One of a series of standalone worksheets that can be used to get students thinking about topical issues. This one, on sea level rises, is ideal for use as extension work or homework. It includes a variety of tasks that can be completed independently.

This resource could be used as a practice paper for the Issue Evaluation aspect of the AQA GCSE Paper 3. It could also be used as a generic skills paper to give a baseline score at the start of a GCSE course. The issue it examines is a real example of urban-rural conflict in Warwickshire. The resource comprises a question paper, resource booklet and mark scheme.

This is a standalone lesson all about gold, suitable for KS2-KS4. In a series of short, engaging tasks, it explores the distribution of gold across the world, what it is used for and where it is mined. It includes links to videos about gold panning and gold mining, each accompanied by questions. It concludes with some open-ended questions about whether gold is a renewable or non-renewable resources and what this means.

This is the first lesson in the series, ‘Food and the Future’. It looks at some of the diets that people used to eat in the past, comparing these to the ‘Eatwell Plate’ and students’ own diets. It describes and compares Stone Age, Roman, Elizabethan and Post WW2 Ration diets and includes both a sorting exercise and a task in which students have to justify how they would rank their own diet alongside these examples.

This is an outline for eight lessons on the future of food. I’m putting it out there as a free resource and inviting comments. I’ve called it a ‘Sketch of Work’ rather than a scheme because that is all it is. If you think this is worth pursuing and you would buy it if it were a fully resourced scheme with lesson plans, worksheets and the like, please leave a review.

This puzzle consists of fifteen clues. Ideal for use as a settling activity at the start of the lesson or for those few awkward minutes at the end before the bell goes. Includes a separate sheet with the answers on it

This crossword puzzle has fifteen clues, all of which relate to population. Ideal to use as an activity to get your lesson started or to fill on those awkward few minutes at the end. Includes a separate sheet with the answers.

This puzzle has fifteen clues, all of which relate to rivers. Ideal for use as a settling activity at the start of a lesson or to fill in a few awkward minutes at the end. Includes a separate sheet with the answers on it

This crossword contains fifteen clues all of which relate to coasts. Ideal for use as a settling activity or to fill in the last few akward minutes at the end of a lesson. Includes a separate sheet with the answers on it.

This is a crossword puzzle with fifteen clues, the answers to which all relate to volcanoes and earthquakes. Ideal for use as a settling activity or to fill a few dead minutes at the end of a lesson.** Includes the solution on a separate sheet.**

This presentation was designed to be used with Year 12 students who were beginning to think about Post-18 choices and the possibility of studying at university. It gets students to think about their aspirations and to create ambitious, realistic and ‘insurance’ pathways to motivate them in their studies at Key Stage 5.

This is a complete scheme of work for a former A level syllabus (AQA, early 2000s). There are plenty of ideas here to use in the newer specifications and in the more challenging ‘new’ GCSE syllabuses. The two topics are Population and Resources and Managing CIties. This resource is FREE to help people work out if they want to fork out for the Key Stage 3 Schemes of Work which are also available online at roughly 20p per lesson.

This is a set of over 60 lesson plans used to teach a previous AS Geography syllabus (AQA in the early 2000s). They’re a bit dated now but there are plenty of ideas here which could still be used - particularly for the new, more challenging GCSE syllabuses. The topics are Demographics, Hydrology, Economic Geography, Climatic Hazards and Settlement. I’m giving this one away for FREE so you can judge whether it’s worth your while paying for the Key Stage 3 schemes - a total of well over 100 lessons for £20. Why not check them out, too?

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 is the first in a series of lessons that I am writing under the heading ‘Geography at Christmas’ over the next few weeks. This one is all about finding your way using the stars - like the wise men did. I teaches students how to find the North Star, Polaris, using the Little Bear or Plough and challenges them to plan some fictitious journeys across the Arabian desert.

This resource looks at water management, reforestation and terracing as three examples of ways in which the soil can be protected from further degradation in the Sahel. Activities for students include labelling a photo sketch and comparing different methods with one another. This lesson fits with the AQA 9-1 GCSE Geography Specification.

This resource looks at desertification in the Sahel region. It explores the difference between the nomadic lifestyles of the true desert dwellers and the more settled lives of people living on the fringes of the desert. It looks at the causes and consequences of desertification and involves a group work task.

This resource looks at the challenges faced by people whose job it is to extract oil from beneath the desert sands or construct vast solar farms in the Sahara. Students are challenged to think about what problems they might have setting up an oil rig in the heart of the desert and are introduced to some of the controversies surrounding the consortium Desertec. This lesson fits part of the AQA 9-1 Geography specification section on hot deserts.