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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the different cartographic skills for students at GCSE. This lesson includes: Atlas Skills including reading longitude and latitude and identification of physical and human atlas maps. Ordnance Survey Maps including using a key, scale, four and six figure references and reading contours and spot height. Maps in association with photographs including direction of photograph, identification of features, use of satellite imagery and sketch/ field maps. Task 1: Identify the longitude and latitude of 12 points on an atlas. Task 2: Measuring the distance between features on an OS map Task 3: Identifying four and six figures on a simple OS map Task 4: Identify the maximum and minimum height of the OS map Task 5: Identify the direction the photograph was taken Task 6: Explain the social, economic and environmental impacts of a earthquake from satellite imagery. If you get time you could take your students outside and get them to do a sketch map of the school ground and a birds eye view of the school. **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will be able to describe the importance of fieldwork along with why do fieldwork in geography. This lesson contains the basis for a fieldwork investigation around your school that includes a liter count and bi-polar environmental quality survey. Task 1: Describe which is more accurate data sample set Task 2: Writing a hypothesis Task 3: Conducting research at 3 different locations along with the research sheet. Task 4: Main Task: Write up _ Describe what the research found about the school site. Task 5: Plenary: Homework for litter pick for further data Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 2- Challenges in the human environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 36 slides with full information and case studies for each topic. Content Includes: Urban Issues and Challenges Definition and causes of urbanisation Emergence of megacities Case Study of Rio as an NEE along with opportunities and challenges. Case Study - Urban change in a Major UK City - Leeds Sustainable Urban Living - Leeds Greenhouse Project Traffic Management in Leeds The Changing Economic World Measuring development Measuring population and causes of uneven development Tourism in Jamaica UK national and global links Case Study- Nigeria - TNCs causing development Economic and Industrial Change in the UK Modern Industrial Developments in the UK - Cambridge Science Park and Torr Quarry. Resource Management Types of resources Food overview Agribusiness Energy overview Water Overview China - North - West Water Transfer Scheme **Download contains PowerPoint **

A fully resourced PowerPoint for Paper 1- Living in the Physical Environment for AQA GCSE Geography. This PowerPoint contains 30 slides with full information and case studies for each topic. Case studies include: Ecosystems - UK Pond Tropical Rainforest - Malaysia Hot Desert - Thar Desert Rivers - River Tees Coasts - Holderness Coast Tectonic Hazards - Christchurch vs Haiti Weather Hazards - Typhoon Haiyan UK Weather Hazards - Beast from the East **Download contains PowerPoint **

Students will be able to use key terms such as dense, sparse and distribution then describe the distribution and density for different countries in Africa. Students will then be given key terms with population such as birth rate, death rate, life expectancy and infant mortality rate. Then students will be introduced to population pyramids and asked to compare the three different areas of Africa that have these population pyramids. Finally using factors used in HDI students will compare which is the best country to live in Africa according to statistics and why. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the density and distribution of populations of a football match, then the countries in Africa Task 2: Join the key word with the definition. Task 3: Explain the population pyramid for the continent of Africa, then describe the population pyramids between Uganda, Botswana and Tunisia. Task 4: Using the profile of Africa you have built up over the lesson, describe which of the three countries in Africa would be the best place to live currently and why. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will begin by recapping what they have previously learnt in the other lessons on physical features of North America. Students will then be introduced to how we measure hurricanes using the Saffir Simpon Scale and the given background information about Hurricane Katrina. Then students will be asked to describe the path the hurricane took to reach landfall. Then will watch the video on the hurricane, writing down any notes as they go. Finally students will identify primary and secondary effects and identify if they are social, economic or environmental, this will result in them writing a newspaper article about Hurricane Katrina and its effects and responses Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Identify the path the hurricane took to reach landfall Task 3: Identify the impacts of the hurricane from the video. Task 4: Categorise impacts into social, economic, environmental and primary and secondary Task 5: Show learning in a newspaper article describing Hurricane Katrina. This lesson has a completed powerpoint and worksheet

