KS3 Geography - Volcanoes
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Original “The Classroom” concept developed by Schools OUT UK
VOLCANOES
Subject: Geography Key Stage 3
Helping you to deliver an LGBT+ INCLUSIVE CURRICULUM
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KS3 Geography
• Understand, through the use of detailed place-based exemplars at a variety of scales, the key processes in:
o Physical geography relating to: geological timescales and plate tectonics. o Human geography relating to: population and urbanisation.
Students can:
• Label the parts of a volcano. • Describe the different ways volcanoes are formed. • Explain what happened in Pompeii in 79AD.
Supplied:
• PowerPoint • Easier worksheets on slides 5, 6, 13 & 17 • Harder worksheets on slides 5, 14 & 18
1. Read the lesson plan and PowerPoint to familiarise yourself with the activities. 2. Print the worksheets from the PowerPoint slides, as necessary for your class. 3. The lesson assumes some prior knowledge on plate tectonics.
Aims
Resources
Preparation
Learning Intentions
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Time Slide(s) Activity Method
5 mins
4-7
Starter
Using the worksheet on slide 5: Easier: Use the keywords help sheet to label the layers of the Earth (use the help sheet on slide 6 also) Harder: Label the layers of the Earth Hardest: Label the layers with their name and state of matter Answers on slide 7.
3 mins 8 Learning Intentions
Opportunity to share the learning intentions, date and title.
2 mins 9
Big Picture
Share with your students an image of an erupting volcano. What? How? Why? (The Big Picture links lesson content to the real world and events happening outside of school. It acts as a point of interest to inspire conversations and engage students.)
5 mins 10-11 New Material
Share with your students a world map that includes plate boundaries and the locations of known volcanoes. Tell your students that the Earth’s mantle is like a jigsaw made up of tectonic plates. Ask them if they notice anything about where volcanoes are found.
10 mins 12-15 New Material
Share with your students the following: Volcanoes are formed when magma from the Earth’s mantle works its way to the surface. This happens at the boundary between two different plates (where two plates meet). There are two different type of plate boundary where volcanoes are formed:
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1. Destructive plate boundaries 2. Constructive plate boundaries
Easier: Complete the sheet by filling in the gaps (slide 13) Harder: Use the images to describe what is happening (slide 14) Answers on slide 15.
10 mins 16-19 Review and Reflect This task uses the easier worksheet on slide 17 and the harder worksheet on slide 18. Ask your students to use the information given about the different parts of a volcano to label the diagram. Answers on slide 19.
5 mins 20-21 Deepen Your Understanding
Share with your students that in 79AD Mount Vesuvius erupted in the Roman city of Pompeii and then watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZ4aSKT3mo Easier: What happened when the volcano erupted? Harder: How did the eruption affect the people of Pompeii? Hardest: How might the eruption have affected people outside of Pompeii? Suggested answers on slide 21.
10 mins 22-25 Pair/Share How can we know this happened when it was over 2000 years ago? Suggested answer: Pompeii was mostly untouched until 1748. A group of explorers looking for ancient artifacts began to dig. Beneath the dust, Pompeii was almost exactly as it had been almost 2000 years before. Skeletons were found surrounded by empty space in the compacted ash. By carefully pouring plaster into the empty spaces, we could see the final poses and faces of the last people of Pompeii. Families were found together. Share with your students the image on slide 24. DNA evidence shows these men huddled together are not related. Many believe the men were lovers who spent their last moments together. When they were found in 1914 they
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were believed to be women as they were wearing rings on their fingers, and it was believed two people seeking comfort was feminine. ASK: Should wearing rings and comforting someone be seen as something only girls and women do?
10 mins
26 Review and Reflect Share with your students that newsreaders read from a script on a teleprompter. Ask them to write a script for a newsreader that answers the Big Picture question (What? How? Why?) about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
