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This unit focuses on flood hazards. Pupils consider the effects of flooding and how people deal with them. They compare the impact of flooding in a UK location with the impact of a similar flood in Bangladesh. They then broaden their study to look at how people respond to other natural disasters, such as earthquakes, forest fires and hurricanes.
Pupils do not learn about how valleys are formed; this is covered in unit 7 'Rivers - a fieldwork approach'. (If teachers wish to include this work, adjustments must be made in relation to expectations of pupils' geographical knowledge and understanding and their levels of literacy and numeracy so that they are appropriate for year 7, rather than year 8.) The unit encourages pupils to use and apply what they already know, to practise skills of classifying and comparing, and to consider value-laden questions about the effects of floods, thus developing their thinking skills.
This unit is expected to take 8-11 hours.
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