Class Materials
S1 Timeline
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Course Information
Through the S1 Risky Places course pupils are given the opportunity to develop their understanding of what physical and human characteristics make a location risky. Pupils explore the world of risk from a personal scale to a global scale. In doing so they consider what areas of the world are most at risk from natural and human disasters, how the people is these areas are affected by the disasters and the possible ways to manage these risks? Pupils are given the opportunity investigate the tectonic processes which have formed and shaped the Earth’s surface. In doing so pupil explore, in detail, the risks created by Volcanoes and Earthquakes around the world and can explain the impact they have on both the people and the landscape.
RISKY PLACES
In the ‘Risky Places’ topic, pupils will explore the following themes:
- What is Risk and why are some places of the world classed as ‘risky’?
- The structure of the earth.
- Plate movements & continental drift.
- Volcanoes
- Earthquakes
- Case study of Haiti earthquakes
- Tsunamis
