Key stage 3 & 4 Geography

These materials are aimed at Key Stage 3/4 geography. For suggestions on how they may be used in teaching GCSE, see the ‘introduction for teachers’.

Some of the materials require access to computers taking part in the climateprediction.net experiment, however some sample climateprediction.net results are downloadable from the bottom of the page.

The materials can be used in isolation or combined.

Title & description Notes
Introduction for Teachers Teachers’ notes (pdf, 110 KB)
Creating climate maps using climateprediction.net software. Requires the climateprediction.net model and visualisation software to be installed (pdf, 170 KB)
Forecasting Presentation (pdf, 1.5 MB) The topic links to the GCSE, AS and A2 specifications including:

  • AQA: weather and climate, climatic hazards and change
  • EdExcel: managing hazards, natural world, physical systems
  • OCR: People and environment, atmospheric systems, applied climatology, hazardous environments
Powerpoint presentation (ppt, 2.5 MB)
Exploring energy resources Presentation (pdf, 1 MB) The topic links to the GCSE, AS and A2 specifications including:

  • AQA: weather and climate, climatic hazards and change
  • Edexcel: managing hazards, natural world, physical systems
  • OCR: People and Environment, atmospheric systems, appplied climatology, hazardous environments
Powerpoint presentation (ppt, 4.3 MB)
Risks and responses to climate change Presentation (pdf, 2.3 MB) The topic links to the GCSE, AS and A2 specifications including:

  • AQA: weather and climate, climatic hazards and change
  • Edexcel: managing hazards, natural world, physical systems
  • OCR: People and Environment, atmospheric systems, applied climatology, hazardous environments
Powerpoint presentation (ppt, 10.1 MB)
The Day After Tomorrow Exercise with lesson plan Can be used with or without class internet access (rtf, 10 KB)
Discussion exercise Requires internet access
Global development/ greenhouse gas emissions Discussion exercise Requires internet access
Energy Summit Presentation Role-play excercise (pdf, 670 KB)
Powerpoint presentation (ppt, 4.3 MB)
Students’ worksheet (pdf, 30 KB)
Renewable Energy Students’ worksheet (pdf, 30 KB) Worksheet for investigating sources of renewable energy. No answers supplied