Investigating Rivers is a Geography unit suitable for KS2 (Y4-6).
The planning overview and topic title page can be downloaded for free here. Lessons include:
L1 - Understanding the water cycle
L2 - Identifying features of a river system
L3 - Identifying characteristics of the three stages of a river
L4 - Investigating features of the River Thames
L5 - Thinking about the different ways we use water
L6 - Understanding the impacts of floods and droughts
Each lesson includes a presentation and differentiated activities/worksheets.
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Celebrate Christmas this winter with your secondary Geography students with this 54 question xmas quiz for 2023 themed around the event complete with answers in both quick and question by question format. This resource is 54 question Xmas quiz spread across 5 different rounds. It is created on Microsoft Powerpoint and suitable for KS3 and KS4 secondary students.
Whats included?
Within this resource there are 54 questions spanning 5 rounds. A mixture of multiple choice, general knowledge and picture quiz questions. Topics range from Christmas traditions from around the world, flag picture round, capital city and country matchups, Christmas themed Geographical knowledge in addition to skyline picture round.Your learners will have so much fun engaging with this quiz.
Delivery and timings
The answers can then shared as a class by going through each question individually (ensure you are in present mode for the correct answer to colour yellow and the transitions to work) for students to peer or self mark. Additionally, answers to each individual question can be found on the notes section of each individual PowerPoint slide.
If you choose to deliver this in a single session - it could take upto (but not in excess of) an hour to complete depending on how much thinking time you decide to give your students. However, the rounds have been sectioned off within the Powerpoint so that you could potentially delivered a round or two at a time with your classes or tutor groups over the period of a week or two.
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1C: In this lesson we look at drainage basins and what types of features you find within them.
We start with a photo mystery starter, the pupils only see fragments of a map of the drainage basins of the UK and Ireland. The pupils try to guess what the complete picture might be. This leads onto a discussion about drainage basins and the Amazon Basin in particular. Next we look at the features within a drainage basin. The pupils will work from a worksheet and are given a description of a feature. They must find the feature on the diagram, write the description, and then for some features they draw their own zoomed-in picture of the feature. Following this the pupils get a grid of photographs of the various features and they need to work out what the feature is. The board is editable so they can play bingo as well if you want to create bingo cards.
We finish with a simple post-it plenary based on a GCSE-style question.
In a nutshell lesson includes:
Geographical gallery of contemporary art starter
Worksheet activities on the features of a drainage basin
Photo grid of the features of a drainage basin.
Post-it plenary.
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the 2016 specification Unit 1C: In this lesson we look at soft engineering methods of flood management.
We start with a retrieval practice grid game based around the work we have undertaken in the rivers unit of work so far. The students then complete a cloze exercise to create a definition of what soft engineering is. The students then investigate flood warnings as issued by the Environment Agency and preparations by completing a guided reading exercise. We then look at three soft engineering strategies in turn: River restoration, flood plain zoning and afforestation. For each method, the students write a description, sort out the advantages and disadvantages and complete a task involving a diagram. There is a short video task on rover restoration. We finish with a 6-mark GCSE style question and there is some guidance for students who need it on how to answer it.
Hope this saves you some valuable planning time.
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New for the AQA GCSE 1-9 Combined Trilogy Unit ‘C11 The Earth’s Atmosphere’.
Full lessons ready to use straight ‘out of the box’.
Lessons meet the full criteria for this unit
Similar structure to my other power points following the input - activity - review phasing
Plenary sections for progress checking
Clear learning objectives and outcomes
Modern and engaging layout
Little adaptation needed
Each lesson covers at least an hour of lesson time
LESSONS:
L1 History of Our Atmosphere (FREE)
L2 Our Evolving Atmosphere
L3 Greehouse Gases
L4 Global Climate Change
L5 Atmospheric Pollutants
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**Seven Key Stage 3 Schemes of work, enough teaching content for almost two years! **
All of my lessons are well planned, engaging, differentiated and fun! Download one of my free ones if you aren´t sure and try before you buy!
