Geography teaching resources for KS2, KS3, KS4 and KS5. Worksheets and resources are mostly all contained within the lesson powerpoints for convenience.
Geography teaching resources for KS2, KS3, KS4 and KS5. Worksheets and resources are mostly all contained within the lesson powerpoints for convenience.
A clear and engaging lesson that introduces mass tourism and explores the impacts this can have on host countries.
Lesson includes:
A picture starter and discussion of the meaning of mass tourism
A brainstorm activity on why people might travel to Kenya
A statement-coding activity on the positive/negative impacts, and also the environmental/social/economic impacts
An opinion piece of extended writing
A mix of plenaries/extension activities including: a summary quiz, a tweet, and an acrostic
All lesson resources and worksheets are included in the powerpoint.
An engaging lesson on how trends in tourism have changed.
Lesson includes:
A starter on what kinds of places people like to go on holiday
A mind mapping activity on why tourism has grown
A graph describing activity on global tourism trends
A final discussion on why tourism might begin to decline, e.g. economic recession
A summary quiz
A fun and engaging introduction to the topic of tourism!
Lesson includes:
A starter about where we go on holiday
A quiz identifying famous tourist attractions
A tourist attraction mapping activity (requires an atlas)
An extended writing task about holidays
All resources and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
A tried and tested(!) powerpoint that contains a range of activities including a world knowledge quiz and an interactive ‘map-the-world’ task that students can gradually add to as they move in and out of the classroom over the course of the evening.
The powerpoint slides contain lots of little sheets (e.g. flags, animals, boxes to write capital cities, mountain ranges, rivers etc) that can be printed out for students to colour and add information to, and then pin onto a larger world map to make a colourful display. A large map and atlases are required to carry this out.
This has worked really successfully as a way to engage students and talk to them about geography, and create something visually-exciting and meaningful.
A fully planned resource that contains:
• definitions of defence types
• clear images
• mind mapping task
• mini plenaries
• peer assessed 9 mark essay
• All resources are contained within the ppt. Mind map is modelled to help students understand how to lay out their work. 9 mark essay has a suggested structure.
A fully resourced lesson that covers the sequence of formation of spits, bars and tomobolos. Clear pictures and diagrams included throughout.
A3 worksheet contained within the ppt for students to have and complete during the lesson. This will create a clear revision resource which they can easily use to consolidate learning and prepare for exams.
A fully resourced lesson that covers:
• different types of beaches and their characteristics
• definition of succession and the succession of a sand dune system (psammosere)
• Powerpoint includes colourful images, diagrams and useful video links, and includes a clear worksheet that students can complete throughout the lesson and create a final resource that is easy to revise from.
A fully comprehensive lesson that covers all the key landforms of erosion with an accompanying worksheet for students to complete as the lesson progresses. This makes it easy and quick to cover all the landforms and students have a detailed A3 sheet from which to revise at the end.
Learning is consolidated with a fun and interactive stop animation activity at the end (playdoh or whiteboards and cameras required).
Lesson covers the four key processes of erosion (hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition, solution) using an easy-to-complete A3 summary sheet, suitable video links, and practice exam questions and summary tasks to check understanding.
All worksheets and resources are included within the ppt.
A fully resourced lesson(suitable for KS3, 4 & 5) that covers the formation of waves, fetch, different characteristics of constructive and destructive waves, and exam question practice.
All worksheets, video links and resources included within the ppt. Lesson contains mini plenaries through to check understanding, and exam questions with answers.
A fun and engaging lesson that explores the hazard of avalanches in glacial areas.
Lesson includes:
Definition of an avalanche with video link to real-life footage and a description of the different types
Video link to causes of avalanches
Video link to one possible solution (using dynamite to trigger planned avalanches)
Statement sorting task to understand the other types of avalanche management
Final quiz to check learning
All lesson resources, links, and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
A detailed lesson that covers the problem of climate change in glacial areas, what the impacts are, and how different resorts are responding to these changes.
Lesson includes:
An overview of the scale of climate change and what it means for glacial regions
A statement-coding activity on the environmental/social/economic impacts of climate change on glacial resorts
A comprehension activity on how resorts are adapting and diversifying to cope with climate change, and the positive/negative impacts that these responses can have
A summary quiz to check learning
All lesson resources and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
Lesson gives a detailed insight into how glacial areas are affected by tourism.
Lesson includes:
An overview of the location of Chamonix, France
A comprehension activity on the impacts of tourism here, along with a statement coding for positive/negative impacts and identification of environmental/social/economic effects
A brainstorming task that gets students to identify how each problem area can be targeted with a solution that will allow tourism to continue sustainably
A final summary quiz
All lesson resources and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
A thorough and detailed lesson on processes of glacial transport and how moraines and drumlins are formed.
Lesson includes:
A recap of landforms of erosion
An overview of the processes of transport with note-taking frame
Clear diagrams and definitions of the five different types of moraine (medial, lateral, ground, terminal, recessional)
Clear diagrams and definitions of how drumlins and erratics form with note-taking frame
A mix of revision/consolidation games and activities including: pictionary, taboo, who am I?, and a playdoh round
Final acrostic task to help revise key terms
All lesson activities and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
An engaging lesson that uses photographs and diagrams to show and explain how glacial landforms of erosion are formed.
Lesson includes:
A clear note-taking frame with photos/diagrams of each landform
Definition and photo of a U-shaped valley (glacial trough)
Diagrams and photographs to show how truncated spurs and hanging valleys are formed
Photos and a diagram with word fill activity to explain how ribbon lakes are formed
Summary quiz to check on learning
All activities and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
A lesson that uses images and diagrams to show how glacial landforms of erosion are created.
Lesson includes:
An introduction to how all the landforms look
A sequence and description task for the formation of a corrie with exam practice question
A diagram and word-fill task for the formation of an arete
A note task for the formation of a pyramidal peak
A final summary quiz to check learning
A bonus fieldsketching task with step-by-step instructions for how to draw and label an accurate fieldsketch of a glacial landscape
All lesson resources and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
A lesson that covers the key processes of glaciation that help to then create all the landforms of erosion.
Lesson includes:
An overview of erosion and weathering
A note-taking task with clear images of erosion and weathering processes
Comprehension questions to check understanding
Final odd-one-out quiz
All lesson resources and worksheets and included in the powerpoint.
A detailed introduction to the topic of glacial landscapes in the UK.
Lesson includes:
An overview of earth’s glacial history including key words tasks (glacial, interglacial etc)
A timeline activity of earth’s glacial history
A partner talk task on the causes of temperature change (past and present)
A mapping task to plot (and then describe) earth’s current glacial distribution
Exam pratice question with answers
All lesson resources and worksheets are included within the powerpoint.
A lesson that introduces what geography is and develops an understanding of physical and human geography. Includes plenary quiz and link to my own vimeo video.
A transcript of a short BBC news report about the proposed development of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, USA.
Comprehension questions are included at the end of the article.
Useful for looking at issues of developing ecosystems in cold environments, especially at GCSE level.