Year 8 · Geography · beta

Tectonic hazards: Why is Earth restless?

This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that lead to tectonic hazards and investigates the geographical pattern of hazards across the world. Pupils will also learn how tectonic hazards affect people in different places and how people seek to manage hazards.

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 4 source lessons. DASKEREL has 12 original lessons for this unit, including 8 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • Tectonic processes help form many of the world's rocks.
  • Volcanoes are vents in the earth where magma comes to the surface.
  • Earthquakes are where the ground shakes.
  • Some parts of the world have major earthquakes and volcanoes whereas other parts of the world do not.
  • The population of the world has risen rapidly to over eight billion.
  • Countries are often categorised as low income, middle income or high income countries depending upon their wealth.
  • The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country in west Africa.

Source curriculum references

  • Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world.
  • Extend locational knowledge of Africa, Russia, Asia (including China and India), and the Middle East focussing on key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities.
  • Understand key processes of physical geography relating to geological timescales and plate tectonics; rocks, weathering and soils.
  • Understand key processes of human geography relating to international development.
  • 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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