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Primary Education Teaching Materials - People and Environment

PictureWoolacombe Primary School during the Sea for Life Programme 2010. (c) Simon Burt
Supplied on CD. Cost £50. Contact Matt Edworthy at the North Devon AONB and Biosphere Service

The materials have been written to the requirements of the primary curriculum and have been planned to make creative and challenging links between Citizenship, History, Science and Geography. They encourage children to consider how the Biosphere and its people, economy and culture has changed in the past, is still changing today and the challenges of sustainable development that await in the future. They are based on "Key Questions", which are listed below.

Schemes of work have been created for each key question together with associated enquiry-based learning materials



Key Questions on which schemes of work are based

  1. What do all of these places have in common?

  2. Why is there a biosphere reserve in north Devon?

  3. How and why does the River Torridge change from source to mouth?

  4. What were the causes and effects of the Lynmouth floods?

  5. What should happen at Westward Ho! with reference to sea defence

  6. What do O.S. maps tell us about the north Devon biosphere reserve?

  7. What is sustainable development?

  8. Should a wind farm be built on Challacombe Hill?

  9. How should Seven Brethren (a brown field site in Barnstaple) be developed in the future?

Example Schemes of Work & Downloadable Resources 

North Devon Biosphere KS2 Education Resource Q2
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North Devon Biosphere KS2 Education Resource Q3
File Size: 117 kb
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North Devon Biosphere People and environment Q7 - 1
File Size: 252 kb
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North Devon Biosphere People and environment Q7 - 2
File Size: 169 kb
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