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Two lessons 3.2.2.2.2 Meaning and representation Insider and outsider perspectives The importance of the meanings and representations attached to places by people with a particular focus on people’s lived experience of place in the past and at present. How humans perceive, engage with and form attachments to places and how they present and represent the world to others, including the way in which everyday place meanings are bound up with different identities, perspectives and experiences.

3.2.2.4 Place studies Local place study exploring the developing character of a place local to the home or study centre. Contrasting place study exploring the developing character of a contrasting and distant place. Place studies must apply the knowledge acquired through engagement with prescribed specification content and thereby further enhance understanding of the way students’ own lives and those of others are affected by continuity and change in the nature of places. Sources must include qualitative and quantitative data to represent places in the past and present. Both place studies must focus equally on: people’s lived experience of the place in the past and at present and either changing demographic and cultural characteristics or economic change and social inequalities.

3.2.2.2.2 Meaning and representation The importance of the meanings and representations attached to places by people with a particular focus on people’s lived experience of place in the past and at present. How humans perceive, engage with and form attachments to places and how they present and represent the world to others, including the way in which everyday place meanings are bound up with different identities, perspectives and experiences. How external agencies, including government, corporate bodies and community or local groups make attempts to influence or create specific place-meanings and thereby shape the actions and behaviours of individuals, groups, businesses and institutions. How places may be represented in a variety of different forms such as advertising copy, tourist agency material, local art exhibitions in diverse media (eg film, photography, art, story, song etc) that often give contrasting images to that presented formally or statistically such as cartography and census data.

3.2.2.2.2 Meaning and representation The importance of the meanings and representations attached to places by people with a particular focus on people’s lived experience of place in the past and at present. How humans perceive, engage with and form attachments to places and how they present and represent the world to others, including the way in which everyday place meanings are bound up with different identities, perspectives and experiences. How external agencies, including government, corporate bodies and community or local groups make attempts to influence or create specific place-meanings and thereby shape the actions and behaviours of individuals, groups, businesses and institutions. How places may be represented in a variety of different forms such as advertising copy, tourist agency material, local art exhibitions in diverse media (eg film, photography, art, story, song etc) that often give contrasting images to that presented formally or statistically such as cartography and census data. How both past and present processes of development can be seen to influence the social and economic characteristics of places and so be implicit in present meanings.

3.2.2.1 The nature and importance of places The concept of place and the importance of place in human life and experience.

3.2.2.1 The nature and importance of places The concept of place and the importance of place in human life and experience. Insider and outsider perspectives on place. Categories of place: Endogenous: location, topography, physical geography, land use, built environment and infrastructure, demographic and economic characteristics. Exogenous: relationships with other places.

3.2.2.1 The nature and importance of places The concept of place and the importance of place in human life and experience. Understanding Space

Changing Places - Near and Far places 3.2.2.1 The nature and importance of places The concept of place and the importance of place in human life and experience. Insider and outsider perspectives on place. Categories of place: near places and far places

The first three lessons to introduce Changing Places to your A Level Geography students. Suitable for AQA and WJEC.

Geographical case study A case study on regeneration and rebranding in East London. Suitable for KS3, KS4 and KS5.

WJEC GCSE Geography Unit 4 focuses on contemporary themes in geography, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and decision-making. It involves a non-exam assessment (NEA) where students analyze a geographical issue, research it, and propose solutions. This resource is intended for use in the classroom as a practice run for the NEA. Unit 4: Sustainable Solutions Non-examination assessment: 6 hours (3 hours for research and 3 hours to respond to tasks) 15% of qualification [60 Marks]

New 2025 Specification 3.1.1 Regional inequalities in Wales and the UK Learners should know what is meant by inequality. Learners should know the patterns of inequalities in Wales and the UK, such as those seen in: • education • employment • investment • race • religion • rural and urban locations • services (such as broadband connectivity, mobile signal).

GCSE Geography An A3 Geography skills task that requires students to complete a chroropleth map on HDI for African countries. This is also part of the WJEC Geography curriculum for September 2025. 3.1.2 Measuring development to classify countries. This task could be used as a cover lesson.

This resource is based on the new WJEC curriculum for Geography. Migration in Wales This worksheet reviews push and pull factors, an opportunity to practice completing choropleth maps, as well as embedding numeracy within the curriculum. Students will be expected to calculate net migration, using the data provided. They will also be expected to create a pie chart on ethnicity in wales. Key Idea 2.1: The urban-rural continuum in Wales ** 2.1.1 How are urban and rural areas in Wales linked? 2.1.2 How are rural areas in Wales changing?** Key Idea 2.2: Population and urban change in the UK 2.2.1 What are the causes and consequences of population change in the UK?

**Geography skills ** If you are studying Brazil as a Scheme of work, then I would recommend students learn how to draw and interpret climate graphs. Cross curricular skills This worksheet could be used to evidence Maths being embedded in the Geography curriculum.

This guided reading worksheet should challenge the most able learners and has over 20 comprehension tasks for your students to answer. The original article is from the 5th March 2025 Human Rights Watch website. This can be used in class as a lesson, with a suggested follow up activity of creating an infographic on lead contamination, using Zambia as a case study. It may also be set as cover work. This resource could be used in Geography, English or for a research project on Global issues/ environmental pollution for Welsh Baccalaureate.

Geography key skills task. If you are studying Africa as a scheme of work, then you may wish to add this resource to your collection. The data is from 2022 using the World Bank’s website:

LO: To understand the key characteristics of the tundra biome, including what animals live there. PowerPoint presentation Differentiated worksheet (A3) There are two comprehension sheets on the flora and fauna of the tundra (to help students work on their literacy skills).

LO: To understand what sustainability means and how people and places can become more sustainable. This lesson is focused on understanding the three main components of sustainability. There is also a guided reading task and optional HW task on sustainable cities (with answers).

This resource is focused on the concept of Cynefin as part of the new Curriculum for Wales. It contains 3 lessons to help learners understand places and how they shape our identities. What does Cynefin mean? LO: To begin to explore the Welsh concept of Cynefin. The concept of place LO: To examine the factors which shape and change our environments. Insider & outsider perspectives of a place LO: To understand insider and outsider perspectives on places. These lessons can also be used for Cover work.