Cymraeg
A Trip To Amroth to investigate Climate Change
PCF’s staff working on the Coastal Communities Adapting Together (CCAT) project have been researching climate change resources which could be used in schools and also for others. Our topics of focus are climate change, adaptation, and the coast.
Amroth is a coastal town in the south east of Pembrokeshire. Join us on a trip to investigate how the villages links to climate change, from the post glacial forest, through its coal mining past to the on going challenges of coastal erosion and sea level rise.
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Links with the new curriculum
for Wales
For extensive background information and guidance from the Welsh Government about the new curriculum for Wales and its Framework, please visit the official website:
https://gov.wales/preparing-new-curriculum
The four purposes of the new curriculum are to support our children and young people to be:
- ambitious, capable learners, ready to learn throughout their lives
- enterprising, creative contributors, ready to play a full
part in life and work - ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world
- healthy, confident individuals, ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society.
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The new curriculum for Wales is designed to help practitioners to develop a more integrated approach to learning. The six Areas (of the Curriculum) bring together familiar disciplines and encourage strong and meaningful links across different disciplines:
Source: Welsh Government, Preparing for the New Curriculum, https://gov.wales/preparing-new-curriculum
The six Areas each contain Statements of What Matters, which we have summarised in a short summary document here.
Under each category title on this page, we have also suggested linking of the resources to specific curriculum Areas using the colour-coding from the graphic above. We would also encourage learning practitioners to use these resources in the most suitable way for their learners, which may include linking the resources into additional Areas.
To find out more about the CCAT project please visit the website: https://www.ccatproject.eu/
You can also follow us on Twitter for the latest updates:
CCAT Project: @ccatproject
PCF: @pcf_education & @pcfcic.
CCAT is funded by:
Climate Change and Amroth
Cymraeg
Climate Change and Amroth?
The place of Amroth has been shaped by its geology, natural process and by human activity.
Amroth is linked to climate change because:
- The village is at risk of coastal flooding because of sea-level rise and the increasing number of storms.
- Coal, which is a fossil fuel, was mined in the village.
- You can see the evidence from 5,000 years ago when the sea-level was very different
1. Start off with the virtual tour of the Amroth seafront.
2. Use the interactive map to learn more about Amroth and climate change.
3. Use the timeline to understand how Amroth has been shaped over time.
4. Test your knowledge using the self-marking quizzes!
Virtual Tour
Use the “target” points on the image to follow the virtual tour of Amroth.
Click on the information symbol to find out about points of interest on the tour.
Best viewed full screen.
The information on the map is split into layers with markers.
You can follow the markers in each layer to find out more about the area.
Click the menu at the top left to select a layer.
We’ve provided self checking quizzes so you can test your knowledge along the way!
The map has:
Field Sketch Layer
Changing Sea Levels Layer
History of Amroth Layer
Natural features? Layer
Climate Change Layer
Measuring Activity Layer
It is easier to view only one layer at a time.
Open the map in a new window: Amroth Interactive map
Task 1: Field Sketch
Subject Lens: Geography
Skills: Literacy and ICT
Learning Objectives
- Have an understanding of the place of Amroth
- Identify which parts of the information presented are most relevant
- Create a “Field Sketch” for Amroth
Let’s get going and follow the markers in the Field Sketch Layer and enjoy an introduction to the seaside village of Amroth!
There are lots we want to show you, so your first job will be to make notes.
Geographers, engineers and surveyors all create field sketches or notes to remember the important data for a site.
They are a good way of recording the extra information you can only see from being in a particular place.
Field Sketches or notes always used to be hand-drawn, but now thanks to technology, it is much easier to include photos, digital links or even video.
In the document are three different views of Amroth. The places where these are taken are labelled on the map,
I’ve made a start on this first one to get you started.
1. Use the link to download the document
2. Follow the tour on the Field sketch layer. Make notes on the document.
3. Use your notes to help you answer the Field sketch quiz.
Extension
Use the “Natural Features?” layer to label the coastal protection and sea defences in your document.
Task 2: Sea Level Changes
Subject Lens: Geography
Skills: ICT Numeracy and Literacy
Learning Objectives
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How to observe and record natural and anthropogenic features of the present-day landscape.
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Students will also know something about the climatic conditions that affected the Carmarthen Bay area during the latter part of the ‘Ice Age’, and about some very significant natural changes in sea level which need to be considered in relation to current predictions of sea-level rise resulting from human influences.
We’re going to take a “walking” tour of Amroth to see what evidence we can observe related to climate change and sea level rise.
1. Get the Changing Sea Levels layer up on the map.
2. Make sure you’ve hidden the other layers
3. Follow the tour and make notes.
Don’t try to write everything down! Decide what the key points are for each part of the tour and note them.
