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 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 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 resource looks at the harm done by a rainy day at Wimbledon. It explores the impact of bad weather at The Championships, invites students to examine a complex climate graph, explains orographic (relief), frontal and convectional rainfall. There are also rainfall radar images to interpret and a microforecast specifically for Wimbledon. Students are challenged to consider the question "No one should have to pay for a weather forecast. DIscuss.’ in an extension task.

This is an introduction to the topic of hot deserts which features a map showing their location, some information about their physical features and how meerkats are designed to thrive in the environment.

This resource explores how people can use the desert for recreation. It focuses on 1. the film industry in Tunisia (‘Star Wars’ locations) and the benefits and drawbacks for film makers and local people 2. the Paris-Dakar rally and 3. the ‘Marathon des Sables’, an extreme endurance event run in the desert in Morocco. Students are challenged to think about how having fun in the desert impacts both them and the desert environment.

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 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 resource looks at how the many tonnes of waste that The Championships generates is handled. Students get to think about the types of waste that are created from smoked salmon that has gone off to empty champagne bottles. They get to learn about organic and inorganic waste, what can be recycled and what can’t, what gets incinerated and what ends up in landfill. They create a flow chart for handling waste and design a poster to raise awareness of waste at Wimbledon.

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 resource describes the formation of a flood plain and levees. It explains sequential deposition. It looks at how estuaries form and how they are used. There are a number of tasks and activities on the slides. The Exxon Valdez disaster is mentioned as the tanker run aground on a sandbank off the coast of Alaska.

This resource explores the reasons for conflict, such as political change, climate change, the increasing demand for resources and different ideologies. It includes a poem ('How to die' by Siegfried Sassoon) and gives students to opportunity to analyse political cartoons. This lesson is part of a series on the Geography of Conflict which was used as a bridge between KS3 and GCSE level study.

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 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 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.