Geography teaching resources for KS2, KS3, KS4 and KS5. Worksheets and resources are mostly all contained within the lesson powerpoints for convenience.
Geography teaching resources for KS2, KS3, KS4 and KS5. Worksheets and resources are mostly all contained within the lesson powerpoints for convenience.
A fully comprehensive lesson that covers all the key landforms of erosion with an accompanying worksheet for students to complete as the lesson progresses. This makes it easy and quick to cover all the landforms and students have a detailed A3 sheet from which to revise at the end.
Learning is consolidated with a fun and interactive stop animation activity at the end (playdoh or whiteboards and cameras required).
An overview of the UK’s relief, geology (including definitions of key rock types), landscapes (e.g. national parks) and cities.
Activities include labelling maps, describing maps, and fast knowledge recall.
All worksheets included within the ppt. An atlas with a UK map and geology map may be helpful (images included in ppt if not).
Lesson covers the idea of ecosystems at different scales, biomes, food chains and food webs, nutrient cycling, energy cycling, trophic levels, photosynthesis.
Activities include matching tasks, short understanding questions, quizzes from the board
All resources and worksheets included at the end of the ppt
Lesson covers theory behind the global circulation model. Students have a clear A3 worksheet to fill in throughout the lesson to give them a clear and detailed revision sheet for the exams.
Worksheet included within the ppt
KS3
Lesson covers the importance of oil in Dubai’s development
Activities include videos, atlas work, and a timeline card sort
All resources included within the ppt
KS3
Definition of wildfires and causes
Conditions needed for wildfires
Australia - Black Saturday wildfires
All sheets and activities included within the ppt
KS3
Definition of extreme weather
Examples of extreme weather
Extreme weather mapping task, e.g. plot tornadoes in the USA (requires atlases)
Extreme weather photos plenary - guess the caption
Lesson covers the causes, impacts and responses to the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand 2011. There is also a discussion around why some countries have more devastating impacts from earthquakes than others (comparison with Haiti).
Activities include a video, statement coding, and brainstorm around impacts affecting earthquake impacts.
Worksheets included within the ppt.
KS3
Basic overview of the topic of weather and climate
Writing simple forecasts
Definitions of weather and climate
Activities and sheets included within the powerpoint
KS3
Videos and animations of the three types of rainfall
Convectional, frontal, and relief rainfall
Key water cycle terms
Diagram drawing activity
Plenary quiz
Activities and sheets included the ppt
A jam-packed 1-hour lesson that covers the difference between hard and soft engineering, and then explores a variety of examples of each type using drawing, writing, and fast-knowledge recall tasks.
Activities include drawing images, answering short knowledge recall questions, and a 9-mark essay task.
All activities and worksheets included within the ppt.
A concise knowledge organiser for the AQA GCSE Geography course (condensed into 20 pages).
NB. Doesn’t contain information for ALL topics, only information for the chosen topics where decisions had to be made, e.g. energy was the chosen resource for the topic ‘The Challenge of Resource Management’
Each topic is condensed into 2-3 A4 pages with blank pages for Issue Evaluation notes and templates for students to add their own fieldwork summaries.
Topics included are:
The Challenge of Natural Hazards - case studies include the Haiti and Christchurch earthquakes, Typhoon Haiyan, and flooding of the Somerset Levels in the UK
The Living World (tropical rainforests & cold environments) - case studies include the Amazon and Alaska
Physical Landscapes in the UK (rivers & coasts) - case studies include the north-east coast (Holderness), the River Severn, and the flooding at Boscastle
Urban Issues and Challenges - case studies include Mumbai and Sheffield
The Changing Economic World - case studies include Nigeria and the UK
The Challenge of Resource Management - focus is on energy with case studies on natural gas in S. America and micro-hydro plants in Nepal
Issue evaluation - space for notes and key words once the pre-release is available
General fieldwork skills
Fieldwork - blank frames for students to complete their own concise summaries
Lesson covers the idea of biomes and all eight of the world’s major biomes.
Activities include finding information to complete an annotated world map and a quiz plenary task
All resources and worksheets are included at the end of the ppt
Lesson covers the causes of deforestation (using Bruce Parry’s DVD ‘The Amazon’) and analyses the impacts on nature, people and the economy
Activities include watching a DVD (episodes and times noted), coding statements and describing impacts
All worksheets and resources included within the ppt
Lesson covers the location of the Carlisle 2005 flood, its causes, effects and responses, comparison with 2015 floods (Storm Desmond) and 15 mark essay practice.
Activities include video, card sort, internet research and exam questions.
All worksheets and activities included within the ppt.
Lesson covers different strategies to close the development gap, e.g. aid, investment, fairtrade. Activities include instructions for student presentations and a final analysis/discussion task
All resources (apart from textbooks) included within the ppt
KS5
Full lesson that teaches chi squared using examples
All examples fully worked through with answers
Practice exam questions
Worksheets included within the ppt
Lesson covers the UK’s global links, links to the Commonwealth, and links to the EU
Activities include describing maps and coding statements into positives and negatives
All resources included within the ppt
Lesson covers Alaska’s location and development opportunities including oil, fishing, mining, and tourism
Activities include describing locations, reading text, coding information and summarising
All worksheets and resources are included at the end of the ppt