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Resources - Geography

Living Geography: mystery cards

This free geography resource for secondary school teachers concentrates on disease to be taught as a self-contained unit or as part of wider unit of work such as world development goals, urbanisation, inequality or controversial issues

Lesson sequences: The Amazon rainforest

This sequence of four lessons, one of our many free geography teaching resources, is based around the enquiry question 'Should people be allowed to destroy the Amazon rainforest?'

Geography lesson plan: Disposal of different kinds of waste

Ideal for those teaching geography in schools, this free downloadable resource is a card game that will encourage pupils to think and role-play on the issues of waste disposal

Geography lesson activity: Should the rainforest be developed?

For key stage 3 geography: embedding logovisual thinking skills in your classrooms. This tried and tested lesson plan will help teachers to help students gain an understanding of environmental change and sustainable development

Reading landscapes of economic power and success

Winner of the Geographical Association's Silver Award 2008, this book is written principally for key stage 3 teachers of geography. It looks at landscapes and offers an effective framework for the delivery of geography in the classroom

Geography lesson plan: Improving a shanty town

For key stages 3 to 4, this free geography activity, available to download, helps teachers to improve students' skills in information processing, reasoning, enquiry, creativity and evaluation

Geography lesson plan: Caribbean fishermen

This free geography teaching resource can be used with primary and secondary school students, and is one of the many games and activities available for teachers in Using Games in School Geography