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A selection of Geography lessons. I'm a Geography teacher originating from the Lake District currently teaching at an International School in Bangkok with experience teaching Geography, Global Perspectives and English.

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A selection of Geography lessons. I'm a Geography teacher originating from the Lake District currently teaching at an International School in Bangkok with experience teaching Geography, Global Perspectives and English.
The Future of Farming
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The Future of Farming

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This lesson investigates developing technology and methods of increasing production. Includes plant based meat, lab grown meat, vertical and rooftop farming and the farming of the oceans. Source material includes diagrams, YouTube videos and texts. This should take 2 periods.
Types of Rainfall
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Types of Rainfall

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This lesson should take two lessons and investigates relief, frontal and convectional rainfall. The place specific reference in some slides can be tailored to whether you are teaching.
Settlement
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Settlement

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This contains 10 lessons on settlement starting with the basic of types of settlements, reasons for settlements developing, city models, issues with each zone and case studies on; traffic in bangkok, Mumbai environmental effects. This should take around 12-15 lessons and is aimed at KS4 classes.
Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina

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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.
Dark Tourism
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Dark Tourism

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This lesson introduces dark tourism, provides examples of it and then has instructions for students to produce an informative poster on the subject together with a mark scheme. The main task is researched based and works best if students choose separate locations. In the past students have done locations such as Alcatraz, Robben island, the Cambodian Killing Fields, Pompeii, Death Railway, the wreck of the Titanic, 9/11 memorial and many more
Easter Island (How did a civilization collapse?)
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Easter Island (How did a civilization collapse?)

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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.
Sustainable Tourism
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Sustainable Tourism

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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.
Why do cities grow
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Why do cities grow

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

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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.
Agriculture introduction
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Agriculture introduction

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

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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.
Tropical Storms
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Tropical Storms

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

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These 6 lessons are most appropriate for GCSE classes and include key terminology, locations of agriculture, improving farming techniques, the Green Revolution and organic vs GMO opinion based lesson after investigating evidence.
Population
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Population

10 Resources
This contains 11 different lessons aimed at GCSE classes but could also work for Year 9 and aspects of A Level. Lessons go through basics of population, Population pyramids, the Demographic Transition Model, migration (Mexico/ USA) , underpopulation (Australia), overpopulation (Bangladesh), aging population (Japan) and rapid population growth.
Ecosystems
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Ecosystems

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This contains 9 lessons aimed at GCSE and/ or Year 9. It includes ecosystem basics, reasons for variations in climate in the tropics, rainforest plant & animal adaptations, tropical desert plant & animal adaptations, coral reefs, mangroves and a case study on deforestation and restoration of tropical rainforests in Thailand.
Soil Erosion
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Soil Erosion

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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.
Farming Modernisation
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Farming Modernisation

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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.