Part of Year 7 Geography Syllabus

Geographical skills and knowledge for weather maps- Year 7 Geography. Tutorial and exercises. Includes skills such as understanding pressure systems, interpreting wind direction, understanding cold fronts and interpreting synoptic charts and predicting weather.

A simple but useful worksheet for Year 7 Geography to use as a starter at the beginning of the semester and/or for revision.

Work sheet for Year 7 Geography World Heritage sites topic. Intended to be used with a textbook (this was made with Geofocus 1 pages 42-51 in mind), but other school texts could be used and the sheet adapted as needed.

Practical lesson for Year 7 Geographay- traffic observation and then converting this to graphs. Geographical skills such as data collection and, statistical analysis and graphs.

This is a fun and creative end of year activity for Year 7 Geography students where they get to use what they have learned about various animals and their adaptations to a particular environment (desert, rainforest etc.). Students get creative inventing their own animal. Two versions of the activity are attached (file 2 is augmented).

Class activity for teaching "Big idea" concepts such as social justice in History, Geography and English using the "Hunger Games" movie/stories. No definite need to show these movies if students have already seen the movies or read the books (and they will almost certainly have done so), but it could be an option to read/view if needed).

Tutorial and work activities regarding El Nino, La Nina and the Southern Oscillation index- a part of 5A1 Australia and Its Physical Environment unit for Year 9

Worksheet/activity for 9 Geography "Changing Australian Communities" topic. Various geographical and critical thinking and writing skills analysing and responding to population data for Australia.

Workbook on tsunamis intended as part or the Natural Hazards unit of work Yr 9 Geography. Designed as an information and thinking skills unit based on geographical detail for topic information and uses the movie "The Impossible" as a complement. Some of the science/geography information is based on a TES file contributed by Penny1413 so credit to Penny (thank you). This is intended as a light end of year work activity after exams. Note that appropriate parent/guardian approval must be sought before showing this M rated movie to students.

Causes of Tornadoes information and worksheet suitable for Year 7 as part of their 'Four Spheres; Atmosphere" study and also suitable for Year 9 as part of "Natural Disasters"

Designed for Stage 4 Geography as a practical Geography skills activity group work task. Students research and draw on knowledge of local geography localised to either their town, school or Australia and use this information to create a personalised and localised version of Monopoly. This works well as an end of year activity. The template is hand-drawn, so it's not fantastic, but it should be useable.

Four Spheres Tutorial worksheet plus a ‘sentence arrange'. Print pages at the end of the tutorial. This is a kinaesthetic learning & literacy activity that can be used after the students have learned about the "four spheres”. One sheet per student with a word on it. Students stand out the front and work to sort themselves and the words into the right order so that it makes a proper sentence with geographically accurate information. Students without a card can assist by giving advice on the correct order. At the end, students say their word in order to read the completed sentence.

This is a simple instant lesson (requires booking of a computer room or student laptop access). A great purposeful activity at the end of the school year or instant lesson on short notice. Students research their answers with the reward of free time once completed.

Climate graphs information and exercises for this important geographical skill listed in the syllabus for Year 7 Geography.

A thinking activity for students to consider some of the effects of globalisation with some ideas following for discussion. Could be used as a smart board display with students drawing their own table in their books. Show possible answers on the final page only after students have attempted this and ideas have been shared.

Board notes for Smartboard + related activities/worksheet Climate Zones, Climate and Weather

Australia's resources research and categorising activity suitable for Year 9 as part of the Australia and Its Environment unit.

Information and related activities exploring the flora of Australia and reasons for its uniqueness. For Year 9 Geography.

Year 9 information tutorial and worksheet for landforms and drainage basins of Australia