Download Oak Spring year bAngry Earth OVERVIEW

Unit:
Angry Earth
Term:
Spring 3
Unit Overview
This is a geography based Unit of work, and the launch lesson will focus on the Earth’s crust and the creation of volcanoes and earthquakes; types of volcanoes; and
the dramatic and explosive physical effects of volcanic eruptions.
Pupils will then study the distribution of volcanoes and earthquake zones around the world before making their own erupting model of a volcano. They will also
explore the human impact of volcanic activity and the reasons why people choose to live near volcanoes. The main focus for this Unit will be the eruption of Vesuvius.
One of the most catastrophic and famous eruptions in European history, the Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD will provide the stimulus for many of the lessons in this Unit.
Pupils will apply their knowledge of previous studies of Roman Britain and explore the evidence that remains, after the dramatic and devastating eruption of
Vesuvius, to understand more about life in the city of Pompeii. They will also examine the letters of Pliny the Younger as preparation for writing their own eyewitness
accounts of the events leading up to and following the eruption of Vesuvius.
In their English work, pupils will use the eruption of Vesuvius as the focus for a dramatic performance. They will plan and write a script for a short play portraying
family life and events in Pompeii just before the volcano erupted and ending with their attempted flight from the lava flows with options to use masks and fabric for
theatrical effect. For the performance, they could also use a recording of sound effects and a composition they have prepared in music.
Volcanoes will also be the focus for poetry work. Pupils will study poems on volcanoes and explore personification, in preparation for composing their own poems on
volcanoes and the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius. They will also be using information from their work in geography to prepare for a role-play, where pupils will act in role
as members of families who are making a decision about settling in an area near to a live volcano.
In their art and design work, pupils will be looking at famous paintings of volcanoes and the physical structure of volcanoes, before trying out the sgraffito technique
and then creating a class collage with images of volcanoes. Music will provide an opportunity to listen to and evaluate pieces that create a dramatic effect and pupils
will then prepare suitable sound effects and compose music for their dramatic performance at the end of the Unit. Pupils could have the opportunity to make masks
in small groups if there was an opportunity and interest to add this to their performance work.
In computing the pupils will identify currently erupting volcanoes using the internet and research data on volcanic eruptions in the past and the threat of likely future
eruptions. Finally they will create a poster that effectively warns people about the volcano in their vicinity.
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Links
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Pupils will study the creation of volcanoes and
earthquakes, the types of volcanoes, and the
dramatic and explosive physical effects of volcanic
eruptions. They will look at the distribution of
volcanoes and earthquake zones around the world
before making their own erupting model of a
volcano. They will also explore the human impact
of volcanic activity and the reasons why people
choose to live near volcanoes.
This will be a feature of the main focus for this Unit,
which will be the eruption of Vesuvius. One of the most
catastrophic and famous eruptions in European history,
the Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD will provide the stimulus
for many of the lessons in this Unit.
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Outdoor Learning
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National and International links
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Pupils will explore the location of volcanoes and earthquake zones around the world
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They will also investigate the impact of volcanoes in different parts of the world as well as
studying the effect of living in the shadow of Vesuvius now and in the past
Pupils will explore the evidence that remains, after the
dramatic and devastating eruption of Vesuvius, to
understand more about life in the city of Pompeii. They
will also write their own eye-witness accounts of the
events leading up to and following the eruption of
Vesuvius.
Pupils will use the eruption of Vesuvius as the focus for
a dramatic performance. They will plan and write a
script for a short play portraying family life and events in
Pompeii. For the performance, they will also use a
recording of sound effects and a composition they have
prepared in music.
Volcanoes will also be the focus for poetry work and
pupils will act in role as members of families who are
making a decision about settling in an area near to a live
volcano.
In their art and design work, pupils will be looking at
famous paintings of volcanoes and the physical
structure of volcanoes, before creating their own
artwork.
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The school grounds will need to be used for pupils to witness the simulation of an erupting
volcano
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Links to the world of work
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The work of archaeologists, volcanologists and scientists will be referred to in this Unit.
Links to learning and life skills
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Showing sensitivity to others
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Know that feelings can influence behaviour and understand why some feelings sometimes
‘take over’
Summaries
History
Art and Design
• Learn the sgraffito technique with
oil pastels and acrylic paints.
• Analyse volcano images by
famous artists.
• Create a large class collage.
English
• Explore the fear felt by people living near volcanoes
• Role play a scenario of a family deciding whether to live
near a volcano.
• Compile a set of Q&As on volcanoes.
• Explore the use of masks in drama.
• Plan and write a play on the ‘Last Day of Pompeii’ using
naturalistic and non-naturalistic techniques of theatre.
• Explore the use of imagery in poetry.
• Write poems on volcanoes and the eruption of Vesuvius.
• Write a letter to parents inviting them to the Unit conclusion.
Languages
• In this Unit pupils meet Michelle Manaudou the French
Volcanologist and travel with her to La Réunion.
• Pupils will look at the deadliest volcanic eruptions and
when they occurred and practise our numbers and
dates.
• Revise the verb ‘avoir’ and learn about personal
pronouns.
• Hear about Michelle’s friend Paul’s visit to Italy and
begin to learn how to form the past tense in French,
finishing with creating a holiday diary for Paul.
