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23 August 2026

I teach IGCSE Geography at an international school in Southeast Asia. Coastal waves was one of my best-selling lessons, but the diagrams were tired and the examples had aged, so I rebuilt it from scratch for 2026 with the wave science retaught properly and a fresh case study drawn from real 2024 and 2025 storms. If you bought the original, the update is free, just re-download.

A complete, ready-to-teach lesson answering one big question: why do some waves build beaches while others tear them away?

What’s in it:

Full PowerPoint presentation, with answers included throughout
Student workbook in three versions: full colour, printer-friendly black and white, and a ready-to-print PDF
A 30-question Blooket quiz file for instant retrieval practice
Bonus access to free lesson-support activities and daily games on the Geography Oasis website

What students learn:

Waves transfer energy, not water, and what gives a wave its power
The anatomy of a wave: crest, trough, wavelength and wave height
Swash and backwash, and how their balance builds or removes a beach
The difference between constructive and destructive waves
How wind speed, duration and fetch build powerful waves
How to apply the science to real storm events and coastal data

Every figure has been checked and refreshed for 2026. Also suitable for AP Human Geography, World Geography, and any coasts, coastal processes or physical geography unit at ages 11-16.

Format:
Delivered as fully editable PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx) files, plus PDF. Diagrams and visuals are not editable.

TEACHING CAMBRIDGE IGCSE GEOGRAPHY (0460)?
I have also rebuilt complete units for the 2027 syllabus - Population & Migration, Development, Climate Change and Plate Tectonics - each with lesson slides, student workbooks, full answer keys and bonus interactive website access, and each with its own free sample. Find them in my store.

This is one of a growing collection of fully rebuilt 2026 geography lessons; more are on the way in my shop. If you find this useful, a review would mean a lot. It’s how other teachers discover these resources, and it helps me keep creating.

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