Geography teaching resources

Geography · KS3 to A Level £4.99

Grounded Geographers, Confident Schools

One book for the whole department — the head of geography who has to fund fieldwork and defend the curriculum, and the teacher explaining longshore drift to a wet Year 9. Built on what the specifications actually say, read from the current documents.

1. 1 Curriculum
2. 2 Place
3. 3 Process
4. 4 Enquiry
5. 5 Standard

The current GCSE and A Level geography specifications, read in full · 73 pages, 70 sections · For department CPD, planning and curriculum review

Geography · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 7 Geography Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year. The two map units come first because everything after them assumes both: a mental map of the world, and the ability to read a real map of a real place. The physical processes then follow in the order that lets each explain the last.

1. 1a Thinking Like a Geographer: The World, and Where Things Are
2. 1b Ordnance Survey: Reading the Ground
3. 2a Restless Earth: Geological Time and Plate Tectonics
4. 2b Rocks, Weathering and Soils: What the Ground Is Made Of
5. 3a Weather and Climate: Why It Is Like That Here
6. 3b Fieldwork One: The Ground You Stand On

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 geography (DfE, 2013) · 65 pages, 19 sections · For heads of geography, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

Geography · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 8 Geography Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year. The two statutory region studies are both great river basins — the Nile and the Ganges — chosen so that similarities, differences and links can actually be argued rather than listed.

1. 1a Africa: A Continent, Not a Country
2. 1b A Region in Africa: The Nile Basin
3. 2a Population and Urbanisation: Where Everyone Is Going
4. 2b Asia: Russia, China and India
5. 3a A Region in Asia: The Ganges Basin, and What It Shares with the Nile
6. 3b Fieldwork Two: Rivers, Coasts and Measuring the Real Thing

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 geography (DfE, 2013) · 60 pages, 19 sections · For heads of geography, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

Geography · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 9 Geography Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year. Glaciation and the climate record come first, so that the interaction unit later in the year can ask about rate rather than about whether the climate changes. The year ends with the student's own enquiry.

1. 1a Ice and Time: Glaciation and the Climate Since the Ice Age
2. 1b Development and the Global Economy
3. 2a The Middle East: Resources, Water and Power
4. 2b Extremes: Polar Regions and Hot Deserts
5. 3a Interacting Systems: Where People and Nature Meet
6. 3b Fieldwork Three: Your Own Question, and the Tools to Answer It

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 geography (DfE, 2013) · 62 pages, 19 sections · For heads of geography, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

Geography · GCSE £4.99

Year 10 Geography Scheme of Work

Ninety pages, board-neutral by construction: every requirement comes from the DfE subject content for GCSE geography, and no specification is reproduced anywhere. Three things are computed from the units rather than claimed — that all seven named topics are taught, that all fifteen statements of the mathematics and statistics appendix are taught and revisited, and that case studies reach at least two countries other than the UK. Fieldwork is planned as the 15% of the qualification it actually is, with the write-up given three times the teaching of the day out, because that is how the Department weights it.

1. 1a The United Kingdom in Overview: Place, Landscape and the Geographer's Habit
2. 1b Coasts: A System That Moves
3. 2a Rivers, Flooding and the Cost of Control
4. 2b Weather, Hazard and a Changing Climate
5. 3a Global Ecosystems and the Biodiversity Question
6. 3b The First Enquiry: Physical Fieldwork

The GCSE subject content for geography (DfE, DFE-00345-2014) and Ofqual's assessment objectives · 90 pages, 30 sections · For heads of geography, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

Geography · GCSE £4.99

Year 11 Geography Scheme of Work

Eighty-seven pages, and deliberately not the same shape as Year 10. The remaining content runs through autumn and spring and finishes at Easter; the last half-term is synthesis and then revision driven by evidence rather than by a topic list — sit a paper, code every question four ways, group by diagnosed need, reteach, reattempt, and measure whether it worked. Year 11 introduces no new geographical skill, which is what makes a whole term of diagnosis affordable.

