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Title: Exploring the Boscastle Floods - GCSE Geography Lesson Series Description: Delve into the captivating case study of the Boscastle floods in Cornwall 2004 with our comprehensive 2-lesson series designed for GCSE geography. Unravel the causes, effects, and responses to this infamous extreme weather event that left an indelible mark on the landscape and serves as a key case study in the curriculum. Key Features: Map Skills Exploration: Engage students with a map skills starter, encouraging them to analyze the OS map of Boscastle to identify clues explaining the vulnerability of the area to flooding, reinforcing understanding of physical causes. Real-Life Perspectives: Immerse students in the event through a 20-minute video from a BBC documentary, featuring eye-witness accounts and survivor experiences, providing a vivid and emotional connection to the Boscastle floods. Interactive Worksheet: The main task involves a comprehensive worksheet with facts, statistics, and statements from the flooding, prompting students to classify and analyze information, fostering critical thinking skills. Practical Application: The second lesson focuses on river flood control and defenses, exploring both hard and soft engineering approaches. Students collaborate in groups to construct a model representing their preferred flood management scheme. Why Choose This Resource? Multifaceted Learning: Cover diverse aspects of the Boscastle floods, from map skills to real-life narratives and hands-on model construction, ensuring a well-rounded educational experience. Current and Relevant: Tackle a well-known GCSE geography case study, providing students with practical insights into the causes and management of extreme weather events. Engaging Activities: Foster student involvement through interactive tasks, encouraging active participation and knowledge retention. Ideal for: GCSE geography teachers seeking a comprehensive and engaging case study resource. Educators emphasizing practical application and critical thinking skills development. Elevate your geography lessons with this immersive Boscastle floods series. Download now to captivate your students with a rich exploration of this significant case study!

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A pond is an example of a small-scale ecosystem that we typically student at GCSE Geography. Pond ecosystems depend on balance and equllibrium of all the interdependant parts that make it up; both the living ( biotic) and non-living ( abiotic). This lesson presumes you are lucky enough to have a pond on, or close to your school site to visit and carry out the field sketching tasks. However, if not, there is a detailed picture of a pond ecosystem on the slide they can copy if needed. Students start with a discussions, recap on producers, consumers and decomposers ( this lesson assumes a base-line understanding on food chains). Students sketch the pond with guidance and label appropriately using the mini-beasts spotter card to help them identify animals found on the pond, or through pond-dipping There is an exit card/ small write up task at the end.

This study aid has been produced to help students use subject specific describing words in their examination writing. The Mat gives a visual stimulus to show at a glance a range of vocabulary that students can use when describing places or processes linked to Human Geography topics and landscapes, in relation to paper 2 and 3. These have a range of uses, and could be given out during mock examinations to help the lower ability students. They could be colour printed an stuck into student books or laminated and stuck down onto desks. They would be really useful for teachers to don’t always teach in the same classroom who have portable displays. These learning mats were taken from my other resource ; GCSE Geography Literacy displays’ and made more pupil friendly.

I have picked out 4 separate exam questions from the AQA GCSE Geography specimen papers with the mark scheme attached for mock exam practise. Student must be familiar with statistical analysis and be able to interpret and draw conclusions from unfamiliar data sets. This counts towards the numeracy strands assessed in the new curriculum framework.

National Parks were established in 1951 with the Peak District designated as the first official national park in England. They came about after mass protests in the 1930’s from the working classes demanding greater access to the countryside. Since then, many more have been added such as the ’ South Downs’ and ’ New Forest’. This lesson is based around developing maps skills at ks3 and generating a locational knowledge of the UK by building group ’ maps from memory’ maps of the UK national park. Maps from memory simply involved one person from each group going to look at the completed map outside the classroom, remembering the name and location of one park, then returning to add it onto their group blank map inside the classroom. It is a popular and well known geography learning game. The students then analyse 2 separate maps of two different national parks ; the Cairngorms national park, and the Pembrookshire Coast. They use the maps to fill in a comparison grid which asks them to identify human and physical attractions. This activity could be supplemented by use of ipads to navigate to BING maps or similar to find out more detailed information. This task could be done individually or or pairs. Finally there is a plenary discussion on alternative geographical futures ; what would the UK be like now if there were no National parks?

A River long profile shows the changes to the river channel, valley and land use as it travels downstream. All GCSE Exam boards require in depth knowlege of the river long profile and require students to demonstrate proficient map skills. This worksheet based activity combines both knowlege and skills effectively and engages student with maps! Teaching River profiles no longer has to be dull and dry. I created this resource for year 9 in their first GCSE year and wanted to engage them in their learning. This activity works well in small groups huddled round and OS map- all the maps can be different, that’s the beauty of the questions, they are left open-ended. Hints and help are given on the worksheet and an OS water map symbols guide is included for reference. There are a variety of challenging extention activities for the more able. It could be the perfect task to do in association with a river based fieldwork trip, to familiarise students with their chosen river location and drainage basin.

