Free teacher web sites for Geography topic ‘Coasts’
Load up the car and get ready for a trip to the coast! This section provides images and photographs from locations around Britain's famous coastline. Issues such as coastal defences and tourism are featured as well as geographical concepts such as long shore drift. There's plenty to see and do in this lively topic.
Bays and headlands, beaches, cliff falls and landslides
A KS2 plus resource that could be easily adapted to the coasts unit. Some useful information on dinosaurs in the Kidz zone.
External link: Bays and headlands, beaches, cliff falls and landslides
- suitable for teachers’ personal use
Coastal images
The coast at Holderness is photographed, good quality coastal images for Ks2 and Ks1.
External link: Coastal images
- suitable for teachers’ personal use
Coastlines for tourism
Simple text for Ks2 and some basic pictures, covers practically every tourist style coast destination in the UK, very thorough, if not the slickest site. Still a useful site.
External link: Coastlines for tourism
- suitable for class use
- suitable for teachers’ personal use
Introduction to coastlines
Ideally for Ks3, these images and some text can be easily adapted for Ks2. Covers; The Sea and Waves Tides Currents and Erosion Cliffs Deposition
External link: Introduction to coastlines
- suitable for class use
- suitable for teachers’ personal use
Investigating coasts
Includes the following explanations. Ideal for upper Ks2, there are some good images, but the text is spot on. Waves * Coastal Erosion * Cliff Recession * Erosion Of A Headland Coastal Deposition * Beaches * Longshore Drift * Other Features Formed By Deposition Marshes * Salt Marshes * Sand Dunes Case Study * The Holderness Coast
External link: Investigating coasts
- suitable for teachers’ personal use
Investigating coasts
Investigate and annotate features by the sea with this super resource. Ideally guided by the teacher.
External link: Investigating coasts
- suitable for class use
- suitable for teachers’ personal use
Lyme Regis coast
We do like this site. Too in depth (in terms of text) but clever teachers will use the images to carry out map work, work on tourism and coasts, even protecting coasts and sea defences. A great site.
External link: Lyme Regis coast
- suitable for teachers’ personal use
Photos of coasts
Beautiful images of coastlines to use in your lessons from ICTeachers.
External link: Photos of coasts
- suitable for teachers’ personal use
Plan a holiday on the Cornish coast
Plan activities based on or around the coast. Small unusable images, but some useful text and points of interest.
External link: Plan a holiday on the Cornish coast
- suitable for class use
- suitable for teachers’ personal use
What is a coast?
A simple explanation with quality images from the BBC. A great Ks1 or Ks2 resource.
External link: What is a coast?
- suitable for class use
- suitable for teachers’ personal use