The following Schemes of work are included WITH assessments:
*** World biomes (11 lessons)**
• Lesson 1: Ecosystems
• Lesson 2: Food webs
• Lesson 3: Global biomes introduction
• Lesson 4: Mediterranean biome
• Lesson 5: Coral Reefs
• Lesson 6: Bamboo forests
• Lesson 7: Tropical Rainforests
• Lesson 8: Hot deserts
• Lesson 9: Polar biomes
• Lesson 10: Assessment lesson
• Lesson 11: Peer feedback/marking lesson
River landscapes of the UK (7 lessons)
• Lesson 1: Where are the UK’s rivers?
• Lesson 2: What are the UK’s rivers like?
• Lesson 3: What processes happen inside a river?
• Lesson 4: How do waterfalls form?
• Lesson 5: Meanders… they’re forever changing
• Lesson 6: The Landforms of the Lower Course
• Lesson 7: The Somerset levels floods 2014
• Lesson 8: How can we our manage rivers?
• Lesson 9: Rivers Assessment lesson
*** Weather and climate of the UK (9 lessons)***
• Lesson 1: What is weather and climate?
• Lesson 2: Recording the Weather
• Lesson 3: Who cares about the weather?
• Lesson 4: Where does the UK’s weather come from?
• Lesson 5: The Beast from the East
• Lesson 6: How can the UK use it’s wind?
• Lesson 7: Does the UK need so much rain?
• Lesson 8: What are Urban Micro climates and how do they affect London?
• Lesson 9: Assessment and feedback
Tropical Rainforests (12 lessons)
• Lesson 1: What and where are our rainforests?
• Lesson 2: What is the structure of the Rainforests?
• Lesson 3: What is the climate like in the Rainforest?
• Lesson 4: How are plants and animals adapted to the rainforest?
• Lesson 5: How do we benefit from the Rainforest?
• Lesson 6: What is Deforestation?
• Lesson 7: What are the effects of Deforestation?
• Lesson 8: How can we use the rainforest sustainably?
• Lesson 9: Saving the Rainforest!
• Lesson 10: Assessment lesson
• Lesson 11: Assessment feedback and peer marking lesson.
• Lesson 12: Extended project: Researching a rainforest.
*** UK landscapes and processes (7 lessons) **
• Lesson 1: introduction to UK landscapes
• Lesson 2: How does geology shape the UK?
• Lesson 3: Chemical weathering and limestone plateaus
• Lesson 4: Mountains in the UK: Their birth and erosion
• Lesson 5: Forests in the UK
• Lesson 6: Map reading and tourist developments in the lake district.
• Lesson 7: Assessment lesson with feedback PPT.
Hot deserts (9 lessons)
Lesson 1: What is a hot desert and where are they found?
Lesson 2: Drawing a climate graph for hot deserts
Lesson 3: How can animals and plants survive in hot deserts?
Lesson 4: What is desertification and why is it happening?
Lesson 5: Can desertification be stopped?
Lesson 6: Tourism in a hot desert far far away…
Lesson 7: Can you navigate through a hot desert?
Lesson 8: Assessment lesson
Lesson 9: Peer marking and assessment feedback
**Globalisation 12 lessons: **
Lesson 1: An introduction to globalisation
Lesson 2: How has globalisation happned?
Lesson 3: Why do companies go global? Mcdonalds
Lesson 4: What is a TNC and why do they work in so many countries?
Lesson 5: The pros and cons of globalisation
Lesson 6: The dark side of globalisation
Lesson 7: A TNC in Nigeria: Shell
Lesson 8: How is globalisation helpful? NGOs
Lesson 9: IGOs: WHO will stop Malaria?
Lesson 10: Assessment lesson
Lesson 11: Peer marking and assessment feedback
Lesson 12: Optional project on a TNC
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1C: In this lesson we look at hard engineering methods of flood management.
We start with a retrieval practice grid game based around the processes and landforms of erosion. The students then complete a cloze exercise to create a definition of what hard engineering is. We briefly introduce soft engineering, then the students have a blank diagram of a drainage basin which has undergone both hard and soft engineering strategies to reduce flooding. The students have to annotate the diagram and work out which is hard and soft engineering. The students are then given some information cards and have to record details on four methods of hard engineering:- dams and reservoirs, flood relief channels, embankments and channel straightening. The students record the advantages and disadvantages and complete a rating exercise for various factors. We finish with a 9-mark GCSE style question and there is some guidance for students who need it on how to answer it.
