A lesson to fight the stereotype that all of the continent is poor. This includes an image analysis using 8 way thinking, data comparison table and the use of GapMinder’s Dollar Street to look at real families.

6 Knowledge Organisers for AS Geography (Cambridge Curriculum). Units include: Population Migration Settlement Rivers Atmosphere & Weathering Rocks and Weathering All Knowledge Organisers come in Publisher and PDF formats and have duplicate pages with gap fills and chunks removed for revision practice.

This lesson looks at the formation of beaches, longshore drift and the formation of spits and salt marshes.

Investigating population pyramids and what their shape means linking pyramid shape with the demographic transition model, this lesson gets students to draw a population pyramid of Thailand but this can be changed to any country of your choice, at the time I was teaching in Thailand.

A lesson on the positives of tourism focusing on Thailand, group activity carousel and applying this knowledge to Myanmar; a country with very few tourists

An introductory lesson to the unit of settlement looking at key terms, spheres of influence and hierarchy of services.

Looking at linear, nucleated and dispersed settlements and the factors involved in the development of a settlement.

Looking at the effects of overpopulation and a focus on Bangladesh, using a YouTube video by Hans Rosling with questions to grasp an understanding of the situation too. This works as a case study too.

This lesson investigates the problems associated with urban sprawl, greenfield and brownfield sites and conflicts on the urban-rural fringe

A lesson that investigates urbanisation, megacities, past and future urbanisation trends and counter-urbanisation

This lesson looks at the problems subsistence farmers encounter and how they can improve their yields with a focus on the Green Revolution

A lesosn that investigates the flaws in the Burgess model and compares the Burgess model with the Hoyt model.

A lesson that investigates the recent influx of migrants into Europe, looking at key terms and the related push and pull factors.

This lesson investigates what coral is, where it grows, the benefits of it and the threats it faces.

An end of unit assessment with questions relating to key terms, map and graph interpretation and questions that demand developed answers.

This lesson focuses on the issues surrounding shark fin soup, there is a question sheet to accompany the Gordon Ramsey documentary on it (easily found on YouTube) following this there are two tasks both with mark schemes and set instruction; making a poster writing a letter to restaurants urging them to take it off their menu. To teach everything in this lesson it should take 3-6 lessons depending on which tasks and the age/ ability of your class.

This lesson investigates India’s role in the world and how the world needs India. It looks at economic, social and environmental factors and how India has become successful.

This lesson looks at place specific location of oceans and seas involving Atlas/ Google Maps work in labeling their own map. Further questions involving locational knowledge, sea routes and some questions on plate tectonics (sea floor spreading etc).