A no-prep, 6-lesson geography unit on Human geography: Natural Resources and Energy. Written for Year 9 (ages 13-14). 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: Where do the things we use come from — and what will we do when fossil fuels run out?

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. Resources — Renewable vs Non-Renewable — To distinguish renewable from non-renewable resources.
2. Fossil Fuels — How They Form — To describe how coal, oil and natural gas form over geological time.
3. Renewables — Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear — To describe four renewable energy sources and one important alternative (nuclear).
4. Energy Security and the UK Mix — To describe how the UK’s energy mix has changed and what drives those changes.
5. Climate Change and the Energy Transition — To explain why climate change drives the energy transition.
6. Future Resources — Lithium, Water and Critical Metals — To identify the next generation of resource pressures.