Knowledge Organisers for the first 8 Topics. Editable.
Rock and Mineral Extraction
Energy and the Environment
Agriculture and the Environment
Water and its Management
Oceans and Fisheries
Managing Natural Disasters
Managing Atmosphere
Managing Population
Editable knowledge organisers for the below topics.
1 - Introduction to Environmental Management
2 - Environmental Research and Data Collection
3 - Managing Population
6 - Managing Water
7 - Managing Atmosphere
8 - Managing Climate Change
This lesson looks at 4 different real life coastal scenarios, and each group of students are given a budget and a set of coastal defense strategies to choose from to defend their coastline.
Scenarios include
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
Addu Atoll, The Maldives
Funafuti, Tuvalu
Wadden Sea Coastline, Netherlands
Includes ppt and worksheets.
(Best used after a lesson taught about the different types of engineering techniques).
Methods to reduce soil erosion
Lesson Objectives: To describe and explain the methods of terracing,
contour ploughing, bunds and windbreaks as approaches to reducing soil erosion.
Includes power point and exam questions with answers.
Green Revolution
Lesson Objectives:
To describe what the Green Revolution was.
To describe the advantages and disadvantages of the Green Revolution
Two powerpoints and a worksheet.
Compatible for iGCSE Cambridge Environmental Management
Ppt and worksheet.
Topic 2 - Energy & the Environment
Lesson Objectives:
To learn strategies for the efficient management of energy resources.
To be able to describe, explain and discuss energy management strategies.
iGCSE Environmental Management - Energy & the Environment
An exam booklet with paper 1 and paper 2 style questions, including higher level decision making questions, with mark schemes.
Rocks and Minerals Exam Study Booklet (GCSE Environmental Management, Cambridge).
Study Booklet - Paper 1, Paper 2 questions, and more advanced decision making questions with mark schemes.
Answers sheets.
2 lesson ppts and a practical worksheet.
The practical has been adapted from Twinkl.
Lesson Objectives
To provide strategies to reduce the risk of oil spills
To provide strategies to minimise the impact of oil spills
1 ppt , worksheet and recap activity.
Energy and Demand (GCSE Environmental Management, Cambridge).
Lesson Objectives
To describe the global situation of energy demand
To describe the energy demand factors
Formation of Fossil Fuels (GCSE Environmental Management, Cambridge)
Lesson Objectives
To be able to discuss uses of various fossil fuels
To describe the sequence and processes by which oil and natural gas form.
The lesson is adapted for the students to do as they do the chocolate rock cycle experiment. Make sure you have the equipment available before you conduct the experiment/do the lesson.
After the students and teacher have watched the video, they are to follow the step-by-step instructions on the following slides. The actual experiment itself does not take too long.
The do-it-now activity is always a recap from the previous lesson.
Island Copper Mine Case Study (GCSE Environmental Management, Cambridge)
Ppt, Case Study Template sheet, information pdf.
Lesson Objectives
To analyse the impacts of a mining operation through a case study on Island Copper Mine, Canada.
The do it now activity is alway a recap activity (a task for students to do at the beginning while you are taking the register, for example).
Types of Mining (GCSE Environmental Management, Cambridge).
Ppt, worksheet, exam practice, and Homework sheet.
Lesson Objectvies
To describe the methods of extraction of rocks and minerals from the earth.
Agriculture and the Environment
Lesson Objectives
To describe what soil is made of
To explain the difference in soil particle sizes (sand, silt, clay).
Lesson ppt only.
Best accompanied with Cambridge iGCSE Coursebook.
3 lesson power points briefly describing how different energy sources generate electricity, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Powerpoint 1 - Fossil Fuels
Powerpoint 2 - Nuclear energy
Powerpoint 3 - Renewable energy sources
Resource includes power points and worksheets.
Formation of Rocks and Identifying the Types. Updated June 2023.
Lesson Objectives
To compare and contrast the three types of rock (igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary).
To learn examples of each type of rock.
To be able to identify rocks by observing their physical appearance.
Compatible with Cambridge GCSE Environmental Management Coursebook
Managing the Impacts of Mining (GCSE Environmental Management, Cambridge)
Ppt only.
This lesson is a practical for ‘cookie mining’.
Lesson Objectives
To describe and evaluate strategies for restoring landscapes damaged by rock and mineral extraction.
Do it now activity is always a recap from the lesson beforehand (see bundle).
To prepare for the practical ahead, watch the video on the ppt.
Rocks and Minerals Exam Practice (GCSE Environmental Management, Cambridge)
Ppt, Exam Question sheet.
Lesson Objectives
To practice 6 mark exam questions
To practice critical evaluation and writing balanced answers