KS3 Coastal environments with Eye2eye

Britain

Eye2eye Britain is useful for most parts of this study unit. It offers photographic coverage of mainland Britain's
entire coast at places in steps of about 10 miles or less. Its software also offers a useful kit of techniques, including
automatic round-coast trips, picking out views of specific coastal features and processes anywhere round our
island, and easy copying of photos and map sections into schoolwork. Any of these techniques can be useful both
for KS3 pupils to work with individually/in small groups and for whole class teaching with a whiteboard.

Techniques useful for many parts of this study unit

If this is the first time you’ve used Eye2eye Britain for a project, get to know its main controls and what they can do
for you. When Eye2eye Britain starts and its music has finished, if a Help window isn’t already showing, press F1 to
show it. Work through the Help window text to get up to speed. The following suggested techniques assume you’ve
mastered basic use of Eye2eye Britain, including how to explore any part of Britain – including at or near its coast
– by double-clicking on its explore map, and using the control screen Go To page to find places from their names.

To explore just coastal sites, in the control screen click the Tour tab, then the Coast panel among those that
appear (on the left, near the top). Yellow dots now twinkle on the map of Britain to the right wherever there’s a
photo found by your selection. Click on the map near the coast to move into the explore map - which now
highlights all your found images leaving active red or yellow dots where they are, switching all others off and
browning them out. Right and left arrow keys move you clockwise and anti-clockwise around the coast instead of
East and West as normal.

 How to take an automatic round-coast tour

1) Choose the part of Britain’s coast you want to tour. A clockwise trip right round mainland Britain takes about 6
hours at standard speed, so is too long for one lesson! You can click to choose to start the trip anywhere – eg
on a whiteboard to tour round East Anglia in one lesson, Wales another, for pupils to write comparison work
later, using Eye2eye Britain themselves to explore and copy images into their work.
2) Click the control screen’s Slideshow tab, then on the page displayed click the Round-Coast Trip panel. Set
options such as whether to display captions below images (recommended) and speed in the Options box
below. Click on the map to the right to start the show at your chosen point.
3) If you want to stop the round-coast tour to discuss something of interest, click the ‘video stop’ button to the
bottom right of the photos. Press space to view the photos at the place you have stopped. To restart the tour,
click the Eye2eye logo button to the bottom left of the screen to return to the control screen, then click the map
to restart the tour where you clicked.

 How to see examples of the erosion and deposition processes

1) Both of these processes are best seen by a two-stage search. On the control screen, first click the Tour tab,
then the Coast panel among those that appear (on the left, near the top).
2) Still on the control screen, click the Search tab to show the page where you find photos by searching their
captions for keywords. Click New search, then into the top two text boxes type erosion OR crumbl to see
erosion (note the ‘e’ is missed from crumble to match both crumble and crumbling). Tick the Only search in
last found set box – which restricts your search to the coastal set you found in step 1) - then click the Search
button to do the search. To find examples of deposition, try the words creek OR quicksand for this step.
3) Yellow dots now twinkle on the map of Britain to the right wherever there’s a photo in your found set. Click on
the map to move into the exploring map - which now highlights all your found places by leaving active red or
yellow dots where they are, switching all others off and browning them out.
4) Double-click on any active red (where there are panoramas) or yellow dot on the explore map to see views
there. Single-click on each imageo to see the next, then return to the map.
In 2) above, the two word searches are only suggestions – experiment with your own words for finding examples of
these and other processes.
 How to see examples of coastal features
A two stage search similar to that for seeing processes above finds examples of many coastal features. This works
well when at step 2) below you search for:
stack – to see sea stacks
platform – to see wave-cut platforms
sand – to see sandy beaches
shingl OR pebbl – to see pebble beaches (note ‘e’ deliberately missed off both words)
cliff – to see cliffs
fold – to see folding and faulting in cliffs
cave – to see caves
arch - to see sea arches

