Students will understand the definition of geopolitics, along with identifying the features of Russia’s soft power then finally explaining how Russia uses its power to influence politics.
Task 1: Located and describe Russia
Task 2: Overview of Russian history and Soviet Union
Task 3: Video of Ukraine Russia conflict
Task 4: Write a news report about conflict and its impact on peoples lives.
Lesson 7 out of 9
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?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the weather of the UK, with background on ocean currents, distance from the equator, altitude and prevailing winds. This will help students to understand the many reasons we have a temperate climate in the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: Students to watch a video on why the UK climate varies, and divide the UK into four sections, describing the summer and winter of each section.
Task 3: Explain why convectional rainfall is common in the southeast of England during the summer (4 marks)
Task 4: Read through the sheet and justify which weather condition the UK faces is most impactful and why.
Task 5: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Which extreme weather condition impacts the UK most significantly. Justify your opinion.” (6 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - How can the UK prepare for extreme weather conditions?
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In this lesson students will be able to state 4 or more threats to the taiga forest and explain why they are occurring. Then they will understand the social, economical and environmental factors that are involved in deforestation. The final task will be a form of formative assessment where students will bring all their knowledge to complete this.
Task 1: Starter: True or False
Task 2: Identification of different causes of deforestation
Task 3: Advantages and disadvantages of deforestation in the taiga
Task 4: Main Task- “Describe the characteristics of Russia and assess the threat to Russian biomes” (9 marks)
Task 5: Plenary: Tweet about it
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on World War 1, an introduction into world war 1, where did it occur, and who did it effect.
Task 1: Starter - Key Vocabulary of terms used this week that students must go away and research.
Task 2: Students to draw a spider diagram and fill it with information they already know.
Task 3: Read through information about weapons, battlefields and technology on slides.
Task 4: Main Task - create a cover page in their book about what WW1 is and use key facts figures and links to other topics.
Task 5: Plenary - With green pen students to fill in their earlier spider diagram with any information they have learnt in this lesson.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to use a compass, why we use compass directions and then how to apply compass directions to find places. This lesson also comes with an assessment at the end to test student’s knowledge of previous skills lessons.
Task 1: Starter -Recap the previous lessons and answer questions about them.
Task 2: Identity which students know the four-point compass directions and then the eight-point compass to stretch students.
Task 3: Discussion on why we use north orientated maps instead of other orientations.
Task 4: Complete a worksheet using compass directions and identifying what characters they end up at.
Task 5: Main Task - Secondary Assessment- using an atlas to answer all the questions on the worksheet, this puts all the skills students have previously acquired and puts them to use identifying places in an atlas.
Task 6: Plenary
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Students will be able to recap the difference between weather and climate then identify the different climates of Africa. Students then learn the three components that affect biome distribution. Then using four different climate graphs of different countries in Africa students cement their knowledge through 4 different questions. Finally students will investigate the animals and plants that are adapted to two places of contrasting climate, e.g. Egypt and DRC.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1: Describe the area that receives the most direct sunlight
Task 2: Describe the different climate areas in Africa using latitude
Task 3: Analyse four different climate graphs of contrasting areas in Africa
Task 4: Main Task: Compare the adaptation of the plants and animals of two different climates in two countries in Africa
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 the flood management scheme in York, Yorkshire. Students will find out, why the scheme is needed, what the scheme entails and the social, economic and environmental impacts of the scheme.
Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt in the previous lesson. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson.
Task 2: Identify the location of York in England.
Task 3: Students to read through information about why York floods so often.
Task 4: On a map of York students write on it where the scheme is used and what type of management strategy is used.
Task 5: Annotate the benefits and costs of the management scheme
Task 6: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "Using a UK Flood Management Scheme you have studied, argue to what extent this management scheme has been successful (9+3).” 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 - Opinion Line, students to consider the statement and stand on a continuum line in the room.
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These home learning/ homework sheets are a good way to test students knowledge and comprehension of the “changing economic world” topic of Nigeria. Each sheet provides upwards of 7 research questions, with two AQA specified exam questions to ensure that students are applying their knowledge correctly. It is recommended giving 1-2 weeks for students to complete the sheet (depending on student ability)
This home learning sheet is specifically designed for the Nigeria lessons that are also on Planet Geography, so if you want some engaging and challenging lessons, head over to the lessons and get them too!!
There are two homework sheets in this bundle, there is a Word version so you can edit the questions and there is also a PDF file so you can send it to your students digitally.
