Powerpoint and worksheet about the causes of Hurricane Katrina. Worksheet diagram to be completed through the lesson. Animations and videos. Differentiated question to check overall understanding.
Powerpoint and worksheets about the causes, effects and management of flash floods using Boscastle (2004) as a Case Study. Three differentiated questions. Links to videos included.
Powerpoint and worksheets comparing El Nino with La Nina. Uses the Big Dry drought in Australia as a Case Study. Differentiated question. Carousel activity to complete effects chart. Links to videos included.
Powerpoint and worksheets using the UK as a Case Study of drought in a developed country. Completion of a climate graph. Differentiated exam-style questions. Comparisons of human and physical maps and data. Sustainability of four drought management methods used in the UK.
Powerpoint and worksheets about the causes, effects and management of the 2011 Brisbane Flood resulting from a La Nina event. Differentiated questions. Links to videos included.
Powerpoint and worksheets about the future effects of climate change on the British Isles
Starter looks at 'The Day After Tomorrow' and the idea of a climate tipping point
The main part of the lesson is a role play/debate about the future climate and the positive vs negative effects on UK life. Roles are related to government, industry, tourism, older people, wildlife trusts and farming.
the role play is concluded by a written answer to the hypothesis: "Climate change will be bad for the United Kingdom".
Plenary shows how milder winters are allowing exotic animals to survive in the UK
Powerpoint and worksheets covering destructive plate margins and collision zones
Starter looks at the highest and tallest mountains on Earth, then compares them with Mons Olympus on Mars .
Destructive margins activity is a mystery, answering the question "Why are there a line of volcanoes down the western coast of South America?"
Collision zones activity answers the question "Why are there marine fossils on top of Mount Everest?"
Plenary looks at how the African-Eurasian margin has created the hills and valleys of south-east England
Includes video links and differentiated questions
Powerpoint and worksheets introducing the causes of tectonic movement.
Starter reviews pupils' prior knowledge of the structure of the Earth and then builds on this with an annotated divided bar graph of the Earth's layers.
Goes on to look at the role of convection, ridge push and slab pull using the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Iceland as Case Studies.
Includes video links and differentiated questions.
A decision making exercise (set up as a lesson) looking at future options for feeding Egypt's growing population.
Egypt’s climate is changing. Over the next few decades the country is expected to become even hotter and drier than it already is.
Presently, oil makes up 25% of Egypt’s exports but this is predicted to run out by 2070. At the same time, the population is expected to grow by tens of millions more people. The Government will need to find a SUSTAINABLE way to feed all these extra mouths very soon.
Option 1:
Turn more of the Sahara Desert into irrigated farmland by flooding the Qattara Depression
Option 2:
Build sea defences around the farmland in the Nile Delta of northern Egypt
Option 3:
Bomb the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam to allow more of the Nile’s water to flow down to Egypt
Option 4:
Support the use of agricultural fertilisers by lowering the price of farm chemicals
Powerpoint covering spit formation, using Spurn as a Case Study
Starter: simple (revision) sorting activity to sequence weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition
Main activities:YouTube videos and a mystery activity to find out how Spurn Head has formed. Pupils use mystery clues to complete and annotate a base map of southern Holderness and the Humber Estuary. Mini-plenary to recognise associated landforms in aerial photos
Second part uses bespoke, high tech (:D) series of diagrams (an animation if you click your mouse quickly enough!) which show why the point of the spit hooks (the role of secondary winds and wave refraction)
Final part gets pupils to sketch and annotate diagrams of Marram and Glasswort to show how dune and salt marsh plants and habitats are interdependent. Differentiated question... 1-3: Describe how salt marshes and sand dunes are held in position by plants 4-6: Why are salt marsh and sand dune environments natural sea defences? 7-9: What could happen to the Humber Estuary if the vegetation at Spurn Head is not protected?
Plenary: the 250 year cycle of spit formation and destruction at the mouth of the Humber Estuary
Powerpoint introducing Holderness as a Case Study for coastal processes
Starter: use maps to locate Holderness
Main activities: comparison of the properties of chalk (through a memorisation activity and differentiated question) and boulder clay (pupils learn one fact then swap info to answer... What is boulder clay? Where did it come from? How did it get to Yorkshire? What has it got to do with our lesson about coastal landscapes?
Second part gets pupils to draw a sketch map of Holderness then to annotate features that could be lost if erosion continues (using info researched from the internet)
Differentiated question: 1-3: Why are there weaknesses found in chalk? 4-6: Why is Flamborough Head prone to erosion? 7-9: What are the geological reasons for the faults found in the chalk at Flamborough Head?
Plenary shows the wide range of origins for sediment found along Holderness
40 mark SDME assessment in the form of a Powerpoint with associated resources
Background: Why does Holderness suffer from severe coastal erosion? What are the advantages and disadvantages of halting erosion?
Options: Why has hard engineering used to defend Hornsea? Why is soft engineering gaining popularity?
Decision: Do nothing, retreat the line, hold the line or advance the line
Eight page booklet : define economic keywords, a page to research a billionaire, a SPAG exercise about entrepreneurs, a page to draw a picture reacting to the lyrics of 'Imagine', a moral dilemma based on finding a winning lottery ticket, a self-assessment of attitudes to wealth and poverty and finally a page of religious quotes regarding wealth which need pupil comments
Practice DME using OCR B exam resources but split up into Powerpoint screens to lead the class through stage by stage. Topic is MNCs in developing countries. The decision is about FIAT cars in Brazil
Also includes an exam workbook
Powerpoint and worksheets about the effects of Hurricane Katrina. First part deals with levees and subsidence with a differentiated question. Second part looks at social, economic and environmental effects which are sorted and then used to write a newspaper article. Links to videos included.