Flexible, High-Quality Lessons – No Gimmicks, Just Great Teaching
This collection offers straightforward, adaptable lessons designed to deepen knowledge, strengthen understanding, and support high-quality pedagogy. Each resource is crafted to be easily tailored to meet the specific needs of your students and teaching style, ensuring meaningful learning without unnecessary fluff. Ideal for teachers who value clarity, curriculum alignment, and effective classroom practice.
Flexible, High-Quality Lessons – No Gimmicks, Just Great Teaching
This collection offers straightforward, adaptable lessons designed to deepen knowledge, strengthen understanding, and support high-quality pedagogy. Each resource is crafted to be easily tailored to meet the specific needs of your students and teaching style, ensuring meaningful learning without unnecessary fluff. Ideal for teachers who value clarity, curriculum alignment, and effective classroom practice.
Take your KS3 students on a journey through one of the most fascinating and misunderstood regions of the world with this engaging and fully resourced Middle East unit. This scheme of work introduces students to the physical geography, human landscapes, and contemporary challenges of the Middle East, including climate, conflict, resource management, and population dynamics. With case studies, enquiry-based tasks, and interactive activities—including map skills, data interpretation, and decision-making exercises—students develop a well-rounded and critical understanding of this diverse region. Perfect for deepening global awareness and building synoptic links across the geography curriculum.
AQA GCSE Geography: Bristol Case Study (Urban Issues and Challenges)
This high-quality and visually engaging PowerPoint explores Bristol as the urban case study for AQA GCSE Geography Paper 2, Section A: Urban Issues and Challenges. It includes up-to-date statistics, interactive elements, and a rich selection of images to bring the case study to life – from the Temple Quarter regeneration project and Upfest street art to sustainable transport schemes and urban challenges like traffic congestion and housing affordability. The resource also features embedded exam-style questions (2, 4, 6, and 9 marks) with model answers, helping students apply knowledge and prepare effectively for assessments. Designed for classroom delivery or revision, this resource is ideal for making complex content accessible and engaging.
Unit Overview: Global Resource Management – Food, Water & Energy (KS3, Aligned with AQA GCSE Themes)
This well-structured KS3 Geography unit mirrors key content from the AQA GCSE Geography specification, making it the perfect foundation for future study of the Resource Management topic at KS4. Through real-world case studies, data analysis, and engaging activities, students explore the global distribution and increasing demand for food, water, and energy, alongside issues of insecurity, inequality, and sustainability. With a strong focus on critical thinking and decision-making, the unit helps develop core geographical skills while deepening students’ understanding of global challenges.
Lesson Breakdown:
Lesson 1: The Global Distribution of Resources
Students examine how food, water, and energy are unevenly distributed across the world and why this matters for people’s quality of life and development.
Lesson 2: Exploring Global and Local Food Insecurity
An investigation into the causes and consequences of food insecurity at both global and UK levels, including natural, economic, and political factors.
Lesson 3: Energy Provision in the UK
Students learn how the UK’s energy mix is changing, and explore the challenges of balancing supply, demand, sustainability, and energy security.
Lesson 4: Global Water Supply and Demand
This lesson introduces the global patterns of water availability and use, highlighting regions experiencing water scarcity and the reasons behind it.
Lesson 5: Water Insecurity and Solutions
Students explore the concept of water insecurity, learn about desalination and other strategies, and evaluate which methods are best suited to different global contexts.
Lesson 6: Water Security – The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Case Study
A high-impact lesson examining the real-world conflict and cooperation around the GERD. Students consider how shared water sources create geopolitical challenges and opportunities.
All lessons include PowerPoints, printable resources, key vocabulary, and activities designed to support retrieval, geographical literacy, and extended writing. Suitable for KS3 learners and perfect for bridging the gap to GCSE.
Boost your students’ exam readiness with this extensive set of 200+ carefully designed OCR A-level Geography Paper 2 questions and answers, covering the essential topics of Changing Places, Human Rights, Trade, Migration, and Power & Borders. This resource is perfect for in-class revision, homework, or independent study, providing clear and focused questions that target key concepts and exam skills. Whether you want to reinforce knowledge, stimulate discussion, or create targeted assessments, these ready-to-use questions save you time while supporting your students to excel. A must-have for OCR A-level Geography teachers seeking high-quality, comprehensive revision material!
This comprehensive resource features 200 high-quality questions and answers across all key OCR A-Level Geography Paper 3 topics: Disease Dilemma, Climate Change, Oceans, Food, and Hazardous Earth. Designed specifically for teachers, it offers a ready-to-use bank of questions ideal for quizzes, lesson starters, homework tasks, or revision sessions. Each set of 40 questions per topic is carefully aligned to the specification, enabling you to assess students’ knowledge effectively and promote deeper understanding. Clear, concise answers save you time on marking and provide immediate feedback for students. Whether you want to challenge high achievers or support those needing extra practice, this resource is a versatile and efficient tool to enhance teaching and boost student confidence ahead of exams.
This fully resourced and ready-to-teach lesson focuses on the global distribution of key resources—food, water, and energy. Aligned with curriculum aims, it guides students to define these essential resources, explore their unequal distribution across the world, and identify regions of surplus and deficit. Through a combination of discussion, mapping activities, and data analysis, students develop a strong understanding of the relationship between resource availability and levels of development. Perfect for KS3 Geography, this lesson encourages critical thinking and global awareness while supporting progress through clear objectives and engaging content.
