1. Cliff Collapse!

2. Aim
To know and understand what causes a cliff to collapse
To know and understand the effects cliff collapse has on different groups of people
To know and how the cliffs can be protected

3. Starter
Watch the video clip on cliff collapse on the Yorkshire coastline. Discuss the following questions:
What was happening?
What damage was caused?
What methods were there of protecting the coastline?
Who was affected?

4. Yorkshire Daily News
Read as a class AQA Geo B p.19 and answer the following questions:
What has happened?
Who were affected?
What caused the cliff to collapse?
How could the cliff be protected?
Make sure that you answer all questions in full sentences and use a range of geographical terms. Use the information you have gained from the video and the textbook.

5. Role Play
You are to imagine that you are reporting live from Holbeck Hall just after the cliff collapse. You are to report on:
What happened
Why it happened
Whether it could happen again
How it could be prevented from happening again.
Your role play should involve the following people: hotel owner, guest at the hotel, coastal engineer, Mrs Miggins who was walking her dog at the time of the cliff collapse and a geologist from Hull University
Your role play will then be assessed by other students in the group.