Geography at key stage 3 (Year 7)

Unit 2: The restless earth - earthquakes and volcanoes

Objectives

Section 1: What do we already know about earthquakes and volcanoes?
Children should learn:

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

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Section 2: Where do earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
Children should learn:

to use an atlas
to research locations of earthquakes and volcanoes using the internet and CD-ROMs
to map the distribution of tectonic activity
introduce, develop and conclude pieces of writing appropriately

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Section 3: What are volcanoes?
Children should learn:

to use appropriate graphical techniques
to identify the characteristics of volcanoes and volcanic activity

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Section 4: What happens when a volcano erupts? Do volcanic eruptions have the same impact in different places?
Children should learn:

to use secondary sources of evidence including ICT
to construct a storyboard
to identify similarities and differences
to communicate accurately in ways appropriate to task and audience
to follow the sequence of actions, processes or ideas being described
to consider how environments in 'active zones' might be managed (higher-attaining pupils)

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Section 5: What happens in an earthquake?
Children should learn:

to observe and select appropriate vocabulary

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Section 6: How can language be used to evoke emotion?
Children should learn:

to use poetry/text to explore how victims of earthquakes might feel

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Section 7: What happened in the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan?
Children should learn:

to use secondary sources of evidence, including moving images
to use an atlas and maps at various scales
to use appropriate graphical techniques

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Section 8: How can people try to minimise the effects of earthquakes?
Children should learn:

to ask geographical questions
to investigate and use secondary sources of evidence
to use an atlas to locate places
to classify using criteria

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Section 9: Why do people choose to live in active zones?
Children should learn:

to use an atlas to locate information about population and active zones
to classify using criteria
to work collaboratively
to appreciate how people's values and attitudes affect issues

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Section 10: What is the role of aid agencies in LEDCs?
Children should learn:

to carry out geographical enquiry using ICT

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Sections in this unit

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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?