Geography PGCE 2022-23 Lesson Plan
9.8 Russia Ukraine
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Lesson Title: Year 8 Geography, ‘From Cairo to Cape Town’
Describe and explain the key geographical concepts, knowledge and/or skills to be developed in the lesson.
Highlight any key geographical or difficult vocabulary (show subject knowledge here).
Learning objectives:
 Understand why is there a war in Ukraine
 Explain how the international community is helping Ukraine including the reasons why these measures
have been taken.
 To evaluate what impact economic sanctions will have against Russia
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Key words:
Conflict
NC/Specification/Syllabus Links:
AQA
What might the pupils already know about this? Where from?
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Pupils may have own understanding of this topic through personal travel, home and media.
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Possible connections to KS3 History
Focused geographical learning objectives for this lesson.
Learning objectives:
 Understand why is there a war in Ukraine
 Explain how the international community is helping Ukraine including the reasons why these measures
have been taken.
 To evaluate what impact economic sanctions will have against Russia
Are there any non-geographical objectives?
 Answer questions from a clip which asses comprehensive ability
 Analytical skills – to be able to analyse data from a picture and interpret it
What misunderstanding/mistakes might pupils make? How can these be overcome?
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Generalisations about Russia – explain that many Russian’s do not support the war
Generalisations about Ukraine
How will you meet any individual needs for this geographical learning?
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Model all tasks before set
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Sentence starters
Geography
Episode 1.
Teaching/learning activity
Class discussion on what students
already know about Russia and Ukraine
Intro
Spider diagram on the board
Episode 2.
Look at the location of Ukraine and
Russia on the world map – write a
sentence about this (I will model task
and use sentence starters)
Use geographical terms
Episode 3
Background information
Episode 4
Introduction to key players – to be read
as class
How did we get here information sheet -
Episode 5
Sanctions – watch clip and then answer
questions
Plenary
I will refer to the learning objectives and
ask students the following:
Purpose/Assessment
Build upon this
knowledge and
identity any
misconceptions
Time
Build on the
geographical concept
of space
AFL – I will cold call
students to give their
answers
To provide context to
the current conflict
AFL – I will cold call
students to give their
answers
Can you summarise why there is war in
Ukraine
Doo you believe the economic sanctions
on Russia are justified?
How are the international community
helping Ukraine? Do you think this is
justified?
Lesson Evaluation
Lesson evaluations should help you make thoughtful, considered decisions about what happens next. Use the
questions below to prompt your thinking. Remember to fully explain your answers and use evidence from the lesson
to support what you say.
1. What did the pupils learn today and how do you know?
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Include evidence from pupils’ verbal and written responses.
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Think about what geography came out overtly into the room at assessment points.
2. If you were going to teach this lesson again what changes would you make and why?
3. As you move to the next geography lesson with these pupils what do you need to consider in the light of
what happened in today’s lesson?
Agreed Development Targets: