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 **Download contains PowerPoint **

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… Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe how our climate has changed over time, why it has changed over time and interpret graphs that link CO2 to temperature to sea-level rise. Then students will identify the natural causes of climate change and the human causes of climate change. Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics Task 2: On whiteboards come up with theories about how we know the climate has changed in the past. Task 3: Using the worksheet, students evaluate which is the most accurate/ best proxy for climate reconstruction and place them in a diamond 9. Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe how we know our climate is changing through evaluation of proxies. Task 5: Plenary: What do we think our planet was like during the last Ice Age? Lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet

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 **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will be able to locate Nigeria using the locational information from previous lessons as well as the map on the board. Students will then read through the information sheet and highlight why Nigeria is important socially, economically and environmentally. Students will then identify the scale on Nigeria’s importance between nationally or globally and then create a tourist brochure about why people should visit Nigeria. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the location of Nigeria Task 2: Identify on the information sheet the social, economic and environmental importance of Nigeria. Task 3: Explain the global and national importance of Nigeria. Task 4: Create a travel brochure on Nigeria and why tourists should visit there. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

A fully resourced and up to date lesson introducing students to intimacy and sexual relationships. This should form the basis of discussions about what intimacy is and how to prepare for intimacy in a relationship. Task 1: Starter - Create class ground rules on SRE Task 2: Students to discuss what intimacy is and what it means to them Task 3: In pairs come up with 5 or more characteristics of a positive intimate relationship. Task 4: What are the positives of having healthy intimacy, what are the negatives of intimacy. Task 5: Main Task: Students must give advice to 4 different scenarios.

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. Resource Management Types of resources Food overview Agribusiness Energy overview Water Overview China - North - West Water Transfer Scheme **Download contains PowerPoint **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how the UK’s demand for energy has changed, why it has changed along with how the mix of energy the UK has used has changed. This lesson covers fracking, wind and nuclear energy as case studies for the impacts of energy exploitation. Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning Task 2: Graph analysis: Describe how consumption in the UK has changed over time. Task 3: Pie chart analysis: Energy mix of the UK through time. Task 4: Compound line graph analysis: Energy mix of the UK through time. Task 5: Colour code the positives and negatives of wind and nuclear power. Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Explain why the UK’s energy mix will include both renewable and non-renewable sources in the future. (6 marks)" Task 6: Plenary - What are some of the main uses for water in the UK? **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how water in the UK is managed. This includes areas of surplus and deficit along with the case study of Kielder Dam, Northumberland. This lesson also discusses the impacts of water pollution in the UK and ways that is it managed. Task 1: Starter - Knowledge retention of previous learning Task 2: Key word match up for water deficit, water surplus, water stress. Task 3: Three choropleth maps of the UK and students must suggest if there is a relationship between rainfall, population density and water stress. Task 4: Describe the location of Kielder dam and the location of the water transfer scheme (4 marks) Task 5: Colour code the positives and negatives of Kielder Dam. Task 5: Main Task -Exam question practice “Assess the extent to which water transfer systems bring opportunities to local areas (6 marks)" Task 6: Plenary - What questions would you ask to find out more about global water scarcity? **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will be able to describe the difference between Primary and Secondary data as well as give examples for each type. Then students will investigate Quantitative versus Qualitative data and what types of data these represent. Finally students will explain why it is important to display data in different methods, specifically bar chart. This lesson was created to be part of a two lesson plan, so the previous lesson will be included in the download to help with planing. Starter: Knowledge Retention on previous learning Task 1: Testing the difference between primary and secondary data Task 2: Testing the difference between quantitative and qualitative Task 3: Why do we choose to present data in a certain way? Task 4: Main Task: Describe the quality of the environment at our school Lesson contains two powerpoints 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. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the 2010 Christchurch earthquake, this lesson establishes what an earthquake is. Where Christchurch is located globally and background on what happened during the earthquake, and the effects including, social, economic and environmental effects. Then students finish off by looking at the long-term and short-term effects of the quake. Task 1: Starter: Knowledge recall on previous topic (Coasts) Task 2: Describe the location of New Zealand. Task 3: Identify the primary and secondary effects then place them into social, economic and environmental. Task 4: Watch the news video about the New Zealand quake. Task 5: Exam question: Exam question: “Earthquakes are another example of tectonic activity.” Using an example, describe the primary and secondary effects of an earthquake. (6 marks) Task 6: Peer Feedback Task 7: Using a volcanic eruption or an earthquake you have studied, describe the short-term responses to the disaster. (4 marks) Task 8: Peer Feedback **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will be able to describe what the European Union is, when it formed and its purpose. INtroduction to the concepts of Freedom of Movement and Single Market. They will also be able to explain why it formed and its main countries that made up the EU. Starter: Knowledge retention from previous learning Task 1: Assessment for learning - Students to write down everything they know about the EU. Task 2: Explain the history of the EU and its formation through time. Task 3: Difference between the EU and Europe (geography misconception) Task 4: Main Task: Create a newspaper article for Newsround about what the EU is and what it does. Task 5: Plenary: Fill in the spider diagram from the start of the lesson with new learning about the EU. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe the route the Amazon river takes using longitude, latitude and countries, then students will be asked to identify confluences, tributaries and other physical features associated with rivers. Next students will be asked to knowledge dump everything they can remember about the water cycle in their books and then match up the labels with the correct definition. Finally students will learn about convectional rainfall and asked to describe the water cycle in the amazon through everything they have learned. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the path of the Amazon river from source to mouth. Task 2: Knowledge dump everything you know about the water cycle. Task 3: match the correct word to the definition. Task 4: Main Task: Describe the water cycle that occurs in the Amazon, then explain how this causes convectional rainfall in the Amazon rainforest. Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

