Decision making exercise looking at flood zoning. "Town Planners" Pupils are to decide where several aspects of the town should be built in relation to a river that has been known to flood. Pupils have to justify how they have planned the town. Used with a Year 7 mixed ability set. The river document was printed on A3 paper and pupils had to draw on the scale of past flood levels. They also cut and stuck their decisions around their town. Differentiation via the different roles involved - Team Leader, Land Advisor, Architect, Reporter

Lesson used with a mixed ability Year 7 Class. Starter: Sequence the formation of a sea stack. Main: How is material transported - Salutation, Traction, Suspension, Solution - pupils to draw diagrams into books and explain how the material is being moved. Longshore Drift - explain process, drawn into book. Plenary: What would happen if longshore drift continued? - linked to depositional features. Summary what has been learnt in today's lesson in 20 words.

A display created using images of £2 coins and 50p asking pupils to think about what History do they have in their pocket. Images of: Battle of Britain Battle of Hastings Great Fire of London Magna Carta WW1 Suffragette movement Gunpowder Plot Victoria Cross NHS London Underground I got the images printed on colour and laminated and cut around them to display them.

PowerPoint Slides to look at the difference between weather and climate - plenary activity of statements that relate to either weather and climate. Card sort activity to support different aspects of the weather and how we measure it - great to use if you don't have the equipment in school to demonstrate with. Used with a mixed ability Year 7 class. Very visual resources, fully animated.

New resource for the new AQA A Geography Specification for Teaching in September 2016. First lesson looking at What are Natural Hazards? Definition Types of natural hazards Factors that increase hazard risk Practise exam style question Geographical skills - drawing pie charts/divided bar graph and describing pattern on a map. Also included are key words that will be used in the Tectonic Hazard topic.

Following the AQA A Specification for cliff collapse at Christchurch Bay. The lesson examines the causes and the effects of cliff collapse. Includes a sketch map of the coastline and exam style question.

Lesson used with Year 9 looking at flooding events in Pakistan in 2010. Starting with a 5Ws of an image of flooding Locating Pakistan and writing a description of location Causes of flooding Video clip to show impacts Impacts of flooding -categorise statements into social, economic and environmental impacts Immediate aftermath of the flooding again with a video clip. Plenary - Is Pakistan a risky place? Also include a document that I used with my lower end.

Social, economic, environmental impacts and the response to Hurricane Katrina.

Information Sheets for the case studies used in Geography AQA A Specification Topic Living World. Amazon Rainforest Atlantic Rainforest Epping Forest Hot Desert MEDC - Australian Outback Hot Desert LEDC - Sahara Desert Also past 8 mark exam questions from 2011-2015

18 questions to be displayed around the classroom - not the typical "geography questions", examples: Which is the only city to be located in two continents? Which county in the UK has two coasts? Which country has the most volcanoes? Which country has the highest life expectancy? How many Great Lakes are there in the North America? My intention is to have the pages printed back to back on A4 (obviously only get pages 2-37 printed not the first page), on card and in colour and the page folded therefore the question is on the top and you open it to reveal the answer (I am going to use velcro dots also).

10 “Geog your memory” worksheets with answers for Paper 1 AQA A Geography. Topics included: natural hazards, tectonic hazards, weather hazards, climate change, ecosystems, tropical rainforests, hot deserts, river landscapes, coastal landscapes I set these for homework and then using the answers pupils mark their work the following lessons.

Each PowerPoint slide contains 5 Geography general knowledge questions. The first 9 slides focus on Britain and the next 4 are worldwide Geography. Answers are included. I usually have this slide on the board when I am going around checking homework to try and increase pupils general Geography knowledge who will answer the questions in the back of their books I will then go over the answers and pupils are scored out of 5. Blank templates of each are included.

Revision booklet for pupils to complete independently on the topic of Hot Environments from Paper 1 Section B using their exercise books/ textbooks. (Page numbers relate to blue Oxford University Press Textbook). Case study included is Thar Desert. Thought Quilt covers the topics of tropical rainforest and hot deserts – answers are included.

Random facts about our world that are displayed on my classroom wall to inspire pupils. I have them laminated and backed on different coloured paper and added a title “Did you know…” I frequently refer to them in lessons, for example when discussing the deepest hole ever dug, or the distance from Land’s End to John O Groats.

Revision booklet for pupils to complete independently on the topic of Weather Hazards from Paper 1 using their exercise books/ textbooks. The case studies included are: Typhoon Haiyan and the Somerset Levels

PowerPoint and resources to be used when teaching AQA A Coastal Habitats using Studland Bay as a case study. Looking at the the ecosystem, issues, solutions and conflict. NEW: Overview of the topic to be used as a revision aid.