Resource Management: Provision of Water in the UK

AQA GCSE Geography lesson for Unit 2C: Resource Management. The lesson realistically takes over one hour, most likely two lessons.

We start we a quiz on what percentage we use of our water for various domestic tasks. We then complete a data presentation activity where the pupils create a graph on our national demands on water and the pupils then complete some questions. The next task involves the pupils creating two shaded maps of population density and rainfall to work out where the areas of water stress are in the UK. We then look at water stress and highlight an extract to explore the benefits and drawbacks. The pupils then create a diagram on the work of the Environment Agency in managing water supplies The pupils look for solutions to improving water quality and challenges to improving water quality. We finally tackle a GCSE-style 6 mark question on water transfer.

At a glance lesson includes:

Starter quiz on domestic water use
Data presentation activity on national water use
Map shading activity to work out areas of water stress
Extract highlighting activity
Environment Agency diagram activity
6 mark practice question with guidance and timer.

Hope this helps.

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