AQA A Level Geography Changing Places Full SOW

This is a complete, ready-to-teach resource bundle for AQA A-Level Geography Changing Places (specification 3.2.2). Built around 16 fully planned 90-minute lessons and 3 comprehensive student workbooks, it covers every specification concept in depth—including Agnew’s aspects of place, Montgomery’s triangle of place identity, insider/outsider perspectives, social/spatial exclusion, categories of place, and lived experience versus media representation.

WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT?
Most A-level resources on TES are built from textbooks and retrofitted to the exam. This bundle was built backwards from AQA mark schemes, examiner reports, and past assessment trends. Every concept breakdown, case study framework (including Oxford, Shoreditch, Detroit, and contrasting media representations of India), and exam tip directly reflects the criteria AQA examiners use to award top marks. Students encounter genuine, mark-scheme-aligned exam practice from Lesson 1.

Questions throughout the unit are explicitly tiered into Foundation and Stretch prompts at standard AQA-type questions, preventing cognitive overload while systematically building synoptic evaluation skills. Everything is 100% editable and unlocked. Every PowerPoint and Word document can be adapted, customised with your own school’s local and distant place case studies, or adjusted to fit your department’s timetable.

WHAT IS INCLUDED?
16 PowerPoint Lesson Decks (90-Minute Lessons):
Designed for 1.5-hour double periods (and easily split across single periods).
Timed starter activities (e.g. Identity Auction, category sorting).
Structured theoretical frameworks (e.g. Montgomery 1998, Agnew 1987, Doreen Massey).
Integrated local and distant place applications (e.g. Shoreditch gentrification, Oxford’s place character, Detroit).
Step-by-step student tasks with built-in hint and challenge prompts.
Plenary exit tickets featuring tariff-specific AQA questions (4 and 6 marks).
3 Matched Student Workbooks (Word Format):Cohesive, professionally formatted workbooks mapped across the 16 lessons (e.g. Workbook 1 covers Lessons 1–5: Place Concepts).
Digital-First and Print-Ready: structured with compact text boxes designed for typing directly on laptops/tablets, while remaining fully resizable if printing for pen-and-paper use.
Lesson Tracking: features lesson-by-lesson RAG self-assessment confidence checklists, key term glossaries, and categorised task formats (SORT, DIAGRAM, RESEARCH, READING).
Scaffolded Differentiation: every workbook task embeds dedicated Support and Stretch callout boxes for targeted intervention and stretch. Exam Practice and Mark Schemes: every lesson includes dedicated AQA-style question spaces alongside complete, tick-box mark schemes with explicit point allocations for student self-assessment. Synoptic Review and Essay Planning: includes end-of-unit concept mapping templates and structured 16-mark essay planning grids (balanced Agree/Disagree evidence tables).