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.
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...
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 ...

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...
Coasts Caribbean
L9: Should St Lucia s coastline be kept for the local fisherfolk? SoW: How are the UK s coasts evolving? L1: How are the UK s Coasts Evolving? - Free Download - This unit is created in line with my personal passion for the sustainability of the UK s coastline. This unit is framed the way...

Coastal Processes
Coasts topic following Geog 2 3rd edition Oxford. Taught with year 8 however can easily be adapted to suit other year groups. Fully resourced and each lesson is for 50 minutes to 1 hour.
Upper school/KS4
Prepare your learners for GCSE/IGCSE and lighten your planning load with these carefully selected resources.
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...

Coasts: Coastal Landforms at Swanage
AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1C: In this lesson we look at coastal landforms along the Swanage coastline. The starter is called "perfect paragraph?" The pupils will see a response to a GCSE-style question and need to spot the errors in the paragraph, we then di...
IGCSE Question Pack - Coasts
Here is a collation of CIE past paper IGCSE questions for the Coasts Topic - all in one document. Students can work their way through this document and bullet point the ideas they have for what they would use to attempt an answer.
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.
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...
Activities and games
Be it taboo, a tarsia or a classic keyword sort - delight your students with this variety of coast focused activities, puzzles and quizzes.

Coastineers Sea Level Rise Challenge - Build your own!
The Coastineers Sea Level Rise Challenge is a simple and interactive kit that can form part of a lesson or STEM club project. Students can try out different adaptation or engineering ideas to react to flooding and sea level rise. This is also a suitable home working exercise for individual students....

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....
AQA 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...
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.