Geography at key stage 3 (Year 7)

Unit 2: The restless earth - earthquakes and volcanoes
Section 1: What do we already know about earthquakes and volcanoes?

Objectives

Children should learn:

to classify using criteria
to share what they know about earthquakes and volcanoes

Activities		Outcomes
		Children:
Ask pupils to brainstorm a response to the enquiry question. Classify pupil responses by grouping/linking, eg volcanic eruption or earthquake, cause/effect, named case study. Ask pupils what criteria they used for classification.		classify and link information display existing knowledge about earthquakes and volcanoes

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	1. What do we already know about earthquakes and volcanoes?
	2. Where do earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
	3. What are volcanoes?
	4. What happens when a volcano erupts? Do volcanic eruptions have the same impact in different places?
	5. What happens in an earthquake?
	6. How can language be used to evoke emotion?
	7. What happened in the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan?
	8. How can people try to minimise the effects of earthquakes?
	9. Why do people choose to live in active zones?
	10. What is the role of aid agencies in LEDCs?

Geography at key stage 3 (Year 7)

Objectives

Activities

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