3.1.1.6 Case Studies
Case study of a tropical rainforest setting to illustrate and analyse key themes in water and carbon cycles and their relationship to environmental change and human activity.

Learning outcomes
Students will be able to describe, explain and evaluate a number of themes relating to water and climate in the Indonesian tropical rainforest, including:

• How changes in the water and carbon cycles have changed the tropical rainforest environment.
• How human activity affects the tropical rainforest.
• How climate change affects the tropical rainforest.
• Students will be able to describe and evaluate a range of strategies employed in the Indonesian tropical rainforest to reduce the effects of climate change.

Suggested timing
3 hours

3.2.2.1 The nature and importance of places
Factors contributing to the character of places

3.2.2.2.1 Relationships and connections
How the demographic, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of places are shaped by shifting flows of people, resources, money and investment, and ideas at all scales, from local to global.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• What is meant by a ‘global sense of place.
• What is meant by the terms ‘placelessness, ‘homogenised places and ‘clone towns.
• What global factors are driving these changes.
• What the terms ‘globalisation and ‘glocalisation mean.

Suggested timing
2 hours

3.1.1.2 The water cycle
Changes in the water cycle over time to include natural variation including storm events, seasonal changes and human impact including farming practices, land use change and water abstraction.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• How human activities of deforestation, agriculture and soil drainage affect the water cycle.
• The reasons for these human activities.
• How each one affects stores and transfers within the water cycle at different scales.

Suggested timing
2 hours