This booklet allows students to explore tourism from its definition to types of tourism and their impacts. The unit starts by introducing the difference between leisure and tourism, where we holiday, the types of tourism available to us and how our holidays have changed and grown. Tourism as an economic activity is explored in terms of the employment and GDP generated. Impacts of tourism are investigated in the unlikely but busy location of Antarctica, while the management of these social, economic, and environmental impacts are highlighted in our National Parks. Sustainable and eco-tourism is researched looking at strategies in place around the world and specifically at the Galapagos Islands. Blackpool, UK, is used to explain Butler’s Cycle of Tourism Model and leads into the exciting topic of Movie-Induced Tourism. Book, film, and television are used to highlight how they can encourage tourism growth to particular areas and the positive and negative impacts this can have before, during, and after production. The unit concludes with the students creating their own Movie-Induced tour. They will create a short introduction video to tourists to your country and design a week’s holiday for visitors to include a major city, seaside resort, historic town, countryside area and a special place of their own. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, their thoughts, and ideas, drawing and reading various graphs including completing a choropleth map from gathering data to finished map with description of findings, annotating maps, scripting a podcast, poster design with peer assessment, completing a fact file and developing their own holiday schedule. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This booklet is designed to help students distinguish fact and opinion and offer both positive and negative arguments to real and artificial Christmas trees. They discover the history behind the origins of the Christmas tree and discuss why they think it’s so popular. The social, economic, and environmental implications of each type of tree are discussed and analysed to aid the students in deciding which they think is more appropriate. Their task is to use what they have learnt to design a leaflet highlighting their opinion to help the public decide; this is then peer assessed. The lesson concludes with the students designing their own alternative Christmas tree using their hobbies as inspiration. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 31 page booklet gives students the opportunity to explore UEFA Euro, France and their connections to geography using different Geographical themes and skills. Chapters include: Why Is Football So Popular? How Is Football Linked To Geography? Who Are UEFA? Who’s Taking Part In 2016? Friendly Rivals We Are Number One! Football As An Economic Activity Flag Crossword Getting The Vote What Do You Know About France? Where In France? Population And Nationality Country Climate Seeing The Sites What Have We Borrowed? Build A Brand Knowing The Neighbours Football Acrostic How Is This Omar Linked To Football?

This 31 page booklet gives students the opportunity to explore UEFA Euro, France and their connections to geography using different Geographical themes and skills. Chapters include: Why Is Football So Popular? How Is Football Linked To Geography? Who Are UEFA? Who’s Taking Part In 2016? Friendly Rivals We Are Number One! Football As An Economic Activity Flag Crossword Getting The Vote What Do You Know About France? Where In France? Population And Nationality Country Climate Seeing The Sites What Have We Borrowed? Build A Brand Knowing The Neighbours Football Acrostic How Is This Omar Linked To Football?

This Unit Of Work helps students to define ‘food deserts’ and outline research which has attempted to identify these within the United Kingdom. They will be able to explain how the location of food outlets within the United Kingdom and America influence the geography of affordable health food baskets and identify what is meant by ‘obesogenic environments.’ In addition, they will be able to establish whether the physical environment has an impact to exercise and whether there is a link between social deprivation and fast-food availability. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet for students including; drawing and explaining their thoughts and ideas, drawing maps and graphs and interpreting all of these. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This Unit Of Work helps students to define ‘food deserts’ and outline research which has attempted to identify these within the United Kingdom. They will be able to explain how the location of food outlets within the United Kingdom and America influence the geography of affordable health food baskets and identify what is meant by ‘obesogenic environments.’ In addition, they will be able to establish whether the physical environment has an impact to exercise and whether there is a link between social deprivation and fast-food availability. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet for students including; drawing and explaining their thoughts and ideas, drawing maps and graphs and interpreting all of these. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