1) All of these features are best seen by a two-stage search. On the control screen, first click the Tour tab, then
the Coast panel among those that appear (on the left, near the top). Don’t forget to do this for each search.
2) Still on the control screen, click the Search tab to show the page where you find photos by searching their
captions for keywords. Click New search, then into the top left box type your keyword such as stack. Tick the
Only search in last found set box – which restricts your search to the coastal set you found in step 1) - then
click the Search button to do the search.
3) Yellow dots now twinkle on the map of Britain to the right wherever there’s a photo in your found set. Click on
the map to move into the exploring map - which now highlights all your found places by leaving active red or
yellow dots where they are, switching all others off and browning them out.
4) Double-click on any active red (where there are panoramas) or yellow dot on the explore map to see views
there. Single-click on each image to see the next, then return to the map.
5) To copy an image to your work, right-click on the photo/panorama you want, select Copy Image / Copy View
of Panorama, then use the same menu again to minimise Eye2eye Britain so you can see the application you
want to paste the photo into. Click Eye2eye Britain’s Taskbar icon to return to Eye2eye Britain. Copying a map
section is the same – scroll the exploring map to display the part you want, right-click on it and select Copy
Map.

Two other features the study unit suggests looking for – bays and headlands – can be found in the above way, but
are also obvious from the map – you can simply explore the coast by hand, clicking on bays and headlands for
views.

Suggestions for learning objectives

 Show understanding of coastal processes which shape landforms by labelling sketches from
photographs –
 Accurately describe the national context of the area of coastline studied –
Take an automatic round-coast trip clockwise along a section of coast with good examples of wave action – the
section you have already seen on video and/or studied on maps. If using a whiteboard, stop at features of interest.
If the pupils are working this themselves, ask them to stop at relevant points they spot. Ask pupils to copy an
appropriate image from Eye2eye Britain into the centre of an application like Corel Draw which makes it easy to
annotate features with pointing lines and comments. Ask the pupils to do this annotation for features and processes
in action.
Ask the pupils to add to their page a short section of writing explaining where this section of coast is in relation to
the rest of our island, and why this part of coast has good examples of the features being studied.

 Explain how rock type and wave action affect the type and scale of coastal landform development –
After a fairly short round-coast trip clockwise along the Dorset coast (or other section being studied) ask pupils to
write about its coastal landforms, copying photos and map sections into their work. A possibility is to pick two
sections of the coast and ask the pupils to do comparative writing – as suggested in the automatic tour instructions
above.

 Describe how coastlines are used –

Pick a section of coastline with varied human use – the South coast between Eastbourne and Bournemouth is a
good choice – and after an optional automatic whiteboard tour, ask the pupils to explore this stretch of coast
themselves, then write about its land use. For exploring, they may wish to make use of the Coast topic panel on
the Tour tabbed page, checking and un-checking the Explore in found set box to explore coastal and near-
coastal places. When writing about land use, pupils copy photos and map sections into their work in a word
processor or similar application.

 Describe and explain available strategies and understand the complexities of issues relating to coastal
protection –
North Norfolk – as suggested in the study unit – has a variety of coastal protection problems and solutions tried.
Start this topic with an automatic tour of the stretch to be studied – eg near the Wash to go clockwise round North
Norfolk. As you go round, spot the different coastal protection methods being used, and discuss how successful
they seem to be there. Ask the pupils to take notes about the discussion so that they can refer back to relevant
places later.
Ask the pupils to write about coastal management techniques, their opinions about effectiveness (at the coastal
protection schemes and nearby) appearance, benefits and problems caused, all illustrated by photos and map
sections copied from Eye2eye Britain.

Other Projects with Eye2eye Britain

Eye2eye Britain is a versatile resource for many parts of the curriculum, for use by a wide range of age and ability
(including all secondary ages, most special needs). The ‘recipes’ above for studying the coast are some of a huge
number of possible ways of selecting and using its material. For more suggestions, see the other Eye2eye Britain
projects in Kaleidos, also the teaching notes that are included in the Eye2eye Britain paperwork and our website
www.eye2eyesoft.co.uk/school.htm Having seen some of these suggestions, we hope you will start to invent your
own ‘recipes’ for more projects.

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