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Module : Fantastic Places year 7 Lesson: 5 Title: Peacehaven and the Chalk Downs

NC/Agreed Syllabus Content (1a etc).: A study of place and what makes the landscape and habitats of Peacehaven unique and some of the processes which have formed the place. The interdependence within and ecosystem.Learning Objectives: (to understand, appreciate, know, find etc.)

1. To know what kind of rock chalk is and how it is formed.

2. To investigate how the Downs were made. 3. To appreciate some of the special features of the land

around Peacehaven

Habits of mindGathering data through all the senses:In this lesson we will often be using texture, sight and feeling to help us with the tasks set.

PLTS ObjectivesSelf managementI can take on new responsibilities and tasks, even when its something I haven’t done before.

Links to prior Learning:This lesson is designed so that students can learn about the fantastic landscape they live in and appreciate some of the things that make it special.

Keywords: ChalkSedimentaryFood chainFood webA list of keywords can be produced as the lesson progresses for the last lesson task.

Skills:Using fine motor skills to construct models.Using observation skills to classify.Using sequencing skills to consider the tophic levels and their interdependence.Literacy and creative skills in final task.

Learning Outcomes: (use, do, demonstrate, show, produce… etc)To produce a classification of biscuits as rocksTo create a model of the South DownsTo produce written responses to questions about the Chalk downs food webTo create a word and picture response to the landscape

LESSON OUTLINE (Including Differentiation; Assessment; Learning Styles) TIMEInitial taskThroughout the lesson it will be useful to list words which relate to chalk, Peacehaven and the Downs on a white board or smart board slide for the students to use in the plenary activity.Title and Lesson Objectives.Explain there are four main ways in which rocks are formed and ask the students if they can find the biscuit which best exemplifies each rock type.This is best done with real biscuits, with apologies to those with allergies and intolerances but paper copies are provided in their absence. DT

Write down key words learnt on the board or on a smartboard page together as a class.DSO

Second taskUsing the analogy of a sandwich the students will discover how the South Downs is formed. This is also done on the BBC DVD and this can compliment this activity.They make a paper sandwich cut out the middle from the top slice and then fold it upwards which will then show them the hole in the middle of the Downs which forms the weald.DT

Write down key words learnt on the board or on a smartboard page together as a class.DSO

Third taskGive out the food chain pictures one between two. As you go through the powerpoint ask

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students to hold up their cards if they have a producer, primary, secondary or tertiary consumer and finally a decomposer. For each category choose one student to come up to make a food chain. The neatest chain is Vetch – Caterpillar – skylark – kestrel or adder with a toadstool or worm as a decomposer.

Extra facts to tell them are that the main diet of foxes are actually earthworms and that red ants work symbiotically with chalk hill blue butterflies they protect the grubs and feed them in their burrows which in turn produce a sugary substances which the red ants feed their own young.

Fourth task (can be left out)Food web worksheet task

Write down key words learnt on the board or on a smartboard page together as a class.DSO

Final task Whilst listening to a song about the building of Peacehaven students can write the Downs by choosing a picture and writing as many words they can think of that relate to the chalk landscape and how they feel about it onto the pictures creatively. These can be printed as A3 so they can work in pairs and could be used for display. DR DSO

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ResourcesPptBiscuit/rock classification sheetBiscuits or pictures of biscuitsWhite and coloured paper for the task on making a sandwich to show the formation of the Downs.

NB ideally get a copy of the video The Great British Countryside BBC

MisconceptionsThat the chalk downs is a natural landscape. Without the grazing of sheep the landscape would be wooded.

Curriculum Links (literacy/numeracy/citizenship/ict)

Lesson Notes/EvaluationAlternative lesson on Birling Gap lighthouse by Alan Parkinson available in teachers toolkit with resources

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DifferentiationDT = Differentiation by TaskDR = Differentiation by ResourceDSO = Differentiation by Support and OrganisationDRE = Differentiation by ResponseDO = Differentiation by Outcome

AssessmentSF = Student FeedbackTO = Teacher ObservationPM = Peer MarkingSA = Self AssessmentTM = Teacher MarkingPr = PresentationFF = Formative Feedback

Learning StylesV= Visual learningA = Auditory learningK = Kinaesthetic learningL= Linguistic learning

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