Year 9 · Geography · beta

Natural resources: Can Earth meet our needs?

This unit teaches pupils about the growing demand for natural resources and the different renewable and non-renewable ways humans try to meet their needs. Pupils will learn the impact of overexploitation and some of the ways natural resource exploitation can be managed.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

This Oak index uses an earlier export and lists 7 source lessons. DASKEREL has 12 original lessons for this unit, including 5 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • The population of the world has risen rapidly to over eight billion.
  • We use natural resources to make the things we use.
  • Countries import and export goods to meet the needs of their population and grow their economy.
  • Countries are often categorised as low income, middle income or high income countries depending upon their wealth.
  • Countries where manufacturing of products has risen rapidly over the last 50 years are often referred to as Newly Industrialised Countries (NICs).
  • Global warming is caused by the increase in greenhouse gas emissions released by humans.
  • Energy needs can come from renewable or non-renewable sources.

Source curriculum references

  • Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world.
  • Understand key processes of physical geography relating to geological timescales and plate tectonics; rocks, weathering and soils.
  • Understand key processes of physical geography relating to weather and climate, including the change in climate from the Ice Age to the present.
  • Understand key processes of human geography relating to economic activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors; and the use of natural resources.
  • Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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