urban waste, Urban Climate, precipitation and drainage, megacities, Air quality and river restoration.
Discussion and research tasks which engage students about current issues in our cities- UK and global.
Key case studies include: Birmingham and Mumbai (social and environmental sustainability and regeneration) and the Cheonggyecheon River Restoration Project in Seoul. Emphasis on current global challenges and solutions to them.
Exam questions embedded and structured in most lesson to ensure progress is made towards the exams.
Any questions, please ask.
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Quick ViewScandinavia Geography Unit KS2
7 Quality lessons covering all aspects of life in Scandinavia and National Curriculum Geography learning objectives.
Powerful images, video links, resources, detailed plans and no preparation needed.
Enjoy my other Scandinavian Units:
Scandinavian Art Unit
Writing Scandinavian Christmas Stories
Check out my other popular Geography units:
Yosemite
Europe
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105 lessons for IGCSE geography themes 1, 2 and 3. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required.
Population:
1 - Introduction to population
2 - Malthus vs Boserup
3 - Migration
4 - The demographic transition model
5 - Anti-natalist policy, the one-child policy
6 - Over vs underpopulation
7 - Cause of migration
8 - Voluntary vs forced migration - refugees
9 - Ageing population
10 - Population structure
11 - Youthful population
12 - Dense vs sparse population
13 - Jelly baby population
Settlement:
1 - Settlement provision
2 - Settlement structure
3 - Settlement services
4 - Rural settlement service provision
5 - Urban settlement service provision
6 - Burgess model and the CBD
7 - Green and brownfield sites
8 - Problems in urban areas
9 - Manchester
10 - Urban regeneration
11 -Urbanisation
12 - Impacts of urbanisation
13 - Squatter settlements
14 - Squatter settlement case study - Dharavi
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
1 - What are hazards?
2 - Structure of the earth
3 - Types of volcano
4 - Why live in hazardous areas?
5 - Volcano case study
6 - Earthquakes
7 - Disaster response in Haiti
8 - Disaster response in New Zealand
Rivers:
1 - Hydrological cycle and drainage basins
2 - Erosion and deposition
3 - Landforms in the upper course
4 - Landforms in the middle course
5 - Landforms in the lower course
6 - Flooding
7 - Hard and soft engineering
8 - Rivers case study - Somerset
9 - Rivers GIS
Coasts:
1 - Waves
2 - Coastal processes
3 - Landforms processes
4 - Erosional landforms
5 - Depositional landforms
6 - Coral reefs
7 - Threats to coral reefs
8 - Mangroves
9 - Hard and soft engineering
10 - Coastal case study
11 - Assessment
Weather:
1 - Atmospheric circulation
2 - Measuring the weather
3 - Clouds
Climate and Natural Vegetation
1 - Climate zones
2 - Hot deserts
3 - Climate graphs and deserts
4 - Ecosystems
5 - Rainforests
6 - Soil and biodiversity
7 - Opportunities in hot deserts
8 - Causes of deforestation
9 - Impacts of deforestation
10 - Managing the rainforest
11 - Desertification
12 - Sustainable management of the world
Development
1 - Development indicators
2 - Industry
3 - Globalisation
4 - TNCs
5 - TNC case study
6 - Trade game
Food production
1 - Introduction to agriculture
2 - Food shortages
3 - Food supply and shortages (1)
4 - Food supply and shortages (2)
5 -Food production (Indus Valley)
6 - Famine (Horn of Africa)
Industry
1 - Industrial systems
2 - Types of industry
3 - Industrial zones case study
Tourism
1 - Growth of tourism
2 - Pros and cons of tourism growth
3 - Eco tourism
4 - Tourism case study (Jamaica)
Energy
1 - Growing consumption
2 - Non-renewable energy
3 - Renewable energy
4 - Fuelwood and other energy
5 - Nuclear energy
6 - Hydro-electric power case study
7 - Increasing energy
Water
1 - Water supply and use
2 - Water stress
3 - Water management
4 - Lesotho Highland project
Environmental Risk of Development
1 - Soil fertility and threats
2 - Deferestification
3 - Climate change and the enhanced greenhouse effect
4 - Managing the environment
5 - Conserving the environment
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
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Quick ViewAQA GCSE Geography- Resource Management- Energy
Set of 8 lessons about Resource Management- Energy.
