Aims for today’s workshop

1. Refreshing your curriculum: the new KS3 Toolkits Garry Simmons Aims for today’s workshop • Provide you with an opportunity to reflect on your KS3 Geography curriculum. • To discover what’s in the new KS3 Geography teachers’ toolkits. • To consider which toolkits or aspects of them would be most useful to you. Please sit in groups of 3 or 4

2. The KS3 Geography teachers’ toolkits are aimed at: • Equipping Geography teachers with a wide range of ideas and resources. • Supporting teachers to meet the requirements of the 2008 and 2014 KS3 National Curriculum. • Presenting quality Geography to students • Being affordable at only £13.99 for GA members

3. Discussion • Which topics do you currently teach at KS3? • Which ones work well? • Which ones are tired and need replacing?

4. Each toolkit contains: • Ideas on how to teach the topic • A section to update your subject knowledge • Clearly identified concepts and curriculum links • A glossary of key terms • 10 detailed lesson plans with ready made resources online. • A wide range of student activities • Place based studies.

5. If you have a device please take some screenshots of the next few slides.

7. Ten lessons on India • Where is India? Physical and human geography. • India’s changing population and economy • Three diverse Indian physical environments • Increasing urbanisation and impacts on people • TNCs linking India to the world. Opportunities and challenges of TNCs. • Causes of Indian poverty. How fair trade can help. • Water management in the driest parts of India • Indian tourism: Advantages and disadvantages. How sustainable tourism can help. • What does the future hold for India? • Summing up. What do we know about India?

9. Ten lessons on rocks: • Urban geology trail. Which local rocks can be found in buildings in my town? • Main types of rocks. The rock cycle. • Where can fossils be found? Fossil formation. • The rocks of Britain. How rocks affect landscapes. • Distinctive rock types and landscape features in the Peak District. • How people use limestone and gritstone areas. • How weathering turns rock into soil. • Formation of soil. How soil affects farming. • Formation of oil and gas. Exploring for oil & gas. • How fracking works. The environmental cost.

11. Ten lessons on ice: • What ice landscapes look like. Where is the ice. • How ice destroys rock and moves across the land. • How ice shapes the Karakoram mountains. • What life is like in the Karakoram mountains. • The UK’s icy past. Changes to the landscape and wildlife. • Evidence of the UK’s ice age. • How glaciation affects the UK today. Comparing the impact of ice in the UK and Karakoram. • How are icebergs formed? Special Greenland! • The importance of Artic Ice. Who owns the Arctic. • How climate change affects glaciers. What would happen if all the ice melted?

13. Ten lessons on resources • What is a resource? What types of resources exist? • Sustainable and unsustainable use of resources. • How sustainable is electricity generation? • European and UK energy (oil) reliance on Russia. • Tuna as a marine resource. • How sustainable is tuna? Banning tuna fishing? • Diamonds. How are they formed, produced and consumed? • Sierra Leone and the diamond resource curse. • Future population change and resources. • Can the Earth meet our future resource needs?

14. Going to Extremes What makes weather and climate so extreme? (forthcoming 2016)

15. Ten lessons on weather and climate • What is a weather? Reading weather forecasts. • Recording a weather diary. • What is extreme weather and climate? • Atlantic storms in Scotland: causes & impacts. • Dust storm in Iraq: causes & impacts. • Tornadoes in the USA: impacts & responses. • Coldest town: Oymyakon, Russia* • Wettest place: Mawsynram, India* • Hottest place: Danakil Depression, Ethiopia* • Summing up. What makes weather and climate so extreme? *includes climate factors and the impact on daily life

16. Discussion • Which toolkits would you consider using in your existing curriculum? • Would you use an entire toolkit or just a lesson? If so, which lessons? • Use the photos on your devices to help you.

17. Discussion • What could be some challenges of using these toolkits?

18. Discussion • What could be some challenges of using these toolkits? • Did you include these? How could you overcome these? • Not all the lessons may grab you or your students? • Tricky to fit a lesson into one lesson? • Too many activity and information sheets? • Might need to include more assessment in line with your school policy?

19. Toolkit taster 1 - Dust Storms : • Watch Richard Hammond wild weather • Play the ping pong and tennis ball simulation • Show the card sorting exercise

21. Toolkit taster 2 – Coldest town • Watch video clips • Run Quiz

22. Coldest Town on Earth Oymyakon, Siberia, Eastern Russia

23. Video clips – Extreme cold Clip 1 From 8:06 to 11:26 Clip 2 13:25 to 0:39

24. True or False? • Choose whether the following statements are true or false: • You can’t bury people because graves rise out of the ground! • Instead of temperatures decreasing with altitude the temperature rises the higher you get. • Residents eat a balanced diet of meat, carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables. • Students get the day off school if the temperature falls below -30⁰ Celsius

25. Are you ready for the answers?

26. You can’t bury people because graves rise out of the ground! – TRUE! The soil is permanently frozen and any buried objects are squeezed out of it! This is called frost-heave. This diagram shows how the soil expands as it freezes and how it pushes object upwards. Frost-heave naturally creates small hills called pingos!

27. Instead of temperatures decreasing with altitude the temperature rises the higher you get. TRUE! Oymyakon is in a valley. Cold, heavy air, sinks down to the valley bottom where the town is. This is called a ‘temperature inversion’.

28. Residents eat a balanced diet of meat, carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables. FALSE! Most people rely heavily on meat as a source of protein and fat to provide energy for cold winter days. Horse meat is the main meat eaten!

29. Students get the day off school if the temperature falls below -30⁰ Celsius FALSE! Students get the day off school only if the temperature falls below -56⁰ Celsius!!