A no-prep, 6-lesson geography unit on Physical geography: Weather, Climate and Climate Change. Written for Year 7 (ages 11-12). Pick it up at lunchtime, teach it that afternoon — every lesson has a full teacher plan, projectable slides, three differentiated pupil worksheets, and an exit ticket.

Driving question: Why does the Earth’s climate vary so much — and what’s changing in our lifetime?

What’s included

• 6 × Teacher lesson plans (Word, fully scripted)
• 6 × Pupil worksheets in 3 differentiated tiers (Support / Core / Stretch)
• 6 × Projectable slide decks (PowerPoint, 16:9 widescreen)
• 1 × Knowledge Organiser (Word, A4 landscape)
• 1 × End-of-unit assessment with baseline + mark scheme
• Factually-accurate maps rendered from public-domain Natural Earth data — not AI-generated
• Hand-coded diagrams for the unit’s key processes and labelled features — never AI-generated
• Original illustrations for every lesson hook and teaching scene

Lesson outline

1. Weather vs Climate — To distinguish weather from climate using time-scales.
2. What Makes Climates Different — To explain three factors that shape a region’s climate.
3. Climate Zones of the World — To identify a climate zone from its climate graph.
4. Climate Through Time — From Ice Age to Today — To describe how Earth’s climate has changed over the last 2.6 million years.
5. The Modern Climate Crisis — To explain the enhanced greenhouse effect and the evidence for modern climate change.
6. Mitigation and Adaptation — To evaluate mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change.