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  • 12642 - GCSE AQA Paper 3 Pre-release Resource Pack 2025: Morecambe Bay Barrage

Weblinks and videos for use with 12642 – GCSE AQA Paper 3 Pre-release Resource Pack 2025: Morecambe Bay Barrage

Gaining an Overview

Student Tasks 1–8

  • Task 3: GCSE AQA skills checklist
  • Task 4: UK energy use and energy mix
  • Task 5: Tidal barrage generation
  • Task 6: Tidal power 101
  • Task 7: Morecambe Bay
  • Task 7: Duddon estuary

Further Reading

  • The National Grid: Live
  • BBC Bitesize: The UK energy mix
  • Factors affecting energy availability
  • Videos, explanations, and pros and cons of various types of renewable energy
  • The mystery of the UK’s untapped tidal power
  • Could the UK's tides help wean us off fossil fuels?
  • Short YouTube clip focusing on Swansea Bay, Wales

  • Google Earth Pro Download

Delving Deeper

Figure 2 Activities

  • Morecambe Offshore Windfarm
  • Wikipedia: Morecambe Gas Fields

Figure 3 Activities

  • La Rance Tidal Barrage

Developing Decisions

SWOT Analysis

  • JNCC: Morecambe Bay
  • Facebook Group: Northern Tidal Power Gateway
  • Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture 2022: Morecambe Bay Tidal Barrage
  • The Mail: Minister agrees to meet MPs over £10bn Morecambe Bay barrage scheme
  • Environmental Audit Committee examines tidal energy in the UK’s path to net-zero

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