Term 1 Risky World - Web viewLabelling and drawing diagrams Annotation. ... 3D Animation showing Formation of a Tsunami (clip), How the 2011 Japan tsunami happened (clip), Japan tsunami

Geography GCSETerms 1 & 2 Restless Earth Lesson Objectives Scale & case

studiesNumeracy/literacy focus & key terms

Skills Resources

1 Why is the earth’s crust so unstable?

To know the structure of the EarthTo understand the crust is unstable, especially at plate marginsTo contrast oceanic and continental crust To describe the distribution of plate margins and tectonic activity

Global Literacy focusKey terms: Crust, plate, plate margin, mantle, oceanic crust, continental crust, convection currents, destructive-subduction boundary, destructive-collision boundary, constructive boundary, conservative boundary

Labelling atlas maps Annotating diagramsIndependent EnquiryDescription

Exam Technique describing distributions (sheet), How the Earth was formed (clip), Layers of the Earth (rap), The Plates (sheet), The Structure of the Earth (sheet), ppt

2 What happens at plate margins?

To know what happens at a destructive-subduction, constructive and conservative marginsTo understand how plate margins create different types of tectonic activity

InternationalJuan de Fuca plate, North American plate, Pacific plate, San Andreas Fault

Literacy focusKey terms: subduction, ocean trench, mid-ocean ridge, volcanic islands, collision, fault, friction

Labelling diagramsReflective LearningExplanation

How plates move (clip), Mid-Atlantic Ridge (clip), Plate boundaries diagrams (ppt), ppt

3 How are our highest and deepest places created?

To know how and why fold mountains form at collision boundariesTo know how and why ocean trenches form at destructive subduction margins

InternationalThe AlpsMariana Trench & Challenger Deep

Literacy focusKey terms: geosyncline, collision boundary, destructive-subduction boundary,

Atlas mapsLabelling diagramsReflective LearningDescription

How do mountains form (sheet), world map, ppt

Geography GCSE4 How do

people use an area of fold mountains?

To know how people use areas of fold mountainsTo understand how people adapt to the difficult conditions within them

Regional The Alps, Livigno, Italy

Literacy focusKey terms: mining, adits, transhumance, valley farming, hydro-electric power, alpine infrastructure, hairpins, snow sheds, avalanche gates, controlled avalanche detonation

Independent enquiryExplanation

Fête de la Transhumance (clip), Human activity in fold mountains (sheet), Human Planet Controlled Avalanche Detonation (clip), Human Planet Sulphur mining in fold mountains (clip), Hydroelectic Power - How it Works (clip), ppt

Independent Study

To create an account on life in Livigno, Italy, The Alps. How were the Alps created? How do people use the mountains? How have generations adapted to life in fold mountains?

5 How and where are volcanoes created?

To know the features of a volcanoTo contrast composite volcanoes with shield volcanoes.To link volcanic activity to the type of plate margin

National Mount St Helens, USAMauno Loa, Hawaii

Literacy focusKey terms: Vent, composite volcano, andesite, shield volcano, basalt

Labelling and drawing diagrams Annotation

Composite shield factsheet (sheet), Composite volcano eruption Merapi Indonesia (clip), Exam Technique Annotation (ppt), Features of a Volcano (sheet), Pyroclastic_Flow_movie (clip), Shield volcano eruption Kileaua Hawaii (clip), volcano classification (sheet), ppt

6 How do volcanoes affect people?

To know where volcanoes are found To understand the causes of the Mount St Helens

NationalMount St Helens, Washington State, USA

Literacy focusKey terms: Composite volcano, cryptodome, lateral blast, pyroclastic flow, ash,


Mount St Helens Classifying (sheet), Mount St Helens Iain Stewart (clip), Mount St Helens

Geography GCSEeruptionTo distinguish between the primary and secondary effectsTo appreciate both the positive and negative impactsTo distinguish between the immediate and long term responses to the eruption

lahars, tourism, USGS Pyroclastic flows explained (clip), ppt

7 How can we monitor volcanoes and predict eruptions?

To reflect on the positive impacts of volcanic eventsTo know the ways volcanologists can monitor and predict volcanic eruptionsTo understand that USGS are responsible for the monitoring of Mt St Helens, and the way they do this

NationalMount St Helens, Washington State, USA

Numeracy focus Key terms: USGS, seismograph, seismogram, COSPEC, tiltmeters, digital cameras, thermal imaging


Monitoring of Mt St Helens capture sheet (sheet), Mount St Helens USGS monitoring 2004 (clip)

Independent Study

To create a report on the eruption of Mt St Helens, Washington State, USA. To outline the causes, primary effects, secondary effects, positive impacts, immediate responses and long-term responses. How do USGS predict and monitor the volcano today?

