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Quality lessons. Quality weekend. As every teacher knows, finding that work life balance is often difficult. Here at Geography Guru, we provide quality tested geography resources at an affordable price. Take the stress out of your teaching and enjoy what many teachers joined the proffesion for, working with young people.

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Quality lessons. Quality weekend. As every teacher knows, finding that work life balance is often difficult. Here at Geography Guru, we provide quality tested geography resources at an affordable price. Take the stress out of your teaching and enjoy what many teachers joined the proffesion for, working with young people.
Development indicators, The development gap
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Development indicators, The development gap

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This 1 HOUR resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘The changing economic world’ module. The lesson investigates how countries are classified according to their level of economic development and quality of life. The students are required to use a map to to describe the distribution of high and low income countries. The lesson prompts students to think about why the development gap exists between the worlds richest and poorest nations. The students are taught the development indictors through a fun game and then asked to consider their effectiveness and limitations.
Consequences of uneven development, Economic migrants VS asylum seekers,
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Consequences of uneven development, Economic migrants VS asylum seekers,

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This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘The changing economic world’ module. This 2 HOUR lesson starts by investigating at the economic migration of polish migrants to the UK. Students are taught this through a card sort exercise in which the emphasis is on reasons for this migration. The lessons then investigates the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis. Pupils are required to create a newspaper article on the crisis, using video sources.
How can debt relief help reduce the development gap
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How can debt relief help reduce the development gap

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This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘The changing economic world’ module. This resource will not last an hour teaching session, however aims to provided a concise overview of why some nations are in debt. Students are taught where the heavily indebted nations are, and made aware of two potential solutions, including micro finance and debt relief.
Causes of uneven development, Reasons for the development gap
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Causes of uneven development, Reasons for the development gap

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This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘The changing economic world’ module. This 1 HOUR resource investigates the physical, economic and historical reasons for uneven development. The lesson is pupil led, through student discussion groups. A video is provided that overviews issues restricting development. Prompt images are then provided to each group who must link the image to development, before feeding back the class.
How can AID reduce the development gap, Is all AID effective AID
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How can AID reduce the development gap, Is all AID effective AID

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This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘The changing economic world’ module. In this 1-2 HOUR lesson, pupils evaluate the effectiveness of AID provision. The students are familiarised with the different types of AID through a kinesthetic game. Discussion groups are then used to consider both the benefits and problems of different forms of AID. Two examples of intermediate technology are provided, to show how grass roots development AID is a much more effective at reducing the development gap.
Reducing the development gap
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Reducing the development gap

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This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The package constitutes part of the ‘The changing economic world’ module. This series of lessons attempts to evaluate the various strategies used to reduce the development gap. The bundle overviews the following: investment, industrial development and tourism, aid, using intermediate technology, fair trade, debt relief and micro-finance loans . The package includes instructional footnotes on how to deliver each lesson, as well as factual information to assist staff.
Urbanisation, Describing the patterns of urban growth
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Urbanisation, Describing the patterns of urban growth

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This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. The lesson is part of the ‘Urban issues and challenges’ module. This 1 hour lesson investigates the concept of urbanisation. The lesson compares the growth of towns and cities in HIC’s and LIC’s. Pupils learn how to analyse a range of graph and table data sets, in an attempt to improve exam technique in skill based source questions.
Tectonic hazards
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Tectonic hazards

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This 7 WEEK full scheme of work provides all the teaching and learning materials needed, to deliver the AQA tectonic hazards specification for exams from 2018 onwards. This high quality package starts with an insight into natural hazards and hazard risk. The scheme then investigate the structure of the Earth and plate tectonics, to provide the required background knowledge. The location of both earthquakes and volcanoes in relation to plate boundaries is covered; as well as the physical processes taking place at constructive, conservative, destructive and collision boundaries. Case studies of earthquakes in two counties of contrasting levels of development is included, to show both primary and secondary effects, as well as short and long term responses. Pupils are later taught why people continue to live near these hazards despite the risks, and consider how monitoring, prediction and protection can mitigate their effects.
Hard and soft engineering strategies (Rivers)
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Hard and soft engineering strategies (Rivers)

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This resource relates to the AQA specification for GCSE (UK) exams from 2018 onwards. This lesson investigates the difference between hard and soft engineering strategies. The pupils learn examples of each through a fun kinaesthetic market style exercise. Group reflection questions and a ‘find the heads to the tails’ game is used to test pupils understanding of the material covered.