Harry Potter Film Locations Exploration - KS3 Geography Worksheet Lesson Description: Embark on a magical journey through the enchanting film locations of the Harry Potter series with our engaging KS3 geography worksheet lesson. Designed for students in years 7 and 8, this resource takes advantage of the captivating world created by J.K. Rowling to teach essential map skills and geographical knowledge. Key Features: Interactive GIS Map Exploration: Utilize the free and user-friendly Interactive GIS map from the Visit Britain website, allowing students to delve into the various filming locations featured in ‘The Prisoner of Azkaban’ and ‘The Deathly Hallows.’ Map Skills Reinforcement: Enhance students’ map skills, including direction, scale, distance, and a basic understanding of map symbols, as they navigate through the interactive exercises. Accessible for All Abilities: Suitable for all ability levels within years 7 and 8, the worksheet offers a range of questions to challenge and engage students at different levels. Extension Task: Challenge more able students with an extension task, encouraging them to create a tour around the UK showcasing five key film locations. A PDF printable proforma is provided to assist students in planning their Harry Potter Tour. Why Choose This Resource? Theme-Based Learning: Leverage the popularity of the Harry Potter series to make geography lessons exciting and relatable for students. Independent Learning: Structured for both class and home-based learning, the activities can largely be completed independently, promoting student autonomy. Ideal for: Geography teachers looking to integrate popular culture into their lessons. Educators seeking interactive and independent learning opportunities for KS3 students. Transform geography lessons into a magical adventure. Download now and let your students explore the wizarding world while mastering essential map skills!

The tropical rainforest biomes are found close to the equator where low pressure systems create bands of high rainfall and long daylight hours that promote high plant growth. Rainforests are densely packed areas of tall vegeatation high amounts of life and biodiversity. This full KS3 lesson and associated sheets and activities give students a full understanding on the layers of the rainforest ecosystem structure, where they are found, and how to analyse and describe the climate of a rainforest using a climate graph. This lesson was originally designed as part of a year 7 ecosystems topic, but would work equally well for year 8. The main task involves students sketching a copy of a diagram on the layers of the rainforest and annotating it in detail using prompts and gap-fill sentences to help them. They then watch a video and make further independant labels.

This worksheet guides students through annotating photographs in order to answer exam questions. In the GCSE geography examinations, students are often asked questions worth 3 or 4 marks which require precise labeling on maps or photographs. It is an easy way to pick up marks in the exam once you have mastered this skill. There are web links above each photograph to guide students to relevant learning sites or videos to help them answer the question set. The questions asked range from Tropical Rainforests, hot deserts, to Tourism and natural hazards.

An environmental quality survey ( or EQS) is a popular method of fieldwork. It involved measuring different aspects of the urban area by analysing a series of photographs from in and around Manchester ( although you could easily subsidize your own photo’s from your own local town or city). This GCSE focussed lesson takes students on a virtual journey from Manchester’s CBD to the urban rural fringe, showing them buildings and homes from along a transect. The students have to analyse the photographs carefully in order to make decisions on the appearence, safety and amount of green open space etc and fill in the pre-designed bi-polar grid accordingly. They can them choose to display their results on a radial graph ( template provided) or make a bar chart. The lesson ends with an exam questions, and gets them to evaluate the methods used to gather their primary data. This lesson would be good at KS3 to prepare them for fieldwork requirements of GCSE, or as a preparation lesson prior to EQS fieldwork at GCSE.

In the GCSE AQA HUMAN Geography topic ’ Urban Issues & Challenges’, students are required to study an in-depth account of a city in a developing nation. Jakarta has a rapidly growing population due to it’s rapid industrialisation and high birth rate. These bring both opportunities and challenges. This introduction lesson to Jakarta looks at the infrastructure and why it’s connections with the rest of Indonesia and Asia make it a globally important city. Students could go on to study Jakarta in further detail in my other lessons, to find out about How Jakarta is attempting to become more sustainable and reduce it’s social and environmental challenges.

This 4th lesson in our cold climate series ’ Pole to Pole’ allows students to discover Antarctica through a virtual Antarctic cruise. They will learn to annotate the Antarctic icy landscape and discover what tourist activities away those on the cruise. We also compare how the Arctic is different from the Antarctic using a true or false quiz- the students find the answer by studying and comparing the 2 maps of the poles.

This full lesson combines sketching skills and reading comprehension to annotate a diagram of the different rainforest layers: forest floor, understory, canopy and emergent layer. Tropical rainforest biomes are found around 0 degrees lattitude, also known as the equator. Almost all GCSE geography examination boards expect students to have a detailed understanding on the layers and features of the rainforest. This lesson includes a kinathstectic mini-quiz to test students understading on each of the layers; they move around the 4 corners of the room to classify statements on each of the different layer characteristics.

