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Sinking Islands

Sinking Islands

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The low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati could be the first country to disappear because of climate change. Rising sea levels due to climate change have already claimed two of the islands with the rest threatened. The President has recently revealed a new idea – to raise up the islands using rocks from the seabed, an ambitious plan that will take time. In this short activity, students plot a line graph by calculating uncertainties to find out just how long Kiribati has left. 

Activity contents 

  • Teachers guide
  • PDF file

The activity is delivered as a zip file. After you checkout, you will be sent an email with the link to download it.    

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For the Year 7 Mastery Practice book:

For the Y9/GCSE Mastery Practice Book:

It was written to help year 7 students learn to transfer the scientific knowledge to unfamiliar situation. It can also be used by students in other years to improve their understanding of the fundamental concepts. Learning to apply is what will give students access to the 60% of marks at GCSE that demand more than recalling content. The book uses a research-based approach to teach students how to solve different types of problems.

The Practice Book has a chapter on each unit in the year 7 curriculum, based on a 5-year curriculum and AQA's KS3 Science Syllabus. Download the sample material to see exactly what concepts and types of problems are included.

The first strategy studente need to learn is to evaluate the problem and what knowledge is needed to solve it. 'Detect' simulates how an expert looks at a question. They make sense of the situation, look beyond the superficial details to find the deep structure This allows them to recognise this as an example of a problem type they have seen before, and recall the organised information they need to solve - key concepts. It ensures that students avoid their inclination to just look at the keywords, and dive in risking misunderstanding the situation. Detect is broken down into smaller steps, usually: draw a diagram, show values, identify unknown, decide the concept

This encourages students to bring into their working memory all their existing knowledge, externalise it on paper (to reduce working memory demands), and then home in on what's relevant to solving the problem.

The third stage of the problem solving strategy is the actual solution process using the knowledge from Recall.The Solve starts by showing how to use the knowledge from Recall and models a step by step process of moving towards a solution for the problem.We teach students how to write answers scientifically, using a variety of structures like claim-evidence-reasoning, and problem-solution, and cause-effect.

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ngraham11
Great activity

I have yet to download an activity with which I was disappointed. Pupils need a mixture of teaching styles and these activities play a major role in giving a "balanced diet". I jump from 'chalk and talk' to these activities (as I did with Upd8). Pupils like variation. The open-ended nature of the tasks allows for differentiation. The structure is very simple yet, as with all things so, it works a treat. Pupils get a glimpse of another culture (global education etc).

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natdrak
Sinking Island

I have tried the "Sinking Island" activity in my Biology class ( group age: 13-14) and I became a great fun of engaging science activiites. The students were really involved in the process, since the subject was intriguing, plus they love working in groups. I believe their main gain was the fact that they were able to criticise arguments and form their own opinion based on facts.

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fjw1
Kiribati

This was a fantastic resource to engage my high flying Yr. 9 group. They were interested in all the information given and the discussion that happened because if their interpretations of the data were fantastic.

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