Year 8 work pages

Week by week work

8-1 Coasts

References in geog.2

Coastal environments

1.1. Off to the coast 

1.2 Waves and tides

pages 4-5

pages 6-7

Cliff and headland erosion.

1.3 The waves at work

1.4 Landforms created by the waves

pages  8-9

pages 10-11

Longshore drift

1.3 The waves at work

1.4 Landforms created by the waves

pages  8-9

pages 10-11

The Purbeck coastline

1.5 Along the Dorset coast

1.6 How we use our coastal areas

pages 12-13

pages 14-15

Cliff failure and protection

1.7 Cliff collapse!

pages 16-17

case study: The Holderness coast

1.8 Waving goodbye to the Holderness coast

pages 18-19

The threat from the sea

1.9 Help! We're going under ...

pages 20-21

end-of-unit test

Revision, test and debrief.

 

8-2 Weather

Weather and climate 1

2.1 What is weather?

2.7 From weather to climate

pages 22-23

pages 34-35

Measuring the weather 2

2.2 Measuring the weather

pages 24-25

Types of rainfall 3

2.3 Clouds and rain

pages 26-27

Air pressure and air masses - fronts 4

2.4 Air pressure and weather

2.5 Sudden changes in the weather

pages28-29

pages 30-31

Weather Web Pages 5

   

Hurricanes  6

Hurricane Michelle

 

Satellites and forecasting 7

 

2.6 Getting the weather picture

pages 32-33

 

Climates and people 8

2.8 The factors that influence climate

2.9 Climate across Europe

2.10 How climate affects our lives

pages 36-37

pages 38-39

pages 40-41

 

end-of-unit test

Revision, test and debrief.

 

 

8-3 Ecosystems

 

 

 

Ecosystem Food Webs

3.1 What is an ecosystem?

3.2 Feeding in an ecosystem

3.3 Where do human fit in?

pages 42-43

pages 44-45

pages46-47

Rainforests

3.4 The Earth's main ecosystems

3.5 The tropical rain forests

3.6 What are we doing to the rainforests?

pages 48-49

pages 50-51

pages 52-53

 

Savannas

3.7 The savanna

3.8 Farming in the fragile savanna

3.9 The Machakos miracle

pages 54-55

pages 56-57

pages 58-59

end-of-unit test

Revision, test and debrief.

 
     

8-4 Population and Resources

 

 

 

Population

4.1 People everywhere

4.2 So where is everyone?

pages 60-61

pages 62-63

Resources

4.3 Resources

4.4 The trouble with resources

pages 64-65

pages 66-67

 

8-5 Energy: a key resource

 

Energy sources

5.1 Fuel - just a store of energy

5.2 Bringing you electricity

pages 68-69

pages 70-71

Fossil fuels

5.3 Why are the fossil fuels so important?

5.4 Lucky Strike

pages 72-73

pages 74-75

Global warming

5.5 The trouble with fossil fuels

5.6 Global warming

pages 76-77

pages 78-79

Renewable energy

5.7 Green electricity

5.8 Is solar power the answer?

pages 80-81

pages 82-83

 

Solar energy

5.9 Going solar in Gosaba

pages 84-85

end-of-unit test

Revision, test and debrief.

 
 

 

 

 

6.1 A crime story

6.2 different types of crime

pages 86-87

pages 88-89

 

6.3 Criminal geography!

6.4 Mapping crime

6.5 The fight against crime

pages 90-91

pages 92-93

pages 94-95

 

6.6 The heroin trail

pages 96-97

end-of-unit test

Revision, test and debrief.

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

8-6 Crime

 

pages 86-97

Types of crime

Crime patterns

The heroin trail

Resources available for crime:

The heroin trail - lesson plan

     

8-7 Oi! Brazil

 

pages 98-119

Brazil - people and land

Brazil - population

Brazil - development

Brazil - regions

Brazil - futures

Resources available for Brazil:

 

Rainforest cards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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