Urban Issues and Challenges: Complete Topic Bundle

Everything you need to teach AQA GCSE Geography’s Urban Issues and Challenges (Paper 2, Section A, 3.2.1) in one bundle: 18 ready-to-teach lessons, a 12-week homework pack and a 12-week spaced retrieval pack, all built around the same case studies, Rio de Janeiro and London, and the same up-to-date figures.

What’s Included:

• The lessons (18 x 60 minutes): Each has a starter quiz, three learning cycles with checks and practice tasks (each task with a Challenge), one varied activity, a video slide, an original exam-style question with a mark scheme and example answer, and an exit quiz. There are 8 printable resource sheets with original maps and charts, and teacher notes with a 60-minute timeline, answers, misconceptions and a specification map. Lesson 17 teaches Section A exam technique. Lesson 18 is a printed 30 + 3 SPaG assessment with a full mark scheme.
• The homework pack (12 weeks): about 45 minutes a week in five short chunks, including a reading box, questions, a Think Deeper task and an exam-style question. Weeks 1 and 12 end with a research task that has a printed no-internet alternative. Scaffolding is withdrawn as the unit goes on. Support pages include Tier 3 vocabulary with pronunciation, a number bank, sentence starters and cloze versions of the hardest answers. A removable teacher section has the full answers, a specification map and a tracker.
• The retrieval pack (12 starters + 2 boosters): one side of A4 per week, ready to photocopy as a do-now. It comes with answers, a class tracking grid and a specification map.

Case studies:

• Rio de Janeiro (NEE), with Favela-Bairro and its successors.
• London (HIC), with the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
• Sustainability and transport comparators: Singapore, Bunhill 2, BedZED, Curitiba, Bogotá and Freiburg/Vauban.

Before you buy:

• The exam-style questions are original and not taken from AQA papers. This resource is not endorsed by AQA.
• The lesson videos link to YouTube (tutor2u), one Oak National Academy video and one UN news package; please preview them.