3.1.1.2 The water cycle
Changes in the water cycle over time to include natural variation including storm events, seasonal changes and human impact including farming practices, land use change and water abstraction.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• How seasonal changes in different regions impact the inputs, stores, transfers and outputs in the water cycle.
• How floods and droughts affect water stores and transfers.

Suggested timing
1 hour

3.2.1.5.1 Antarctica as a global common
Threats to Antarctica arising from:

• climate change
• fishing and whaling
• the search for mineral resources
• tourism and scientific research.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• what the potential impacts of climate change might be for different parts of the continent.
• the impacts whaling and fishing are having in the waters off the coast of Antarctica.
• why mineral extraction may be a further future potential threat to Antarctica.
• the negative impacts of tourism and scientific exploration and how they are being mitigated against.

Suggested timing
2 hours

3.2.1.2 Global systems
Issues associated with interdependence including how unequal flows of people, money, ideas and technology within global systems can sometimes act to promote stability, growth and development but can also cause inequalities, conflicts and injustices for people and places.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• that unequal flows can result in inequalities both between countries and within countries.
• that globalisation can help to reduce inequalities between countries but can increase inequalities within countries.
• what the Gini Index is and how Lorenz Curves can be used to analyse economic inequalities within countries.-

Suggested timing
1 hour