This scheme of work is inspired by the themes in the book Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall and hinges on the question: Did geography cause the war in Ukraine? There are 6 lessons: Russia’s History or Invasion Russia’s physical Geography Russia and NATO Russian Resources Causes of Crimea Invasion of Ukraine Each lesson has a recall/retrieval activity and a review. It’s fully resourced and interactive. Low stakes testing is used throughout and it culminated in an assessment with GCSE style questions. Marking guidance is included as well as an assessment review task for students allowing reflection. Within the lessons, there are three opportunities to develop writing for GCSE questions, one of which includes the structure I use to tackle 9 mark questions on the GCSE AQA syllabus, geared around students accessing all of the marks for each A.O. for these question types. The SOW encourages students to access a wide range of data presentation techniques and use inference and deduction skills throughout. The lessons offer an objective view on why Putin would declare war and explains the historical, political and geographical causes with little bias. I wrote the scheme to engage Year 9 with Geography primarily to increase option numbers at GCSE and to demonstrate to students the value geography has when explaining phenomena in the modern world.