8 What is a supervolcano?

To know what a supervolcano is and how it differs from composite and shield volcanoesTo understand the potential impact of a

NationalYellowstone Caldera, Wyoming, USA

Literacy focusKey terms: caldera, fissures, geothermal, geyser, hot spot

Labelling diagramsReflective LearningExplanationSketch map

2012 Super Volcano Eruption (clip), Mega Disasters- Yellowstone (clip), Supervolcano Video Notes (sheets), supervolcano (sheet), ppt

Geography GCSEsupervolcanic eruption in contrast to a volcanic eruption

9 What are earthquakes and where do they occur?

To know the features of an earthquake and how they are measuredTo describe where earthquakes occur and understand why they occur at constructive, destructive and conservative margins

Global Numeracy focusKey terms: Focus, epicentre, shock waves, Mercalli scale, Richter scale

Atlas mapsSketch diagramsLabellingAnnotatingDescribing seismograms

California Quake (clip), Christchurch Earthquake (clip), ppt

10 What were the causes, effects and responses to the Kobe earthquake?

To understand the causes, effects and responses to the Kobe earthquake in Japan To explain the ways that engineers in Kobe have tried to reduce the impact from earthquakes

NationalKobe, Japan

Literacy focusKey terms: Destructive subduction, shallow focus, epicentre, CBD, liquefaction, Nojima fault, Hanshin Expressway, suburbs

Independent enquiryExplanationSynthesis

Kobe Japan (sheet), Kobe what were the causes of the damage (ppt), student slides (ppt), Seconds from Disaster (documentary), ppt

11 What were the causes, effects and responses to the Port au Prince earthquake?

To understand the causes, effects and responses to the Port au Prince earthquake in Haiti To understand why the country’s responses were so slow and uncoordinated

National Port au Prince, Haiti

Literacy focusKey terms: Conservative, shallow focus, epicentre, CBD, liquefaction, cholera, temporary accommodation


Al Jezeera (documentary), student slides (ppt), ppt

12 Why is a To know how a tsunami National Literacy focus Independent 3D Animation showing

Geography GCSEtsunami hazardous?

forms at a destructive subduction boundaryTo understand how a tsunami wave changes as it approaches landTo explain the causes, and describe the effects and responses to the Japanese tsunami in 2011

Sendai & Fukushima, Japan

Key terms: Tsunamigenesis, destructive subduction, megathrust, drawback, train, epicentre, nuclear meltdown

enquiryExplanationSynthesis

Formation of a Tsunami (clip), How the 2011 Japan tsunami happened (clip), Japan tsunami (clip), Youtube – shopping shelves (clip), receded ocean (clip), ppt

Independent Study

To create a report comparing the Port au Prince and Kobe earthquakes. Contrast the causes, primary effects, secondary effects, positive impacts, immediate responses and long-term responses of the earthquakes. To describe how the effects and responses were different. To understand why the effects and responses to earthquakes are different in countries at different stages of development.

Terms 2 & 3 Population Change Lesson Objectives Scale & case Numeracy/literacy Skills Resources

Geography GCSEstudies focus & key terms

1 How does population grow?

To describe the growth in global population To know how to calculate population change by countryTo understand how to interpret population change calculations and compare countries

Global Numeracy focusKey terms: Zero growth, natural decrease, natural increase, exponential growth, birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, J shaped curve, S shaped curve

Labelling graphsNumerical manipulationCalculation

7 Billion How Did We Get So Big So Fast (clip), 7 Billion National Geographic (clip), Population Introduction (sheet), Population (clip), ppt

2 What are the major factors affecting population growth?

To know the affect agricultural change, urbanisation, education, standards of living and emancipation of women has on population growth

Global/national Literacy focusKey terms: Agriculture, mechanisation of agriculture, rural to urban migration, education, standards of living, emancipation of women


Emancipation of women, family & birth rate (documentary), Farmers Benefit Through Mechanization (clip), population terms (cards), major factors affecting population growth (sheet), ppt

3 What is the demographic transition model?

To know the trends in the demographic transition modelTo understand how to interpret the demographic transition model

Global/national Numeracy focusKey terms: High fluctuating, early expanding, late expanding, low fluctuating, natural decrease

Labelling & interpreting graphsExplanationSynthesis

Demographic Transition Model_The Stages (sheet), Living Graphs Teacher (sheet), ppt

4 What To know example of National Numeracy focus Independent Afghan farmers

Geography GCSEcountries are in the different stages of the demographic transition model?

