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.

This lesson investigates how the ocean varies depending on depth and students label a diagram of he ocean with relevant information provided by a YouTube video. After this students research and add extra facts to their diagram either from a relevant textbook or the internet. Finally there are several questions checking their knowledge of the zones.

This lessons investigates the positives and negatives of both GM and organic food looking at a BBC article and a video as source material. The lesson begins with a fun quiz of ‘guess the fruit/veg’ - all before they were selectively grown. The lesson finishes with students deciding if we should be eating organic of GM food.

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.

This lesson goes through the basics; including a gapfill on background information, comprehension questions related to the gapfill worksheet and a YouTube video, latitud i s explained through diagrams and then there is a plotting exercise in which natural disasters of the 21st Century and major news stories are plotted on a map also includes answers.

The introductory lesson for the KS3 unit on Africa. this starts with a quiz in which all answers are Africa. Students then complete Atlas work, graph continent sizes, work out population density and compare continents focusing on sentence structures.

A lesson to fight the stereotype that all of the continent is poor. This includes an image analysis using 8 way thinking, data comparison table and the use of GapMinder’s Dollar Street to look at real families.

This lesson looks at the formation of beaches, longshore drift and the formation of spits and salt marshes.

Investigating population pyramids and what their shape means linking pyramid shape with the demographic transition model, this lesson gets students to draw a population pyramid of Thailand but this can be changed to any country of your choice, at the time I was teaching in Thailand.

A lesson on the positives of tourism focusing on Thailand, group activity carousel and applying this knowledge to Myanmar; a country with very few tourists

Negatives of Tourism lesson looking at several impacts, a card sort activity where negatives are paired with their definitions and then organised in their seriousness related to different tourist locations. Students evaluate the negatives of tourism against the positives and come to their own conclusions. Creating a dos and don’ts of being a good tourism activity to finish.

A lesosn that investigates the Burgess model and the land uses and issues in each zone

A lesson that investigates urbanisation, megacities, past and future urbanisation trends and counter-urbanisation

This lesson looks at the problems subsistence farmers encounter and how they can improve their yields with a focus on the Green Revolution

A lesosn that investigates the flaws in the Burgess model and compares the Burgess model with the Hoyt model.

This lesson investigates the physical factors which affect the location of farms.

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

This lesson investigates the problems of living in a desert and how plants and animals adapt to live there