adaptation. Opportunity for a group discussion and mind-mapping activity. Ask Develop a detailed understanding of two students to discuss the following recent tropical storms from contrasting areas terms in relation to managing storm of the world (to be chosen by individual hazards and to suggest examples students/schools). Students must be able to: of each: describe the spatial and temporal setting preparation of the tropical storms mitigation assess the perception of the tropical prevention storms, and the factors affecting those adaptation. perceptions at a range of scales eg, – magnitude, frequency, population Students to be given clear characteristics instructions and guidance about explain the causes of the tropical storms creating detailed case studies of explain and assess the impacts of the two recent tropical storms. tropical storms Students could be encouraged to explain, assess and justify the response to be creative in the method used to the tropical storms including the factors present their findings, but as a – affecting this response. guide it should include the information listed in previous column. 9–10 Fires in nature – Specification Subject Learning outcomes Suggested learning Resources content specific skills activities (including ref to development differentiation and extension activities) Nature of Use of key Understand that the nature of Opportunity for students to wildfires. subject specific wildfires is determined by the use textbook/internet Conditions and technical geographical characteristics of resources to ensure they favouring intense terminology. the area affected. have detailed to explain wild fires: the underlying causes of Opportunities to Explain the causes/conditions vegetation type, intense wildfires. develop skills leading to intense wildfires, to fuel spanning from March 2000 to January 2016 such as include: Opportunity for students to characteristics, drawing, vegetation type research the distribution of climate and labelling and fuel characteristics wildfires and annotate a recent weather annotating climate base map of the Earth and fire diagrams. recent weather accordingly. behaviour. fire behavior.
adaptation. Develop a detailed understanding of two recent tropical storms from contrasting areas of the world (to be chosen by individual students/schools). Students must be able to: describe the spatial and temporal setting of the tropical storms assess the perception of the tropical storms, and the factors affecting those perceptions at a range of scales – eg, magnitude, frequency, population characteristics explain the causes of the tropical storms explain and assess the impacts of the tropical storms explain, assess and justify the response to the tropical storms – including the factors affecting this response. Opportunity for a group discussion and mind-mapping activity. Ask students to discuss the following terms in relation to managing storm hazards and to suggest examples of each: preparation mitigation prevention adaptation. Students to be given clear instructions and guidance about creating detailed case studies of two recent tropical storms. Students could be encouraged to be creative in the method used to present their findings, but as a guide it should include the information listed in previous column. 9–10 – Fires in nature Specification content Subject specific skills development Learning outcomes Suggested learning activities (including ref to differentiation and extension activities) Resources Nature of wildfires. Conditions favouring intense wild fires: vegetation type, fuel characteristics, climate and recent weather and fire behaviour. Use of key subject specific and technical terminology. Opportunities to develop skills such as drawing, labelling and annotating diagrams. Understand that the nature of wildfires is determined by the geographical characteristics of the area affected. Explain the causes/conditions leading to intense wildfires, to include: vegetation type fuel characteristics climate recent weather fire behavior. Opportunity for students to use textbook/internet resources to ensure they have detailed to explain the underlying causes of intense wildfires. Opportunity for students to research the distribution of wildfires and annotate a base map of the Earth accordingly. spanning from March 2000 to January 2016
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