Lesson 2 and Lesson 3 - How do people use cold places? (As cold as ice)

Lessons 2 and 3 - a group activity where each group finds out about the advantages and disadvantages of one way people use cold places. As a group students are asked to create adverts/presentations to either persuade people to carry on with this use or to persuade people to stop doing it. The adverts are performed in the second lesson and students make notes about the advantages and disadvantages presented in each advert.

This is a scheme of work about cold environments / polar places. It is designed to work in a completely mixed ability classroom and therefore is differentiated wherever necessary and includes challenge/extension questions. It includes the following topics:
- Where cold environments are and what they are like
- How people use cold environments
- What a glacier is and how it forms
- How glaciers change the landscape by creating corries, aretes and pyramidal peaks
- A comparison of the Arctic and Antarctic and why they are so cold
- Food chains, food webs and the wider importance of plankton at the bottom of the food chain
- Snowball earth and the idea of ice ages with varying amounts of ice on the planet
- The Antarctic treaty
- How cold places are changing, focusing on ice shelf collapse and sea level rise