PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS
STUDENT/TEACHER GUIDE
GEOGRAPHY HIGHER
RURAL LAND RESOURCES
The content of this topic should be covered in approximately 18 lessons.
Homework :- Some of the tasks will be completed at home. There will be two set ink
exercises that should take around 60 minutes each to complete using the class notes
and textbooks.
CONTENT AND RESOURCES (#)
LESSON 1/2/3
Video of Loch Lomond.
Glaciated Upland Landforms.
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Looking at Landforms.
Picture sheets 1 and 2.
3 past paper question sheets.
Geography for GCSE Book 1.
Map Reading textbook p42.
Outline sketch map.
LESSON 4
National Parks.
Video on National Parks.
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CLASSWORK
Watch and make notes.
Tasks 1 to 9 on sheet(s).
Revise classwork.
Read through and
highlight key points
on information sheet.
Complete tasks on
video sheet.
Information sheets.
Video sheet + video 61.
LESSON 5
Rural Land Use –
needs + conflicts.
Lake District case study.
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Worksheet and information
sheet.
LESSON 6
Land use study 1 - Hill farming.
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British Isles (D Waugh)
p 22/3.
Land use study 2 - Cairngorm/
Ski-ing study.
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Applications text book
p 46 to 51.
HOMEWORK
Revise classwork.
Tasks 1 and 2.
Read through and
highlight key points
on information sheet. Revise classwork.
Tasks 1 and 2.
Tasks 8 to 11.
Revise classwork.
Ink exercise 1.
LESSON 7
Formation and features of
Upland Limestone.
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Atlas, Handouts 1 and 2,
Worksheet 1,
OHT sheets 1 and 2.
LESSON 8
Upland Limestone
map reading.
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Video K.
Map Reading textbook
pages 24 to 26.
Wells OS map/worksheet 3.
Outline sketch map 3.
OHT 3.
LESSON 9
Past paper questions.
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Revise classwork.
Tasks 1 to 10.
Watch video
and make notes.
Tasks 1 to 4.
Tasks 1 to 5.
Complete exercise
at home.
Lithosphere tasks
1 and 2.
Rural Land Resources
tasks 1 and 2.
1993/5/7/8 questions.
LESSON 10/11
Case study – Peak District
National Park.
Threats to the environment.
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Handouts 4,5,6,7.
Worksheets 5 and 6.
OHT 4.
British Isles (D Waugh)
pages 110/111.
LESSON 11/12
Case study – the Goyt Valley
Scheme.
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Video “Wish you weren’t
Here” no. O
Worksheet 7. OHT 5.
Handout 7.
LESSON 13
Introduction to coastal
erosion scenery.
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Tasks 1 to 5.
Information sheets.
Looking at Landforms p 80 – 85
Fabric of Geography p 53/4
Tasks 1 to 5.
Tasks 1 to 3.
Revise classwork.
Watch and make
notes on video.
Tasks 1 to 4 on
worksheet.
Revise classwork.
Complete tasks on
information sheets
pages 1 to 4.
LESSON 14
Introduction to coastal
deposition scenery.
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Looking at Landforms p 87
New Key Geography p 30/31
Key geography Book 1 p30/31
LESSON 15
OS Map Reading Exercises
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Complete tasks on
information sheets
pages 4 to 8.
Map Reading p 54
LESSON 16/17
Coastal management issues
Case Studies of conflicts
1. Machair
2. Carlyon Bay
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Work/information sheets
Video ‘Shrinking coasts’ no 30.
Machair power point
LESSON 18
Rural Land Use changes.
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Information booklet.
Handout on government
subsidies.
Newspaper articles.
Complete tasks in
information booklet
pages 9 and 10.
Video worksheet questions.
Complete tasks on worksheets.
Role Play.
Role play work
Complete tasks in
information booklet.
Revise classwork.
PHYSICAL APPLICATIONS
STUDENT/TEACHER GUIDE
GEOGRAPHY HIGHER
RURAL LAND DEGRADATION
The content of this topic should be covered in approximately 18 lessons.
Homework :- Some of the tasks will be completed at home. There will be two set ink
exercises that should take around 60 minutes each to complete using the class notes
and textbooks.
CONTENT AND RESOURCES (#)
CLASSWORK
HOMEWORK
LESSON 1
Land and water resources.
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Information sheet.
OHT.
Read and answer
all questions on
information sheet.
Revise classwork.
LESSON 2/3/4
Soil erosion and
conservation.
#
Information sheets.
Applications textbook
pages 60 to 69.
OHT.
LESSON 5
Desertification.
#
Information sheets.
Newspaper articles.
LESSON 6
West Africa – ‘Life on the Edge’
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Video no 35.
Information/worksheet.
LESSON 7
World water resources.
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Information/worksheet.
Video ‘World 2000 – Water’
Textbook page 63
questions 1 and 2,
and page 67
questions 3 and 4.
Read and answer
all questions on
information sheet.
Revise classwork.
Questions 5 to 8
page 69 of textbook.
Read information sheet
and complete tasks
1 to 11.
Revise classwork.
Video tasks 1 to 10.
Ink exercise 1.
Read and complete
tasks on worksheet.
Watch video and make
notes.
Revise classwork.
PHYSICAL APPLICATIONS
STUDENT/TEACHER GUIDE
GEOGRAPHY HIGHER
RURAL LAND DEGRADATION
CONTENT AND RESOURCES (#)
LESSON 8
Irrigation.
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Information sheet.
OHT.
Diagram sheet.
LESSON 9/10
The Aswan High Dam.
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Worksheet, atlas.
Video no. 11 instead
of textbook in task J.
Activity sheet.
LESSON 11/12
Case Study 1 –
The Sahel (Africa)
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Core Geography p88-95.
LESSON 13/14
Case study 2 The Great Plains
(North America)
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Core Geography p81-87.
Information sheets, map.
Video 91.
LESSON 15/16
Case Study 3 The Tennessee Valley
(North America)
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Core Geography p70-80.
Information sheets, OHT.
CLASSWORK
HOMEWORK
Read and highlight
important points on
information sheet.
Complete table.
Revise classwork.
Complete copy of
a ‘Model of an Integrated
Water Scheme’.
Complete tasks
A to J on worksheet.
Watch video on
El Tahir project.
Tasks 1 and 2 on
activity sheet.
Revise classwork.
Read pages 88 - 95
completing tasks 1 to 7.
Ink exercise 2.
Watch video ‘Where
the Buffalo roam’ –
make notes.
Read the extract
Revise classwork.
from ‘The Grapes
of Wrath’ highlighting
references to soil erosion.
Tasks 1 to 3 on p84.
Complete tasks 1 to 9
on information sheets.
Read pages 70 – 80
completing tasks 1 to8.
Revise classwork.
LESSON 17/18
Case study projects/solutions
- Livestock in Burkina Faso
- Integrated development in
Niger.
- Water storage and transfer
in Nigeria.
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Applications textbook pages
99 and 100.
Information/worksheet on
Nigeria.
Tasks 8 to 15 on
pages 99/100.
Complete information
sheet on Nigeria using
wordlist.
Revise classwork.