• near places and far places
• experienced places and media places.

3.2.2.2.2 Meaning and representation
The importance of the meanings and representations attached to places by people with a particular focus on people's lived experience of place in the past and at present.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• What place signifiers are and how we attach meaning to places.
• What the terms near places, far places, experienced places and media places mean.
• How media places can contrast from the lived reality of a place.

Suggested timing
1 hour

3.1.3.6 Case studies
Case study of a contrasting coastal landscape beyond the UK to illustrate and analyse how it presents risks and opportunities for human occupation and development and evaluate human responses of resilience, mitigation and adaptation.

This depends on the case-study chosen. For the Sundarbans case-study suggested below, there are clear links to storm hazards.

3.1.5 Hazards
3.1.5.5 Storm hazards
The nature of tropical storms and their underlying causes. Forms of storm hazard: high winds,
storm surges, coastal flooding, river flooding and landslides. Spatial distribution, magnitude,
frequency, regularity, predictability of hazard events.
Impacts: primary/secondary, environmental, social, economic, political. Short and long-term responses: risk management designed to reduce the impacts of the hazard through preparedness, mitigation, prevention and adaptation.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• The locational background to the case-study area.
• Coastal processes and the characteristics of the coastal landforms and landscape.
• The opportunities for human occupation and development.
• The challenges for human occupation and development.
• How humans can respond to the challenges, resilience, mitigation and adaptation.
• The future challenges and opportunities in the case-study area.

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