What is the coast, and why is every coastline different?
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KS3 Coasts, lesson 1. The coastal zone, how rock type controls erosion speed, and a first comparison of two UK coastlines: Dover and Holderness.
16 slides.
Lesson outline
- Hook — A Road to Nowhere
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Keywords for This Lesson
- Teach — The Coastal Zone
- Three Different Coastlines
- I Do — Compare Dover and Holderness
- Hinge Check — Which Statement Is Correct?
- Teach — Rock Type Around the UK Coast
- We Do — Compare Land's End and Holderness
- Task — Sort the Rocks: Hard or Soft
- Task — Match Each Coastline to Its Rock Type
- Task — Write Two Comparison Sentences
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