On the 17th July, 1998 a magnitude 7 earthquake occurred just off the north central coast of Papua New Guinea, generating a very destructive tsunami (see figure 1). The 1998 International Tsunami Survey Team (ITST) concluded that the wave was between 7 to 10 meters with a maximum height of 15 meters and was confined to approximately 40-km of coastline. This poster shows the cause, effects and conclusions of the tsunami on Pap New Guinea and the surrounding area

This 31 page booklet gives students the opportunity to explore UEFA Euro, France and their connections to geography using different Geographical themes and skills. Chapters include: Why Is Football So Popular? How Is Football Linked To Geography? Who Are UEFA? Who’s Taking Part In 2016? Friendly Rivals We Are Number One! Football As An Economic Activity Flag Crossword Getting The Vote What Do You Know About France? Where In France? Population And Nationality Country Climate Seeing The Sites What Have We Borrowed? Build A Brand Knowing The Neighbours Football Acrostic How Is This Omar Linked To Football?

This 31 page booklet gives students the opportunity to explore UEFA Euro, France and their connections to geography using different Geographical themes and skills. Chapters include: Why Is Football So Popular? How Is Football Linked To Geography? Who Are UEFA? Who’s Taking Part In 2016? Friendly Rivals We Are Number One! Football As An Economic Activity Flag Crossword Getting The Vote What Do You Know About France? Where In France? Population And Nationality Country Climate Seeing The Sites What Have We Borrowed? Build A Brand Knowing The Neighbours Football Acrostic How Is This Omar Linked To Football?

This booklet allows students to explore tourism from its definition to types of tourism and their impacts. The unit starts by introducing the difference between leisure and tourism, where we holiday, the types of tourism available to us and how our holidays have changed and grown. Tourism as an economic activity is explored in terms of the employment and GDP generated. Impacts of tourism are investigated in the unlikely but busy location of Antarctica, while the management of these social, economic, and environmental impacts are highlighted in our National Parks. Sustainable and eco-tourism is researched looking at strategies in place around the world and specifically at the Galapagos Islands. Blackpool, UK, is used to explain Butler’s Cycle of Tourism Model and leads into the exciting topic of Movie-Induced Tourism. Book, film, and television are used to highlight how they can encourage tourism growth to particular areas and the positive and negative impacts this can have before, during, and after production. The unit concludes with the students creating their own Movie-Induced tour. They will create a short introduction video to tourists to your country and design a week’s holiday for visitors to include a major city, seaside resort, historic town, countryside area and a special place of their own. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, their thoughts, and ideas, drawing and reading various graphs including completing a choropleth map from gathering data to finished map with description of findings, annotating maps, scripting a podcast, poster design with peer assessment, completing a fact file and developing their own holiday schedule. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This booklet allows students to explore tourism from its definition to types of tourism and their impacts. The unit starts by introducing the difference between leisure and tourism, where we holiday, the types of tourism available to us and how our holidays have changed and grown. Tourism as an economic activity is explored in terms of the employment and GDP generated. Impacts of tourism are investigated in the unlikely but busy location of Antarctica, while the management of these social, economic, and environmental impacts are highlighted in our National Parks. Sustainable and eco-tourism is researched looking at strategies in place around the world and specifically at the Galapagos Islands. Blackpool, UK, is used to explain Butler’s Cycle of Tourism Model and leads into the exciting topic of Movie-Induced Tourism. Book, film, and television are used to highlight how they can encourage tourism growth to particular areas and the positive and negative impacts this can have before, during, and after production. The unit concludes with the students creating their own Movie-Induced tour. They will create a short introduction video to tourists to your country and design a week’s holiday for visitors to include a major city, seaside resort, historic town, countryside area and a special place of their own. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, their thoughts, and ideas, drawing and reading various graphs including completing a choropleth map from gathering data to finished map with description of findings, annotating maps, scripting a podcast, poster design with peer assessment, completing a fact file and developing their own holiday schedule. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This unit of work is a fun way to teach tourism and to include films in your lesson. It helps students to explore the connection between geography and media, specifically through movie-induced tourism. First to be explored is the representation of place through books and film and the different impressions they can give to one place. The motivation of tourism is discussed through push and pull factors in relation to place, performance, and personality. Local Area Promotion is investigated before, during and after a film’s release. We look at the impacts this can have both positively and negatively in terms of socially, economically, and environmentally on the local area. To this end a case study is completed regarding Bourne Woods, Surrey, England which is the backdrop of many major blockbusters and whether the students believe it should advertise this, in addition to its natural beauty by the Forestry Commission. Measuring the number of tourists or visitors to some areas in respect to what led then there can be difficult and the students suggest the best procedures in collecting this information. The unit of work concludes with the students investigating pre-existing movie tours and designing their own which is then peer-assessed. File also includes two PowerPoints, a video, and worksheets Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This unit of work is a fun way to teach tourism and to include films in your lesson. It helps students to explore the connection between geography and media, specifically through movie-induced tourism. First to be explored is the representation of place through books and film and the different impressions they can give to one place. The motivation of tourism is discussed through push and pull factors in relation to place, performance, and personality. Local Area Promotion is investigated before, during and after a film’s release. We look at the impacts this can have both positively and negatively in terms of socially, economically, and environmentally on the local area. To this end a case study is completed regarding Bourne Woods, Surrey, England which is the backdrop of many major blockbusters and whether the students believe it should advertise this, in addition to its natural beauty by the Forestry Commission. Measuring the number of tourists or visitors to some areas in respect to what led then there can be difficult and the students suggest the best procedures in collecting this information. The unit of work concludes with the students investigating pre-existing movie tours and designing their own which is then peer-assessed. File also includes two PowerPoints, a video, and worksheets Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 28 page booklet allows students to study how our coastlines are formed, the conflicts with may arise along them and their management. Topics include: Coastal Processes Erosional Landforms Depositional Landforms Coastal Features On Maps Coastal Management Coastal Assessment - Dorset – Its Landforms, Uses And Conflicts

