Age suitability: KS3 (age 11-14)
Type of activity: Lesson plans
Curriculum links:
- Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes and environments
- Understand how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems
- Understand the change in climate from the Ice Age to the present
- Develop geographical skills associated with the interpretation of OS maps and other thematic maps, and aerial and satellite photos
Resource contents:
- Teachers pack
- Three presentations
- Three worksheets
The landscape change resource is split into three lesson plans to help you teach your students about the physical and human causes of landscape change. The first lesson sets the scene by defining landscape and then considering – through a range of examples from the UK and around the world – the physical and human processes leading to landscape change. The second and third lessons focus on two detailed and contrasting UK case studies involving sustainable forest management. Thames Chase, located to the east of London, is an example of a community forest planted on a brownfield site. Ennerdale in the Lake District, formerly a large conifer plantation used for timber, is now managed as a wild land restoration project.
