Geography

HALF TERM 1

What is Geography?

• What is a geographer?
• 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 the world really like?

• What is factfulness?
• Defining & understanding how development can be measured
• Understanding how money is spread around the world
• How development can change overtime
• Understanding what it missing from the global development map
• Why do people live in poverty?
• Analysing development data to see how the world has changed
• Closing the development gap

HALF TERM 3

Continued…

• Sustainable development goals
• Population growth and future trends
• Ways of controlling population size
• Understanding where people migrate to and why they migrate
• What urbanisation is and how it is impacted through migration

HALF TERM 4

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 5

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 6

Why is the Middle East an important world region?

• Why is the Middle East an important world region?
• The Middle East as a hot desert
• The potential impact that climate change could have on the region
• How the UAE has developed into an economic region
• The population diversity in the Middle East
• Ongoing conflict in the Middle East (connected to Yemen)
• Desertification in the Middle East (linked to weathering and soils)

Location focus: Middle East

HALF TERM 1

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 2

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 3

What are fantastic places?

• Svalbard: people, place and polar bears
• Northern lights and how they attract tourists
• Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, California
• The Chernobyl disaster

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

What is the future of earth?

• A geographers view on climate change
• Evidence for climate change – geological timescales
• Historical human and physical changes in the Earth’s climate
• Exploring potential consequences of climate change on our planet
• What can we do to reduce climate change?

Location focus: Bangladesh & UK

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