CROWDED COASTS
For Edexcel 'AS' Geography
This is likely to be a popular unit with a lot of schools, although some might be a bit 'fed up' with coasts...
We are likely to start with HUNSTANTON, as our local Victorian coastal resort, although we can also whizz around the North Norfolk coast to a number of locations such as SHERINGHAM, CROMER and GREAT YARMOUTH.
Will also mention the old fave the HOLDERNESS coast I would have thought.
Check the AS COASTS page for some further / existing resources.
There are 4 ENQUIRY QUESTIONS here...
1. Competition for coasts: Why is the coastal zone so favoured for development ?
Doesn't everyone want a sea view from their house ?
How much does that add to the cost of housing ?
A GUARDIAN article here gives some interesting information.
2. Coping with pressure: How do various coastal developments create competition and conflict ? How can these pressures be resolved ?
We will use the JURASSIC COAST as an example here.
JURASSIC COAST has a very useful website.
Some good DOWNLOADS for the Jurassic Coast, including the MSC Napoli
Will be using some existing resources produced by Val Vannet on the management of this stretch of coastline, and also some new materials on the GEOGRAPHY TEACHING TODAY website.
Sand Dunes - Holkham and Salt Marsh - Stiffkey - will use data gathered on previous visits to these places
3. Increasing risk: How is coastal development increasingly at risk from and vulnerable to physical processes ?
Rapid erosion: HOLDERNESS
Flooding: THAMES GATEWAY / Norfolk / East Coast Floods
4. Coastal Management: How is coastal management adapting to new ideas and situations ?
How effective is coastal protection ?
Sustainable approaches ?
FIRST THOUGHTS
Conference in Hastings in October 2007
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.11126 - check out the SUMMARIES OF PAPERS link so that you can see what was being discussed.
Will perhaps be working on some ideas for this...
Also got news of a report from HELM..
Historic Environment, Local Management.
2 useful documents to download...
SEASIDE TOWNS
BESIDE THE SEASIDE
http://society.guardian.co.uk/communities/story/0,,2166754,00.html - SEASIDE TOWNS....
This has some other great resources...
http://society.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,,2167592,00.html - a very nice FLASH resource
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2007/sep/11/1?picture=330717235 - image gallery
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7042743.stm - a very useful BBC article which has lots of useful links...
LIDOS
Remember going to Skegness Lido in the 1970s....
STICK OF ROCK ?
Saucy seaside postcards ?
Reinvented for Geography ?
SKEGNESS IS SO....
Bracing (is that a good thing to be)
Rebranding of the North East.
The Guardian Article from February 2008
Norfolk Coastal Management Plan (Nick Gee article in Geography Review) - good focus for us...
BOOKS
Got this one - has some excellent content.