This 32 page booklet helps students to study and understand deserts. Topic titles include: What Is An Ecosystem? Where Do Deserts Form And Why? Deserts Above Climate Of Deserts Interpreting The Deserts Climate Animals Of The Desert Plants Of The Desert People Of The Desert Why Is Las Vega So Thirsty? The Lie Of The Land Sand Dunes Desertification Desert At The Bottom Of The World Tourism In The Desert

This booklet introduces students to the essential graphs used in most subjects including Maths, Science and Geography, and how to draw them. Graphs discussed are: Line Graphs Bar Graphs Divided Bar Graphs Pie Charts Pictograms Proportional Arrows Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 17 page booklet allows students to investigate our National Parks. It covers a number of Geographical topics including map work, impacts of tourism and solutions to these and discussion on whether National Parks are still considered important. Some of the titles included in this booklet are: What Is A National Park?, What Makes The New Forest National Park A Honey Pot Site?, What Impacts Can Visitors Have On Our National Parks?, Should The South Downs Have Been Included In Britain’s National Parks? Do We Still Need National Parks?

This booklet introduces students to the global links within sports, specifically football. We investigate the origin of top players and how these have changed over twenty years. Child labour, shanty towns and The Atlanta Agreement are discussed in relation to Brazil readying itself to host the 2014 Word Cup. The unit concludes with the students considering whether they think Brazil should have held the World Cup having considered the social economic and environmental impacts. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet including map reading and annotating, gathering research from print and students drawing their own conclusions from materials gathered. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 46 page booklet gives students the opportunity to explore Africa as a continent, who lives there, how it was discovered by Westerners and some of the following titles: What’s Africa’s Environment Like?, Central African Rainforest, Lake Victoria, Great Valley Rift, Victoria Falls, Kalahari Desert, A Taste Of Africa, African Tribal Face Painting, Recycling In Africa,

This booklet introduces the students to why we carry out fieldwork within Geography for coursework or class investigations, and the types and uses of data sources. Four and six figure grid references are explained and practised alongside learning OS map symbols. Environmental surveys are carried out within their learning surroundings, with their positive and negative aspects being discussed. The students practice drawing their own field sketches having discussed the “Do’s” and “Don’ts” of these and carry out a practical using quadrats in which they build their bar graph skills by presenting their results. Measuring litter gives the students the opportunity to survey their school grounds and progress their pie graph skills and draw conclusions from their results. The booklet concludes with a discussion of appropriate and suitable questions for questionnaires. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and in person, drawing graphs and annotating the data, as well as discussing the pros and cons of each technique and how some of these can be overcome or restricted. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This five page activity allows students to explore where Las Vegas is, whether it is sustainable, why it is so dry and how they are trying to over come this by using Xeriscaping

This is one of my favourite units with my students as it is predominantly student led which helps build confidence, trust, and responsibility as they work in groups outside of the classroom, independently from the teacher. The unit walks the students through carrying out an investigation around their school breaking down the different components (Introduction, Aim, Hypothesis, Method, Presenting Data, Discussion, Conclusion and Evaluation), explaining the purpose of each, the expected length and giving some sentence starter suggestions. The unit concludes with the student’s peer assessing each other’s group presentations of their investigations. This resource includes the student workbooks, a class PowerPoint presentation and a booklet describing different graphs and their uses which can aid the students in their data presentation. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

Seven fun brainteasers and images which could be used as lesson starters or displayed in the classroom and corridor in a Geography department. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 50 page booklet allows students to explore China through a variety of activities both students and teacher lead. Chapters include, amongst others: Where Are We Talking About? What Do You Know About China? Why Travel to China? What Is The Climate Like in China? What Is our Population Like? What’s Happening To China’s Population? What’s Happening To The Age Of China? China’s Culture A Taste Of China Gung Hey Fat Choy! Playing With Paper Britain’s Best Beverage China’s Threatened Wildlife The Great Wall The Terracotta Army The Forbidden City Tiananmen Square Three Gorge Dam Transnational Companies In China

This 29 page booklet gives students the opportunity to explore the Olympics and Brazil using different Geographical themes and skills. Chapters include: History Of The Olympics The Rings Rio De Janeiro – Host City 2016 London’s Olympic Legacy City Climate Seeing The Sites Population And Nationality General Geography Of Olympic Countries Build A Brand For an additional booklet about Brazil please visit: https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/brazil-ks3-and-4-11073383

This 60 page booklet allows students to explore Brazil through a variety of activities both students and teacher lead. Chapters include, amongst others: What Do You Know About Brazil? Why Travel To Brazil? What’s The Landscape Like In Brazil? What Is Brazil’s Climate like? What Is Brazil’s Vegetation Like? What Is Brazil’s Culture Like? A Taste Of Brazil Christ The Redeemer Amazon Rainforest Sugarloaf Mountain Iguazu Falls Rio Carnival How Does The South Of Brazil Compare To The Rest Of The Country? How Is Brazil’s Population Distributed? Who Lives In The City? Who Lives In The Rainforest? Brazil’s Threatened Wildlife Can The Urucu Gas Project Provide Energy For Manaus Without Harming The Environment? For resource about the Rio 2016 Olympics please refer to: www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/olympic-booklet--rio-2016-ks-3-and-4-11060224