Fits with AQA Paper 2 Geography.
Uses UK and global case studies. Looks at ideas of supply, demand, distribution and sustainability.
Each lesson has exam practice, key words, learning objectives and differentiated tasks and progress checks. Most have embedded videos- all have engaging tasks!
Homework tasks embedded throughout.
Europe Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students revising knowledge relating to Europe, as a part of their study of physical and human geography. It contains comprehensive sections on:
Overview and map;
Regions and Countries of Europe;
Longest Rivers;
Highest Mountains;
Human Geography Features;
Physical Geography Features.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). The resource is most suitable for students in KS2 or KS3.
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Mexico today: 6 KS2 pp Geography lessons.
Mexico today: Series of 6 KS2 power-point Geography lessons.
Each lesson is broken into short focused activities. There are opportunities for pupils to recall prior learning, participate in a short quiz, take notes from a YouTube clip, scrutinise and compare population graphs and weather charts (included on slides), research native animals and use maps and atlases to locate Mexico’s key cities and geographical features. Each set of slides contain images to help pupils ‘get a feel’ for the geography of Mexico as well as simple cultural information such as greetings in Mexican (Spanish) at the beginning and end of lessons.
Great to link with cross curricular topics such as ‘Aztecs’, ‘Rainforests’, ‘Weather’, ‘Early civilizations’ etc.
Lesson 1
Learning Objectives
I must find Mexico in my atlas.
I should recognise some of the features of Mexico.
I could describe where Mexico is in the world using geographical words.
Lesson 2
Learning objectives
I must be able to spot the main features of Mexico.
I should find and label the features on my map.
I could write a description about two features.
Lesson 3
Learning Objectives
I must describe a tropical climate.
I should explain the temperature in different locations.
I could interpret the climate data and temperature chart for each month.
Lesson 4
Learning objectives:
I must explain the definition of the term ‘population’.
I should interpret the population table and identify the challenges for living in Mexico.
I could compare population graphs for Mexico cities and explain population issues.
Lesson 5
Learning Objectives
I must explain the definition of the term ‘population’, ‘tropical climate’ and ‘weather’.
I must order the ten most populated cities in Mexico.
I should explain how the location of Mexican cities affects population size.
I could explain how the weather and climate support the life of the Mexican people.
Lesson 6
Learning Objectives
I must identify some features of natural beauty in Mexico.
I should identify and research some of the areas of natural beauty which come from Mexico.
OR
I should identify and research some of the animal, fish and birds which come from Mexico.
Quick ViewGeography Lesson- The Chambamontera Micro-Hydro Scheme- GCSE AQA Resource Management
Whole Geography lesson- The Chambamontera Micro-Hydro Scheme- Geography GCSE- AQA Spec- Paper 2- Resource Management - Energy- Sustainability and energy production.
Topics- Peru and energy supply- ‘bottom-up’ schemes and productivity.
Uses interactive and differentiated tasks to look at subsistence farming and micro-hydro energy schemes.
Videos embedded about the case study to aid understanding- looks at how the scheme works in Chambamontera and how it benefits the community.
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Outstanding Lesson: Stereotypes and prejudice
What are stereotypes?
Lesson Objectives:
To define the term ‘stereotype’ and give examples of discrimination
To assess how our opinions are affected by out surroundings
Contains differentiated material for weaker students and challenges higher ability through high order thinking.
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KS2 France Geography Unit - 5 outstanding lessons fully resourced
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This brilliant unit has five detailed lessons that will help your class learn all about France and it’s physical and human geography.
This can be used flexibly over a half term and covers a range of topics, including:
Map work
Life in France (schools, food and routines)
Sheffield v Paris (can be adapted to any English locality)
Napoleon
Famous French people
Each lesson has a detailed lesson plan, PowerPoint and accompanying resources.
Resources include:
x5 lesson plans
Blank map of Europe
Labelled map of Europe
Blank map of France
Information sheet - French food and drink
Information sheet - French schools
Information sheet - Interview with a British family
School life comparison table worksheet
Information sheet - Paris
Information sheet - Sheffield
Editable worksheet - comparing Paris and Sheffield (PDF also included)
Newspaper template
Storyboard template
Wanted poster template
French history timeline worksheet
French history timeline answers
Names of famous French people to research
Website links to research
Lesson 1: L.O: to know the location of countries in Europe, including France, and to be able to plot human and physical features onto a map.