Remember notes don’t have to be a list! Pictures, think bubbles and arrows will help you capture the important ideas
4. Use your notes to try to answer the “Changing Sea Levels” quiz.
Task 3: Climate Change
Subject lens: Geography
Skills: ICT, literacy, Problem solving
Learning Objectives:
The tour covers the causes and impacts of climate change when considered from the perspective of the place of Amroth.
Pupils make notes on the information provided.
Consider how a community like Amroth can plan to adapt to climate change.
fYou will need to use the Climate Change layer of the interactive map.
Remember to hide the other layers to make the map easier to use.
1. Follow the tour on the map layer. Decide which are the most important ideas, and make a note of them. You could do this digitally; the SNIP tool will be useful if you do.
Don’t try to write everything down! Decide what the key points are for each part of the tour and note them.
Remember notes don’t have to be a list! Pictures, think bubble and arrows will help you capture the important ideas
2. Complete the Climate Change quiz. You can use your notes to help you
3. Find the Bus Stop (marker 12) on the map.
Your next task is to design the “Bus Stop” for 2030.
Your design will have to take climate change into account. Could the bus stop be used for other things? A drop of point for deliveries, to generate power, a place to get items fixed, you decide.
Think about:
Adaptation: How will your bus stop take into account bigger storms or more rainfall? Will it be in the same place, what will it look like.
Mitigation: This means reducing carbon emissions. Will it be buses or self-driving cars? What will power them? How often will they come? How will the bus stop give you information to plan your journey?
Resilience: Will the bus stop have a purpose during an emergency? This could be first-aid station, a meeting point, or storage for flood equipment.
Task 4: Measuring Task
Subject lens: Geography
Skills: Numeracy, ICT
Learning Objectives:
Navigate the map and use the measuring tool.
Understand the relative costs of different forms of coastal protection and sea defences.
Measuring Task:
In this task you’re going to use the measuring tool to measure the length of different features along the Amroth sea front.
1. Bring up the Measuring Task layer on the interactive map. It Is best if you hide all the other layers on the map.
2. Work through the Measuring Task quiz.
Task 5: History of Amroth
Subject Lens: History
Skills: ICT, Literacy
Learning Objectives:
Explore the events in the past which have shaped Amroth and the community that lives there.
Consider the relevance, reliability and bias of the information presented in the Amroth Timeline.
Amroth and its community have been shaped by events in the past.
1. Skim read through the timeline.
2. Use the timeline for reference to answer the questions in the quiz.
3. Write a list of the 10 pieces of evidence from the timeline you think had the most influence on people living in Amroth.
4. For each of your top 10 give a score out of 5 for:
Impact of that event at the time.
Reliability of the information.
5. Create an infographic, timeline, or poster to show your interpretation of how the past has shaped Amroth.
Subject Lens: Art
Skills: Use of the pupils chosen medium.
Opportunity to use the creative process to communicate their vision of the future to a specific audience.
Learning Outcomes: Pupils consider how climate change and peoples response to it will change the village of Amroth.
Pupils should be given an opportunity to reflect on their and their peers’ work. They should consider how they feel about the different versions of the future as well as the execution of the piece of work itself.
Climate change is driving many changes in our world – in coastal areas, changes to the cliffs, beaches and towns can happen really quickly because they are more exposed to the effects of extreme weather such as big storms and high tides. In rural areas, people may experience more drought, flooding and difficulty accessing critical services due to being more remote from other communities.
Drawings, photographs and visual imagery can really help us see our world and all the changes that are happening, and can have a big impact. It’s time to get your vision of the future of Amroth, a coastal community that could be quite vulnerable to drastic change.
1. Go to a place on the Google Streetview map of Amroth where you can see both man-made and natural features. You could start at the spot in the first link below, and “walk through” the map until you find somewhere you want to capture.
2. Pretend you are sending a postcard to someone from a future Amroth to show them what it’s like, you could imagine that you live there or maybe you’re just on holiday. Consider the time you want to “post” from – it’s likely that if you want to send your postcard from the distant future (beyond 2050) you might see some very significant changes.
3. Using the spot you’ve chosen as a template, get a blank A5 piece of paper or card and start to sketch out your ideas. Use any materials you like!
The following questions might help guide you:
What structures will/won’t be there?
What power source will Amroth town be using? Where will the energy come from?
Will the sea shape how the coastline looks in the future?
Are there any people there?
Top tip: You might want to sketch out a few different ideas on a separate bit of paper before transferring your final vision to a postcard. If you’d like to see what some other artists have created, click on the second link below.
http://www.postcardsfromthefuture.com/postcard_images/