1. GCSE Managing Resources @ Meadowhead
Introduction to Resources
Lesson plan 1 of 15
The aim of this lesson is for students to develop an Duration: 1 hour
understanding of how spiralling resource and consumption by
MEDC’s is unsustainable and how LEDC consumption is set to Date: 19-11-2008
increase massively.
No. of
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 Learning objectives students:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
Module Module 2 –
• Be able to differentiate between original human needs Managing
and modern day MEDC needs. Resources.
• Be able to recognise that everyday resources require a
high number of natural resources to produce them.
Assumed prior learning
• Be confident in speculation regarding future resource use
and population growth and a fossil fuels running out. What if the world were a village
and other development work
carried out in Year 9.
 Resources
PowerPoint – Lesson 1 – Managing Resources
Worksheet – Common household appliances and products and
natural resources required to produce them Differentiation
Cave Man V Bret Michaels Sheet By explanation and outcome.
Activity should be accessible to
Short Version of Episode of MTV Cribs.
all students and they should be
Modern Day Teenager Resource Sheet able to discuss and write about
patterns with varying levels of
Students to bring photos of their bedrooms.
quality. The idea of this lesson
Sentence sorting sheet. is to provide a foundation of
knowledge upon which to base
the rest of the unit.
 Assessment strategies
Risk assessment
Answers can be assessed to determine the accuracy of
distance measurements and directions. Higher level answers
will show recognition of more features. The plenary provides None needed.
an opportunity for peer assessment.
Key • Resources
words • Consumer Society
• MEDC / LEDC

2. GCSE Managing Resources @ Meadowhead
 Lesson plan
Starting the lesson
Timing Activity Description
Introduction In this lesson we are going to learn what a resource is and track resource
usage from primitive times to 2008. Look at relationships between MEDC/
LEDC and their resource consumption.
5 mins Starter Students have one minute to write their own definition of what a resource
is.. Put simple definition on the board and ask students to write it down.
Discussion. Natural Resources, Human Resources etc.
Main section
5 mins Activity 1 Students to study image on PowerPoint showing a primitive group of
people and come up with their own list of a humans resource needs.
Students can enter their thoughts on the sheet around the image of Fred
Flintstone Should be basic needs. Check on board.
5 mins Activity 2 Students to look carefully at he image of the evolution of man and
comment in their books about what it shows. Why the overweight man
with a McDonalds cup? What is this meant to show?
Ask students to study the graph on the board and talk through the world
population increase – point out that MEDC population is set to grow quite
slowly in comparison to LEDC’s. Remember the Brandt line?
15 Activity 4 Introduction to Bret Michaels – Guitarist from rock group Poison!
mins Watch MTV Cribs clip. Students to list his resources around his
picture on the worksheet provided. Comment on MEDC country,
massive resource use yet majority of world population live in
LEDC’s.
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Activity 5
mins Students to use their own photos of their bedrooms to annotate
each of the resources and using the information sheet, which
natural resource was used in the production. Is this the only
resource use we have to take into consideration? What about
10 transport costs? Manufacturing costs?
Mins Plenary
Card sort exercise. Sort out the statements into chronological order.
Re-cap and questions.
Remind of homework marking task for Friday.