Hope this saves you some valuable planning time.
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1C: In this lesson we look at waterfalls and gorges and how they are formed through the processes of erosion.
The starter is a retrieval practice grid filled in for the rivers work so far, but it’s editable.
We then look at how underlying geology plays and important part in the formation of waterfalls, the pupils have some questions to answer and I sometimes get a pupil to teach this bit. We then look at how waterfalls develop, after some teacher exposition the pupils will have an outline diagram of a waterfall with some tasks to complete on the diagram. We then look at the formation of gorges and how they relate to waterfalls. This time the pupils use the diagram on the board to create one themselves. We finish with a sketch from photograph of High Force. After we have introduced the waterfall and given some detail on its formation the pupils will create a field sketch either in a blank box, or using a feint outline, which they can draw over the top of. They then label features etc. We finish with a 6-mark question similar to the 2019 May exam on physical processes and waterfalls/gorges. There is advice and guidance should the pupils need it.
In a nutshell lesson includes:
Retrieval practice grid starter.
Question answer session on how a waterfall starts to form.
Blank outline actvity on the development of waterfalls over time.
Diagram activity on the formation of a gorge.
Worksheet activty on sketching High Force from a photograph.
6-mark GCSE question with guidance.
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Mountain Environments is a Geography unit suitable for KS2 (Y4-6) and has everything you need for covering a mountains topic.
The planning overview, topic title page and vocabulary page can be downloaded for free here. Lessons include:
L1 – Identifying the key features of mountains
L2 – Identifying the world’s major mountain ranges
L3 – Locating the world’s famous mountains using latitude and longitude
L4 – Understanding how fold mountains are formed
L5 – Investigating the structure of a volcano (FREE)
L6 – Researching famous world mountains (FREE)
L7 – Investigating mountain climates
Each lesson includes a presentation and differentiated activities/worksheets.
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1C: In this lesson we look at long and cross profiles of a river and how river valleys change shape downstream.
We start with “perfect paragraph”. The pupils read a paragraph describing a drainage basin and they should try to find the errors in the paragraph and what should be added in. We then introduce long profiles, and the pupils will be plotting a long profile of a river on their worksheet. We then look at the upper, middle and lower courses of the river. The pupils shade in these sections on their graph. We complete the worksheet by looking at cross profiles and how river valley shapes change downstream. The pupils create annotated cross sections of the upper, middle and lower courses using the info slides. We finish with a 4 mark GCSE-style question “describe how the shape of a river valley changes downstream”. As always the pupils have some guidance on the question if they need it.
In a nutshell lesson includes:
Perfect paragraph starter.
Long profile plotting exercise.
Cross profile diagram activity.
4-mark GCSE-style question.
Hope this saves you some valuable planning time.
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Geography Christmas Quiz – Christmas 50+ Questions for that perfect end of term subject based lesson. This Christmas quiz has a mixture of questions and rounds and skills. Some of the rounds will be subject based with subject based knowledge whilst others will be Christmas themed giving that perfect mix for an end of term Christmas lesson.
This resource will last a full 50 minutes to 1 hour.
This Geography resource contains:
1x PowerPoint with questions and answers
1x Student Answer Sheet double sided out of /54+ Marks
3 sets of Editable Team Certificates (1st place, 2nd place and 3rd place)
Skills reflection slide
Personal reflection questions
What does the Geography Christmas quiz comprise of?
Round 1:
Identify winter inspired images
Round 2:
True or False - good variety of themed questions
**Round 3: **
Matching and strategy can you find the correct links and eliminate all others
Round 4:
Linking Round - be able to make the correct links between left and right lists
Round 5:
Numbers Round -all the answers will involve numbers.
Round 6:
Jumbled up Round - Unravel these to find the answer staring directly back at you
Round 7:
Multiple Choice theory - Put your team to the test
Round 8:
Observation Round - Look at the image , remember everything you see….
