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.
• The characteristics and impacts of external forces operating at different scales from local to global, including either government policies or the decisions of transnational corporations or the impacts of international or global institutions.

• How past and present connections, within and beyond localities, shape places and embed them in the regional, national, international and global scales.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• What is meant by the term ‘localisation of place.
• What it means to ‘belong in the context of place, and what factors affect an individuals sense of belonging to a place.
• How places can promote physical and mental well-being.
• What the features and characteristics are of a ‘great place.

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:

• How climate change is impacting the oceans at different scales and in different regions.
• How climate change is impacting the land and the lives of coastal communities in different areas of the world.

Suggested timing
1 hour

3.1.3.2 Systems and processes

• Geomorphological processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transportation and deposition.
• Distinctively coastal processes: marine: erosion - hydraulic action, wave quarrying, corrasion/abrasion, cavitation, solution, attrition; transportation: traction, suspension (longshore/littoral drift) and deposition; sub-aerial weathering, mass movement and runoff.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• How weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition processes form coastal landscapes.
• Different types of mass movement occur in coastal environments, changing the coastal landscape.
• How geomorphological processes work together to form coastal landscapes.
• Distinctive marine processes form coastal landscapes.
• Coastal landscapes are dynamic due to marine processes.

Suggested timing
2 hours