Lesson used with Year 9 pupils as the first lesson in the series on The Restless Earth. Choice of starter activities - word search used with lower ability ability, and an image with the 5 Ws used with higher ability pupils. Pupils begin by looking at 7 images of earthquakes and volcanoes, pupils have 30 seconds to view the images and have to record down 3 words to describe the image. Main Task: Pupils look at BBC articles of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that have occurred in 2016. Pupils have to record down information from the articles on a table worksheet. Feedback - all text boxes link to videos about the earthquake or volcanic eruption. Mapping activity if time. Exit ticket plenary.

AQA OXFORD GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOK NEEDED FOR THIS LESSON Lesson taken from pages 54 and 55 of the Oxford Texbook looking at how does change effect ecosystems.

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.

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.

Lesson following the AQA A GCSE OXFORD TEXTBOOK. What is an ecosystem? Lesson looking at defining an ecosystem, abiotic and biotic features, producers, consumers and decomposes, nutrient cycle, food webs and food chains, examples of UK ecosystems, pond ecosystem. Exam question worksheet for pupils.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Definition grids of key terms used within each topic of the new GCSE course. I will be using as a starter activity to recap previous learning, or within revision lessons to ensure pupils know what key terms mean. They can either be printed or shown using a projector/smart board. Answers are included in the notes section of the Powerpoint. There are definition grids for paper 1 and paper 2 topics including: tectonic hazards, weather hazards, climate change, ecosystems, tropical rainforests, hot deserts, river landscapes, coastal landscapes, the urban world, urban change in the UK, sustainable urban development, the development gap, a newly emerging economy, the changing UK economy, resource management and energy management. This resource can be easily adapted if you study a different optional topic.

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.

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.

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

A biome card sort with coniferous forest, desert, mountain, Mediterranean, savannah, temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, tropical forests and tundra

Poster to display in the classroom to make pupils aware of the changes to grades. What the old A-G grade equivalent is in the new 1-9. (I have it printed in A4 by my desk, and A3 around the room)