This lesson investigates the collapse of civilization on Easter Island. It starts with a structured activity describing the location of the island and its physical geography using maps as source material. Some key terms are then introduced and ideally added to their glossary (if they have one). A short YouTube video is watched and a text is read providing information on the collapse of civilization, students then answer 5 questions. They then complete a table in which they explain how each different factor made life more and more difficult for people to live on the island. Finally as an extension tasks students apply the lesson learned from Easter Island to our modern day way of life and the way we are exploiting our resources.

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

An introductory lesson that looks at key term definitions eg. natural increase and also describing graph skills

A lesson that investigates the reasons for rural settlements developing into urban settlements looking in particular at Bangkok however, this could be adapted to whatever settlement you are teaching in.

A lesson that investigates the reasons for population increase including birth and death rates.

This lesson investigates the environmental effects of cities and focuses as a case study on Mumbai specifically Dharavi.

A lesson that investigates the reasons for cities growing in size; ports, nodal points, adminstrative centres and agricultural centres

This lesson goes through key terminology and gets students to appreciate the range of ecosystems there are. This works as an introductory lesson to a new unit.

This lesson looks at the reasons behind the rapid development of the Asian Tigers looking at S. Korea in particular which could be used as a case study.

This takes at least 2 lessons and looks at soil exhaustion by looking at the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and then looks at ways of conserving soil and to provide solutions to different scenarios.

This lesson investigates spatial variations in development looking at China and then the UK’s North/ South divide, this lesson involves a lot of source (maps & graphs) analysis

This years competition title is ‘The World Beyond My Window’. This resource was taught through online teaching to KS3 & KS4 but can easily be set as a task on Google Classroom or any equivalent. It includes a planning sheet, step by step instruction, examples, a mark scheme and checklist. There is a simple and a more comprehensive set of instructions depending upon the level of the students.

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

This lesson investigates the factors that affect farming and how a farmer can boost production to make more output.

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

This lesson investigates the causes and effects of Bangkok’s congestion and also looks at solutions to the problem which the students use the internet to research. this lesson was created when I taught at an International School in Bangkok.

This lesson is an introduction to a unit on coasts and investigates key terms, how waves are created and constructive & destructive beaches

This lesson involves the students researching different aspects of India to see just how diverse it is, examples, WAGOLL/ WABOLL and mark schemes are included.

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

The first lesson in the unit of Industry involves looking at industrial sectors, plotting information on pie charts and triangular graphs.