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.

This lesson looks at the reasons behind the rapid development of the Asian Tigers looking at S. Korea in particular which could be used as a case study.

This lesson investigates the 4 types of coastal erosion and also slumping. Concordant and discordant coasts too.

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.

This lesson uses GIS with step by step instructions so that students can measure the erosion of the coast and then plot this on a graph using Google Sheets. This is done by overlapping a historic map with current satellite imagery and measuring the difference. This can be attempted by a student who has never used ArcGIS before.

This years competition title is ‘The World Beyond My Window’. This resource was taught through online teaching to KS3 & KS4 but can easily be set as a task on Google Classroom or any equivalent. It includes a planning sheet, step by step instruction, examples, a mark scheme and checklist. There is a simple and a more comprehensive set of instructions depending upon the level of the students.

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.

An introductory lesson to the unit of settlement looking at key terms, spheres of influence and hierarchy of services.

Looking at linear, nucleated and dispersed settlements and the factors involved in the development of a settlement.

A lesson that investigates the reasons for rural settlements developing into urban settlements looking in particular at Bangkok however, this could be adapted to whatever settlement you are teaching in.

This lesson investigates the environmental effects of cities and focuses as a case study on Mumbai specifically Dharavi.

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

This lesson investigates spatial variations in development looking at China and then the UK’s North/ South divide, this lesson involves a lot of source (maps & graphs) analysis

This lesson investigates the factors that affect farming and how a farmer can boost production to make more output.

This lesson is an introduction to a unit on coasts and investigates key terms, how waves are created and constructive & destructive beaches

This lesson investigates food webs through various activities starting with a think, pair, share activity then a gap fill activity of trophic layers and terminology followed by a table with trophic layers in which students are given species which they must then place in the correct column, a key terms matching exercise, 4 questions about food webs, students then draw their own food web with given organisms and then finally answer the inquiry question.

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.

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

This lesson investigates the causes and effects of Bangkok’s congestion and also looks at solutions to the problem which the students use the internet to research. this lesson was created when I taught at an International School in Bangkok.

This lesson looks at what makes a country ‘developed’ or a MEDC looking at different theories. The PowerPoint title can be changed to whichever country you are teaching in, I wrote it whilst teaching in Bangkok.