Students will be able to explain what colonisation is, where in Africa was colonised and by which country/ empire. Students will then learn about the scramble for Africa post slave trade and the reasons for the scramble. Students will then identify the social, economic and environmental. issues that colonisation caused for Africa. Then students will evaluate which is the worst effect and why. Finally they will create a newspaper article about the effects of colonisation on Africa. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Describe the countries that were colonised and by which country/ empire. Task 2: Identify the social, economic and environmental. issues that colonisation Task 3: Evaluate which of the effects of colonisation was the worst and why. Task 4: Create a newspaper article explaining what colonisation is, why it happened and its effects on the African people. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will be able to describe how our climate has changed over time, why it has changed over time and interpret graphs that link CO2 to temperature to sea-level rise. Then students will identify the natural causes of climate change and the human causes of climate change. Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics Task 2: On whiteboards come up with theories about how we know the climate has changed in the past. Task 3: Using the worksheet, students evaluate which is the most accurate/ best proxy for climate reconstruction and place them in a diamond 9. Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe how we know our climate is changing through evaluation of proxies. Task 5: Plenary: What do we think our planet was like during the last Ice Age? Lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet

Students will be able asked to recap the layers of the Earth and their characteristics, then students will recap plate tectonic and locate the African plate, this will then quickly cover the 3 types of plate boundaries of constructive, destructive and conservative. Finally students will be asked to explain the formation of a rift valley and explain the two types of volcanoes that occur on these boundaries. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Recap on structure of the Earth and plate tectonics Task 2: Recap on the three types of plate boundaries. Task 3: Describe the location of the Great African Rift Valley. Task 4: Main Task: Explain the formation of the East African Rift Valley and give one physical feature within. Task 5: Plenary: Recap of home learning expectation. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will identify the increase in urbanisation over time and predicted increases. Then will investigate the social, economic and environmental challenges of urbanisation in Rio, and how they will impact the area. Task 1: Starter - Recap on previous learning Task 2: Describe the trend on the graph on screen (3 marks) Task 3: Using the factors on the worksheet identify which is the most important social, economic and environmental challenges. Task 4: Main Task - Describe how urbanisation has created challenges in Rio de Janeiro. Task 5: Plenary: Class question- What are some of the negatives about living in favelas in Rio. Lesson 3 out of 8

A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the features of the lower course. Students will learn about depositional features such as levees, floodplains and estuaries. Task 1: Starter - Retrieval, Using the information they learnt in the previous lesson. Hook- Students to explain what they think the image means, or what it has to do with the lesson. Task 2: Field sketch and describe the appearance of a floodplain. Task 3: Create labels on how levees form Task 4: Students to draw and label how a meander forms. Task 5: Describe how the tide causes an estuary to occur. Task 5: Main Task - Practice exam questions- “Describe how a features found in the lower course of a river is formed (4).” High ability students will complete this with limited scaffolding and then compare theirs to the model answer. LA students will read through the paragraph and cross out wrong words. Task 5: Plenary - Key Term Trade **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

In this lesson students will be able to state 4 or more threats to the taiga forest and explain why they are occurring. Then they will understand the social, economical and environmental factors that are involved in deforestation. The final task will be a form of formative assessment where students will bring all their knowledge to complete this. Task 1: Starter: True or False Task 2: Identification of different causes of deforestation Task 3: Advantages and disadvantages of deforestation in the taiga Task 4: Main Task- “Describe the characteristics of Russia and assess the threat to Russian biomes” (9 marks) Task 5: Plenary: Tweet about it

Students will firstly recap what they have learnt in previous lessons on the topic and then begin to learn about what politics is. They will then investigate the 4 main types of politics such as democracy, monarchy, authoritarian and theocratic. Students will then describe the distribution of democracies globally and then learn about the Arab Springs and the effects and changes it brought to the middle east. Finally students will use the graph to describe if the arab springs changed anything for the people in the middle east. Task 1: Knowledge Retention Task 2: Describe distribution of democracy globally Task 3: Identify causes of the Arab Spring Task 4: Use the graphs to explain if the overall living standard has changed in the Middle East. This download contains a fully up to date powerpoint and worksheet.

