A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 2- Challenges in the human environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 36 slides with full information and case studies for each topic.
Content Includes:
Urban Issues and Challenges
Definition and causes of urbanisation
Emergence of megacities
Case Study of Rio as an NEE along with opportunities and challenges.
Case Study - Urban change in a Major UK City - Leeds
Sustainable Urban Living - Leeds Greenhouse Project
Traffic Management in Leeds
The Changing Economic World
Measuring development
Measuring population and causes of uneven development
Tourism in Jamaica
UK national and global links
Case Study- Nigeria - TNCs causing development
Economic and Industrial Change in the UK
Modern Industrial Developments in the UK - Cambridge Science Park and Torr Quarry.
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Students will be able to describe the importance of fieldwork along with why do fieldwork in geography. This lesson contains the basis for a fieldwork investigation around your school that includes a liter count and bi-polar environmental quality survey.
Task 1: Describe which is more accurate data sample set
Task 2: Writing a hypothesis
Task 3: Conducting research at 3 different locations along with the research sheet.
Task 4: Main Task: Write up _ Describe what the research found about the school site.
Task 5: Plenary: Homework for litter pick for further data
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Students will be able to describe what a migrant is, along with examples of who would be classed as a migrant. Then students will identify the difference between, migrant, immigrant, refugee and emigrant. Finally students will learn the causes of migration and the use of the terms push and pull factors. Along with the impacts of migration on the host and country of origin.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Key term match up with migrant, emigrant, refugee with definitions.
Task 2: Identification of push and pull factors in terms of migration
Task 3: Impacts of migration for host and country of origin.
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the impact of migration of the country of origin and the host country.
Task 5: Plenary: Purposeful retrieval of information from the lesson.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on Typhoon Haiyan, the location, case study, primary and secondary effects along with planning, preparation and monitoring.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Students to accurately describe the path of the typhoon.
Task 3: Read through the information sheet and add the effects and responses on their sheet.
Task 4: Main Task - Exam question practice, "Using an example, describe the primary and secondary effects of a tropical storm. (6 marks)
Task 5: Exam Question Practice - "Using an example, describe the short-term responses to a tropical storm (4 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - Explain why planning and preparation is the best option for reducing the effects of tropical storms.
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A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 1- Living in the Physical Environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 30 slides with full information and case studies for each topic.
Case studies include:
Ecosystems - UK Pond
Tropical Rainforest - Malaysia
Hot Desert - Thar Desert
Rivers - River Tees
Coasts - Holderness Coast
Tectonic Hazards - Christchurch vs Haiti
Weather Hazards - Typhoon Haiyan
UK Weather Hazards - Beast from the East
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Students will be able to explain what colonisation is, where in Africa was colonised and by which country/ empire. Students will then learn about the scramble for Africa post slave trade and the reasons for the scramble. Students will then identify the social, economic and environmental. issues that colonisation caused for Africa. Then students will evaluate which is the worst effect and why. Finally they will create a newspaper article about the effects of colonisation on Africa.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the countries that were colonised and by which country/ empire.
Task 2: Identify the social, economic and environmental. issues that colonisation
Task 3: Evaluate which of the effects of colonisation was the worst and why.
Task 4: Create a newspaper article explaining what colonisation is, why it happened and its effects on the African people.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on aid, introduction to different types of aid, when do we use it and how the UK gives aid to Pakistan
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Define aid then writing the definition on their worksheet
Task 3: Read through the different facts about aid in Pakistan and students are to outline if the facts are positives of negatives to Pakistan
Task 4: Main Task - Long form writing- students to define what aid is, how it can benefit and be a negative to Pakistan. Then they are to state overall if aid is a good or bad thing and justify if the UK should keep giving aid.
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how Pakistan can improve development in their country.
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Students to write down the characteristics of pictures of favelas and describe what the conditions look like in these areas. Students will identify why people live there and why they have moved there. Advantages and disadvantages of living in a favela and jobs that are there.
Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning
Task 2: Identify why people live in favelas and identify the characteristics of favelas.
Task 3: Advantages and Disadvantages of living in a favela along with the jobs there.
Task 4: Main Task - Describe the opportunities and challenges of living in a favela
Task 5: Plenary: Class question - How would the government fix this issue?
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on an what Transnational corporations (TNC’s) are and why they have chosen Nigeria to develop in. Students will be able to explain the positives and negatives of Nigeria and then answer the question on if TNCs are a positive force in Nigeria.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how ox-bow lakes are formed
Task 2: Outline the positives and negatives of TNCs on the worksheet.
Task 3: Geography Skills: Describe the distribution of oil fields in Nigeria (3 marks)
Task 4: Students to watch a video explaining the positives and negatives of Shell in Nigeria.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “To what extent are TNCs a positive force for the host country?" (6 marks)
High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words.
Task 5: Plenary - Revision on exam question about ox-bow lakes.
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on how tourism in Jamaica has improved the development of the area. Students will investigate where Jamaica is located, describe how tourism has increased in the last 50 years and how tourism has improved the economy of the area.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Recap on how waterfalls are formed (6 marks)
Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe the location of Jamaica (4 marks)
Task 3: Watch the video on how tourism affects Jamaica.
Task 4: Students to complete the multiplier effect circle.
Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Evaluate, the role of tourism in reducing the development gap in an area you have studied (9 marks).” High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words.
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for next physical revision - Meanders/ Oxbow Lakes
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on how the economic development of Nigeria has led to environmental problems. Students will be able to explain how the environmental problems affect both the natural and human environments and then outline the Bodo Oil Spill case study.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Describe how a Levee is formed
Task 2: Indicate which of the environmental problems affect the natural vs human environment.
