These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
These are the same lessons I use in my classroom, specifically designed for AQA GCSE and Edexcel A Level Geography. Each lesson comes with clear, differentiated, and printable resources to help speed up teaching and increase student engagement. My Geography lessons are suitable for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - The Living World - Ecosystems - How does change affect ecosystems
Students will learn:
How changes to the ecosystem affect the other components within that ecosystem
WHat causes change in an ecosystem
Human and natural factors that affect ecosystems
Example of how changes can affect a food chain
Example of how the reintroduction of a species can affect a whole ecosystem
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Challengesof Natural Hazards - Weather hazards - Typhoon Haiyan (Case Study)
Students will learn:
About the primary & secondary effects as well as the immediate and long term responses to typhoon Haiyan
How are tropical storms measured
Location of the Philippines
Storm Haiyan fact file
Primary & secondary effects
Immediate and long-term responses
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for two lessons 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
The Book
A Level Geography NEA fieldwork book. -Guide to A Level Geography NEA - Everything you need to know to get full marks - Suitable for all a level Geography specifications AQA, ORC & Edexcel
Over 10,000 word book.
Helps you get full marks in Geography NEA.
Step-by-step guide for each NEA section.
Provides templates, tools, and tips.
Includes practical examples and resources.
Focuses on clear data presentation and analysis.
Emphasizes academic integrity and proper referencing.
Encourages staying organized and motivated.
Suitable for students and teachers.
Clear instructions for achieving high grades.
Perfect for A-Level Geography students.
This guide is an invaluable tool for both students and teachers, offering the structure, resources, and encouragement needed to excel in the Geography NEA.
The Videos
These videos cover:
NEA Introduction and choosing your Geogrpahy NEA title
NEA Methodology and data capture
NEA Data presentation
NEA Data analysis
NEA Evaluation & Conclusion
It also includes
Detailed insights into the markeing scheme and how to score full marks
How to conduct a literature review and how to reference your sources
Key advances statistics and maths skills to analyse your data
* Spearmans rank
* Mann - Whitney U Test
* Chi Square test
* Box and Whisker plots
* Standard deviation
* Tips and tricks from A* students and teachers
This is an amazing resource to give to students so they can complete this project while maintaining the correct levels of teacher input.
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.9 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Military Action and Human Rights
Students will learn that military aid, including both direct and indirect military intervention, is frequently justifies in terms of human rights
Military Intervention
Military aid and human rights
Colombia case study
The war of terror
Torture and human rights
USA and Guantanamo Bay
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 3.4 Superpowers - Emerging Superpowers
Students will learn how emerging powers vary in their influence, and that this can change rapidly over time
Rising economic superpowers
BRIC’s
* Brazil
* Russia
* India
* China
Wallerstein’s world systems theory
Peripheral Theory
Modernisation Theory
Dependancy Theory
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 3.5 Superpowers - Global Networking
Students will learn about how geopolitical power can be asserted in both hard and soft powers
World Economic Forum
International Monetary Fund
The World Trade organisation
The world Bank
TNC’s as Global players
International intellectual property rights
Global cultural influences
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 3.10 Superpowers - Challenges for the future
Students will learn about how existing superpowers face an ongoing economic restructuring, which challenge their power
Economic Restucturing and deindustialisation
Debt problems and the financial crisis
Maintaining global military power
* Navel Power
* Nuclear Power
* AIr Power
* Intelligence services
* SPace exploration
Future uncertainties & Future superpower structures
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.6 “Switched on” and “Switched off” World
Students will learn about how globalisation affects some countries, places and organisations more than others
Deindustialisation in developed countries
Global shift of manufacturing to South East Asia & China
The benefits of economic growth for China
The cost of economic growth for China
The impact of deindustialisation in Leicester UK Case study
Social and economic impacts of deindustialsation in Leicester
This lesson contains:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.5 “Switched on” and “Switched off” World
Students will learn about how globalisation affects some countries, places and organisations more than others
Two speed world
Degrees of globalisation
How degrees of globalisation vary
Measuring globalisation
* KOF Index
* A T Kearney Index
Zambia Case study
Tanzania Case study
This lesson contains
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 5.2 Regenerating Places - Understanding you place.
Students will learn about how economies can be classified in different ways and how economic activity, social factors and quality of life vary.
Understanding Economic Change
Clarke Fisher Model
* Primary Industry
* Secondary Industry
* Tertiary Industry
* Quanternary Industry
Employment, incomes and inequality
Socio-economic inequalities
Variations in life expectancy
Occupation and life expectancy
Income and health
variation in educational achievement
THe lesson contain:
QR codes to provide rapid access to students for all the embedded videos & extra reading
Detailed worksheet with exercises and exam questions to aid active recovery and learning during the lesson and within independent study.
Optional resources for printing
This map skills lesson is about map symbols. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes some creative writing where students substitute words for map symbols. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
It contains:
Three Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Printable material
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - River landscapes - Water Cycle & Drainage Basin
Students will learn:
How the water cycle / hydrological cycle moves water through our environments and the key term of the drainage basin
Hydrological cycle
Key Terms in the hydrological cycle
Drainage basin
Key terms in the drainage basin
Field sketch skills
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes int the UK - River landscapes - Fluvial / River Processes - Erosion & Transportation
Students will learn: How rivers erode rocks, transport their load and finally how they deposit their load
River erosion
River transportation
Hjulstrom curve
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Deposition Features of a river - Levees, flood plains and estuaries
Students will learn:
How river features such as Levees, flood plains and Estuaries are created by deposition and erosion
Geography skills - Choropleth map
OS map skills
How levee are formed
How are floodplains formed
Key features in an estuary
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Erosion and Deposition Features of a river - Meanders and Oxbow lakes
Students will learn:
How river landforms are created by deposition and erosion such as meanders and oxbow lakes
How a meander is formed
How an oxbow lake is formed
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
GCSE geography - Virtual River field work - Physical geography field trip
These lessons have everything you need to complete a virtual river field trip or to complete the classroom work following your own river field work.
Students will learn:
Recap typical features found in the long profile of a river
The location of Carding Mill Valley
Risk assessments
Methodology
Fieldwork equipment
Field sketches
River data
Presentation of data
Field wok analysis
Fieldwork conclusions and evaluation
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
These lessons are suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. There are five lesson 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson as well as a workbook to accompany the lessons.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Physical landscapes in the UK - Coastal Landscapes - Mass movement and longshore drift
Students will learn about:
The processes of weathering and how these lead to cliff collapse at the coast as well as how Long Shore Drift transports material along a coastline.
What causes a cliff to collapse
Mass movement
Landslide
Mudslide
Rotational slip
Rock slide
Longshore Drift
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural hazards - Tectonic Hazards - Global Distribution of plate boundaries
Students will learn:
The location of the plate boundaries and where earthquake and volcanic eruptions occur and link this to plate tectonics
What is the structure of the Earth
How do tectonic plates move
Plate boundaries introduction
Where are earthquakes and volcanoes located
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
This map skills lesson is about scale and distance including estimating, ruler and string. This lesson is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and you may wish to do this over either 1 or 2 lessons for younger students or those that learn at a slower pace.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary.
Video
Printable resource
worksheet
This Map Skill lesson reviews all on the previous Map Skills lessons and test the students skills with increasing difficulty. This lesson reviews all the maps skills covered in the first 5 lessons - Map Symbols, 4 & 6 figure grid references, height, scale and distance
In addition to the lesson you will require an Ordnance Survey Map.
It contains:
Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Printable resource