A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the natural causes of climate change through Earth’s history.
Task 1: Starter - 5 Quick Questions- students to recap on previously learnt information.
Task 2: Students to write out how temperature has changed through time and make the link to CO2.
Task 3: Students to watch the video in PowerPoint and make notes on the worksheet about the 4 causes of natural climate change.
Task 4: Main Task - Practice exam questions- Complete two exam questions “Using figure 3 which one of the following statements is true” “Give one nature cause of changes in global temperatures”
Task 5: Plenary - Which natural cause of climate change do you think is most impactful and why.
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Students will compile what they have learnt over the past 9 lessons to understand how people in the UK affect conflicts, how conflict affects us and then evaluate the effect of conflict.
Task 1: Starter/ recall of knowledge
Task 2: How do we personally affect conflicts?- Fill in the sheet
Task 3: Evaluate the effects of conflict
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on the 2010 Christchurch earthquake, this lesson establishes what an earthquake is. Where Christchurch 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 New Zealand.
Task 3: Identify the primary and secondary effects then place them into social, economic and environmental.
Task 4: Watch the news video about the New Zealand 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
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Students will be able to describe the land and sea routes that migrants take to get into Europe using geographical terms. They will be able to describe the location of Calais and the issues that boat crossings cause including migrant deaths and the dangers of crossing with identification of graphs. Finally students will condense the text of a news article about the migrant crisis and identify the stakeholders points of view. Students will be asked to demonstrate their learning by creating a profile for each of the stakeholder groups.
Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning.
Task 1: Describe the routes that migrants take to get into Europe
Task 2: Using the bar graph describe the dangers of boats crossing into Europe.
Task 3: Condense the newspaper article about the dangers of migrant crossings.
Task 4: Main Task: Create a stakeholder profile about each of the stakeholders and why they might feel that way.
Task 5: Plenary: Using the red and green planner sheets students are to show true or false answers.
Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet.
A fully resourced, differentiated and up to date lesson on the flood management scheme in York, Yorkshire. Students will find out, why the scheme is needed, what the scheme entails and the social, economic and environmental impacts of the scheme.
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: Identify the location of York in England.
Task 3: Students to read through information about why York floods so often.
Task 4: On a map of York students write on it where the scheme is used and what type of management strategy is used.
Task 5: Annotate the benefits and costs of the management scheme
Task 6: Main Task - Practice exam questions- "Using a UK Flood Management Scheme you have studied, argue to what extent this management scheme has been successful (9+3).” 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 - Opinion Line, students to consider the statement and stand on a continuum line in the room.
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These home learning/ homework sheets are a good way to test students knowledge and comprehension of the “changing economic world” topic of Nigeria. Each sheet provides upwards of 7 research questions, with two AQA specified exam questions to ensure that students are applying their knowledge correctly. It is recommended giving 1-2 weeks for students to complete the sheet (depending on student ability)
This home learning sheet is specifically designed for the Nigeria lessons that are also on Planet Geography, so if you want some engaging and challenging lessons, head over to the lessons and get them too!!
There are two homework sheets in this bundle, there is a Word version so you can edit the questions and there is also a PDF file so you can send it to your students digitally.
Students will be able to accurately locate Chernobyl and be able to discuss the time-line of events that led to the Chernobyl disaster. Students will begin to look at the magnitude of the event and the effects of the disaster.
Task 1: Starter- True or False- Knowledge recap of previous learning
Task 2: Located Ukraine/ Chernobyl on maps
Task 3: Watch various clips about Chernobyl
Task 4: Sort the effects of Chernobyl into social, economic and environmental effects
Task 5: Choose which of the effects are most significant and why.
Task 6: Main Task:Outline what happened in Chernobyl, identify which effect is most significant and describe its size, severity and length of time.
Task 7: Plenary: Write a sentence about how they, thought, liked, hated, wanted to learn more.
Lesson contains powerpoint and worksheet.
An introductory topic for KS3 & 4 in geography about Brazil and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately locate Brazil and its surrounding countries, the distribution of its population due to human and physical factors and how urbanisation has impacted Rio with favelas and squatter settlements. Finally, students will investigate the Amazon Rainforest
Lesson 1: Location, Climate and Importance of Brazil
Lesson 2: Inequalities in Brazil
Lesson 3: Impacts of Urbanisation in Brazil
Lesson 4: Life in a favela
Lesson 5: Positives of urbanisation in Brazil
Lesson 6: Importance of the Amazon Rainforest
Lesson 7: Exploitation of the Amazon Rainforest
Lesson 8: Protecting the Amazon Rainforest
Students will improve skills such as graph reading, data interpretation, creation of climate graphs and case study analysis.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
An introductory topic for KS3 geography about Earth’s past climate and today’s climate change and its features. This bundle contains 8 lessons that are fully resourced, with powerpoints and worksheets.
Throughout the series of lessons, students will be able to accurately
outline how the Earth’s climate has changed over time, and accurately define the enhanced greenhouse effect. Students will investigate the Ice Age and its effects on Homo-Sapiens and megafauna. Students will investigate why the UK has a temperate climate, how climate change affects the UK, and look globally at how areas with contrasting wealth (Bangladesh and Maldives) are affected by climate change and how they plan to mitigate/adapt to it.
