| S3 Human Science |
Last update -
02 January 2021 |
Official European
School Human Science Years 1-3 Syllabus:
English,
French,
German. |
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Unit 2 - Geography - The Mediterranean Region -
The Restless Earth |
| Subject Content |
Lessons |
Additional resources and external links |
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The Restless Earth
Plate boundaries and the location of volcanoes
and earthquakes in the Mediterranean. Study of one volcano (e.g.
Etna) and one recent earthquake
Key Words
Plate boundary, magma, lava, volcano, eruption, earthquake,
Richter scale.
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| See the official s3
textbook for the Mediterranean World on Geography. |
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Restless Earth 1 -
cross section of the Earth.
PDF.
Video
explaining the structure of the earth and plate tectonic theory.
Excellent animations and explanations from
Interactives - Dynamic Earth.
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Video - Liz Bonnin explains the Earth's inner structure
using a plum to show the different layers inside our planet.
Video BBC Earth Physical - Includes a series of videos about
physical geographical features including plates.
Perhaps the most entertaining and CGI
impressive videos are Richard Hammond's Journey to the centre of
the
planet
and Journey to the bottom of the
ocean.
Is a new tectonic plate being created?
BBC News September 2012. |
| Restless Earth 2 - plate tectonics.
PDF.
Pangea cutouts activity and
blank maps for drawing in plate boundaries.
BBC Bitesize
introduction, activity and test on plate tectonics. |
BBC
school
animations explaining plate tectonics and this BBC
special on
plate tectonics. BBC
video on Pangea
Video - Iain Stewart visits the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in
Thingvellir, Iceland, a place where it's possible to see the
divide between two of the Earth's plates on land. See
complete video. |
| Restless Earth 3 - origins of the Mediterranean
PDF
Extract from BBC documentary
The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Man.
This short
video clip of how
the Himalayas were formed gives a good idea about what might
happen to the Mediterranean in future. |
Video on the
origins of the Mediterranean.
BBC article on recent findings.
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David
Attenborough's fantastic history-geography documentary
series of the Mediterranean - The
First Eden. An
excellent way to improve your English |
Iain Stewart explains the geological history of the
Mediterranean. (Video)
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| Restless Earth 4 - Etna: a case study
PDF
Dr Iain Stewart
video on volcanoes
as seen in the lesson. See
complete video.
BBC Bitesize
introduction, activity and test on volcanoes. |
BBC
animation explaining how volcanoes are formed. (Full
screen) A selection
of
videos from the BBC
and National Geographic and recent film of Etna from Euronews.
Video - David Attenborough on lava. See the BBC for the
latest on
Etna.
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| Restless Earth 5 - earthquakes
PDF
Images
of the effects of earthquakes
BBC Bitesize
introduction, activity and test on volcanoes. |
National Geographic introductory
video about
earthquakes. BBC
animation explaining how earthquakes happen. (Full
screen)
Various
videos on the
effects of earthquakes.
How a
seismograph works.
Interactivities - Dynamic Earth on earthquakes.
PBS website lets you move your own plate boundaries.
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| Restless Earth 6 - Izmit: a case study
PDF and tectonic plates blank map
PDF. |
BBC
video on a future
earthquake in Turkey.
Turkish earthquake 23 October 2011
Will we ever be able to predict earthquakes?
BBC investigation.
Recent 2014
research suggests
yes! |
| Restless Earth 7 - earthquake research fact
file
Word doc.
BBC Bitesize
introduction, activity and test on plate tectonics. |
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Restless Earth -
revision
quiz |
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