18 ready-to-teach one-hour lessons for AQA GCSE Geography’s Physical Landscapes in the UK: coastal and river landscapes (Paper 1, Section C): PowerPoints, printable resource sheets, teacher notes with answers, a START-HERE guide and a printed Section C-style assessment. It is a complete teaching sequence for the coasts and rivers options, with a minute-by-minute outline in every set of teacher notes.
What a lesson looks like: A five-question starter quiz retrieves earlier learning. An outcome slide sets the big question, then the key words and a lesson outline. The lesson is taught in three learning cycles: short explanation slides, a quick check for understanding with a reveal slide, and a practice task with a feedback slide. Each task has a Challenge for higher attainers. One task per lesson is a varied activity: a High Force mystery, “be the pebble”, a public meeting role-play at Walton-on-the-Naze, a coastal-defence budget game, a flood-management diamond nine, “take a stand” on the Jubilee River, “fix the leaflet”, “be the examiner” and more. Lessons close with a video slide (link, QR code and watch-for questions), an original exam-style question with a student-friendly mark scheme and an example answer, and a five-question exit quiz.
The sequence: (1) UK physical landscapes; (2) waves, weathering and mass movement; (3) erosion, transport and deposition; (4) geology and erosional landforms; (5) depositional landforms; (6) Dorset: the Jurassic Coast; (7) defending the coast; (8) Walton-on-the-Naze; (9) river processes and profiles; (10) waterfalls, gorges and interlocking spurs; (11) meanders and ox-bow lakes; (12) levées, flood plains and estuaries; (13) the River Tees; (14) flood risk and hydrographs; (15) managing floods; (16) the Jubilee River; (17) exam technique for Section C (4- and 6-mark levels, using figures); (18) review and a printed assessment.
Specification: AQA GCSE Geography 8035, section 3.1.3 (3.1.3.1 UK physical landscapes; 3.1.3.2 coastal landscapes; 3.1.3.3 river landscapes). Each set of teacher notes includes a specification map.
Before you buy: the exam-style questions are original and are not taken from AQA papers. This resource is not endorsed by AQA. The video slides link to YouTube (and one to Oak National Academy), so you need internet access and a school network that allows them; please preview each clip. The slides contain no photographs and no OS map extracts, so add your department’s OS practice. The lessons refer to a matching homework pack and retrieval pack, which are sold separately.
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