Exploring how glaciation has shaped the coastline of north Norfolk and the land bridge that once connected the UK with mainland Europe.
Liz Bonnin introduces a clip exploring how the Ice Age has shaped sections of the UK coastline.
Alice Roberts visits Cromer on the North Norfolk coast to examine the evidence for physical processes shaping the UK. An animation reveals how much of UK was once covered in ice and how the landscape was shaped by their movement. The film explains how hills along the coastline are formed from material left behind from the ice sheet.
The film explains why global sea levels were so low during the last Ice Age, before visiting a collection of animal bones that provide the evidence for the land bridge that once existed between what is now the UK and continental Europe.
Teacher Notes
Key Stage 3
Students could use this short film as an introduction to the last Ice Age and the effects that it had on the UK.
They could watch the clip and use the information to plot the extent of the ice sheet during the last glacial maximum.
They could then consider the impacts of this in terms of animal migration and sea levels.
Key Stage 4
Students could focus on the middle section of this short film, which shows the use of sediment cores to reconstruct the climate, and relate this to study about evidence for climate change.
They could consider evidence from a fictional core and what it would tell you about the climate.
Curriculum Notes
This topic appears in Geography at KS3 (Hydrology) and KS4 / GCSE (Rivers and water) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 4/5 in Scotland.
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