This engaging and fully resourced KS3 Geography lesson introduces students to the concept of food insecurity and the factors influencing food provision across the globe. Learners will describe global inequalities in food distribution, compare levels of food insecurity in the UK and Africa, and reflect on the wider impacts of limited food access. With clear objectives, differentiated tasks, and real-world case studies, this lesson builds critical thinking and empathy, making complex global issues accessible and relevant to students. Ideal for developing geographical understanding while saving valuable teacher planning time.
This fully resourced and engaging KS3 lesson explores how the UK’s energy mix has changed over time, helping students to understand the shift from traditional fossil fuels to renewable sources. Through a range of interactive activities, learners will interpret and construct pie charts using real data, developing both their geographical knowledge and data-handling skills. The lesson encourages students to use evidence to explain energy trends, making clear links between data and real-world changes in energy use. With differentiated tasks, clear objectives, and curriculum-aligned content, this lesson is perfect for developing analytical thinking while saving teachers valuable planning time.
Engage your students with this comprehensive and thought-provoking lesson on water security—an essential global issue that affects health, food production, the environment, and social stability worldwide. This lesson guides students through understanding what water security means, why it matters, and the real-life causes and consequences of water insecurity. With a clear focus on both global and local challenges, it encourages critical thinking by exploring practical solutions and innovations that communities and governments are implementing to secure this vital resource. Perfect for Geography, Environmental Science, or Global Issues lessons, this resource combines accessible explanations with activities designed to deepen students’ awareness of one of the most urgent sustainability challenges of our time.
Water insecurity is a growing problem that affects millions of people around the world, impacting their health, food supply, and daily lives. Today, we will explore what water insecurity really means and why it is such an important issue. One key way some countries tackle water shortages is through desalination—a process that turns seawater into fresh, drinkable water. We’ll learn how desalination works and then compare it with other water solutions like rainwater harvesting and groundwater use. By the end of the lesson, you’ll be able to decide which water supply methods are most effective in different parts of the world, taking into account factors such as environment, cost, and technology. This will help you understand the challenges and opportunities in managing one of Earth’s most vital resources.
OCR A-Level Geography Paper 1: Physical Systems – Exam Questions and Answers
This comprehensive resource contains over 160 high-quality, exam-style questions with full answers across all four topics of the OCR A-Level Geography Paper 1: Physical Systems specification. These include:
Coastal Landscapes
Earth’s Life Support Systems
Glaciated Landscapes
Dryland Landscapes
Each topic contains 40 rigorous questions designed to assess and consolidate student understanding of key physical processes, landforms, case studies, and human-environment interactions.
A full set of detailed, modelled answers is included, making this resource ideal for revision, exam practice, independent study, or classroom use.
This pack supports students in developing exam technique and content knowledge across a wide range of question styles and topic areas, aligned closely with the OCR A-Level Geography specification.
A list of questions and basic answers for paper 2. Urban issues and challenges, Changing economic world and resource management. These can be as starters, plenaries or made into quizzes.
This resource covers all key elements required by the exam board, including Rio’s location, importance, opportunities, and urban challenges. It features engaging visuals, real-life statistics, and embedded top-mark model answers for 2, 4, 6, and 9-mark exam questions. Perfect for classroom delivery or student revision, this fully editable presentation is ready to use and packed with high-quality content that brings urban issues in an emerging economy to life.
This high-quality, ready-to-teach PowerPoint is designed for the AQA GCSE Geography specification (Paper 2 – The Changing Economic World). It provides a complete and detailed case study on Nigeria, covering everything students need to know for the exam — with embedded visuals, top-level model answers, and built-in exam skills practice.
Boost your GCSE Geography success with this complete AQA Paper 1 practice exam and detailed mark scheme!
Designed to match the latest AQA specification, this resource includes a full set of exam-style questions covering Natural Hazards, The Living World, and Physical Landscapes in the UK – complete with diagrams, graphs, multiple-choice, and case study questions. The accompanying mark scheme includes banded level descriptors and model answers to help students understand exactly what examiners are looking for. Perfect for revision, assessment, or classroom practice!
KS3 Geography Lesson: Introduction to the Middle East – Location, Physical Geography & Climate
This ready-to-teach lesson introduces KS3 students to the Middle East through a range of engaging and accessible activities. Pupils will explore the location of the region using maps, identify and label key countries, and colour-code major physical features such as deserts, rivers, and mountain ranges. The lesson includes a clear step-by-step guide to describing location using the C.L.O.C.C. framework (Country, Latitude, Oceans, Countries nearby, Compass direction), with writing scaffolds to support all learners. Students will also interpret and draw a climate graph using real data, reinforcing geographical skills. Perfect for a one-off lesson or the start of a wider unit, this resource supports map skills, locational knowledge, and climate understanding — all aligned with the KS3 Geography curriculum.
Engage your KS3 students with this thought-provoking lesson on water security, centered around the real-world case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. This dynamic resource explores the contrasting perspectives of Ethiopia and Egypt, two nations with competing interests over the Nile’s future. Through critical thinking, debate, and interactive activities, students will deepen their understanding of global water issues, international conflict, and the importance of sustainable development. Perfect for sparking curiosity and empathy while meeting key geography curriculum goals.
This introductory lesson gives students a strong geographical foundation by exploring where Brazil is located and what makes it unique. Pupils will use atlases and maps to identify Brazil’s position in South America and the wider world, label its major physical features such as the Amazon River and Brazilian Highlands, and annotate key cities like BrasÃlia, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. The lesson also sets the scene for Brazil’s natural environment by introducing its connection to major biomes, such as the tropical rainforest. Map skills are built through a coordinates and compass points activity, and pupils are encouraged to extend their learning through a research task
