Holderness: what happens when the land falls into the sea?
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- about 35 minutes
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Look at the photograph of a Holderness cliff. Why are cliffs like this so easily eroded?
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KS3 Coasts, lesson 9. A case study of the Holderness coast: why it erodes so fast, how to calculate and use an erosion rate, and the social, economic and environmental impacts on people.
16 slides.
Lesson outline
- Hook — How Long Does This Have?
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Keywords for This Lesson
- Teach — Where Is Holderness?
- Teach — Why Does Holderness Erode So Fast?
- Hinge Check — Why So Fast?
- I Do — An Erosion Rate for Mappleton
- We Do — When Will the Sea Reach the Farm?
- Teach — Defending One Place Can Speed Up Erosion Elsewhere
- Task — Sort the Impacts: Social, Economic or Environmental
- Teach — First Ideas: Responding to Erosion
- Self-Check — Explaining Two Impacts
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