A spaced retrieval pack for AQA GCSE Geography’s The Challenge of Resource Management (Water option): twelve weekly “do now” starters and two long-gap boosters, each with a full mark scheme. It gives you ready-made, low-stakes retrieval practice for the whole unit, so you don’t have to write a quiz every week or decide what to revisit.
How it works: each starter is one side of A4. Section A asks about last lesson’s content; Section B revisits the block from two weeks earlier; Section C the block from five weeks earlier (from Starter 6); Section D links to a different unit, such as natural hazards, rivers or urban issues. Questions are 1 or 2 marks with one ruled answer line, and every sheet ends with a red/amber/green box. Starters 1–5 are short, while the early blocks are still building. From Starter 6 a starter takes about 8–10 minutes. The two boosters (a 30-day and a 90-day check) ask one question from every block and suit the end of the unit and the revision period.
The 12 blocks: resources and global inequality; UK food; UK water; UK energy; global surplus, deficit and rising demand; factors affecting availability; impacts of water insecurity; strategies to increase supply; the South–North Water Transfer Project (why and how); SNWTP advantages and disadvantages; a sustainable water future; the Hitosa scheme.
Case studies: China’s South–North Water Transfer Project (large-scale transfer) and the Hitosa gravity-fed scheme, Ethiopia (local scheme in an LIC). Supporting examples include Cape Town, the Aral Sea, the Nile (GERD), Singapore NEWater, Windhoek, Israeli desalination, Kielder and other UK reservoirs and transfers.
Support and accessibility: a 38-word Tier 3 vocabulary list with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters by question type, and gap-fill versions of three hard answers. The Word file is set in Verdana at 1.5 line spacing, left-aligned, with no italics.
Teacher material: a mark scheme for every starter and booster; a specification map; a class tracking grid; a student confidence tracker; sources; and notes on terminology (LIC and NEE as AQA uses them).
Before you buy: this is a retrieval resource. It tests recall and short explanations, but doesn’t teach content, and has no 6-mark questions or slides. The questions are original and are not taken from AQA papers. Prints on A4, black and white; cream or pastel paper is recommended. No internet or equipment needed.
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