Lesson features:
Starter questions
A range of explanation slides
A range of short knowledge focused tasks including discussion tasks using photographs.
Opportunity for exam practice at the end
Stretch/challenge tasks on each power-point slide.
Lesson is designed for 55-65 minute lessons.
Worksheet included
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 2 – Challenge of Resource Management - Water
This x12 slide powerpoint provides a useful summary of the content on the water topic of Section C of Paper 2. It is matched to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification.
If this powerpoint is printed as a 2 slide handout, each powerpoint slide can be cut out and forms a very handy one-sided summary flashcard for students to use. These can then be treasury tagged together to form a set of flashcards to revise from.
Included examples of:
• Large Scale Water Transfer Scheme – South to North, China
• Local Scheme in a LIC/NEE – Ice Stupas, Ladakh
Two A4 summary sheets which includes:
summary of why airports, ports, roads and railways are important for the UK economy
improvement / increasing capacity schemes (colour coding activity for each type of transport focusing on: Heathrow expansion, Liverpool2, dualling of A30 in Cornwall and HS2.
Can be used as as stand alone worksheet.
PDF and word copies available in download.
A worksheet designed to be used with the Oxford AQA GCSE Geography (AQA) textbook.
It focuses on the environmental challenges in Rio and the possible solutions to reducing them. Designed to be a comprehension based activity.
A scaffolded revision worksheet to consolidate students knowledge and understanding of urbanisation trends and megacities. Designed to be used with the AQA 8035 GCSE Geography course.
A standalone worksheet which could be used with KS3 or KS4.
The first part involves students reading descriptions of the different causes of the development gap and then adding the correct name of the cause to each one.
The second task involves students categorising them into physical, economic or historical.
The third task requires students to analyse two maps and then identify which possible cause of the development gap they show. The first is structured with gap fills and sentence starters and the second is slightly more open.
There is a challenge task at the end to promote deeper level thinking.
Perfect for a lesson, revision or homework.
A lesson on the causes and impacts of the Beast from the East (2018).
It explores the causes of the Beast from the East, with the aid of a short video and gives students a written activity based on explaining this.
The second part of the lesson focuses on some of the impacts - with an activity on categorising the impacts into social / economic / environmental and then an extended written piece using a PEEL structure to explain the impacts. The extended written task also includes a model example before students are expected to complete their own independent explanation.
Designed to last 1 hour.
A revision worksheet on weather and climate.
Includes sections on:
weather instruments
extreme weather inc. Beast from the East
climate and climate graphs
factors affecting climate
Could be printed on A4 or enlarged easily to A3.
**For which specification? **= AQA Geography (8035)
**Specification Link? **= Paper 2 - Urban Issues and Challenges - UK City - Bristol
This x34 slide powerpoint provides a useful summary of the case study on Bristol and is matched to the 8035 AQA GCSE Geography specification. It contains pit-stop questions and summarised content to help with planning and delivering revision sessions, which is specifically linked to the specification.
An A4 worksheet which is based around the different types of settlement.
Task 1 - students have to read each description and match it to the correct settlement name.
Task 2 - students have to complete a diagram of the settlement hierarchy.
Challenge - students have to describe the difference between two settlements.
A fully resourced lesson exploring the costs and benefits of urban sprawl and the growth of commuter settlements.
It includes a pre-made worksheet and challenge tasks which do not require the use of any other resources such as textbooks.
A summary revision sheet to cover the following parts of the Changing Economic World topic as part of the GCSE AQA Geography course (8035):
development indicators
causes of the development gap
consequences of uneven development
Can be used as a standalone worksheet or with the blue AQA GCSE Geography textbook. Ideal for summarising revision or as catch up resource for students who have large amounts of learning.
A summary worksheet on the causes of, and strategies to reduce, the UK’s ‘North-South Divide’. Contains a gap fill activity using key words to explain the causes followed by a colour coding activity based around strategies to reduce it.
A revision sheet for the earthquake part of the tectonic hazards unit of the 8035 AQA geography course.
It could be used as part of a lesson or standalone e.g. for HWK. Best printed A4 and then enlarged to A3.
Includes:
earthquake key terms
formation of an earthquake
Richter and Mercalli scale
Earthquake case studies (primary, secondary impacts and short-term and long responses)
Monitoring and the 3Ps to reduce the effects of earthquakes.
Could easily be adapted for volcanoes if needed.
A lesson on the causes and impacts of the Hurricane Irma (2017) with a focus on the impacts on Antigua and Barbuda.
It explores the causes of Hurricane Irma, with the aid of a short video and gives students a written activity based on explaining this.
The second part of the lesson focuses on some of the impacts - with an activity on categorising the impacts into social / economic / environmental and then an extended written piece using a PEEL structure to explain the impacts. The extended written task also includes a model example before students are expected to complete their own independent explanation.
Designed to last 1 hour.
A worksheet exploring the economic opportunities created by urban growth in Rio de Janeiro. Perfect as a standalone worksheet as part of a lesson or as additional homework.
Starter questions
A range of explanation slides
A range of short knowledge focused tasks
Opportunity for exam practice at the end
Stretch/challenge tasks on each power-point slide.
Lesson is designed for 55-65 minute lessons.
*Lesson will require students to have access to the GCSE Geography AQA Student Book (GCSE Geography AQA 2016) Paperback – 28 April 2016
Three sets of self-reflection worksheets for Paper 1, 2 & 3 of the AQA GCSE Geography (8035) exams from May/June 2019.
These are a useful template for students self-reflecting on these exam papers if used as mock exams or general practice papers.
They contain a column for writing their own mark for each exam question as well as a set of self-reflection questions at the end, focusing on their performance in each of the x3 sections of Papers 1 and 2 and in the sections of Paper 3.
A very simple PDF and word document for Year 7 students to complete remotely based on identifying types of extreme weather in the UK, explaining the impacts of extreme weather in the UK and of the Indian Monsoon.