A lesson for introducing agriculture including key terms and themes. Focus on subsistence vs commercial, pastoral vs arable and intensive vs extensive farming.

A lesson looking at the Demographic Transition Model and what is happening to the population, birth rate and death rate at each stage. Limitations of the model are also included

This lesson looks at the reasons for the UK’s variable weather and focuses on depressions and Anticyclones

An introduction to tourism with definitions, tourism increase graphs, reasons for tourism increase through images and a quick quiz on famous tourist locations. One slide may need adaptation as it is specific to when I taught in Thailand.

This lesson investigates the increase in palm oil use. The lessons starts with the stimulus of the banned Iceland RangTan video and then students can do one of two tasks: 1. Use the website ‘Global Forest Watch’ to describe the changes in forest cover in Sumatra and Borneo or 2. Do an in dept investigation into deforestation and land use change using ArcGIS with step y step instructions. Students then answer questions using a text as a source of information regarding what palm oil is, the problems it causes and possible solutions.

A lesson that can be used as a case study of USA Mexico migration, looking at key terms, effects on the donor and host country and push and pull factors.

A look at organic vs GMO where facts are presented hopefully free from bias and then students get to make up their own minds and present them.

this lesson investigates the different types of clouds, their descriptions, associated weather and how they are measured (oktas)

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.

Looking at what World Bank website to complete a table on vital rates, and then reasons for high birth rates and falling death rates.

This lesson investigates the physical factors which affect the location of farms.

This lesson investigates what mangroves are, where they are distributed and the advantages of keeping them intact.

This lesson investigates how China became the development country it is today, it looks at the Great leap Forward through a reading and YouTube video and how it failed and looks at a BBC article on the modern economic transformation of the country with questions to accompany it.

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

A lesosn that investigates the Burgess model and the land uses and issues in each zone

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

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 the 4 types of coastal erosion and also slumping. Concordant and discordant coasts too.

This lesson investigates the formation of a wave cut platform.

This lesson uses GIS with step by step instructions so that students can measure the erosion of the coast and then plot this on a graph using Google Sheets. This is done by overlapping a historic map with current satellite imagery and measuring the difference. This can be attempted by a student who has never used ArcGIS before.