Hurricanes hit Guatemala (secondary)

Teacher notes

This lesson is suitable for secondary geography and like all Lyfta lesson plans can be adapted for your context. A primary version is also available. **Lyfta Core themes:** Community and Citizenship, Culture and Identity, Equality and Human Rights, Health and Wellbeing, Natural Environment, Professions and Entrepreneurship, Relationships, Technology and Engineering. **Lyfta core skills and values**: Active Citizenship & Political Awareness, Adaptability & Flexibility, Coaching & Mentoring Collaboration & Teamwork, Communication, Coping Methods, Courage & Self-Confidence, Creativity & Innovation, Critical Thinking, Environment & Sustainability, Intercultural Competence, Negotiation, Resilience & Perseverance, Responsibility & Accountability, Troubleshooting & Problem-Solving, Understanding Data. **SDGs:** 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16. **National Curriculum Objectives:** KS3 Geography - understand, through the use of detailed place-based exemplars at a variety of scales, the key processes in physical geography relating to weather and climate - understand human geography relating to: population and urbanisation; international development - understand how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes, environments and the climate - interpret digital maps in the classroom, including using grid references and scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs. KS4 Geography - recognise the important links and inter-relationships between places and environments at a range of scales, from local to global - use of a range of maps, atlases, satellite imagery and other graphic and digital material to obtain, illustrate, analyse and evaluate geographical information - understand changing weather and climate: know the causes, consequences of and responses to extreme weather conditions and natural weather hazards, recognising their changing distribution in time and space and drawing on an understanding of the global circulation of the atmosphere.