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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I have now analysed all Edexcel Paper 2 past papers (specimen through to 2023) and pinpointed areas of the spec that have either not come up before or not been focused on in recent years.
This time, I have done questions for ALL topics - Globalisation, Superpowers, Regeneration, Diverse Places, Human health/human rights, and finally Migration. So this resource should be useful to all.
I have also created a rough mark scheme to provide you with ideas. I have purposefully tried to give more detail on questions that I perceive as being more difficult.
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we examine the distribution of the global ecosystems or biomes.
The lesson has an ordnance survey map skills retrieval practice starter quiz. We then look at what a global ecosystem or biome is and what the general pattern of their distribution is. The students complete a cloze exercise and write a paragraph introducing the concept of global ecosystems. The students then complete a colouring by numbers worksheet to familiarise them with the distribution of the global ecosystems. They then complete a worksheet on where these ecosystems can be found, using atlases to give named examples of countries that feature those particular biomes. There is another extension to this where the students create a diagram to show the importance of latitude in the distribution of global ecosystems. We finish with a GCSE-style practice question with some sentence starters and a mark scheme provided for the students.
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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.
Polar biomes & environments (11 lessons)
Lesson 1 - Polar Environments, what are they and where they
Lesson 2 - Polar biomes climate graph
Lesson 3 - How have some plants and animals adapted to live in The Arctic
Lesson 4 - The threats to Polar biomes
Lesson 5 - How fast are polar biomes warming
Lesson 6 - Tourism in polar biomes
Lesson 7 - The Antarctic treaty
Lesson 8 - Should we mine Antartica
Lesson 9 - Map reading in Polar biomes
Lesson 10 - Assessment lesson
Lesson 11 - Assessment feedback & peer marking
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
Interplanetary population project
extras (wordsearches, extensions, games mapping, Halloween mapping…)
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we look at what valuable commodities and services the rainforest provides.
The lesson has a rainforest themed retrieval practice starter. We look at what value the rainforest has to indigenous peoples and why these people may be at threat. Focusing on the Achua tribe we look at a video and complete some guided reading with the students completing some questions relating to the text. We then look at the valuable medicines that come from the rainforest, the students have to complete an annotated ‘rainforest cabinet’ using information from the slide. We then look at essential services. The students read the information on the various services the rainforest provides and rate them according to how important they are and explain why they think this. We finish with a GCSE-style practice question with some guidance and structure provided for the students.
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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we look at what the physical characteristics of tropical rainforests are.
The lesson has a retrieval practice starter quiz on rivers to begin with. We then look at what it is like to be in the rainforest with a short video clip of walking through the forest. We then look at the location of tropical rainforests and the students have a map with some questions of differing difficulty to answer. The students are provided with a worksheet to draw a climate graph of the rainforest with some additional skills questions to answer (works well with a visualiser). The students complete an annotated profile of the rainforest latosol soil, describing and explaining its characteristics. We then look at the nutrient cycle and the students annotate a diagram making sure they eliminate the incorrect word from the annotation. We finish with a GCSE-style practice question with some guidance and structure provided for the students.
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AQA GCSE Geography lessons for the Resource Management Section Unit 2C. All lessons are fully resourced, differentiated with a variety of activities and practice questions.
Lessons included are.
The Global Distribution of Resources
Provision of Food in the UK
Provision of Water in the UK
The Provision of Energy in the UK
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This lesson is part of Tropical Rainforests, a Geography unit designed for students in KS2, but can also be taught as a stand alone lesson. All resources are compatible with both Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
The presentation introduces students to tropical rainforests, including some of the flora and fauna that live in them. Students then learn about the Earth’s tropical belt and the location of the various rainforests within it.
The activity challenges students to label features of a world map including the Equator, the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Students then locate 8 of the world’s tropical rainforests.
Easier - Students use a prompt map and have activity clues.
Harder - Students use a prompt map but have no activity clues.
Extension - Students fill in the missing words in a paragraph about tropical rainforests.
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A scheme of work for the Changing Places topic, this has been edited and compiled together from a range of other resources but has been a half-terms worth of work making it suitable for my pupils. On occasions, it requires the use of the Hodder Education A level textbook and the Oxford A level text books and articles that are mentioned but haven’t been uploaded for copyright reasons.
