Deserts
Enquiry Question 1
· What do we know about hot deserts and how do people react to them?
Key Ideas
· Study of large scale desert area – The Sahara
· How people have reacted to hot desert environments in cultural resources e.g. film, photographs, expedition and historical reports, poetry, paintings, music and literature.
Candidates should be able to:
· identify which areas are described as hot deserts and what features typically characterise hot desert environments
· appreciate the way hot desert environments have been depicted in a variety of media and the feelings they invoke, including their own reactions.
Ideas for creation of your revision sheet.
Suggestions:
· See An introduction to deserts
· Television clips – what impressions do these programmes give about the desert?
- Michael Palin's Saharan travels by watching clips Sahara Clips visiting Sahara.
- Look at Ray Mears visit to the Sahara.
- Look at Bear Grylls visit to the Sahara.
· Find out about desert expeditions (recent and past) - Bike expedition across Australia, Expeditions by Sir Wilfred Thesiger,Expeditions by Jeremy Curl - would you like to explore the desert?
· Ultra endurance events - What impression do these events give of the desert?
- Running in the Sahara, 111 days 4,300 miles
- Marathon des Sables 6 days 151 miles look at the course and runners like James Cracknell
· Watch trailers of films set in desert on YouTube - Lawerence of Arabia, Ice Cold in Alex, Sahara and The English Patient- how do these trailers make you feel about the desert?
· Look at Photographs of deserts
- National Geographic,
- Sahara Photographs, - how do you react to these photographs?
· Read poems about the desert - which of these poems do you like best? Why?
· Look at desert paintings – What would you paint if you were in a desert?
· Listen to music inspired by the desert – What do you think about it?
- Michael Palin's Saharan travels by watching clips Sahara Clips visiting Sahara.
- Look at Ray Mears visit to the Sahara.
- Look at Bear Grylls visit to the Sahara.
- Running in the Sahara, 111 days 4,300 miles
- Marathon des Sables 6 days 151 miles look at the course and runners like James Cracknell
- National Geographic,
- Sahara Photographs, - how do you react to these photographs?
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