KS3 Geography - a topical, tropical storm! A power point format with 2 lessons about hurricanes and the current/recent one in the Bahamas/ North America. There are a variety of learning activities and tasks. Maps. Clips and information about Hurricane Dorian and the causes of tropical storms.

A complete set of resources including a power point and set of student hand outs and worksheets to investigate what they know about carbon footprint and how they can work out theirs. This lesson could link to climate change and develops awareness of what we can all do. There are 5 different learning activities included, identifying and categorising key words in the starter, a whole class opinion line (with symbols to print out for this), an activity where students calculate their individual carbon footprint, a creative thinking task where students are given 15 energy saving tips hand out and have to illustrate them but using a limited number of words. Their is a peer assessment task and the review task encourages students to write a pledge about how they can reduce their carbon footprint which links back to the starter. Also the lesson can be easily differentiated and can fit with KS3 topics.

This is a complete lesson with all the resources and tasks needed and just need printing out. There are 2 video clips about the pacific garbage patch, the second is the ocean clean up. Students do a big research task to try and answer the big questions: What is it? How did it form? What are the solutions?

Here is a power point that has a variety of clips and tasks about why Britain has such varied weather. There are links to the current storms Ciara and Dennis and students learn about forecasting and weather symbols too. There are 2 worksheets to go with the tasks also.

Complete lesson with a range of clips, tasks, independent research and background information. The clip near the start details lots of cases and areas affected, the second part encourages research into why rivers flood.