Coasts: Spits and Bars

AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1C: In this lesson we look at spits and bars together with the processes that lead to their formation.

The starter is a true or false type quiz where the pupils have to find the landforms and processes associated with erosion.

We have a brief reminder of what longshore drift and deposition are. We have a quiz around a photo of Spurn Head and then watch a video clip. The pupils then create annotated diagrams of spits, bars and tombolos. This is usually teacher led in my lessons, but would work as an info hunt/share. We then draw an annotated field sketch from a photograph of Dawlish Warren Spit. The pupils then label the feature of the spit and fill in the blanks on the paragraph.

We finish with a 6 mark GCSE-style question: “Explain how the processes of deposition lead to the formation of distinctive landforms”. The pupils have some guidance in answering this.

In a nutshell lesson includes:

Retrieval practice true or false starter
Video clip
Annotated diagrams on formation of spits, bars and tombolos.
Features of a field sketch from photograph with an example.
6 mark GCSE-style question with guidance should the pupils need it.

Hope this saves you some valuable planning time.

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