Geography teaching resources for KS2, KS3, KS4 and KS5. Worksheets and resources are mostly all contained within the lesson powerpoints for convenience.
Geography teaching resources for KS2, KS3, KS4 and KS5. Worksheets and resources are mostly all contained within the lesson powerpoints for convenience.
Lesson covers theory behind the global circulation model. Students have a clear A3 worksheet to fill in throughout the lesson to give them a clear and detailed revision sheet for the exams.
Worksheet included within the ppt
A concise factfile of these two tropical storms from the 2018 storm season
Contains key background facts and figures as well as primary impacts, secondary impacts, immediate responses and long term responses (also coded as environmental, social, economic)
Would be a good summary for students comparing more and less developed impacts and responses of storms; would also be a good basis for a comparison lesson
A powerpoint that includes a wide variety of activities to do with thinking about our plastic usage and how we can reduce it.
The first activity is based on the BBC’s recent documentary ‘Drowning in plastic’.
The other activities are based on reading and analysing text, persuasive writing, plotting plastic waste on a map, drawing a bar chart of biodegrade times, and role plays and creative activities to do with designing new purposes for plastic bottles.
All resources and worksheets are included within the ppt.
Resources created by The Planet Press, a teacher-written blog that encourages students to keep up to date with world environmental news
A one-sided marking and uplevel template to be used for marking extended writing or long exam questions. Aimed at GCSE level work but can be adapted for KS3 and KS5.
Template to be completed and adapted depending on the piece of work being marked.
A transcript of a short BBC news report about the proposed development of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, USA.
Comprehension questions are included at the end of the article.
Useful for looking at issues of developing ecosystems in cold environments, especially at GCSE level.
Lesson gives a detailed insight into how glacial areas are affected by tourism.
Lesson includes:
An overview of the location of Chamonix, France
A comprehension activity on the impacts of tourism here, along with a statement coding for positive/negative impacts and identification of environmental/social/economic effects
A brainstorming task that gets students to identify how each problem area can be targeted with a solution that will allow tourism to continue sustainably
A final summary quiz
All lesson resources and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
A detailed lesson that covers the problem of climate change in glacial areas, what the impacts are, and how different resorts are responding to these changes.
Lesson includes:
An overview of the scale of climate change and what it means for glacial regions
A statement-coding activity on the environmental/social/economic impacts of climate change on glacial resorts
A comprehension activity on how resorts are adapting and diversifying to cope with climate change, and the positive/negative impacts that these responses can have
A summary quiz to check learning
All lesson resources and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
A fun and engaging lesson that explores the hazard of avalanches in glacial areas.
Lesson includes:
Definition of an avalanche with video link to real-life footage and a description of the different types
Video link to causes of avalanches
Video link to one possible solution (using dynamite to trigger planned avalanches)
Statement sorting task to understand the other types of avalanche management
Final quiz to check learning
All lesson resources, links, and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
Lesson covers the four key processes of erosion (hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition, solution) using an easy-to-complete A3 summary sheet, suitable video links, and practice exam questions and summary tasks to check understanding.
All worksheets and resources are included within the ppt.
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A fully planned and resourced lesson for teaching about the feast of thanksgiving.
Lesson includes a thinking starter, key definitions, video of the history of thanksgiving followed by a timeline activity, a thinking task about the food associated with thanksgiving, and a class activity where students create a thanksgiving display with images of food and cards where they have written what they are thankful for.
This is an excellent resource for use as a full lesson (or two) or for using part of it in a tutor time or school assembly.
Extensions and challenges are included throughout.
A tried and tested(!) powerpoint that contains a range of activities including a world knowledge quiz and an interactive ‘map-the-world’ task that students can gradually add to as they move in and out of the classroom over the course of the evening.
The powerpoint slides contain lots of little sheets (e.g. flags, animals, boxes to write capital cities, mountain ranges, rivers etc) that can be printed out for students to colour and add information to, and then pin onto a larger world map to make a colourful display. A large map and atlases are required to carry this out.
This has worked really successfully as a way to engage students and talk to them about geography, and create something visually-exciting and meaningful.
A clear and detailed case study lesson on the conflicts that arise as a result of tourism in the UK’s national parks.
Lesson includes:
An introduction to the Lake District and the idea of conflict
A comprehension on the Lake District - why people are attracted there and the conflicts that it has to cope with
A problem solving activity on how best to respond with the conflicts the Lake District experiences
A final plenary to check learning
All lesson resources, comprehensions and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
Lesson covers the features of a hydrograph, sequence of a hydrograph, and factors that affect it.
Activities include a ‘graphs from memory’ group task, labelling a hydrograph, identifying affecting factors, and extended exam practice with model answers.
All worksheets and resources are included within the ppt.
Lesson covers the processes that cause change in the water cycle over time (farming, deforestation, abstraction etc) and different types of floods (flash floods, monsoon floods etc).
Activities include group research, structured note taking, and extended exam pratice (including a 20 mark essay with model answer)
All worksheets and answers included within the ppt.
Lesson covers the location of the Carlisle 2005 flood, its causes, effects and responses, comparison with 2015 floods (Storm Desmond) and 15 mark essay practice.
Activities include video, card sort, internet research and exam questions.
All worksheets and activities included within the ppt.
KS5 but can be adapted for KS4 use.
Based around physical geography case studies on the AQA spec
Contains blank sheets for students to fill in to consolidate their learning
Case studies include:
Carlisle floods
Amazon rainforest
Holderness Coast
Bangladesh
Eyjafjallajokull eruption
Haiti
Christchurch
Hurricane Sandy
Typhoon Haiyan
Black Saturday, Australia
Los Angeles
Japan tsunami
Advice sheet for A Level or sixth form students on how to be organised and study well
Contains advice on day to day lessons, homework and coursework, revision/exams and UCAS/extra curricular
Contains a list of top ten things successful people to
Useful for sixth form tutors and sixth form introduction assemblies