Natural resources: Can Earth meet our needs?
Why this, why now
This unit teaches pupils about the growing demand for natural resources and the different renewable and non-renewable ways humans try to meet their needs. Pupils will learn the impact of overexploitation and some of the ways natural resource exploitation can be managed.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
- Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
Unit 2 / 6
Natural resources: Can Earth meet our needs?
This unit teaches pupils about the growing demand for natural resources and the different renewable and non-renewable ways humans try to meet their needs. Pupils will learn the impact of overexploitation and some of the ways natural resource exploitation can be managed.
12 lessons- The palm oil dilemma
- Windfarms: Decision making exercise
- Rare earth materials
- Fish resources
- Energy use around the world
- Food resources
- A solution: genetically modified crops
- Energy in the UK
- Sustainable fishing
- The future: hydroponics and aquaponics
- Natural resources: The things we use
- Consumption and climate change