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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An AQA specification topic for KS4 in geography about river landscapes in the UK. Covering aspects such as erosion, transportation, deposition and features formed from these
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately describe how and why a river changes from source to mouth, with references to features on each course along with the erosional, depositional and transportations reasons for each formation. Students will then identify what causes flooding to happen, identifying features of a hydrograph and what natural and human factors cause flooding. Finally students will look at a case study about how management strategies are used to minimise the effects of flooding. With a specific case study at a management strategy used.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Rivers
Lesson 2: Erosion, Transportation and Deposition
Lesson 3: Upper Course River Features
Lesson 4: Middle Course River Features
Lesson 5: Lower Course River Features
Lesson 6: Case Study of the River Aire
Lesson 7: Factors that Affect Flood Risk
Lesson 8: Understanding Hydrographs
Lesson 9: Flooding- Hard Engineering
Lesson 10: Flooding - Soft Engineering
Lesson 11: York Flood Management scheme
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about inequality and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons students will be able to accurately
define inequality, global debt, positives and negatives of aid in developing countries and how to measure development. Finally students will focus on how the UK has inequalities in education, health and the North South divide.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Inequality
Lesson 2: Debt in Developing Countries
Lesson 3: Aid Positives and Negatives
Lesson 4: Measuring Development
Lesson 5: Global Inequalities
Lesson 6: Inequalities in the UK: North South Divide
Lesson 7: Education Inequality
Lesson 8: Health Inequalities in the UK
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, and case study analysis.
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
6 lessons on sex and relationship education (SRE), entitled “Sex Education and Relationships" Includes modern resources that are LGBT friendly and suitable for Year 7- 11.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Sex & Relationship Education
Lesson 2: Hygiene and Keeping Clean
Lesson 3: Media and Portrayal of Sex and Our Bodies
Lesson 4: Introducing Consent
Lesson 5: Expectation in Relationships
Lesson 6: Dangers of Sexting
This bundles contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Students will be able to describe what megafauna are, what their adaptations were during the Ice Age and how they came to be extinct.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Using the worksheet students are to describe the features of the animal and explain how its features help to adapt to the conditions of the Ice Age.
Task 3: Make notes about the extinction of the Giant Ground Sloth
Task 4: Main Task: Primary Assessment, describe how our climate has changed. (Sentence starters, PEEL structure provided and Success Criteria)
Task 5: Plenary: Why is our climate temperate when we are on the same latitude as Russia?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the future of tropical storms and what could potentially happen to people living in these areas. Contains lots of graph analysis for students.
Task 1: Starter - Answer true and false questions about previous learning
Task 2: On white boards students to make notes on the video about tropical storms
Task 3: Read through the information on the sheet and analyse the graphs about the future of tropical storms.
Task 4: Main Task - Exam question practice, “Suggest how the distributiion of tropical storms could change in the future if the trend in temperature change continues” (4 marks)
Task 5: Plenary - True or false about formation of tropical storms
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the natural causes of climate change through Earth’s history.
Task 1: Starter - 5 Quick Questions- students to recap on previously learnt information.
Task 2: Students to write out how temperature has changed through time and make the link to CO2.
Task 3: Students to watch the video in PowerPoint and make notes on the worksheet about the 4 causes of natural climate change.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- Complete two exam questions “Using figure 3 which one of the following statements is true” “Give one nature cause of changes in global temperatures”
Task 5: Plenary - Which natural cause of climate change do you think is most impactful and why.
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Students will be able to describe the location of Afghanistan, outline how conflict can affect development of a country and will finally explain in a mini essay how geography in the Middle East and conflict is linked.
Task 1: Starter- Recall Activity
Task 2: Define key words
Task 3: Locate Afghanistan
Task 4: Describe bar graph of development of Afghanistan
Task 5: Explain how geography in the Middle East and conflict are linked
Students will compile what they have learnt over the past 9 lessons to understand how people in the UK affect conflicts, how conflict affects us and then evaluate the effect of conflict.
Task 1: Starter/ recall of knowledge
Task 2: How do we personally affect conflicts?- Fill in the sheet
Task 3: Evaluate the effects of conflict
Lesson 9 of 9
Students will state where the Middle East is along with recognising the countries in that area along with the physical geography of the Middle East. The final task is where students describe the physical features of the Middle East to show comprehension.
Lesson 4 of 9 about conflict.
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on body image and body dysmorphia, an introduction into what body image is, what social media can do.
Task 1: Starter - Knowledge recap on what students previously learnt about hygiene.
Task 2: Create a spider diagram about what is body image using prompts on the board.
Task 3: Using example of filters, students have to identify what has changed and why that person may have changed it.
Task 4: What can be done to promote body positivity?
Task 5: Plenary - On whiteboards, students to give ideas on how to reduce inequality.
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