Applied Maths
• Solve problems using data
from volcanic eruptions.
• Estimate the volume of a
volcano.
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Impact of the Vesuvius eruption.
Evidence of the eruption.
An eye-witness account.
Evidence from Pompeii.
Family life in a Roman city.
Roman houses.
Computing
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Music
• Listen to and comment upon Stravinsky’s ‘Rite
of Spring’.
• Use notes from the pentatonic scale to make
improvised melodies.
• Play instruments to create a phased / layered
atmospheric piece of music.
• Perform within an ensemble and lead a group.
• Play musical instruments in a controlled and
expressive way.
• Identify currently erupting volcanoes using the
internet.
• Suggest pros and cons of tracking volcanic activity.
• Collect information about a variety of volcanoes.
• Use data to compare eruptions and write statements
to make predictions about eruptions.
• Assign a threat level to a volcano based on data.
• Create a poster that warns people about a volcano.
Geography
• Levels and types of volcanic eruptions.
• Benefits of living near volcanoes.
• Tectonic plates and formation of
volcanoes.
• The location of volcanoes and earthquake
zone.
• Making a model of a volcano and
simulating an eruption.
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Resources
Geography
Music
• Volcano videos www.twig-prep.com/mind-map/917/volcanoes/
• Video on tectonic plates
http://education.nationalgeographic.co.uk/education/media/platetectonics/?ar_a=1
• Atlases and outline map of the world
• Internet and/or reference books on volcanoes
• Cardboard and papier mâché material
• Small lemonade bottles
• Tin foil/paint/brushes/red food colouring
• Mentos/lollipop sticks/string/sticky tape
• Selection of percussion including lots of pitched instruments xylophones,chime bars etc
• Pupils own instruments
• Volcano KML file (included in the resource pack)
• Google Earth
• Recording of Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’
• Websites
• Recording / filming equipment
www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.h
Additional listening related to the theme –
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• ‘The Volcano Song’ – Mr Miller productions
http://volcanic-eruptions.findthedata.org/
• ‘Volcano Song’ – MR’s Songs for Teaching
• ‘It’s a volcano’ – Ron Brown (Songs for Teaching)
• BBC Learning Zone Class Clips Musical Volcanoes
• Last Day of Pompeii – video www.twig• ‘Night on a bare mountain’ – Mussorgsky
world.co.uk/list/earth• ‘Triple Quartet Movement 3’ – Steve Reich
science/geology/volcanoes
• ‘Hut on Fowls leg’ from Pictures from an exhibition –
• Pliny the Younger letters
Mussorgsky
• Scissors, glue and sticky tape
• ‘Mars’ from The Planets – Holst
• Strong base of thick card
• 6th Symphony ‘The Storm’ 4th movement - Beethoven
• Cereal boxes or card/sugar paper/toilet rolls
• Paints and/or pens/silver foil
Languages
• Unit PowerPoints.
• Printed class set of Information Tables 1 and 2 for pair work activity.
• A3 versions of these for modelling pair work (optional).
• Activity sheet for personal pronouns.
• A ball (an inflatable globe if possible).
• Pair work activity sheet and/or volcano activity sheet.
• Copies of the telephone call transcript for gap fill exercise.
• Copies of the holiday diary template.
• Access to the internet for research.
• Bilingual dictionaries.
• Pictures for illustration.
• Holiday brochures (optional).
• Useful websites
www.linternaute.com/nature-animaux/nature/volcan/volcans-enactivite/
http://dominique.decobecq.perso.neuf.fr
www.geosciencesreunion.fr or Google Earth
http://acatte.perso.neuf.fr/poemes-d-enfants.htm
English
• Video on dangers of living near Vesuvius
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4VnGn_gx98
• Poems
o ‘The Listeners’ Walter de la Mare
o ‘City Jungle’ Pie Corbett
o ‘A still-Volcano- Life’ ‘I have never seen Volcanoes’ Emily
Dickinson
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Computing
History
Art and Design
• Images of :
Artist Hokusai Katsushika www.katsushikahokusai.org/South-Wind-at-ClearDawn-%28Gaifu-kaisei%29-large.html www.katsushikahokusai.org/ShowerBelow-the-Summit-%28Sanka-hakuu%29-large.html
William Turner- Vesuvius
http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1669739
Andy Warhol – Vesuvius –scroll down to the red silk screen http://volcanoclub.blogspot.co.uk/2011_03_01_archive.html
• Colour theory ‘Color y Figura’ slide 17 in the Warhol Museum PowerPoint:
www.warhol.org/search.aspx?cx=014016730586284171586:kj7pcabahcs&cof
=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=vesuvius
• Oil pastels – boxes of 24 colours and boxes of black or dark blue
• Thick A2 cartridge paper 130gsm (Specialist Crafts do good quality paper &
pastels at very reasonable prices)
• Acrylic paints- primary colours -ideally lemon & brilliant yellow, turquoise &
brilliant blue, crimson & brilliant red, black and prussian (very dark) blue
• Thick cartridge paper A2
• Toothpicks, sticks, paint brushes with different thickness handles
Applied Maths
• Volcano database
(supplied)
• Internet