Geography

Year 7
What am I
learning?
Key skills to
be
developed?

How am I
being
assessed?

How can I
support and
extend my
learning?

Autumn 1
Map Skills

Autumn 2
Moving Stories

By teaching map skills,

students are able to
develop a variety of
skills. Field
sketching,Four and six
figure grid
References, latitude,
longitude, contours,
scale etc. Students
can engage with maps
on a wide range of
scales from different
sources including
Google Earth,
Ordnance Survey,
developing and building
on their map
interpretation skills.

Students explore their

own country and learn
about key geographical
concepts in relation to
the UK, reinforcing
their understanding of
their local area,
regions, cities. Pupils
will locate and explore
some of the major
features of the British
Isles, look at the jobs
people in the UK do,
and how our society is
made up of many
different races,
religions and cultures.

Assessment making
their own map and a
journey round their
including all skill from
lessons.

Assessment to design
own village
incorporating skills
from lessons and
previous unit.

Class discussions and

written work.

Class discussions and

written work.

Map Zone
http://mapzone.ordn
ancesurvey.co.uk/ma
pzone/games.html

Use Google Earth to

look at settlements.
Look at maps and GIS
games on Mapzone

Spring 1
Restless Earth

Rivers

Spring 2

Summer 1
You are what you
eat?

This module examines

earthquakes and
volcanoes as well as
touching on other
hazards. Students
concentrate on the
actions, causes, and
global effects of
volcanoes and
earthquakes. The
module is taught with
the aid of case studies
and builds empathy
with respect to the
human consequences of
disaster.

This module looks at

rivers from source to
mouth, and how they
shape our landscape. It
considers the physical
processes involved and
the landforms created.
The module will also
allow students to carry
out fieldwork
investigations, both
individually and as part
of a team.

This module asks

students to think about
what processed foods
are made from,
introduces students to
the main farming
methods and to the
idea that the food we
eat in the UK comes
from all over the world.
It will deal with hunger
and malnutrition and
the issues that arise
importing food from
poorer, less
economically developed
countries.

A mystery activity based

on news reoprts about
Mt.St.Helens. To write
up as own news article.

ICT activity to research

a river from source to
mouth.

Assessment fair-trade
research

Any map on the

internet looking at the
path of a river.
Youtube research.
There are also lots of
documentaries on
BBCi player.

Fair Trade website.

Research recent
tectonic events.

Youtube research
could be about recent
events such as Japans
tsunami and
earthquake or any
other seismic event.

Summer 2

Year 8
What am I
learning?
Key skills to
be
developed?

How am I
being
assessed?
How can I
support and
extend my
learning?

Autumn 1
Ecosystems
Students will
understand the
climates of different
biomes, including
desert and rainforest
ecosystems and how
humans and animals
adapt to live in these
environments. The
module then focuses
on how human
influences are
changing our
rainforests around
the world, and
whether we can
develop the rainforest
sustainably.

Autumn 2
Climate Change
What is it and does it
matter? If it does, is
there anything we can
do? What is our own
carbon footprint? How
can we reduce the
impact of global
warming? Students are
provided with the
opportunity to explore
the answers to these
important questions

Spring 1
E.U
Students look at the
UK and how the EU
developed also the
ideals behind it.
Migration, push -pull
factors, industry
sectors.

Spring 2
Coasts
Students learn how and
why our coastline is
changing, why it looks so
different in different
parts of the UK, and
through case studies will
become experts at
explaining coastal
erosion there and
learning to empathise
with the different
interest groups faced
with this rapidly
retreating coastline. The
module will also allow
students to carry out in
depth fieldwork

Summer 1
Mapping
Festivals?
This module recaps
students map skills
through the
contemporary topic of
Music Festivals. By
providing a thematic
approach to the
teaching of map skills,
using maps to explore
wider issues in relation
to festivals, such as
environmental impacts
and flooding. Students
can engage with maps
on a wide range of
scales from different
sources including
Google Earth, Google
Maps and Ordnance
Survey, developing and
building on their map
interpretation skills.

Threats to the tundra

ecosystem.

Design a house for the

future.

Assessment Fantastic
Places an independent
enquiry into a place of
their choice. Presented
to the class.

Assessment report into

the problems facing
families losing their
homes.

Assessment design own

festival.

There is a wealth of
documentaries that
can be watched on
catch up TV etc.

Reading newspapers
and keeping upto date
with the changes in
the weather. The Met
Office have lots of
information,
http://news.bbc.co.uk
/cbbcnews/hi/find_ou
t/guides/world/global
_warming/newsid_157
5000/1575441.stm

http://www.youramazi
ngplaces.com/the-100
-most-beautiful-and-br
eathtaking-places-in-t
he-world-in-pictures-p
art-1/

http://www.bbc.co.uk
/schools/riversandcoa
sts/

http://www.thefestiva
lcalendar.co.uk/

To start then research

the place you are
interested in.

http://jurassiccoast.or
g/

http://www.escapenor
mal.com/2011/03/29/
50-greatest-festivals-in
-the-world/

Summer 2

Year 9
What am I
learning?

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Development and
Africa

The Rise and Rise

of China

The Geography
of my stuff Globalisation

Future Floods

GCSE Unit Exam

Practice

Key skills to
be
developed?

The aim of this

module is to
introduce students
to the huge variation
in geography that
exists within the
complex continent of
Africa. Whilst
providing a
framework for young
people to understand
what is going on in
the continent.
What is development
and how can we
measure it? How did
the development gap
grow? What factors
make countries rich
or poor? The module
focuses on aid,
asking what can
MEDCs do to help
LEDCs develop? This
module will also raise
important questions
about the nature of
global citizenship
and the importance
of money for quality
of life (and
happiness).

The aim of this unit is

to introduce the huge
variation in geography
that exists within the
complex continent of
China. It is also the
aim to show a
contrast to the
previous unit and the
differences of a
developing country.
Enquiry into the ideas
that created 'one
child policy' and the
problems this has now
created. Look at how
development in China
creates problems on
various scales. It will
also look at
sustainability and
pressures on energy
resources.

This unit of work

focuses upon the
interconnections and
inter-relationships
that link teenage
consumers living in
the UK with societies
and environments
overseas (where the
goods they purchase
are made). As well as
explaining how these
connections work and why they have
come into being - the
unit introduces
students for the first
time to some of the
moral, ethical and
environmental issues
that are associated
with the global trade
in consumer goods
(including child labour
and food miles).

This unit connects

ideas from previous
lessons how global
issues have many
effects. It also links
climate change from
year eight and in
depth look at
flooding. The enquiry
is a local case study
based around York.

Students will look at a

unit covered in the
GCSE syllabus.

How am I being
assessed?

Assessment 'Is it
Graces Fault she Lives
in Poverty?

Assessment research on
'One Child Policy'.

Assessment design a
campaign to raise issues

Assessment ICT using

GIS to map flooding,
causes and effects long

Assessments a past
GCSE paper.

Summer 2

How can I
support and
extend my
learning?

Lots of information
on the news. National
Geographic and BBCi.

http://www.bbc.co.uk
/bitesize/ks3/geograp
hy/places/contrasts_w
ithin_continent/revisio
n/5/

about globalisation group presentation.

term and short term

responses.

http://www.bbc.co.uk
/bitesize/ks3/geograp
hy/interdependence/g
lobalisation/revision/2
/

Lots of clips of recent

flood events on
Youtube. Keep up to
date with the news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk
/schools/gcsebitesize/
geography/