Students create their own diorama of a biome of their choice including research of the biome, threats, location, size, fauna and flora. Excellent for transition days or introduction to multiple biomes.
SOW for year 7 topic of the big question “what lies beneath” including 10 lessons, mid-way check and end of topic assessment.
L1 - Your rocky home
L2 - British Isles on its travels
L3 - Layers of the earth
L4 - importance of soil
L5 - what is desertification
L6- - Great Green Wall
L7 - Green Wall Evaluation
L8 - What is the Ogallala?
L9 - what is the nutrient cycle?
L10 - Assessment
L11 - Feedback
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10 lesson SOW for Russia including biome location, distribution, characteristics and also including human geography of the war in Ukraine and LGBTQ+ equality.
Introducing Russia location
Russia climate and biomes
Russia history
War in Ukraine
Superpower nations
Gazprom
Chernobyl
Russia Equality
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Excellently made knowledge booklet covering atmospheric circulation, air pressure, extreme weather events case studies (Drought, hurricanes and UK storms e.g. Storm Desmond 2015) Climate change influencing rate of extreme weathers.
content covered
how is weather hazardous?
Air pressure
Relationship between global circulation and climate zones
Climate zone map
Extreme weather conditions
El Nino and La Nina
Tropical storm formation, distribution
Storm Desmond 2015 case study
Typhoon Haiyan Case study
Can climate change change extreme weather events
Droughts what, where when?
UK heatwave 2018 case study
Australia drought 2005-2009
convection currents
layers of the earth characteristics
plate boundaries
what happens when plate boundaries meet? (4 types)
plate movement causing earthquakes
how are earthquakes measured/
volcanic activity
how plate tectonics shape the world
Iceland 2010 case study
including QR codes for all pages for additional learning.
Excellent resource for independent learning, lesson support, absence support and knowledge organiser.
Entire SOW covering year 8 BQ what are the threats to the biosphere? lessons cover
what are biomes
biome distribution
ecoloigcal hotspot - Africa
ecological hotspot - China
threats to the biosphere
evaluating REDD strategies
conversation in actions
conservation decision making exercise
rural diversification
rewilding - Yellowstone case study
National Parks
Assessment - Oracy based
All fully planned and resourced lessons which can be taught immediately. including reading for meaning, oracy, group work, independent research tasks and a well-structured assessment format.
Full file size is 580mb