Task 3: Watch the video on the Bodo Oil Spill.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “The impacts of economic development have been only positive in Nigeria”.Do you agree with this statement?Justify your opinion (6 marks)
High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words.
Task 5: Plenary - Revise for Levee Read, Write, Wipe as starter for next lesson.
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Students will be able to describe where tropical rainforests are located globally using lines of latitude and other descriptors of location that students have learned. Then students will describe the location of the Amazon Rainforest in South America using the same skills as before. Next students will investigate why rainforests are in that area and how convectional rainfall occurs. After that students will learn about the layers of the rainforest and then describe what they have learnt about the Amazon Rainforest in their books.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe where tropical rainforests are located globally
Task 2: Describe where the Amazon Rainforest is located in South America
Task 3: Create a comic about how convectional rainfall creates rainforests
Task 4: Match the layers of the rainforest to its description.
Task 5: Main Task: Describe your learning about tropical rainforests and their characteristics.
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation.
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Students will be able to define what a glacial and interglacial period is along with the conditions of each. They will also interpret graphs to show the glacial/interglacial cycle on Earth and describe the extent of ice during the last Ice Age. Students will then investigate the causes of the Ice Age and how humans survived the conditions.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Students describe the Earth’s climate over the past 450,000 years by interpreting a graph.
Task 3: Using the map of Earth students are to describe the extent of ice during the Ice Age.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe the last Ice Age and its effects on Earth, using success criteria.
Task 5: Plenary: Why is our planet not able to enter an Ice Age currently? Would we adapt now to an Ice Age? How would we adapt?
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on what is consent, why do we need consent, and what consent looks like.
Task 1: Starter - On whiteboards, class discussion and ask students opinion.
Task 2: Describe consent to someone who doesn’t know what it it.
Task 3: Create a spider diagrams on situations where you would need consent.
Task 4: What are the signs of consent, how do you know if you’ve been given consent
Task 5: With sheet students to work in pairs to answer questions about consent
Task 6: Plenary - Consent Quiz
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Students will recap the issues present in Kibera the slum that was previously investigated. Then they will choose which area they want to improve in their slums and why. Next they will categorise the solutions to slums into social, economic and environmental. Then students will evaluate which of the solutions have been the most successful rating them 1-8. Finally students have a silent debate where they write down which of the improvements has been the most successful and why, then pass the book around to debate the next point.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Recap the issues of living in slums.
Task 2: Explain which part of Kibera should be improved and why on whiteboards.
Task 3: Categorise the solutions to slums into social, economic and environmental.
Task 4: Evaluate which of the solutions have been the most successful rating them 1-8
Task 5: silent debate where they write down which of the improvements has been the most successful and why, then pass the book around to debate the next point…
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Students will be able to recap the key learning from previous lessons on Asia and population features, students will also be asked to identify features on a population pyramid and identify the mean of the data.
Students will recap what overpopulation is from the previous lesson and then describe what was happening to China before the One Child Policy.
Students then investigate the two ways that were used to limit population before the policy and then they will investigate the rules and the punishments of the policy.
Finally students will identify if the one child policy was effective and if it outweighs the cost in a newspaper article.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1:Recap the term overpopulation
Task 2: Describe what the population was like before the One Child Policy and what efforts were used before the policy.
Task 3: To understand the rules and the punishments that were in place to ensure the Once Child Policy was enforced.
Task 4: Main Task: Create a newspaper article to evaluate the effectiveness of the One Child Policy.
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A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on types of aid in Nigeria. Students will be able to describe why Nigeria needs aid, why international aid is useful for the country and why it is not always used effectively.
Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Exam question on how an ox-bow lake is formed
Task 2: Geography Skills: Describe the trend in aid received by Nigeria (3 marks)
Task 3: Students to priorities which they think is the main reason for aid and why.
Task 4: Geography Skill: Graph Analysis: Identify how much aid Nigeria gave and how much the EU gave.
Task 5: Main Task - Describe the living conditions in the figure, explain how aid should be spent in the area and then justify why small scale projects are more likely to be successful in Nigeria.
Task 5: Plenary - Revision for next geographical process, levee and floodplain formation.
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Students will be able to accurately locate Ukraine, identify the build up to the war through the annexation of Crimea and other reasons. Students will then identify the human and physical features of Ukraine and how that has helped to limited the invasion of the country.
Task 1: Knowledge Recap on last lesson (Chernobyl)
Task 2: Located Ukraine on the map
Task 3: Watch video about the build up to the 2022 war.
Task 4: Identify the physical features of Ukraine and how they have limited invasion
Task 5: Discuss which of the human features have had the largest impact on the war.
Task 6: Main Task: Identify Ukraine, Identify one physical factor that has limited Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Identify one human factor that has limited Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Explain which factor (human or physical) is the most important to why Russia hasn’t taken over Ukraine.
Task 7: Plenary: How has the war affected people in the UK?
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In this lesson students will be introduced to what fieldwork skills are, how to do them and why we do them. This is to get them farmiliar with the types of sampling and data collection ahead of a fieldtrip and why they choose that.
In this lesson students cover:
Primary vs Secondary Data
Qualitative vs Quantative Data
Types of sampling: Cluster, Stratified, Systematic and Random, along with the benefits and drawbacks of each type of sampling.
Finally students cover why we do risk assessments and why it is important.
Students finish off with an exam question practice that will be completed in their booklets.