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HALF TERM 1
What is Geography?
- Locational knowledge of places around the world
- Using OS maps to investigate places
- Locating features on OS maps through grid references
- Understanding how maps can show height, direction and slopes
- Being able to describe a location and route using the appropriate scale
Investigating fieldwork skills at school Location focus: locality of Blacon/Chester.
HALF TERM 2
What is weather and climate?
- How does climate vary across the world?
- How does climate influence the rainforest ecosystem?
- What and where are rainforests?
- Analysing climate
Location focus: UK, Amazon, Congo
HALF TERM 3
What is weather and climate?
- Wildlife & vegetation adaptations
- How is the rainforest used by different people?
- How sustainable are the world’s rainforests?
Location focus: UK, Amazon, Congo
HALF TERM 4
Is the earth running out of natural resources?
- How do we use our planet as a natural resource?
- Understanding why there is a reliance on natural resources
- Natural resources: oil, electricity, and natural gas
- Exploring how natural resources can be used sustainably
Location focus: Middle East
HALF TERM 5
Shall I move to the rainforest?
- What is weather and climate?
- How does climate vary across the world?
- How does climate influence the rainforest ecosystem?
- What and where are rainforests?
- Analysing climate
- Wildlife & vegetation adaptations
- How is the rainforest used by different people?
- How sustainable are the world’s rainforests?
Location focus: Amazon, Congo
HALF TERM 6
Shall I move to the rainforest?
- Analysing climate
- Wildlife & vegetation adaptations
- How is the rainforest used by different people?
- How sustainable are the world’s rainforests?
Location focus: Amazon, Congo
HALF TERM 1
Why are rivers and coasts important?
- Understanding how water flows into rivers – water cycle
- River processes and the how they shape the land
- Why rivers are important to people
- The issue of flooding in the UK and beyond
- Making judgements on river management
- How do rivers connect to the sea?
- What shapes our coastal landscape?
- What landforms are created through coastal erosion processes?
- Coastal management (Holderness)
Location focus: UK, Ghana
HALF TERM 2
To explain the natural causes of climate change and how these could lead to glaciation.
- To explain if glaciers are expanding or shrinking.
- To explain the landforms created by erosion.
- To evaluate how landforms are created.
- To analyse a map to interpret glacial location.
- To identify glacial features on a map.
- To explain the effects of tourism.
- To explain the effects of tourism.
- Explain how avalanches occur.
- To understand climate change and the evidence for it.
- To understand the change in Arctic ice.
HALF TERM 3
Is the World's population growth out of control?
- Where in the World do, we all live?
- UK population growth
- Life Expectancy and issues in HIC’s
- Comparing Life expectancy around the World
- Resource Wars
- Migration the benefits and problems
- Why would you become a migrant?
- Planet K, applying our knowledge
- Predicting population growth in Germany and Ethiopia
- Population growth and future trends
- Ways of controlling population size
- Understanding where people migrate too and why they migrate
HALF TERM 4
Will we ever know enough about earthquakes & volcanoes to live safely?
- Categorising hazards
- Structure of the earth
- Plate tectonics & mapping plate boundaries
- Locating the world’s earthquakes and volcanoes
- Cause of earthquakes and their impacts
- Managing risk in earthquake zones
Location focus: Nepal (Asia), Japan (Asia), Indonesia (Asia)
HALF TERM 5
Will we ever know enough about earthquakes & volcanoes to live safely?
- Continued…
- Boxing Day Tsunami; causes and impact
- Causes of major volcanoes
- Impacts of volcanic eruptions
- Managing the risk of volcanoes
Location focus: Nepal (Asia), Japan
HALF TERM 6
Is the geography of Russia a curse or benefit?
- Physical landscape of Russia
- What is an economy?
- Is the economy of Russia similar or different to the UK?
- The climate of Russia • Location of population groups in Russia
- Is the geography of Russia a curse or a benefit?
- Russia’s connections to the North Pole (polar regions) Location focus: Russia
HALF TERM 1
Geography skills recap:
- World map basics
- Scale & distance
- Latitude & longitude
- Grid references
- OS maps
HALF TERM 2
Urbanisation in contrasting global cities
- Growth & character of Mumbai and Sydney
- Migration patterns
- Cultural patterns in both cities
- Challenges (poverty/housing/sustainability)
HALF TERM 3
Urban & Rural processes in UK
- Processes of urbanisation, suburbanisation, and counter urbanisation.
- How are urban places changing?
- Explore the challenges of creating sustainable communities.
HALF TERM 4
Retail change & industry
- Causes & impacts of retail change
- Issues associated with leisure use on rural & urban areas
- Causes & impacts of globalisation
- Nike Case Study (Vietnam)
HALF TERM 5
Development
- Global patterns of development
- Emergence of NICs
- Global trade patterns
- Long term/Emergency Aid
HALF TERM 6
Decision making paper exam practice & revision techniques.
HALF TERM 1
Rivers
- Processes of erosion, transportation & deposition
- Landforms (waterfalls ,meanders, deltas)
- River flooding: causes, impacts & management
- Why is management controversial?
HALF TERM 2
Coasts
- Processes
- Landforms
- Coastal management - conflict at the coast
- How will climate change impact different coastlines?
HALF TERM 3
Weather & Climate
- Why is UK climate so variable?
- Global atmospheric circulation – the creation of different climate zones
- Global distribution of weather hazards
HALF TERM 4
High & Low pressure weather hazards
- California Drought/Cyclone Nargis
- Location · Causes · Impacts · Management
HALF TERM 5
Climate change – cause and effect
- How has climate changed over the Quaternary period?
- Natural/Human greenhouse effect.
- Case Study – Arctic food chain
HALF TERM 6
Climate change case studies
- Maldives – low lying coastlines & sea level rise
- Population movement in Bangladesh – climate refugees
- How can climate change be tackled on different scales?
HALF TERM 1
Ecosystems
- Semi Arid Grasslands
- Location
- Climate
- Vegetation
- Food web Nutrient cycles
HALF TERM 2
How do humans affect ecosystems?
- Desertification
- Where is The Sahel?
- Causes (physical & human)
- Impacts Management on different scales
HALF TERM 3
Tropical Rainforests
- Location
- Climate
- Vegetation
- Food web
- Nutrient cycle Deforestation
HALF TERM 4
Water management
- Supply & demand
- Analysing our water footprint
- Managing water shortages
- Water transfer schemes
HALF TERM 5
Preparation for GCSE exams
HALF TERM 6
Preparation for GCSE exams
