This lesson investigates why Hurricane Katrina was so devastating and the effects of it. This can be used as a case study. There is a fact collecting exercise that uses two YouTube videos as sources of information.

This lesson investigates the collapse of civilization on Easter Island. It starts with a structured activity describing the location of the island and its physical geography using maps as source material. Some key terms are then introduced and ideally added to their glossary (if they have one). A short YouTube video is watched and a text is read providing information on the collapse of civilization, students then answer 5 questions. They then complete a table in which they explain how each different factor made life more and more difficult for people to live on the island. Finally as an extension tasks students apply the lesson learned from Easter Island to our modern day way of life and the way we are exploiting our resources.

This lesson looks at the definition of sustaianable tourism and has a reading activity with 3 examples, students then create their own sustainable resort/ holiday based on making it economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. A great lesson towards the end of a unit on tourism.

A lesosn that investigates the Burgess model and the land uses and issues in each zone

This lesson looks at the problems subsistence farmers encounter and how they can improve their yields with a focus on the Green Revolution

A lesson looking at the Demographic Transition Model and what is happening to the population, birth rate and death rate at each stage. Limitations of the model are also included

A lesson that investigates the reasons for cities growing in size; ports, nodal points, adminstrative centres and agricultural centres

This lesson goes through key terminology and gets students to appreciate the range of ecosystems there are. This works as an introductory lesson to a new unit.

This lesson looks at the reasons behind the rapid development of the Asian Tigers looking at S. Korea in particular which could be used as a case study.

A lesson for introducing agriculture including key terms and themes. Focus on subsistence vs commercial, pastoral vs arable and intensive vs extensive farming.

This takes at least 2 lessons and looks at soil exhaustion by looking at the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and then looks at ways of conserving soil and to provide solutions to different scenarios.

This lesson investigates what tropical storms are, how they form, their distribution and conditions they produce.

This lessons investigates the importance of soil. Tasks include a comprehension task on the Dust Bowl in the USA. Causes of soil erosion gap fill, the effects of soil erosion, solutions to the problem and several scenarios that students must choose an appropriate solution for and justify it.

This lesson investigates how farming has modernised. The lesson starts by looking at the 3 sectors; primary, secondary and tertiary and students plot data onto triangular graphs. Students look at the use of fallow land and how and why it should be used. Students then have a range of images on the slides which can be printed off and then they explain how farming has changed over time.

The introductory lesson for the KS3 unit on Africa. this starts with a quiz in which all answers are Africa. Students then complete Atlas work, graph continent sizes, work out population density and compare continents focusing on sentence structures.

A lesson to fight the stereotype that all of the continent is poor. This includes an image analysis using 8 way thinking, data comparison table and the use of GapMinder’s Dollar Street to look at real families.

6 Knowledge Organisers for AS Geography (Cambridge Curriculum). Units include: Population Migration Settlement Rivers Atmosphere & Weathering Rocks and Weathering All Knowledge Organisers come in Publisher and PDF formats and have duplicate pages with gap fills and chunks removed for revision practice.