countries at each of the demographic transition modelTo understand the characteristics of each stage of the demographic transition model To use the model to compare the situations of different countries

The Matis, AmazoniaAfghanistanIndiaUKFrance

Key terms: Indigenous tribes, Shariah Law, contraception, newly industrialising countries, developed countries

enquiryLabelling & interpreting graphsExplanationSynthesis

growing poppies to survive (clip), ppt

5 What are population pyramids?

To know the features of a population pyramidTo know how to construct a population pyramidTo be able to interpret population pyramids

- Numeracy focusKey terms: Age structure, gender structure, apex, base, economically active, elderly dependents, young dependents

Drawing & interpreting graphsExplanationSynthesis

Constructing Population Pyramid (sheet), ppt

6 How do we use population pyramids?

To use population pyramids to give characteristics of a populationTo be able to use population pyramids, alongside the demographic transition model to predict likely future changes in a population

NationalIndia

Numeracy focusKey terms: Gender skew, infant mortality, child mortality, dependency ratio

Interpreting graphsExplanationSynthesis

Ppt

7 Why was the One Child Policy introduced

To know the reasons why the One Child Policy was introduced in 1979To know what is meant by

National China

Literacy focusKey terms: Anti-natal policy, overpopulation, famine, forced abortion


Forced Abortions in China (clip), One Child Policy – China (clip), ppt

Geography GCSEand how was it enforced?

an anti-natal policyTo understand the severity of the rules imposed

8 How has the One Child Policy changed and has it been successful?

To know how the One Child Policy has changed since the 1990sTo understand the consequences of the One Child Policy and whether the population is more sustainable today

NationalChina

Literacy focusKey terms: Little Emperor syndrome, infanticide, gendercide, gender skew, ageing population

Graphical interpretation Independent enquiryExplanation

37 Seconds (clip), One Child Policy (sheet), Two Child Policy – China (clip), ppt

Independent Study

To create a report on the One Child Policy.

9 What alternative birth control programmes exist?

To understand that birth control programmes do not take the same approachTo understand the problems of overpopulation in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the need for transmigrationTo know how the emancipation of women and education of adults in Kerala, India has lowered birth rateTo compare China’s One Child Policy with Kerala’s alternative policy

RegionalJakarta, IndonesiaKerala, India

Literacy focusKey terms: Transmigration, emancipation, equality, adult literacy

Map annotationReflective learningExplanationComparison

Kerala India. BBC Horizon (clip), Transmigration in Indonesia (clip), ppt

Geography GCSEIndependent Study

To create an informative poster comparing the One Child Policy to Kerala’s alternative policy.

10 What are the issues and opportunities for an ageing population?

To know the ways in which an ageing population is different from a younger populationTo understand the demands on a country that has an ageing populationTo understand how, as the proportion of elderly people increases, the costs to the government increase dramatically

InternationalEuropean UnionFrance

Literacy focusKey terms: Elderly dependents, dependency ratio, ageing population, health care, social services, pensions.

Graphical interpretation Independent enquiryDescription ComparisonExplanation

A - Old Folks video – YouTube (clip and lyrics), Homer in Old Peoples Home (clip), ppt

11 How has France tackled the problems of an ageing population?

To explain why France has an ageing population and an unfavourable dependency ratioTo understand the pro-natal policy that France introduced and describe its incentives

National FranceLaviano, Italy

Literacy focusKey terms: Elderly dependents, dependency ratio, ageing population, incentives, pro natal policy


Ageing of Europe (sheet), France (clip), Global Ageing (clip), Laviano (sheet), ppt

Independent Study

To create a report on France’s pro-natal policy.

12 What are the impacts of economic migration

To know that migration is a result of decision making push and pull factors To understand that

NationalUKPoland

Literacy focusKey terms: Economic migrant, destination country, country of origin, gender


Poland economic migration to the UK (sheet), Polish people in the UK

Geography GCSEwithin the EU?

economic migration can have positive and negative impacts for both the destination country and the country of origin

skew, brain drain (clips x3), ppt

13 What are the impacts of refugee and economic migration into the EU?

To explain why refugee movements to the EU occurTo understand that refugee and economic migration can have positive and negative impacts for the destination country

NationalIraqLibyaItalyMalta

Literacy focusKey terms: Refugee, asylum seeker, international migration


Three Kings (DVD), Panorama: The Libya Route (DVD), ppt

Terms 3 & 4 Tourism Lesson Objectives Scale & case

studiesNumeracy/literacy focus & key terms

Skills Resources

Geography GCSE1 Why has

tourism grown?