1. 1a Cities: Growth, Form and the Advanced-Economy City
2. 1b The Second Enquiry, and the City That Grew Fastest
3. 2a Resources: Food, Water and Energy Under Pressure
4. 2b Uneven Development and the Shape of the World Economy
5. 3a The United Kingdom in Depth, and Geography Joined Up
6. 3b Revision by Diagnosis, and the Examination

The GCSE subject content for geography (DfE, DFE-00345-2014) and Ofqual's assessment objectives · 87 pages, 32 sections · For heads of geography, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

Geography · GCSE · AQA £3.99

AQA GCSE Geography Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

AQA only — AQA GCSE Geography (8035). A working manual for a GCSE geography department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that would be true whichever board you sat.

1. AO1 Knowledge
2. AO2 Understanding
3. AO3 Application
4. AO4 Skills

AQA GCSE Geography (8035) · 28 pages, 22 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

Geography · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £3.99

Pearson Edexcel GCSE Geography Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Geography A (1GA0). A working manual for a GCSE geography department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that would be true whichever board you sat.

1. AO1 Knowledge
2. AO2 Understanding
3. AO3 Application
4. AO4 Skills

Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Geography A (1GA0) · 28 pages, 22 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

Geography · A Level · AQA £3.99

AQA A Level Geography Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

AQA only — AQA A-level Geography (7037). An examination manual for an A-level Geography department. It is about how the qualification is assessed and how students gain marks, not how to teach the content. Part One is board-specific and quoted verbatim. Everything after it is about the assessment.

1. AO1 Knowledge and understanding
2. AO2 Application
3. AO3 Skills

AQA A-level Geography (7037) · 25 pages, 18 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

Geography · GCSE · OCR £3.99

OCR GCSE Geography A Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

OCR only — Geography A (Geographical Themes), J383, read from Version 2.0 of the specification. A working manual for a GCSE geography department, and the one book in this series whose Part One runs two pages longer: on J383 the Geographical Skills component is 40% of the qualification and contains no AO1 at all, which is a teaching problem the other specifications do not set. Everything after Part One is subject pedagogy that would be true whichever board you sat.

1. AO1 Knowledge
2. AO2 Understanding
3. AO3 Application
4. AO4 Skills

Cambridge OCR GCSE (9–1) Geography A (Geographical Themes), J383, Version 2.0 · 30 pages, 24 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

Geography · A Level · OCR £3.99

OCR A Level Geography Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

OCR only — OCR A Level Geography (H481). An examination manual for an A-level Geography department. It is about how the qualification is assessed and how students gain marks, not how to teach the content. Part One is board-specific and quoted verbatim. Everything after it is about the assessment.

1. AO1 Knowledge and understanding
2. AO2 Application
3. AO3 Skills

OCR A Level Geography (H481) · 25 pages, 18 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

Geography · A Level · Pearson Edexcel £3.99

Pearson Edexcel A Level Geography Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel A level Geography (9GE0). An examination manual for an A-level Geography department. It is about how the qualification is assessed and how students gain marks, not how to teach the content. Part One is board-specific and quoted verbatim. Everything after it is about the assessment.

1. AO1 Knowledge and understanding
2. AO2 Application
3. AO3 Skills

Pearson Edexcel A level Geography (9GE0) · 25 pages, 18 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

Geography · GCSE £4.99

GCSE Geography Questions & Model Answers

In geography the middling answer is rarely the one that knows less — it is the one whose chain of reasoning stops a link short, and naming that is what each of these hundred pages does. Ten figures are drawn in code rather than sourced, so the hydrograph, the choropleth and the map extract carry no licensing question; and where a misconception is spatial it is drawn twice, the version most students produce beside the version that is correct.

1. 1 Tectonic hazards
2. 2 Weather hazards and climate change
3. 3 Ecosystems and the living world
4. 4 Coastal landscapes
5. 5 River landscapes
6. 6 Glacial landscapes
7. 7 Urban issues and challenges
8. 8 The changing economic world
9. 9 Resource management
10. 10 Fieldwork
11. 11 Geographical skills

The GCSE subject content for geography (DfE) and the four assessment objectives set by Ofqual, which are worded identically across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas · 106 pages, 11 sections · For geography teachers and heads of department — used with a class, not a student revision guide

Geography · GCSE · Every exam board Free

GCSE Geography — Revision Posters

Five A3 posters for the subject content: the four plate boundaries drawn in cross-section, grid references and contours drawn on a grid, the Demographic Transition Model, the processes that run rivers and coasts, and the six steps of a geographical enquiry.

Quoted from the published subject content across the GCSE Geography specifications · 5 A3 posters · For classroom walls, corridors and revision spaces