Lesson 5 - How do glaciers form corries, aretes and pyramidal peaks? (As cold as ice)

Lesson 5 - a lesson about traditional glacial landforms that attempts to provide a bigger picture by enabling students to make inferences about past climate and ways glaciers change the landscape. Fully differentiated worksheets to help with explaining the landforms.

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