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 - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Fair trade
Students will learn about:
How fair trade can reduce the development gap
What is fair trade
Fair trade of coffee
Advantages of Fair trade
Disadvantages of Fair trade
Exam style 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 - Challenges in the human environment - Challenges of Resource Management - Resource Management - Provision of water in the UK
Students will learn about:
The opportunities and challenges faced by the UK in the provision of Water
Water consumer in the home
Water surplus
Water deficit
Water transportation in the UK
Safe drinking water
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 - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Wealth and Health
Students will learn about:
How uneven development leads to inequalities of Wealth and health between rich and poor countries.
What is the imbalance between rich and poor
How does uneven development lead to differences in wealth between countries
Differences in health between countries
Case study - Malaria
Independent learning through Gap Minder’s Dollar Street.
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 - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Aid and Intermediate Technology
Students will learn about:
How investment, Industrial development and tourism can reduced the development gap.
Which strategies can reduce the development gap
How different forms of aid can aid development and reduce the development gap
How industrial development can help reduce the development gap.
How tourism can help reduce the development gap
How intermediate / appropriate technology can aid development
How NGO’s can aid development through providing goats to families
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 - Challenges in the Human Environment Changing Economic World - Our Unequal World
Students will learn about:
The global variations in economic development and quality of life
What is development
How to measure development
What is Gross domestic income
What is the Human development index
How to measure quality of life
A range of maps and data representing global development
Brandt line
Topological Map
Choropleth Map
Exam question with scaffolding
This lesson includes
Starter
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 - River Landscapes - Weathering
Students will learn:
How the weather and other naturally occurring physical processes break down rocks
Weathering
Biological weathering
Chemical weathering
Physical weathering
Climate based weathering
Freeze thaw weathering
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 - Climate Change - Adapting to climate change
Students will learn:
How different groups of people from around the world are learning to adapt their behaviour to reduce the impact of climate change on their communities.
Define adaption to climate change
Local adaptation in the Sahel Africa
Local adaptations in the Maldives
Local adaptation in North India
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 Double Lesson - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Weather hazards - How are tropical forms formed / structure of tropical storms
Students will learn:
About the distribution, formation and structure of a tropical storm.
What are tropical storms
Distribution of tropical storms
Structure of tropical storms
Coriolis effect
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geogrpahy GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a double lesson of 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards Weather hazards - Reducing the Effects of Tropical Storms
Students will learn:
How the effects / impacts of tropical storms can be reduced
Monitoring tropical storms
Predicting tropical storms
Planning for tropical storms
Protection from tropical storms
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 - Coastal Landscapes - Coastal Management at Lyme Regis
Students will learn about:
The case study of Lyme Regis in Dorset and the 4 phases of coastal defenses that have been added to provide a coastal management scheme.
Location of Lyme Regis
Physical and human geography at Lyme Regis
Coastal defenses at Lyme Regis
Why Lyme Regis needs coastal defenses
Impacts of coastal defenses at Lyme Regis
How successful has the management scheme been
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
These are two lesson suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for two single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
AQA Geography GCSE - Living with the physical environment - The challenges of Natural Hazards - Climate Change - Human causes of climate change
Students will learn:
About the Green House Effect and human causes of climate change and how fossil fuels , agriculture and deforestation all lead to increased global temperatures.
The green house effect
The enhanced green house effect
How human activity is contributing to climate change
The different type of human activities and how they contribute to climate change
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 Bundle - Living with the physical environment - River Landscapes - All Fourteen lessons
Students will learn:
UK relief and landscape
Water cycle / Hydrological cycle
Long profile of a river
Weathering
River erosion and transportation
V shaped valley
Waterfall and gorges
Meanders and Oxbow lakes
Levess and estuaries
Hydrological Graph
What causes a river to flood
Soft engineering
Hard engineering
River Tees case study (workbook)
Banbury Case study
These Lessons include:
Starters
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA GCSE geography students. These lessons are suitable for fifteen 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
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It also includes a complete work booklet that you can either use alongside the lessons or for independent study as it contains everything a student needs to complete their own learning.
The students will learn:
Map Symbols
Longitude and Latitude
4 figure Grid references
6 Figure grid references (using Pac Man)
Contour Lines, Height and relief (using potatoes)
Measuring distance
This lesson includes
Starter and plenary
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson Bundle - Living in the physical Environment - Challenges of Natural Hazards - Tropical Stroms - Weather Hazards - All seven lessons
Students will learn:
Global atmospheric circulation
Different global climates & weather
How a tropical storm is formed
The structure of a tropical storm
Tropical storm Haiyan case study
Primary and secondary effects
Immediate and long-term responses
Reducing the effects of tropical storm
Starters
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 all seven 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson.
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 4.3 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Development Targets and Policies
Students will learn about how Governments and International Government Organisations play a significant role in defining development targets and policies.
Economic and Social Development
Social Spending Saudi Arabia Case Study
Social Spending France Case Study
Promoting Development
World Bank - Education and the Environment
International Monetary Fund and Poverty
The World Trade Organisation and environment
Millennium Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
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 - 4.10 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Measuring the success of geopolitical interventions
Students will learn that there are several ways of measuring the success of geopolitical Intervention
How successful is geopolitical intervention
Democracy as a measure of success
Democracy and freedom of expression
Aid for trade
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 - 4.11 Health, Human Rights and Interventions - Development Aid - A mixed record of success
Students will learn that military interventions have a mixed record of success
Development aid - Ebola case study
Development aid - Haiti case study
Inequality and development
Development aid as an extension of foreign policy
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 - 4.13 Health, Human RIghts and Interventions - Revision
Students will learn about Health and human rights vary and how the international community interventions in human right abuses
Revision videos
Exam Questions and model answers
Recall sheets
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
Edexcel A Level Geography Lesson - 3.3 Superpowers - Hard and Soft Power Making a difference
Students will learn about how patterns of power change over time and can be uni, bi or multi-polar
Multi-Polar World & British Empire
Bi-Polar & Cold War
Uni-Polar & USA
The rise of China
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 - 3.7 Superpowers - Superpowers and the Environment
Students will learn about how geopolitical power can be asserted in both hard and soft powers
China’s demand for resources
The consumer demand of the emerging middle class
Monitoring the earths atmosphere
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