The first lesson in a series which look at fossil fuels, renewable energy and global warming. This first lesson focuses on the fossil fuels and looks at evaluating them. I follow this up with a debate on which fuel is the most precious.

i created this mini SOW on Afghanistan for my year 8's. The whole topic is based around research techniques where students use the school library extensively as well as the internet to produce a final project to explain why the the country can be described as being in &'turmoil&';.

A year 7 lesson aimed at different abilities which looks at the causes, effects and management of the Boscastle flood through the SLN mystery of Mrs George (I have adapted this for SEN and more able).

A lesson aimed at year 7 of different abilities. The lesson is planned around the Geography Nelson Thorne's Foundation textbook.

A basic introduction lesson to the water cycle. This lesson was aimed at year 7 and includes a variety of activities for different abilities.

I have created these three PowerPoints for the final examination 2014. I find that simplifying the revision guide and textbooks in this way makes it easier for students. It can also be put on your school VLE for students personal revision.

The third lesson in a series of volcanoes and earthquakes. The lesson involves students making human diagrams of the plate boundaries and the peer assessing each others.

Lesson 2 in a series of lessons on volcanoes and earthquakes. The students play information race in teams. There is also a SEN version of the game.

An introduction lesson to earthquakes and volcanoes on the structure of the earth with a mini base line assessment for year 7.

A selection of lessons aimed to help students understand the SDME exam specifically for OCR B. As the paper is now an unseen resource some example questions have been put into the lessons.

This lesson takes students through how the early settlements were chosen and the environmental influencing factors. Students have to do a decision making exercise where they choose the best site as early settlers from 4 options. This lesson received an outstanding under the new ofsted criteria.

A clearly differentiated lesson on the 2012 drought in the UK. The lesson takes students through levelled mystery activity.

An introduction lesson to population distribution and density, with some differentiated resources.

Two assessment lessons on FairTrade. One looks at re-capping what they have learnt about FairTrade and looking at ideas of sustainable development. The other moves on to look at peer assessing each others work, with an example of a pupils work to look at.

This lesson allows students to build on the skills they acquired with 4 figure grid referencing. There is another group activity using the local OS maps (please change for your area). The 'how confident are you&' gets students post-it note their name on the tree to show where they have climbed to in the lesson.

A whole lesson on 4 figure grid references. The group activity is based around the OS maps that my school receives of our local area so you can change these questions if you would like to do it for your local area. Get them to do it with whiteboards and they will love the competition!

Lots of interesting activities relating to map symbols. One of the worksheets is particularly good for higher ability students as they have to use grid references also. Students love the mystery activity in my experience.

A lesson which looks at the advantages and disadvantages of the main 6 types of soft engineering methods. The table also has a differentiated version for those students who have literacy needs. This resource could also be adapted and used at GCSE.

An activity which gets students looking at the advantages and disadvantages of hard engineering techniques along the coast. With higher ability students I also get them to think about sustainability. You can stick the fact sheets in the PowerPoint around the class room or get them to pass them from group to group. The table also has a differentiated version too.

A whole lesson on teaching direction for year 7 map skills topics. You may want to change the map on the worksheet to one of your own area. The wording is also more for a more able set.