Biomes

Overview

At the end of the year, we move to physical Geography and allow students to explore the various adaptations that plants and animals have to enable them to live in the desert. They also explore the features of a desert and are introduced to weathering, erosion and deposition. This links to physical processes in GCSE paper 1 when looking at coasts and rivers.

FBV: Individual liberty – This is taken away when deserts expand through desertification and farmland is removed from the rural poor.

Cultural Capital: They will be introduced to climate graphs which is a key skill in Geography. This will be built upon in year 8 in the climate topic. This is will give students the chance to study a biome that may be very different to one they may have experience or one that they currently live in.

UN Human Rights:

6 – life, survival, and development