Coasts in geography

Lessons, activities and revision resources to explore the physical and human geography of coasts with KS3 and KS4 geography students

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Geography Waves Coasts

Explore coasts with your secondary geography students with this wide range of resources

To support your teaching of the physical and human geography of coasts with lower and upper secondary geography learners, we've gathered together this selection of lessons, activities and revision resources, with everything from introductory lesson presentations and practice questions to quizzes, task cards and revision sheets.

Looking for GCSE geography revision resources? Find hand-picked GCSE geography resources here.

Lower school KS3

Whether it be for inspiration, a worksheet or a full lesson for your younger learners, we have gathered a selection for you to choose from.

Coasts assessment
krystina2

Coasts assessment

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A short assessment that could be completed in 40 minutes for KS3 students. Includes questions on erosion, deposition, landforms and defences. Aimed at mixed ability classes - most pupils should be able to complete most of the sheet, with a couple of mildly challenging questions at the end. Now with ...
Coasts Caribbean
Jacob Spong

Coasts Caribbean

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L9: Should St Lucia s coastline be kept for the local fisherfolk? SoW: How are the UK s coasts evolving? L1: How are the UK s Coasts Evolving? - Free Download - This unit is created in line with my personal passion for the sustainability of the UK s coastline. This unit is framed the way...
Coasts Geography Revision
Cre8tiveHumanities

Coasts Geography Revision

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These 24 Coasts task cards are perfect for your Geography lessons and topic. They are suitable for KS3 or KS4 Students. They feature different activities including knowledge retrieval practice, Multiple Choice, design ativities and spot the geographical mistakes amongst other Geography related activ...
KS3 Coasts Challenge Grid
GeoLife

KS3 Coasts Challenge Grid

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This is handy challenge resource for coasts. The aim of the task is for students to achieve 15 points through completing a range questions. The questions increase in difficulty and the harder the question the more points it is worth. This is a differentiated resource which is ideal for mixed abili...

Upper school KS4

Prepare your learners for GCSE/IGCSE and lighten your planning load with these carefully selected resources.

GCSE Geography AQA - Coasts and Rivers
Lexy_Martin

GCSE Geography AQA - Coasts and Rivers

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x4 A3 revision sheets for the AQA unit - Physical Landscape in the UK (9-1) - Coasts and Rivers. These sheets can be used for any AQA course but I created them following the Oxford Textbook.
Coasts: Beaches and Sand Dunes
markthegeographer

Coasts: Beaches and Sand Dunes

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AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1C: In this lesson we look at beaches and how their profiles can be altered and sand dune succession and formation.. We start with a simple retrieval practice grid which is good for spaced practice. We then discuss why some beaches have diff...
AQA Geography Rivers and Coasts Revision Sheets - Image Analysis
eloise_marner

AQA Geography Rivers and Coasts Revision Sheets - Image Analysis

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A basic revision resource using a variety of images of Coasts and Rivers from the GCSE Specification. Students have a number of tasks around the image including key terms, potential exam questions, annotated diagrams and explaining the formation. Great from independent revision, plenary activities ...

Activities and games

Delight your students with this variety of coast-focused activities, puzzles and quizzes.

Coasts GCSE revision clock
soleary93

Coasts GCSE revision clock

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Revision clock for coastal ecosystems. Based on Edexcel iGCSE spec, but can be adapted for any other spec or topic. Students can give themselves 5 minutes for each section, or perhaps 2.5 minutes for each section making notes without looking at previous work, and then 2.5 minutes to add to the note...
Coasts Tarsia
alicebradshaw23

Coasts Tarsia

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A tarsia created to teach coastal erosion and coastal deposition to year 8. Includes questions on: constructive waves, destructive waves, longshore drift, spit formation and the formation of stacks and stumps. The example of a spit Fraser Island is used that you might want to edit to fit your SOW....
AQA 9-1 Coasts Revision Sheet
Geog_Nomad

AQA 9-1 Coasts Revision Sheet

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Coasts Revision Sheet can be printed doubled sided on either A4 or A3. This sheet is aimed at pupils who prefer more structured revision or lower ability students who need more support. Sheet numbered 1 - 12 as used in conjunction with revision clocks. Students to pick which sheet they'd prefer allo...
Multiple choice quiz for coasts
Michael Partridge

Multiple choice quiz for coasts

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30 multiple choice questions for coastal landscapes for the AQA 9-1 specification. An answer sheet accompanies this resource. This is perfect for using Quick Key to quickly assess student understanding without any teacher marking.
Coastineers Sea Level Rise Challenge - Build your own!
Coastineers

Coastineers Sea Level Rise Challenge - Build your own!

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The Coastineers Sea Level Rise Challenge is a simple and interactive kit that can form part of a lesson or STEM club project. Students can try out different adaptation or engineering ideas to react to flooding and sea level rise. This is also a suitable home working exercise for individual students....