Twelve weekly spaced-retrieval starters and two long-gap boosters for AQA GCSE Geography Paper 2, “The Changing Economic World”. Written for GCSE teachers who want a ready-made, low-prep way to keep this content from fading, and who are tired of writing a new starter every week.
Each starter fits on one side of A4 and takes about 5 to 10 minutes. Every sheet asks about last lesson, about two weeks ago, and about five weeks ago, plus one interleaved question from a different unit. Each block of content comes back at increasing intervals, so students keep retrieving it rather than re-reading it. Where a block is taught too late in the unit to be retrieved three times, the two boosters cover the gap, and the teacher section says so.
What is included:
- Cover and a one-page “how this works” explanation for students
- 12 weekly starters, one side of A4 each
- 2 boosters, a 30-day check and a 90-day check
- Support pages: a Tier 3 vocabulary list with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters by question stem, and cloze versions of the hardest extended answers
- A RAG confidence tracker
- Full answers and mark guidance (7 pages)
- A teacher section (10 pages): print notes, live items, teaching sequence, retrieval schedule, coverage check, class tracking grid, specification mapping, a table of figures commonly given in textbooks that are now out of date or disputed, and a source list
Content covered:
- Measuring development and the Demographic Transition Model
- Causes and consequences of uneven development, and strategies to reduce the gap
- Jamaica (tourism and the development gap)
- Nigeria as a lower-income country or newly emerging economy: location, industry, trade, aid, environment and quality of life
- Shell in Nigeria (the role of a TNC)
- UK economic change and the post-industrial economy, including Cambridge Science Park
- Torr Quarry and changing rural areas, including the Outer Hebrides
- UK infrastructure and the north–south divide
- The UK’s place in the wider world
Differentiation and skills: questions run from recall to application, interpretation and short extended answers. Support pages are built in for every student and are not a separate version. The teacher section shows how to credit an answer for its idea rather than its exact wording.
Please note:
- All questions are original. The pack contains no photographs or maps, and uses no copyrighted exam questions.
- Statistics were checked against World Bank, ONS, ILO, NBS, WTTC and other published sources and were current at 30 September 2026. Some are news-reported figures, and the source table says which. Figures and “live items” such as recent events will date, and the teacher section tells you which to refresh.
- It is designed to print on plain A4, black and white. No special equipment is needed.
- It supports your teaching and does not replace it. It does not include a lesson sequence or teaching slides.
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