Round 9:
Wordsearch Round - Locate the words before time runs out…
**Round 10: **
Tie Breaker - Design it but use all your team’s creative abilities
This will last a full hour for the full quiz by the time you get students into small teams and run through the quiz and the interactive way the answers appear. This informative, fun and engaging quiz will be a great way to celebrate the end of term and Christmas.
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Earthquakes is an exciting Geography unit designed for students in KS2.
The planning overview, topic title page and vocabulary page can be downloaded for free here. Lessons include:
L1 – Understanding the structure of the Earth
L2 – Understanding tectonic plates
L3 – Understanding the causes of earthquakes
L4 – Investigating the five deadly features of an earthquake
L5 – Researching earthquakes using Wikipedia
L6 – Locating the world’s biggest earthquakes using latitude & longitude
L7 – Writing a fact file about a famous earthquake
Each lesson includes a presentation and differentiated activities/worksheets.
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This lesson is part of Mountain Environments, a Geography unit designed for students in upper KS2 (Y4-6).
First the presentation introduces some of the most famous mountain ranges from around the world.
The differentiated activity then challenges students to locate the world’s mountain ranges and encourages them to use and explore atlases. It is recommended that students do the activity in pairs.
Easier – Students identify the world’s famous mountain ranges (less writing).
Medium – Students identify the world’s famous mountain ranges (first letter clues)
Harder – Students identify the world’s famous mountain ranges (no clues)
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Full series of revision lessons and Resources
Session 1: Natural Hazards Revision
Revision Clock
Blockbuster
Session 2: Living World Revision
Revision Clock
Blockbuster
Session 3: Coasts and Rivers Revision
Revision Clock
Blockbuster
AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1C: In this lesson we look at erosion, transportation and deposition.
The starter is “which row is the odd one out”. The pupils need to work out which row has an incorrect term in. Just gets them thinking.
We then look at erosion and when rivers are eroding more effectively. The pupils learn about vertical and lateral erosion and will be making some diagrams in there exercise books. They then receive a worksheet where the processes of erosion and transportation are illustrated, the pupils use an information slide (or sheet if you prefer) and label the processes on and colour code the area of the diagram where that process is displayed. We then look at how these processes vary as you progress down the long profile of a river. The pupils get another worksheet where they read the labels and draw an appropriate diagram in each box to create an illustrated log profile. We finish with a summarising pyramid plenary.
In a nutshell lesson includes:
Odd one out starter.
Vertical and lateral erosion diagram activity
Worksheet on processes of erosion
Worksheet activity on processes of erosion along the course of a river
Summarising pyramid
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the 2016 specification Unit 1C: In this lesson we look at the physical and human factors affecting flood risk and storm hydrographs and what factors affect their shape.
We start with a retrieval practice quiz with ten questions. We begin by looking at the definition of flooding and a brief example by considering the floods around Doncaster in 2019 and 2020. There is a video clip for this. We then look at the physical and human factors that affect flooding. The students have a diagram to annotate and locate an appropriate example on the diagram, they then colour code the annotations into physical and human factors. We then explore the components of a hydrograph. The students have a blank graph to label on the various component parts of the graph. We then look at what factors are likely to affect the storm hydrograph. Here the students have a grid to fill in with annotations from the board. They have to locate where the annotation would logically go on their grid. We finish with a 4-mark GCSE style question and there is some tips for students who need it on how to answer it.
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This is the first lesson in Mountain Environments, a Geography unit designed for students in upper KS2 (Y4-6).
First the presentation introduces students to the topic and looks at some of the activities people do in mountains. It then introduces the key features of a mountain range.
The activity challenges students to identify the key features of a mountain environment. It is differentiated three ways:
Easier – Students identify 8 key features of mountains.
Medium – Students identify 10 key features of mountains.
Harder – Students label the key features of mountains in their exercise book.
Extension – Students match mountain vocabulary to their definitions.
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An animated and child-friendly Power point to help children learn about the water cycle. Hope this is useful :)
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This is a workbook designed to meet part of the criteria for the AQA Entry Level Geography Rivers Unit - I think it includes everything but Flooding and Flood management and the case study.
Some of the activities have been adapted from other worksheets
A simplified revision aid used to show the three types of rocks (sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous) with the properties, uses, diagram of formation and how the rock is formed.
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