A focus on Japan’s aging population looking at the causes, effects and possible solutions, perfect if Japan is your chosen case study.

A lesson looking at the Demographic Transition Model and what is happening to the population, birth rate and death rate at each stage. Limitations of the model are also included

This lesson looks at the reasons for the UK’s variable weather and focuses on depressions and Anticyclones

An introduction to tourism with definitions, tourism increase graphs, reasons for tourism increase through images and a quick quiz on famous tourist locations. One slide may need adaptation as it is specific to when I taught in Thailand.

A lesson that can be used as a case study of USA Mexico migration, looking at key terms, effects on the donor and host country and push and pull factors.

this lesson investigates the different types of clouds, their descriptions, associated weather and how they are measured (oktas)

This lesson investigates the increase in palm oil use. The lessons starts with the stimulus of the banned Iceland RangTan video and then students can do one of two tasks: 1. Use the website ‘Global Forest Watch’ to describe the changes in forest cover in Sumatra and Borneo or 2. Do an in dept investigation into deforestation and land use change using ArcGIS with step y step instructions. Students then answer questions using a text as a source of information regarding what palm oil is, the problems it causes and possible solutions.

Looking at what World Bank website to complete a table on vital rates, and then reasons for high birth rates and falling death rates.

This lesson investigates the physical factors which affect the location of farms.

A look at organic vs GMO where facts are presented hopefully free from bias and then students get to make up their own minds and present them.

This lesson investigates what mangroves are, where they are distributed and the advantages of keeping them intact.

This lesson investigates how China became the development country it is today, it looks at the Great leap Forward through a reading and YouTube video and how it failed and looks at a BBC article on the modern economic transformation of the country with questions to accompany it.

This lesson looks at the formation of beaches, longshore drift and the formation of spits and salt marshes.

Investigating population pyramids and what their shape means linking pyramid shape with the demographic transition model, this lesson gets students to draw a population pyramid of Thailand but this can be changed to any country of your choice, at the time I was teaching in Thailand.

A lesosn that investigates the Burgess model and the land uses and issues in each zone

This lesson looks at the problems subsistence farmers encounter and how they can improve their yields with a focus on the Green Revolution

A lesson that investigates the recent influx of migrants into Europe, looking at key terms and the related push and pull factors.

This lesson investigates the 4 types of coastal erosion and also slumping. Concordant and discordant coasts too.

This lesson investigates the formation of a wave cut platform.

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.