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Headlands, bays, cliffs and wave-cut platforms

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KS3 Coasts, lesson 5. Differential erosion on a discordant coastline: how headlands and bays form at Swanage, and how a cliff retreats into a wave-cut platform, as seen at Robin Hood's Bay.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook — Not a Straight Line
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — A Discordant Coastline
  5. I Do — Headlands and Bays at Swanage
  6. Teach — From Notch to Platform
  7. Hinge Check — Erosion or Deposition?
  8. We Do — A New Pattern of Rock
  9. Task — Sort the Landforms: Erosional or Depositional
  10. Task — Order the Platform Stages
  11. Teach — A Real Wave-Cut Platform
  12. Task — Explain a New Coastline
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