This resource is a collection of 15 PowerPoint presentations that were used to deliver a bridging unit between Key Stage 3 and GCSE Geography but which could also be used for PSHCE lessons. It is ideal for using with Year 8/9 classes who have made their option choices as it engages those who have not opted for Geography but teaches vital skills to those who are going on to GCSE. There are some purely skills-based lessons such as ‘Describing Landscapes: Photo Sketches’ and ‘Contrasting Landscapes of the Middle East’ but other lessons are specfic to certain conflicts and events in history such as 9/11, the Syrian Civil War and the Middle East conflict.

This is a collection of presentations and worksheets that we use to deliver one of our Year Seven units, The Landscapes of Vietnam. I wrote it with the help of our Vietnamese lodger about two or three years ago and it is an interesting alternative to learning about the other countries in Asia that are covered in all the usual textbooks, i.e. China, India etc. It covers physical geography, the monsoon, life on the Mekong delta, issues relating to mangrove forests along the coasts, rice farming and tropical storms. Along with the presentations are some basic resources such as outline maps of South East Asia and Vietnam.

This scheme of work offers almost 50 detailed lesson plans for your Year 8 Geography Scheme of Work. This is plenty to keep a class occupied for a whole year’s learning including ideas for lessons on plate tectonics, Population and Migration, The Savannah and Energy for the Future. There are references to the textbooks that most departments keep sets of and ideas for homework. At around 20p per lesson, you can’t go far wrong.

This collection of eleven presentations will help to deliver a unit of work on the Horn of Africa, broadly following the outline suggested by Geog.1 (4th Edition) pp.118-137. It includes an introduction to the continent, lessons on physical geography and climate, a study of coffee farming in the Ethiopian highlands and fair trade. There are also lessons on living and working in the hottest place on earth and on modern day piracy in the Indian Ocean.

These are the resources for our unit, Superpowers, which is what we teach our Year Eights at that crucial time when they are making their option choices - we are a two-year KS3 school. It contains everything you need to teach a seven lesson unit on some of the big issues in the USA, in China and in Russia including immigration, communism, the Cold War, population control, the fight to control the Arctic Ocean and so on. There is even a lesson on Donald Trumps Immigration Policy. There is an assessment available separately on this site.

This is the first scheme of work we cover with our Year Seven students once they’ve done their skills and map work basics. It covers the make-up of the British Isles, the location and function of its main cities, an explanation of our temperate maritime climate, a lesson on relief rainfall, a skills exercise to do with migration that involves flow lines and lessons on population distribution, inequality and the North-South divide. It assumes that you have copies of Geog.1 in your department, but you could always edit those references out and substitute questions and activities from books that you do have.

These are the teaching materials I created to teach the Tectonic Hazards section of the AQA 9-1 GCSE course. It includes lessons on the classification of hazards, patterns of tectonic activity and processes and land forms at plate boundaries. The two case studies are Amatrice, Italy 2016 and Balakot, Pakistan 2008. The later lessons teach students to write convincing extended answers contrasting the impact of the two earthquakes; finally there are lessons on living with and predicting and planning for hazards. The slides assume you have copies of Geog.1 in your classroom.