Absolutely, let’s optimize your resource description for better SEO and increased visibility. Here’s a revised version: Title: Exploring Human Impacts on Cold Climates - Antarctica Lesson Plan Description: Discover the delicate balance between humanity and the pristine Antarctic environment with our engaging lesson, the fifth installment in our ‘Pol to Pole’ cold climate series. Building upon the thrilling insights gained from Lesson 4 on Antarctic Cruise and extreme tourism, students delve deeper into understanding human impacts on cold climates and specifically Antarctica. Key Learning Objectives: Evaluate and prioritize human threats to cold climates through a dynamic diamond 9 activity. Develop critical thinking skills by identifying the most pressing and urgent challenges faced by Antarctica. Encourage environmental stewardship by crafting an international code of conduct for Antarctic scientists and visitors. Why Choose This Resource? Rigorous analysis: Engage students in thoughtful discussions as they assess and rank human threats to Antarctica. Practical application: Foster a sense of responsibility as students contribute to the creation of an international code of conduct for those interacting with this fragile ecosystem. Ideal for: Geography teachers seeking interactive and impactful lessons. Educators looking to instill environmental awareness and responsibility in their students. Boost your geography class with this immersive lesson on the human impact on Antarctica. Download now and empower your students to be environmental stewards!

Understanding the speed, direction and likely paths of tropical storms is fundamental in managing risk and saving lives during these atmospheric natural hazard events. Students will combine their understanding of hurricane formation and the prevailing winds across the globe, in order to plot arrows onto a map of the Pacific Ocean. These proportional arrows will represent the wind speeds of the most powerful tropical storms in recent times. Student will be given a table to fill out, using their numeracy skills, to convert wind speed into an arrow width, before locating and drawing these onto the map. Perfect skills based revision lesson, which has detailed instructions, and also shows some of the answers. Can be done in class or independently.

Manchester is a rapidly growing economic centre in the heart of Northern England. It is therefore an appropriate case study example to study for the GCSE Geography ‘Urban Issues & Challenges’ topic for the AQA spec. This internet research and study lesson focuses on 6 key characteristics of Manchester ( tourism, education, culture, Industry, Transport & religion), and how they come together to build the city as an important both nationally and globally. There are website links for each of these factors, so this lesson is suitable for home-study if needed. There is a grid for students to make notes on all 6 key areas. This lesson was originally designed so that small groups could each take a factor, and go away and build a presentation to bring back to the rest of the group. In that way, they become experts on one specific facet of the city. This framework could easily be adapted for a different HIC case study, if desired.

This building-off-grid project is ideal for delivery in the classroom for years 8 through to 11 or set as an independent task for distance-learning or home-based study. Also suitable for celebrating ’ Earth Day’ in April with a focus on reducing carbon footprint. Since being stuck on lock-down I have been binge-watching episodes of USA based TV-series like ’ last of the Alaskans’ and ’ Building off Grid’ which follow families as they design and self-build their own cabins and earth-ship style homes in remote areas of Arizona and Alaska. The aim is to live sustainably and in harmony with the landscape and ecosystem around them. This lesson / project will help GCSE/ KS4 students make connections in their learning with the Geography ’ Living World’ topic, especially around explaining how humans have adapted to the opportunities and challenges of living in extreme conditions such as the Tundra Biome and the Hot Desert regions. Students could easily talk about home design and crop growing/ subsistence farming in their examinations following the AQA spec A curriculum. The students must choose where they want to live their off grid lifestyle; either Arizona or Alaska, and the Power Point goes through the benefits and drawbacks of doing so in each ecosystem. There are video links to relevant video content showing some aspects of cabin-building in both of these environments. Then students enlist 3 helpers to help build their cabin, and roll a dice to determine their allocated budget they can use to buy materials for the cabin project. Using this budget, they can chose from a ‘menu’ worksheet of construction options to custom-build their cabin. They have a choice of sketching out their design with a floor plan, or actually building a model of their cabin from lego/ cardboard/ paydough etc. If submitted as a distance learning activity it would be great to make it into a competition, and invite students to submit pictures of their designs electronically for display. There are some ideas for follow-on activities on the slides.

agribusiness is the process of producing food on a large scale and increasing yields by using new technology and commercial principles. It also extends to marketing and spin-off activities linked to farming. This adapted homework sheet tests students prior understanding on various aspects of the UK’s supply and demand for food, as part of the AQA GCSE Curriculum ‘Challenge of Resource Management’. There are 3 examination type questions for students to choose from, according to their confidence and ability level. There 2 6-mark questions come with a detailed structure strip / exam planning response sheet which helps them get maximum marks. There is also a detailed mark scheme with each question. I have also provided 3 website links for revision purposes in case they need to refresh their memory before attempting. This would be ideal for independent assessment in the classroom or for use at home/ distance learning during lockdown.

This comprehensive lesson explores the concept of Urban farming, and how it improves food security in the developing city of Jakarta. Urban farming is the use of limited or marginalised city spaces ( for example roof tops) to grow a range of crops for sale in local markets or for self . This can be done by collective group efforts or individually. Through a series of video tasks, photo analysis and problem solving, students will learn the needed facts and statistics needed for their GCSE Geography paper 2 ’ Human Exam’. This lesson fits in with the wider curriculum of the topic of the AQA spec ’ challenge of resource management '. The main task involved writing a letter with stem prompts in the margin, to practice extended writing and literacy skills.