Lesson 1: Climate Change
Lesson 2: Evidence of Climate Change
Lesson 3: Animals of the Ice Age
Lesson 4: Ice Age and the Effects on Earth
Lesson 5: Climate of the UK
Lesson 6: Climate Change Effect in the UK
Lesson 7: Effects of Climate Change in Bangladesh
Lesson 8: Effects of Climate Change in the Maldives
Students will gain a variety of skills such as data manipulation and interpretation along with map reading and climate graph reading.
This bundle contains fully resourced lessons along with worksheets.
Students will be able to define what a glacial and interglacial period is along with the conditions of each. They will also interpret graphs to show the glacial/interglacial cycle on Earth and describe the extent of ice during the last Ice Age. Students will then investigate the causes of the Ice Age and how humans survived the conditions.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Students describe the Earth’s climate over the past 450,000 years by interpreting a graph.
Task 3: Using the map of Earth students are to describe the extent of ice during the Ice Age.
Task 4: Main Task: Students to describe the last Ice Age and its effects on Earth, using success criteria.
Task 5: Plenary: Why is our planet not able to enter an Ice Age currently? Would we adapt now to an Ice Age? How would we adapt?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
Students will be able to describe what megafauna are, what their adaptations were during the Ice Age and how they came to be extinct.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Using the worksheet students are to describe the features of the animal and explain how its features help to adapt to the conditions of the Ice Age.
Task 3: Make notes about the extinction of the Giant Ground Sloth
Task 4: Main Task: Primary Assessment, describe how our climate has changed. (Sentence starters, PEEL structure provided and Success Criteria)
Task 5: Plenary: Why is our climate temperate when we are on the same latitude as Russia?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
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 be able to describe the location of Afghanistan, outline how conflict can affect development of a country and will finally explain in a mini essay how geography in the Middle East and conflict is linked.
Task 1: Starter- Recall Activity
Task 2: Define key words
Task 3: Locate Afghanistan
Task 4: Describe bar graph of development of Afghanistan
Task 5: Explain how geography in the Middle East and conflict are linked
A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how to use a compass, why we use compass directions and then how to apply compass directions to find places. This lesson also comes with an assessment at the end to test student’s knowledge of previous skills lessons.
Task 1: Starter -Recap the previous lessons and answer questions about them.
Task 2: Identity which students know the four-point compass directions and then the eight-point compass to stretch students.
Task 3: Discussion on why we use north orientated maps instead of other orientations.
Task 4: Complete a worksheet using compass directions and identifying what characters they end up at.
Task 5: Main Task - Secondary Assessment- using an atlas to answer all the questions on the worksheet, this puts all the skills students have previously acquired and puts them to use identifying places in an atlas.
Task 6: Plenary
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Students will be able to define the enhanced greenhouse effect, then identify the effects of climate change in the UK, rank which is the most impactful and justify why. Then students will evaluate is the government is doing enough to help tackle climate change.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Identify the effects of climate change on the UK.
Task 3: Rank the effects of climate change on the UK from most significant to least significant.
Task 4: Read through the statements on the worksheet and evaluate if the UK government is doing enough.
Task 4: Main Task: Evaluate the effects of climate change on the UK
Task 5: Plenary: What are the challenges with responding to climate change as a low-income country?
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
Students will be able to locate the Maldives and evaluate the impacts of climate change in the Maldives, then evaluate if they are adapting well enough to climate change. Then students will complete a secondary assessment about the past 5 lessons they have learnt about.
Task 1: Starter:- Knowledge recall on previous lessons and topics
Task 2: Describe the location of the Maldives
Task 3: Read through the impacts of climate change in the Maldives and evaluate which is the most significant.
Task 4: Then evaluate which is the best strategy to combat climate change.
Task 5: Main Task: Secondary Assessment - Evaluate the impacts of climate change globally (9 marks)
Task 6: Plenary: How can the school can reduce its contribution to climate change.
The lesson contains PowerPoint and worksheet
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.
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on how the UK’s demand for food has changed through time and how food miles, organic food and seasonal food have changed in the UK.
Task 1: Starter - Three choropleth maps on food resources, recap of previous lesson and improve graph reading skills/ data analysis.
Task 2: Match up the key terms to their correct description.
Task 3: Describe how the demand for food in the UK has changed.
Task 4: Describe how importing food for Kenya has positives and negatives for the people of Kenya.
Task 5: Using an Atlas, map where the food comes from and how many miles, creating a flow line map.
Task 6: Exam Question: Using the table and your own knowledge, discuss the advantages of buying local food products (6 marks)
Task 7: Plenary - Which would be the best for UK carbon emissions?
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A fully resourced and up to date lesson on an introduction to resource management, this lesson covers the significance of water, food and energy along with the economic and social well being that these resources provide. This lesson also covers the distribution of these resources.
Task 1: Starter - Answer questions from previous topics.
Task 2: Sort the resources into economic well-being and social well-being.
Task 3: Describe the distribution of resources globally.
Task 4: From slides 8-11 students have different maps to describe the resources being distributed and how they are linked.
Task 5: Exam Question: Using the map and your own understanding, suggest how inequalities in the consumption of resources influence well-being.
(3 marks) + Using the graph, suggest how the percentage of income spent on food may influence well-being.
(2 marks)
Task 6: Plenary - Which lack of resource will cause the most issues and why?
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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
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