3.1.3.3 Coastal landscape development

• This content must include study of a variety of landscapes from beyond the United Kingdom (UK) but may also include UK examples.
• Eustatic, isostatic and tectonic sea level change: major changes in sea level in the last 10,000 years.
• Recent and predicted climatic change and potential impact on coasts.
• The relationship between process, time, landforms and landscapes in coastal settings.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• The reasons why sea-levels change - eustatic, isostatic and tectonic changes.
• How sea-levels have changed over the past 10,000 years.
• How climate change might affect sea-level in the future.

Suggested timing
1 hour

3.1.1.3 The carbon cycle
The carbon budget and the impact of the carbon cycle upon land, ocean and atmosphere, including global climate.
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• The concept of the carbon budget and how the Earth balances carbon transfers under natural conditions.
• How the carbon budget has been altered by human activities, leading to the enhanced greenhouse effect and climate change.
• How the changing carbon budget is impacting the atmosphere in terms of climate change and weather patterns.
• How climate change has different characteristics/outcomes in a range of locations around the world.

Suggested timing
1 hour

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 peoples lived experience of place in the past and at present:

• 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.
• How places may be represented in a variety of different forms such as advertising copy, tourist agency material, local art exhibitions in diverse media (eg film, photography, art, story, song etc) that often give contrasting images to that presented formally or statistically such as cartography and census data.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• The definitions of meaning, representation and perception of place and how these can relate to each other.
• How media can sometimes skew peoples perception of a place which may be far detached from the lived reality.
• What agents of change are and how they manage to change peoples perception of place.

Suggested timing
1 hour