Lessons are as follows:
L1 - What is place
L2 - Sense of place
L3 - Perception of place
L4 - Social and spatial exclusion
L5 - Categories of place
L6 - Perception vs. sense of place
L7 - Endogenous vs exogenous factors
L8 - Characteristics of place
L9 - Place identity
L10 - Clone towns
L11 - Representation of place
L12 - Changing representation of place
L13 - Changing representation of Dharavi
L14 - Regeneration (B’ham UK)
L15 - Gentrification
L16 - Suburbanisation
L17 - Counterurbanisation
L18 - Local place study - Bangkok
AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we look at what how plants and animals have adapted to the environmental conditions in the rainforest.
The lesson has a retrieval practice starter to begin with. We then look at what biodiversity is and why the rainforests are particularly diverse. We then look at rainforest stratification and plant adaptations. The students have a sheet to complete and some information slides to use to complete the sheet. This could be used as a carousel or group work task. The sheet can even be coloured in! Then the students complete a mix and match up task on the most common types of animal adaptations. The students then complete a rating task with explanation as to how significant are threats to biodiversity in the rainforest. We finish with a GCSE-style practice question with some guidance and structure provided for the students.
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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 2016 specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we look at how ecosystems operate, from small-scale ecosystems to biomes.
We start with a retrieval practice task based around coats. We begin by looking at what the biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem are.
The students are given an example ecosystem and have to categorise the components according to whether they think they are biotic or abiotic. We then look at different scales of ecosystems and look at trophic levels. The students work out which examples belong with which trophic level . We then explore an example of a food chain, using a small-scale ecosystem (a pond) the students have to work out which creatures belong in which trophic level. We then look at biomass in the food chain and discuss why biomass declines at each level. 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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Activity for pupils to draw and compare population pyramids for The Gambia and The UK, using 2023 data. There is a outline set of axes with an example plot on it for lower ability pupils and a labelling activity to pupils to demonstrate their ability to interpret the graphs. In addition there is a visual hexagons task which asks pupils to explain various factors and their influence on population size and structure which would make a good homework task.
Volcanoes & Earthquakes is an exciting extended 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 – Investigating the structure of a volcano (FREE)
L3 – Locating the world’s famous volcanoes
L4 – Investigating the five deadly features of a volcanic eruption
L5 – Understanding tectonic plates
L6 – Exploring the effects of volcanic eruptions on Montserrat
L7 – Why do people live near volcanoes?
L8 – Understanding the causes of earthquakes
L9 – Investigating the five deadly features of an earthquake
L10 – Researching earthquakes using Wikipedia
L11 – Locating the world’s biggest earthquakes using latitude & longitude
L12 – Writing a fact file about a famous earthquake
Each lesson includes a presentation and differentiated activities/worksheets.
A FREE newspaper report template is also included in this unit.
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This lesson is part of a wider cross-curricula unit called London Zoo which is designed for KS1 and lower KS2 students (Y2-4).
The animals have escaped at the zoo and the keeper needs your help! The presentation first encourages students to describe the features of animals. It then challenges students to match animals to their names, description and habitat. It includes a variety of animals including fish, birds, mammals, insects and amphibians.
There is a group activity and an individual activity:
Group Activity:
Students match animals to their names, description and habitat (KS1 and KS2 versions).
Individual Activity:
Students match animals to their names, description and habitat on a worksheet. This is differentiated three ways:
Easier – Students match animals to their habitats.
Medium – Students match animals to their description and habitat.
Harder – Students fill in the names of the animals and match them to their description and habitat.
Extension – Students classify animals as fish, birds, mammals, insects or amphibians.
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An easy to use reading comprehension pack with three sections of differentiated questions. This activity focuses on urgent environmental issues . It can be used in form time as part of literacy focus, or in an English lesson for KS3/4 GCSE comprehension training.
It is interesting, useful, very easy to use and good to raise awareness of envirornmental issues.
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This booklet looks primarily at the rainforest and covers how plants adapt to their environments, food webs, the water cycle, how humans us the rainforest and how it can be sustainable. Tasks include wordsearchs, word fills, match ups, comprehension and writing a report
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Lesson covers the formation of coal and oil and includes a storyboard task with a peer assessed marking activity
All resources included within the ppt
Latitude and Longitude worksheet asking to students to label the main lines of latitude and longitude across the globe. Sheet also contains extension questions which increase in difficulty.
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