1. How do we use our planet as a natural resource?

• Geography
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Introduction

This lesson is part of a series of lessons for year 7 geography, focussing on the inquiry of ‘how do we use our planet as a natural resource?’. Each lesson contains a variety of interactive learning experiences, including various engaging tasks, videos, discussion points and key geographical skill developments, such as drawing tables and field sketches. The lessons are designed to be taught in sequence, but can be saved to your LessonUp account to be edited at your leisure, and saved for future usage.

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LO: To explore the elements that make our planet and how they interact.

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What is a 'resource'?

What does 'Geography' mean to you?

The Earth's Spheres

The Earth is a complex system of different elements that all work together in a system, much like your body!

These are the 4 main 'spheres' of the Earth, that work interdependently to keep the planet functioning properly.

These 'spheres' are where the planet's natural resources are formed.

Can you name one resource from each of the spheres?

Which resource is formed in the biosphere?

1. Iron Ore
2. Uranium
3. Petroleum
4. Timber

What resource is formed in the geosphere?

1. Water
2. Diamonds
3. Sunlight
4. Air

Which resource is formed in the atmosphere?

1. Oxygen
2. Gold
3. Natural Gas
4. Coal

How important do you think using 

more renewable resources is?

The most important thing!

We should think about it.

Don't really care.

People worry too much about it.

We have other things to worry about.

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