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the 2010 Haiti earthquake, this lesson establishes what an earthquake is. Where Haiti is located globally and background on what happened during the earthquake, and the effects including, social, economic and environmental effects. Then students finish off by looking at the long-term and short-term effects of the quake. Task 1: Starter: Knowledge recall on previous topic (Coasts) Task 2: Describe the location of Haiti Task 3: Identify the primary and secondary effects then place them into social, economic and environmental. Task 4: Watch the news video about the Haiti quake. Task 5: Exam question: Exam question: “Earthquakes are another example of tectonic activity.” Using an example, describe the primary and secondary effects of an earthquake. (6 marks) Task 6: Peer Feedback Task 7: Using a volcanic eruption or an earthquake you have studied, describe the short-term responses to the disaster. (4 marks) Task 8: Peer Feedback **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **

Students will be able to describe the difference between Primary and Secondary data as well as give examples for each type. Then students will investigate Quantitative versus Qualitative data and what types of data these represent. Finally students will explain why it is important to display data in different methods, specifically bar chart. This lesson was created to be part of a two lesson plan, so the previous lesson will be included in the download to help with planing. Starter: Knowledge Retention on previous learning Task 1: Testing the difference between primary and secondary data Task 2: Testing the difference between quantitative and qualitative Task 3: Why do we choose to present data in a certain way? Task 4: Main Task: Describe the quality of the environment at our school Lesson contains two powerpoints and one worksheet.

Students will be able to recap the key learning from previous lessons on Asia and population features, students will also be asked to identify features on a population pyramid and identify the mean of the data. Students will recap what overpopulation is from the previous lesson and then describe what was happening to China before the One Child Policy. Students then investigate the two ways that were used to limit population before the policy and then they will investigate the rules and the punishments of the policy. Finally students will identify if the one child policy was effective and if it outweighs the cost in a newspaper article. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1:Recap the term overpopulation Task 2: Describe what the population was like before the One Child Policy and what efforts were used before the policy. Task 3: To understand the rules and the punishments that were in place to ensure the Once Child Policy was enforced. Task 4: Main Task: Create a newspaper article to evaluate the effectiveness of the One Child Policy. Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

Students will learn how Homo Sapiens came to inhabit the continent of North America, they will describe the route that humans walked through and an explanation how they walked across the Bering Strait. Then students will be asked to define the word Indigenous and give examples of indigenous people. Students will then investigate the different cultures of the Native American’s and how they had individual cultures and ways of living. Finally, this knowledge will culminate in students describing the differences and similarities in culture of the Native American Tribes. Starter: Gluing in Knowledge Organisers for the topic and their learning journey to track progress through the half term. Task 1: Teacher assessment of whole class knowledge - Students to write down how they think Homo Sapiens got to North America. Task 2: Teacher to watch video with students and describe the Bering Strait and how humans crossed it during an Ice Age. Task 3: Students to describe the route that Homo Sapiens took to get the North America, giving dates and locations. Task 4: The teacher is going to split the tables up into three different Native American Region. Students will have to fill out the table on their worksheet with the relevant information for each area. Then students are to swap information to gain knowledge on other tribes. Task 5: Main Task: Describe the differences and similarities in culture of the Native American Tribes. Task 6: Exit Ticket - A quick recap of key geographical information that students will have covered up to this point. Lesson contains one PowerPoint and one worksheet, a learning journey and a knowledge organiser.

Students will recap the issues present in Kibera the slum that was previously investigated. Then they will choose which area they want to improve in their slums and why. Next they will categorise the solutions to slums into social, economic and environmental. Then students will evaluate which of the solutions have been the most successful rating them 1-8. Finally students have a silent debate where they write down which of the improvements has been the most successful and why, then pass the book around to debate the next point. Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning Task 1: Recap the issues of living in slums. Task 2: Explain which part of Kibera should be improved and why on whiteboards. Task 3: Categorise the solutions to slums into social, economic and environmental. Task 4: Evaluate which of the solutions have been the most successful rating them 1-8 Task 5: silent debate where they write down which of the improvements has been the most successful and why, then pass the book around to debate the next point… Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.

A fully resourced and up to date lesson on conflict, an introduction into what conflict is, types of conflict and how they affect us on a local, national and global scale and how patterns of conflict have shaped the world today. Task 1: Starter - Define what conflict and war is. Task 2: Decide which conflicts are local, national and international Task 3: Interpret the map on which things are good about the map and which are bad. Task 4: Using an Atlas and the patterns of conflict to design their own map illustrating the patterns of conflict today Task 5: Main Task - Long form writing- students to use the map they have created to describe the patterns of conflict in the world today. Task 6: Plenary - Class discussion- which conflict was the worst and why? **Download contains PowerPoint and worksheet for the lesson. **