3.1.1.2 The water cycle
Processes driving change in the magnitude of these stores over time and space, including flows and transfers: evaporation, condensation, cloud formation, causes of precipitation and cryospheric processes - at hill slope, drainage basin and global scales with reference to varying timescales involved.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• That on Earth water exists in three forms: solid ice, liquid water and gaseous water vapor, and identify the factors that move water between these different states and stores.
• The idea of latent heat and energy in the context of evaporation and condensation, and how they relate to major atmospheric processes like cloud formation and precipitation.
• Different forms of precipitation in the UK and other areas of the world, such as the tropics.
• Cryospheric processes: concept of glacial and interglacial periods and the impact on the cryosphere.
• That the water cycle operates at different scales.

Suggested timing
2 hours

3.2.1.1 Globalisation
Dimensions of globalisation: flows of capital, labour, products, services and information; global marketing; patterns of production, distribution and consumption.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• what is meant by the concept of a flow in the context of globalisation.
• what international capital flows are.
• how international flows can be of capital, labour, products, services and information.

Suggested timing
1 hour

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