Year 10/11 - Coasts Scheme of Work

Key Topic
Content/Skills

Extension/Homework

Guidance - Literacy/Numeracy

How the sea wears away

  • Features caused by erosion
  • How the sea transports
  • Features caused by deposition

How is the coast eroded? [GCSE Geog] p. 62/3
Qu. 1-3
How do waves wear away the land? [Key Geog} p.26 Qu.1-3 Summary

Video - Coastal Erosion

How does the sea transport material? [Key Geog] p. 28 Activity p.29 Summary

Video - Coastal Deposition

How do landforms result from deposition by the sea? [Key Geog] p. 30 Qu. 1&2 Summary

Video - The work of the sea

Sheet 2.1- Coastline erosion
Sheet 2.2- How does the sea transport material?
Sheet 16.5- Longshore drift
Sheet 2.2-Coastal spits
Sheet 5.2- Coastal landforms
Characteristics of destructive and constructive waves.
Processes of coastal erosion. Recognition of landforms of coastal erosion and formation of cliffs, wave-cut platforms, caves, arches and stacks.
Photo interpretation.
Video interpretation
Longshore drift and the movement of material.
The appearance and formation of spits.

Human Response

  • Case study
  • Coastal management
  • Case study - MEDC
  • Case study - LEDC
  • Coastal management

What are the causes, effects and human responses to cliff erosion? [Key Geog]p.32 Sheets 2.6a&b

Case study - The Yorkshire Coast [GCSE Geog] p. 70/3 Qu. 1-3 p. 71 Qu. 1-4
Activity sheet 5.4

The Yorkshire Coastline
Solving problems in coastal resorts - Blackpool[GCSE Geog. New Edition]p. 74 Qu. 1-4

What are the causes, effects and responses to coastal flooding in Britain?
[Key Geog]p. 34
Qu. 1&2 Summary

What are the causes, effects and responses to coastal flooding in Bangladesh?
[Key Geog]p. 36
Qu. 1&2 Summary

How is the Wessex coast managed? [Key Geog]p.40
Qu. 1&2 Summary

Sheet 2.3 - Coastal protection schemes

Sheet 5.5 - Mappleton

The need for management and the method used.
Cost and benefitr of different methods. Study of Yorkshire Coast in depth.

Reasons why coastal defences are needed.
Special study of the village of Mappleton.
Video interpretation.
Mapwork.
Photo interpretation.

Causes effects and responses to flooding in an LEDC and an MEDC.

Revision and Assessment Glossary of syllabus terms.
Revision guide for the student

Revision sheets

Past exam questions as test

Self - assessment sheets
Glossary & Key words
Past exam question practice.