3.1.1.6 Case studies
Case study of a river catchment(s) at a local scale to illustrate and analyse the key themes above, engage with field data and consider the impact of precipitation upon drainage basin stores and transfers and implications for sustainable water supply and/or flooding.

Learning outcomes
These lessons will help students to:

• Illustrate how the hydrological system affects channel flow, by identifying the stores and transfers in the catchment.
• Analyse the relationships between inputs and outputs in a local river; be able to link the catchment characteristics to flows of water.
• To understand implications for flooding on a local river, and how this can be managed, and/or explain how water is abstracted, and how this can be managed sustainably.

Suggested timing
2 hours

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
This lesson will help students to understand:

• How the biological carbon pump links the fast and slow carbon cycles via burial and compaction.
• How organic carbon becomes inorganic carbon.
• How carbon moves between the oceans and the atmosphere.
• How atmospheric and ocean temperatures are linked, and how ocean currents move carbon.

Suggested timing
1 hour

3.2.2.2.2 Meaning and representation

• Understand how external agencies, including government, corporate bodies and community or local groups, make attempts to influence or create specific place-meanings and thereby shape the actions and behaviours of individuals, groups, businesses and institutions.
• Understand how both past and present processes of development can be seen to influence the social and economic characteristics of places and so be implicit in present meanings.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• What is meant by regeneration and how this might be achieved through the processes of rebranding and re-imaging.
• How the regeneration process may not be in everyones best interests, and that there can be arguments both for and against regenerating places.
• What ‘flagship developments are and how they can form an important part of rebranding.
• An example of an urban rebranding scheme that has been implemented, why and how it was implemented and how successful it has been.

Suggested timing
1 hour