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  • 6.6.2: Find Out About The Seaside (age 5-7)
  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • 6.6.4: Climate Change (age 7-11)
  • 6.6.5: Mountains and Coasts (age 7-11)
  • 6.6.6: Living in Contrasting Environments (age 7-11)
  • 6.6.7: Water: A Precious Resource (age 7-11)
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Geography

Mountains and Coasts (age 7-11)

This resource uses amazing BBC video and audio clips, images and interactive activities to look at some of the world’s highest peaks and most dramatic coastlines.

It enables you and your class to explore the key features found in these environments and to get to grips with aspects of the curriculum.

The ‘Writing focus’ features provide great opportunities for a range of written work around this topic, and there are cross-curricular links to history, science, art and design.

Topics/key questions covered include:

• How mountains influence the weather?
• Erosion and deposition at the coast
• Living and working in these contrasting environments
• Leisure activities from skiing to the history of the British seaside holiday

Contents:

Mountains

Unit 1: What is a mountain?

• What is a mountain?
• Mountains in the UK (1)
• Mountains in the UK (2)
• A mountain poem

Unit 2: How are mountains formed?

• How mountains are formed (1)
• How mountains are formed (2)
• Volcanoes: true or false?
• Writing focus: The day the volcano blew
• Where are mountains found?
• How mountains are shaped by ice
• A U-shaped valley: evidence from the past

Unit 3: Living and working in a mountain region

• The start of tourism
• Visiting the Alps: Chamonix
• The impact of tourists on Chamonix (1)
• The impact of tourists on Chamonix (2)
• An alpine farm
• Cheese-making in the Alps
• Living and working in the shadow of Mount Everest
• The impact of tourists on Tibet: a wall of litter
• Crossing mountain rivers
• Mountain animals
• The mountain code
• Mountain safety
• Writing focus: Mountain rescue
• Weather in a mountain region

Coasts

Unit 4: The power of the sea

• Writing focus: One night in the village of Hallsands
• High and Low tides
• November tide table for Pembrokeshire

Unit 5: Looking at the coast

• Deposition: Blakeney Point
• Protecting the coast: sea defences
• The sea in music and pictures
• Coastal wildlife

Unit 6: People who work on the coast

• Fishing on the coast
• Fish factory (1)
• Fish factory (2)
• The port of Rotterdam
• The story of Milford Haven

Unit 7: The seaside

• The seaside: yesterday and today
• Tenby: a seaside town
• Roquetas de Mar: another seaside town
• Two seaside towns: a weather comparison
• Writing focus: A sea poem
• The oil disaster at Milford Haven
• Other threats to the coast

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