A fully resourced, differentiated, and up-to-date lesson on two contrasting rural areas with population increase and decrease. This lesson covers South Cambridgeshire (population increase) and Outer Hebrides (population decrease) Task 1: Starter - Application of knowledge- Read, Write, Mark, students have 4 minutes to recap learning on rotational cliff slumping. Then write down as much as they can remember, then mark accuracy. Task 2: Geography Skills: Graph Analysis - Describe the type of graph, describe the change in urban population in the UK. Task 3: Geography Skills: Describe location - Describe the location of the Outer Hebrides, then describe the location of South Cambridgeshire. Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Contrast the economic challenges associated with rural areas of population growth and decline (6 marks)” High-ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding. LA students can use sentence starters and keywords for help. Task 5: Plenary - Revise for exam question on rotational cliff slumping. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

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 Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to use key terms such as dense, sparse and distribution then describe the distribution and density for different countries in Africa. Students will then be given key terms with population such as birth rate, death rate, life expectancy and infant mortality rate. Then students will be introduced to population pyramids and asked to compare the three different areas of Africa that have these population pyramids. Finally using factors used in HDI students will compare which is the best country to live in Africa according to statistics and why. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the density and distribution of populations of a football match, then the countries in Africa Task 2: Join the key word with the definition. Task 3: Explain the population pyramid for the continent of Africa, then describe the population pyramids between Uganda, Botswana and Tunisia. Task 4: Using the profile of Africa you have built up over the lesson, describe which of the three countries in Africa would be the best place to live currently and why. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

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. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the different cartographic skills for students at GCSE. This lesson includes: Atlas Skills including reading longitude and latitude and identification of physical and human atlas maps. Ordnance Survey Maps including using a key, scale, four and six figure references and reading contours and spot height. Maps in association with photographs including direction of photograph, identification of features, use of satellite imagery and sketch/ field maps. Task 1: Identify the longitude and latitude of 12 points on an atlas. Task 2: Measuring the distance between features on an OS map Task 3: Identifying four and six figures on a simple OS map Task 4: Identify the maximum and minimum height of the OS map Task 5: Identify the direction the photograph was taken Task 6: Explain the social, economic and environmental impacts of a earthquake from satellite imagery. If you get time you could take your students outside and get them to do a sketch map of the school ground and a birds eye view of the school. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the Beast from the East - an extreme weather event in England in 2018. Students will investigate the location, causes of the storm, the social, economic and environmental impacts along with the short term and long term responses. Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning Task 2: Using the images on the screen, come up with what you think caused the Beast from the East. Task 3: Complete the learning clock with information in the PowerPoint starting with identifying where the beast was affected. Then identify the causes of the storm, next to the social and economic and environmental factors and finally the long term and short term responses. Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Suggest how extreme weather in the UK can have economic and social impacts.” "(6 marks) Task 5: Plenary - How could we have responded to the event better? **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **