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.

A Geographer’s look at the virus which should take 2 periods, it includes: A gap fill activity on zoonotic diseases. Nine question sin response to a short reading activity and 8 minute YouTube video. Plotting Countries with former outbreaks of zoonotic diseases on a world map. Discussion question related to globalisation and viruses. Describing the distribution of Covid-19 in Europe with peer assessment guide. Preventing further outbreaks questions in response to a series of GIFs showing different approaches countries can take to an outbreak. Final question directed at could this kind of outbreak occur in the UK?

This lesson looks at the importance of ocean sin terms of the hydrological cycle, carbon storage, oxygen production and thermohaline circulation (ocean currents).

This lesson focuses on Africa’s mineral wealth and how that doesn’t always translate to financial wealth. This includes an image analysis task, gap fill, categorising factors in terms of social, economic and environmental factors.

An opinion based lesson in which student learn the facts regarding big ape tourism in Bwindi national Park and come to a decision whether ecotourism is a sustainable model to develop and protect the area. Activities include a mind mapping exercise, gap fill, YouTube video, and a stakeholder carousel activity, these are then presented to other students.

KS3 unit test from the Africa Unit