Rocks and the shape of Britain: upland and lowland
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Which part of Britain is mostly upland?
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Find out where the high and low land of Britain is, how the type of rock helps to explain it, and why people use mountains and plains in different ways.
14 slides.
Lesson outline
- Hook
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Keywords for This Lesson
- Relief map of Britain: upland and lowland
- Rock map of Britain: older, harder rock and younger, softer rock
- I Do
- Hinge Check
- We Do
- Task — Land uses: upland or lowland?
- Task — Describe and explain the pattern
- Self-Check
- Homework
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