1. Lesson Plan
Year 7 – Windfarm Development
Aims / Objectives Activities Resources Outcomes
Starter (5”)
Changes
Introduce the idea of
landscape change
Image interpretation and
discussion of potential
changes
Images on PPT Identify possible changes in
the landscape.
Imaginative / possible
changes to a rural landscape.
Changing Landscapes
Change for the better or for
the worse?
Magic Spectacles
Look at the view again,
through fresh eyes. What
new things do you now
‘see’?
Images on PPT
Magic Spectacle cards
Understand that different
people have different views
on landscapes.
Geography gives you a way
of looking at the landscape.
Changing landscapes
Appreciating changes are of
different scales of impact
and time
Continuum – placing
changes and explaining
reasons for placement –
individual reasons
Continuum sheet
Changes on PPT
Personal views on the impact
of changes which happen in
many local landscapes.
Where did they place wind
farms on continuum
Wind farms
Introduction to wind farms
Discusssion Which way does your
turbine blow…
Active – decision made and
acted out with arms spinning
a particular way
PMI of Wind Farms Notes and discussion Plus, Minus and Interesting
sheet plus information
sheets from ‘Look at it this
Way’
Further research, possibly
changing opinions that were
originally held…
Literacy development Letter to Ely Standard Letter starter
Sentence starters…
Vocabulary /connectives
sheet
Literacy -
Format adapted from resource that I wrote for Digital Explorer on sustainable
fishing
Also requires Magic Spectacle cards which are available as part of the KS3
Toolkit book ‘Look at it this Way’, published by the Geographical Association