Powerpoint and worksheets beginning with a brief intro to geological timespans. Class and group activities comparing climate data over different periods of Earth history and the reasons for differing conclusions about climate change. Links to videos showing computer simulations of glaciation.
A recap of previous learning, covering contrasts in development between places, development indicators and graph analysis. Aimed at GCSE, KS4, Years 10 and 11. Contains a starter, several activities and a plenary.
Powerpoint and worksheet about the effect of the Gulf Stream on the British Isles
Starter looks at how palm trees grow in Scotland thanks to the North Atlantic Drift
Then the 'Gulf Stream Mystery' to find out how the 'Cold Blob' in the North Atlantic will change Britain's climate. Pupils annotate a map then answer a differentiated question:
1-3: Describe what the UK’s climate might be like if Greenland’s ice melts
4-6: Explain how NASA’s ‘Cold Blob’ could change the UK’s future climate
7-9: Explain how the UK’s climate is linked to the North Atlantic Ocean
Moves on to mapping changes caused by rising sea levels in the UK (to 5 metres) getting info from internet research
Plenary looks at the effects of post-glacial rebound on Scotland and southern England
Stalin’s record as a revolutionary before 1924
The power struggle within the Communist Party
‘Permanent revolution’ versus ‘socialism in one country’
Stalin’s defeat of Trotsky and the Left
Stalin’s defeat of the Right
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The Reformation Parliament and the establishment of Royal Supremacy
The extent of religious change in the 1530s
Opposition to religious change
Royal authority and government in the 1530s
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Glacial budgets
Ablation and accumulation
Warm- and cold-based glaciers
Glacial erosion, transportation and deposition
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Fragile environments
Human activity and sustainability
Causes of climate change- natural vs human
Recent + prospective impact of climate change in cold environments
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Introduction and the nature and distribution of cold environments
The climate of cold environments
The vegetation of the tundra
Global distribution of past + present cold environments
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Powerpoint and worksheets looking at the relief and geology of the UK's landscapes
Starter: video and dice-rolling activity about the rock cycle
main activities: 'Classifying rocks' worksheet (comparing formation, Moh's hardness and human uses) filled in as the pupils read and discuss the Powerpoint slides. Discussions to analyse a variety of linked physical maps. Mapwork to colour areas of granite and chalk, then to add the Tees-Exe Line (including the pattern of the age of rocks from the Grampians to the South Coast).
Differentiated questions about the links between geology/UK landscapes and how the Tees-Exe Line can help describe landscape distribution.
Plenary: further locational knowledge of UK upland landscapes
Henry VIII: The start of a new era
Wolsey as Chief Minister- Church and State
England's relations with foreign powers, 1509-1529
Henry's quest for a divorce
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Health impacts of global environmental change
Prospects for global population change
Population revised estimates
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Population ecology + growth dynamics
Population ecology applied to the human population
The balance between population + resources
Carrying capacity + ecological footprint
Positive + negative feedback mechanisms
Challenges driven by human population growth
Malthus and Boserup
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Environment, health and well-being
Economic and social development
Environmental variables + their links to disease
Malaria
Heart disease
The role of the World Health Organisation
The role of other international organisations
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Population change
Models of natural population change- the demographic transition model
Britain’s demographic transition
Demographic transition model applied to countries with contrasting physical + human settings
Population structure
Migration
European migrant crisis 2015
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Elements in the physical environment
Role of development processes
Food production and consumption
Polar and tropical monsoon climates
Climate change and agriculture
Soils
Food security
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Powerpoint and worksheet where pupils find out how various problems on Planet Earth link together and have climate change as a common thread
Starter: label a temperature graph of the past 1000 years with major events that added pollution to the atmosphere
Students then answer a series of differentiated questions after reading and discussing different aspects of our changing climate:
sea level rise + migration + starvation + drought + extreme weather + disease + extinction