3.1.3.2 Systems and processes
Sources of energy in coastal environments: winds, waves (constructive and destructive), currents and tides. Low energy and high energy coasts.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• The different sources of energy found in coastal environments.
• How wind impacts wave types and coastal processes.
• The differences between constructive and destructive waves.
• The different characteristics of low and high energy coasts.

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

This lesson will help students to understand:

• The way a distant place has been represented in media.
• Insider and outsider perspectives of their chosen distant place.
• How that place may be represented in artistic representations such as paintings, poetry or song.