Teacher primer: What is the Anthropocene?

This resource give an introduction to the Anthropocene - the recent time in which humans have become the single most influential species on the planet, ccausing significant global warming and other changes to land, environment, water, organisms and the atmosphere.

The resource is one of a series of PowerPoints, which contain general background information on topics related to climate change and biodiversity loss. These are raw resources that have been designed to be edited and added to and used in a variety of ways, in order to best fit the needs of individual key stages, classes and students.

Key Stages: KS3, KS4, KS5

About this resource

Resource type: Teacher primer
Theme: Climate Change and biodiversity

Curriculum links

KS3 National Curriculum

KS3 Biology

Interactions and interdependencies
Genetics and evolution

KS3 Chemistry

Earth and atmosphere

KS3 Physics

Energy

KS3 Geography

Physical Geography
Human Geography

KS3 Citizenship

The roles played by public institutions and voluntary groups in society, and the ways in which citizens work together to improve their communities, including opportunities to participate in school-based activities

KS4 National Curriculum

KS4 Biology

Ecosystems

KS4 Chemistry

Chemical and allied industries
Earth and atmospheric science

KS4 Physics

Energy

KS4 Geography

Place: processes and relationships
People and environment: processes and interactions
Human geography: processes and change

KS4 Citizenship

The different ways in which a citizen can contribute to the improvement of his or her community, to include the opportunity to participate actively in community volunteering, as well as other forms of responsible activity

KS5 National Curriculum

(Building upon KS4 knowledge)

KS5 Biology

Biodiversity
Ecosystems

KS5 Chemistry

The relevance of sustainability to all aspects of scientific developments

KS5 Physics

The principle of conservation of energy

KS5 Geography

Water and carbon cycles
Landscape systems
Global systems and global governance
Changing place; changing places

KS5 Citizenship

The different ways in which a citizen can contribute to the improvement of his or her community, to include the opportunity to participate actively in community volunteering, as well as other forms of responsible activity.