• The concept of place and the importance of place in human life and experience.
• Factors contributing to the character of places.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• How we define ‘place identity.
• What elements make up place identity.
• How places can generate multiple identities.

Suggested timing
1 hour

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

3.1.1.2 The water cycle
Drainage basins as open systems - inputs and outputs, to include precipitation, evapotranspiration and runoff; stores and flows, to include interception, surface, soil water, groundwater and channel storage; stemflow, infiltration overland flow, and channel flow.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to describe and explain:

• The characteristics and inputs, stores, transfers and outputs of a drainage basin system: precipitation, interception store, throughfall, stemflow, infiltration, soil storage, vegetation storage, transpiration, infiltration, surface storage, evapotranspiration, overland flow/sheet flow, throughflow, percolation, groundwater store and flow, channel flow, and run off.
• The difference in scale between the global water cycle, drainage basin and hill slope, and that drainage basins vary hugely in scale.

Suggested timing
1 hour