Success Criteria:
I know where the UK, France, Germany,
Italy and Russia are located in Europe.
I can use the points of the compass to help me to plot human and physical features onto a map.
Lesson 2: L.O: to understand life in France and the differences and similarities to life in the UK
Success Criteria:
I know what a typical school day is like in France.
I know a French person’s typical diet
I can compare life in France to my life in the UK and say what is similar and what is different.
Lesson 3:L.O: to compare the physical and human geography of Paris and Sheffield (or any city near you!)
Success Criteria:
I can locate Paris on a map of France
I can locate Sheffield on a map of the UK
I can compare their physical geography
I can compare their human geography
Lesson 4:L.O: to know the history of France around the time of Napoleon Bonaparte and understand how Napoleon changed Europe.
Success Criteria:
I can make notes using bullet points
I can use a time line to show important events
I can include some of the events and dates in my work.
Lesson 5:L.O: to use the internet to find and present facts.
Success Criteria:
I know some famous French people
I can say why they are famous
I can use Google to find websites with key facts including date of birth, why they were famous and death (if applicable)
I can present these facts as a slide from a PowerPoint
Graded Outstanding by leaders.
UPDATED - 21/12/19 Lesson 3 PowerPoint reuploaded - all errors now cleared.
UPDATED - 16/01/21
UPDATED - 02/02/22 All resources, PowerPoints and lesson plans upgraded
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iGCSE Environmental Management FULL COURSE
Complete IGCSE Cambridge environmental management unit with fully resourced lessons and summarised notes for each topic. Covers all 9 topics over a two year course programme.
All lessons are fully resourced. Lessons are designed to last for 50-60 minutes. Lessons are resourced with videos, extension questioning, deep thinking and uses graphs/images to aid learning.
These units follow the Cambridge KS4 curriculum and look at;
Rocks and Minerals
Energy and Climate Change
Agriculture and Sustainable Farming
Water Management
Oceans and Fisheries
Natural Hazards
Atmosphere and Human Activity
Human Population
Natural Ecosystems
Each lesson includes a starter, lesson objective, plenary, exam question and various student led activities.
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Geography Edexcel
**Geography Edexcel B Course - Two Years of Teaching. **
Fully, tried and tested, SoWs that cover the entire Edexcel B course.
Built using a research based approach to teaching, these lessons have retrieval and dual coding at their heart. As well a colour scheme to aid your delivery.
Revision SoWs are also included that have be designed for my School’s weekly revision sessions.
Please check out many of my free resouces to get a feel for the style and standard of my lessons. If you have any questions please do get in touch using the email below, which is monitored daily.
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Paper 1:
● Topic 1: Hazardous Earth
● Topic 2: Development dynamics
● Topic 3: Challenges of an urbanising world
Paper 2:
● Topic 4: The UK’s evolving physical landscape – including sub-topics 4B: River processes and pressures.
● Topic 5: The UK’s evolving human landscape – including a Case Study - Dynamic UK
cities.
● Topic 6: Geographical investigations – including one physical fieldwork investigation and one human fieldwork investigation linked to Topics 4 and 5.
Paper 3:
● Topic 7: People and the biosphere
● Topic 8: Forests under threat
● Topic 9: Consuming energy resources
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Our Worlds Population
This booklet looks at several areas of population including: key Words, Population Change, World’s Population Distribution, Why Are Some Families Larger Than Others?, Changes In Population, Sustainable Population, One-Child Policy, Ageing Population, France’s Solution, International Migration
Population Test
This tests starts with multiple choice questions which allow to show the studetns understanding on key works and popultion. The second part of the test consists of a ten mark question which allows the students to show thwir understanding of population issues around the world
Geography glossaries
Help students to memorise how to spell and define important key words with these glossaries and spelling lists tailored to the topics you are teaching. Covers coasts, ecosystems, farming, flooding, glaciation, global water systems, natural hazards, population, settlements, structure of the Earth, water systems.