WJEC GCSE Theme 1: Lessons & Assessments

25 lessons for GCSE Theme 1 - Landscapes and Physical Processes. Also included are assessments, mark schemes, key terms, learning checklists and revision links.

Theme 1 includes distinctive landscapes, river landforms and processes, flooding, coastal landforms and processes.

Lesson sequence:

1. Introduction to UK distinctive landscapes
2. River and coastal processes in the UK
3. How physical landscapes are affected by humans
4. Management of UK landscapes
5. Processes of erosion, transportation and deposition
6. River landforms - V-shaped valleys, waterfalls and gorges
7. River landforms - meanders, floodplains, levees, deltas
8. Factors affecting landform change - the River Tees
9. Factors affecting landform change - the River Thames
10. Distinctive landscapes and landform processes and change assessment
11. Assessment review
12. Drainage basins
13. Why do rivers flood
14. Hydrographs
15. Keswick 2015 case study
16. Flood management - hard engineering, soft engineering and boscastle 2004 case study
17. Conflicting views on river management
18. What causes cliff retreat - weathering, waves and mass movement
19. Coastal landforms - headlands, bays, wave-cut notch, arches, stacks and stumps
20. Coastal transportation, deposition and landforms
21. Factors affecting the rate of coastal change
22. Factors affecting coastal change - Holderness Coast
23. Factors affecting coastal change - Jurassic Coast
24. Drainage basins and coastal processes and landforms assessment
25. Assessment review