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How do waves work? Fetch, swash and tides

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KS3 Coasts, lesson 2. How wind and fetch create waves, the difference between constructive and destructive waves, and why tides and waves have different causes.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook — Waves Over the Wall
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — Fetch: the North Atlantic and the North Sea
  5. I Do — Measure the Fetch, Classify the Wave
  6. Teach — Constructive and Destructive Waves Compared
  7. Hinge Check — Why Do Some Coasts Get Bigger Waves?
  8. We Do — Classify Another Wave
  9. Task — Sort the Statements: Constructive or Destructive
  10. Teach — Tides and Waves: Two Different Causes
  11. Task — Swash, Backwash and the Type of Wave
  12. Task — Why Does Cornwall Get Bigger Waves Than Holderness?
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