To explain the factors affecting the growth of tourismTo understand the physical and human attractions of cities, mountains and coastal areas

GlobalNationalFrance

Numeracy focusKey terms: physical attractions, human attractions, mass tourism, adventure tourism, ecotourism

Graphical analysisAnnotating photographs

History of Tourism Quiz (sheet & clip), ppt

2 How important is tourism in different countries?

To know that tourism has greater economic importance in poorer parts of the worldTo outline benefits of tourism in Dubai and understand why as a sector it is growing

Global/NationalDubai

Numeracy focusKey terms: Sector, Gross National Product (GDP), multiplier effect

Graphical analysisExplanation

Changing Dubai (sheet), Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol (clip), Piers Morgan on Dubai (sheet & documentary), ppt

3 How do we manage tourism in the UK?

To describe the changes in the UK’s holiday patternTo understand the impact of external factors on visitor numbers to the UKTo understand the Butler tourist resort life cycle model and apply it to Weston-Super-Mare

National/Regional UKWeston Super Mare

Literacy focusKey terms: Exploration, involvement, development, consolidation, stagnation, decline, rejuvenation

Graphical analysisModel/graphical interpretation

The Butler Model (sheet), Tourism in North Somerset and Weston Super Mare (sheet)

4 Why are effective management strategies needed to

To know the reasons for the growth of tourism in Weston-Super-MareTo explain the factors that have led to its decline as a

Regional Weston-Super-Mare

Literacy focusKey terms: rejuvenation, redevelopment, evaluation

ICTEvaluation

Weston Strategies Evaluation Sheet (sheet), ppt

Geography GCSEensure the future of tourism in Weston-Super-Mare?ICT LESSON

coastal resortTo outline and evaluate the plans in place to ensure the continuing success oftourism in Weston-Super-Mare.

Controlled AssessmentBegin the background teaching for the controlled assessment task ‘Is Weston-Super-Mare a declining coastal tourist resort?’

5 What attracts people to extreme environments?

To know what is meant by an extreme environmentTo understand which environments are classified as extremeTo understand the link between extreme environments and adventure tourism

International Numeracy focusKey terms: Extreme environment, adventure tourism, niche market

Independent enquiryExplanationDescriptionEvaluation

10 Most Extreme Places On Earth (clip), 127 Hours trailer (clip), Extreme Environments (sheet), Extreme World Top 10 (sheet), ppt

6 How is tourism managed in Antarctica?

To know how tourism is developing in Antarctica and the recent impacts of this growthTo understand the management strategies in place to deal with tourism

Regional AntarcticaBird Island, South Georgia

Numeracy focusKey terms: Extreme environment, adventure tourism, quota, SSSI, IAATO

Graphical analysisExplanationDescriptionEvaluation

Nature of wandering Albatross birds - David Attenborough (clip), The Frozen Planet Moves Like Jagger (clip), Tribute to the MS Explorer (clip), Voyage to Antarctica on board MS Explorer (clip), ppt


To write a report on tourism in Antarctica

7 Why do so many countries want mass tourism?

To know what is meant by mass tourism To understand why tropical tourist destinations like Kenya attract so many touristsTo explore some of Kenya’s most famous honeypot sites

Regional KenyaMasai MaraMombasa

Literacy focusKey terms: Masai Mara, Mombasa, mass tourism, honeypot, safari, physical and human attractions

Annotating maps ExplanationDescriptionEvaluation

Kenya (sheets), ppt

8 What are the impacts of mass tourism in Kenya?

To understand the positive and negative impacts of mass tourism on the economy, the people and the environment

Regional KenyaMasai MaraMombasa

Literacy focusKey terms: honeypot site, mass tourism, safari, Masai Mara, Mombasa

ExplanationEvaluationReflective learning

Kenya_Tourism Exposed (documentary, sheet and notes), ppt

9 How is ecotourism leading to sustainable development in Kenya?

To understand the strategies in place for maintaining the importance of tourism in Kenya and reducing its negative effects.To know what is meant by conservation and stewardshipTo understand how ecotourism can benefit the economy, the people and the environment

Regional Kigio Conservancy, Kenya

Literacy focusKey terms: ecotourism, social, economic, environmental, reclaimed

ExplanationIndependent enquiry

Ppt


To write a report on the impact of mass tourism in Kenya – it’s positive and negative impacts. And the future of ecotourism.

Documents

Term 1 Risky World - Web viewLabelling and drawing diagrams Annotation. ... 3D Animation showing Formation of a Tsunami (clip), How the 2011 Japan tsunami happened (clip), Japan tsunami