Explore the physical and human geography of coasts with secondary geography students utilising this selection of lessons, activities and revision resources to support your teaching.
Coasts in Geography

Lower school/KS3
Whether it be for inspiration, a worksheet, a lesson or even a full scheme of works' worth of lessons for your younger learners, we have gathered a selection for you to choose from.

Coasts
Full KS3 unit of work for Coasts. This unit explores Coasts, from erosion and coastal features to management and sea level rise. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required. All lessons have...

UK COASTS- SEN Geography Scheme of Work
Full scheme of work with assessment, and mark scheme. This Scheme of work was written for year 8 SEN students, who are academically working behaind ARE. It consists of 11 lessons, containing adaptable powerpoint slides, teaching resources, lessons plans and SOW. Each lesson is timed for an hour...
Introduction to Coasts
Designed for low ability groups. Both worksheets have differentiated versions.
Coasts assessment
A short assessment that could be completed in 40 minutes for KS3 students. Includes questions on erosion, deposition, landforms and defences. Aimed at mixed ability classes - most pupils should be able to complete most of the sheet, with a couple of mildly challenging questions at the end. Now with ...
Erosional Landforms - Coasts
This lessons aims to allow students to gain an understanding of the different erosional processes that occur along the coast, followed by how these create a range of coastal landforms. By the end of the lesson students will be able to answer the following key questions: \- What are the differ...
Upper school/KS4
Prepare your learners for GCSE/iGCSE and lighten your planning load with these carefully selected resources.
AQA GCSE NEW Specification: Coasts
A set of resources for the new AQA GCSE specification looking at coasts. A couple of lessons (6 and 10) are missing and will be added at a later date.
GCSE Geography AQA - Coasts and Rivers
x4 A3 revision sheets for the AQA unit - Physical Landscape in the UK (9-1) - Coasts and Rivers. These sheets can be used for any AQA course but I created them following the Oxford Textbook.

AQA NEW SPECIFICATION Coasts and Rivers
Full scheme of lessons and resources to support the new AQA specification Paper 1: living with the Physical Environment. Lesson 1: Introduction to Physical Environments Lesson 2: Coastal Processes Lesson 3: Weathering and Deposition Lesson 3.5: Weathering and Deposition (2) Lesson 4: He...
IGCSE The Natural Environment - Coasts
11 part lesson series for the Cambridge IGCSE module The Natural Environment. This is the Coasts section of the module which is taught alongside Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Rivers, Weather and Climate & Natural Vegetation. Specifically designed for the new IGCSE. All lesson are for 50 minutes t...
Holderness Coast GCSE
This is a brand new resource which is ideal for most GCSE syllabus or extremely able KS3 students. THESE also contain the relevant SOW and GCSE Progress Checks. It is a full unit of work coasts. All of the lessons are place based on The Holderness Coast. It examines geomorphic processes such as er...
NEW 9-1 Coasts Revision Sheet
Coasts Revision Sheet can be printed doubled sided on either A4 or A3. This sheet is aimed at pupils who prefer more structured revision or lower ability students who need more support. Sheet numbered 1 - 12 as used in conjunction with revision clocks. Students to pick which sheet they'd prefer allo...
Games
Be it taboo, a tarsia or a classic keyword sort - delight your students with this variety of games, puzzles and quizzes focused on coasts.
Coasts keyword sort cards
Print and cut the cards and the students have to match the keyword with the correct definition.

Coasts Tarsia
A tarsia created to teach coastal erosion and coastal deposition to year 8. Includes questions on: constructive waves, destructive waves, longshore drift, spit formation and the formation of stacks and stumps. The example of a spit Fraser Island is used that you might want to edit to fit your SOW....
Rivers and Coasts Taboo
A range of physical taboo words for the Rivers and Coasts topics. Taboo is played in teams each player has 1 minute to describe as many bold words as possible without using the words below. Adapted from Thinking Through Geography activity.
Multiple choice quiz for coasts
30 multiple choice questions for coastal landscapes for the AQA 9-1 specification. An answer sheet accompanies this resource. This is perfect for using Quick Key to quickly assess student understanding without any teacher marking.