Year 8 · Geography · beta

Rocks, weathering and soil: Why is geology important?

This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that create and alter different types of rocks and soils over time. Pupils will also develop their understanding of how humans use different rocks and soils and why this can affect geographical patterns of wealth and population.

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 3 source lessons. DASKEREL has 13 original lessons for this unit, including 10 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • The UK is made up of many different types of rocks.
  • Rocks are formed in different ways.
  • The UK’s weather is very variable.
  • Precipitation happens when air containing water vapour cools, condenses and forms clouds.
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can give us information about differences across the world.

Source curriculum references

  • Understand key processes of physical geography relating to geological timescales and plate tectonics; rocks, weathering and soils.
  • Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems.
  • Use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data.
  • Use fieldwork in contrasting locations to collect, analyse and draw conclusions from geographical data, using multiple sources of increasingly complex information.
  • Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

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