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aidansevers.com Assessment Can children give three ways that volcanoes can be useful to people living near them? Can the children go into more detail about one of the three ways? WEEK 5 Learning objective l Does the Earth’s movement cause any other natural disasters? Find key vocab for this week in the downloadable resources. Revisit work from lessons 1 and 3, reminding children of how and why tectonic plates move and where the plate boundaries are in the world. Extend this learning by explaining that movement at plate boundaries can cause plates to catch and stick, causing sudden movement, which is felt as an earthquake. Build a tower on one of two baking trays (or similar) to represent two tectonic plates; simulate the plates catching and sticking causing the tower to fall. Explain that underwater earthquakes can cause tsunamis. Watch video footage of earthquakes and tsunamis and their aftermath (like these fromBBC Newsround: tinyurl. com/tp-NewsroundEarthquake and tinyurl.com/tp-NewsroundTsunami ) . Discuss the impact of earthquakes and tsunamis based on what pupils have seen. Then share statistics about deaths and injuries in places where earthquakes and tsunamis ( slide 68 ) occur regularly. Linking back to learning in lesson 3 and using the same maps, explain that 90 per cent of earthquakes and 80 per cent of tsunamis happen within the Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire, and that such places can be described as having lots of seismic activity ( slide 71 ). Pose the question: If you lived in a place where earthquakes or tsunamis happen, what would you do? ( Slide 72 ) If children say that they would move away to somewhere safer, ask a further question: What if where you live now were a place with a lot of seismic activity ( slide 73 )? With reference to lesson 4’s work on the benefits of living near a volcano, and the fact that volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis occur in the same places, explore the social and economic reasons why people Aidan Severs is an education consultant with over 15 years of teaching experience. about how the Earth’s movement affects people’s lives. Provide themwith the full list of key vocabulary ( in downloads ) and the same blank diagrams used throughout the sequence so that they can use these in their work. You could suggest an oralpresentation, a piece of written text, a video or a page in the style of an illustrated non-fiction book – show some examples of these. Refer children to the success criteria and create checkpoints during the lesson to help them reflect on their work. Assessment Can children explain how the Earth’s movement positively and negatively affects people’s lives? TP F EATURE S P L ANN I NG @AidanSevers do not move away: they may not want to leave family, friends and homes, and moving is costly ( slide 74 ). Assessment Can children explain how earthquakes and tsunamis occur? Do they understand why people continue to live in dangerous places? (L5 download) WEEK 6 Learning objective l How does the Earth’s movement affect people’s lives? This lesson looks a little bit different from the others, because you will not teach the children any new information, instead giving them the time to draw together and summarise all their learning from the unit to answer the overarching question of the learning objective. Start with the low-stakes multiple choice quiz ( slides 77-93 ), giving children time to answer before going through the answers and having them correct any mistakes. Then, give them a choice of how they will present what they have learned @aidansevers.bsky.social www.teachwire.net | 25