3.2.1.2 Globalisation
Form and nature of economic, political, social and environmental interdependence in the contemporary world.

Factors in globalisation: the development of technologies, systems and relationships, including financial, transport, security, communications, management and information systems and trade agreements.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• what is meant by the terms ‘the global financial system and ‘containerisation.
• what are the most significant factors that have led to the development and spread of globalisation.
• how- these factors have contributed to the development and spread of globalisation.

Suggested timing
1 hour

3.1.1.3 The carbon cycle
Factors driving change in the magnitude of these stores over time and space, including flows and transfers at plant, sere and continental scales. Photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, combustion, carbon sequestration in oceans and sediments, weathering.

Learning outcomes

• Students to be able to describe and explain the processes involved in these transfers, including: burial, compaction, carbon sequestration and weathering.
• Students to understand how these link to wider geomorphological processes such as fluvial transport (and therefore the water cycle).
• Students to understand how the slow carbon interacts with the fast carbon cycle.

Suggested timing
1 hour

3.1.1.3 The carbon cycle
Changes in the carbon cycle over time, to include natural variation (including wildfires and volcanic activity) and human impact (including hydrocarbon fuel extraction and burning, farming practices, deforestation and land use changes).
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• How human activities have affected major stores of carbon.
• The reasons behind human activities that move carbon between stores.
• Where the most significant changes are occurring.

Suggested timing
2 hours