These worksheets introduce students to the background and traditions of the Hindu ‘Festival Of Lights’, Diwali. The story of Rama and Sita explains why Diwali is celebrated and why Divas – small clay lamps – are an important part of this celebration. The students discover cultural and religious festivals where light plays an important role and discuss why these similarities have arisen. To conclude the lesson the students can produce a collage or design a card depicting the beauty and wonderful colours of Diwali. For resources with further detail of Hinduism and India please visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hinduism-6th-10th-grade-11082714 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/india-6th-10th-grade-11082692 Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This unit of work begins with how mountains are defined, where they are located and how they are formed. We look at the weather in mountainous areas and its effects on shaping mountains. We explore the human and physical influences on landslides, avalanches, and glaciers. An investigation delves into how we use mountainous areas, specifically The Alps and Atlas Mountains. This leads to exploring Everest Base Camp and the Chagga people who live on Mount Kilimanjaro. The social, economic, and environmental impacts of visitors is discussed with a look at how negative impacts could be diminished within the Lake District. The foreign influence on the Sherpas way of life is studied. We see how plants and animals’ can adapt to life in the Andes which leads to the future of our mountains in terms of climate change and global warming. The students build on the fieldwork techniques of interpretating photographs and field sketches with Sugarloaf Mountain and Table Mountain. This concludes with asking: “are there monsters in our mountains?” looking at evidence for and against the existence of The Yeti… A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet including annotating maps, completing flow diagrams, gathering research independently and from provided print, hands on experiments, case studies, and a peer assessment task. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This unit of work explores England beginning with the country’s location, make up and statistics. England’s landscape is explored using the lyrics from ‘Jerusalem’ and what the students consider the be English are discussed. England’s population is studied in terms of minorities and majorities, census information and its history to help explain this. Why people would want to move to England is explored with the benefits and problems which may arise from this. The country’s roll within the EU (European Union) and United Nations is explored. The weather in England is looked at through the physical factors which effect it across four distinct regions, these features are also studied in relation to where people live and human features. The makeup of the Union Jack is touched upon as well as some of the quirkier sayings from the language. England’s culture is investigated through traditional dress, dance and music, religion, sport, language, royal family, national emblems, and Saint George. The students have the opportunity to discuss and try some products produced within England. Some of England’s more unusual famous landmarks are explored including the Angel of the North, Cheddar Gorge, Sherwood Forest, Stonehenge, Hadrian’s Wall, and Chalk Figures. In addition, how England’s landscape is used in many blockbuster films is investigated with the positive and negative aspects being considered. The beauty of England’s National Parks is appreciated with a discussion as to whether the South Down should have become one and the resulting fallout from various groups. The booklet concludes with the students creating a touring holiday for a visiting family to specific location types. This can be differentiated by including accommodation and a travel log. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, annotating maps, their thoughts and ideas, word fills, gathering research from print, drawing, and reading graphs, recording weather, field sketch skills and decision-making exercises. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This booklet allows students to investigate settlements, why they are there, their function, their hierarchy and land use

These worksheets help students to learn the key terms related to migration and discuss the push and pull factors associated with this

Using the lyrics to ‘Do they know its Christmastime?’ by Band Aid, your students look at whether the descriptions in the song are correct in referring to Africa. They go on to explore the human and physical effects of lack of water, examine some long and short term solutions to desertification and put forward their own ideas and opinions of short term solutions offered by Water Aid.

A four part quiz where students need to name the country by looking at its outline, name the landmark and where it is, general knowledge and name that song...Just a little fun for the end of term

This PowerPoint is divided into geographical topics and emphasizes several popular films which could be used within the classroom to demonstrate physical and human features. A number of children’s films include ‘extras’ which are educational as well as entertaining. Here you will find a list of popular films which could be used within your lessons to help understand some of your students initial ideas of various geographictopics and the ‘extras’ you may not be aware of. Please let me know of any others you may know of to add Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This lesson helps students to learn the names of the continents and landmass scales. As well as which countries are found in each continent

This free booklet of teaching resources allows students to look at how we and others use water by using a range of individual and group activities. Rain types and flooding is also looked at in addition to rights to clean water, water aid and how we can cope with water shortages

This booklet allows students to study themselves to identify job they would enjoy and the different route to it. They are shown how to write a CV, cover letter and prepare for an interview. Wages and types of pay are studied along with tax and National Insurence

This booklet has lots of different types of activities for children to learn about the difference between weather and climate, hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, flooding, drought and climate change

This booklet looks at how we categorize hazards, what they have in common and the different effects the have on MEDCs and LEDCs. It looks closely at hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and volcanoes

This poster explains parts of our speech and what they are called. For example similes, metaphors, personification, amongst others, with each giving an example to help with understanding