Year 7 Term Year 8 Ter m What is Geography? 1. Baseline Test (this half term s assessment) 2. Our Place on the Planet 3. Physical Geography 4. Human Geography 5. Environmental Geography 6. Latitude and Longitude 7. Latitude and Longitude 8. Writing a case study 9. Gable Hall School Case Study Assessment Aut 1 Rainforests 1. What is the Equatorial Climate? 2. Climate Graph 3. Describing the World s Rainforests? 4. What makes the Rainforest an Extreme Environment 5. What are we doing to the Rainforests? 6. People in the Amazon 7. What is happening to the Amazon Rainforest? 8. Living Sustainably in the Rainforest (Case Study) Aut 1 Year 9 Trade and Aid 1. What is trade? 2. Trading game 3. Why is World trade unfair? 4. Globalisation 5. Why does Apple manufacture in China? 6. Sweatshop conditions in China 7. Assessment 8. How does trade affect the environment? 9. Fair Trade and Aid Ter m Aut 1
Earthquakes & Volcanoes 1. The Structure of the Earth 2. How plate boundaries have changed 3. What happens at plate boundaries? 4. The four plate boundaries 5. Causes and effects of earthquakes 6. Earthquake assessment 7. How can the effects of earthquakes be reduced? 8. What are Volcanoes? (Composite and Shield Volcanoes) Aut 2 Energy 1. People & Resources 2. Renewable and nonrenewable resources 3. Energy group work task 4. Energy group work task 5. Energy group work task 6. Market place lesson 7. Locating non-renewable energy sources 8. Designing a sustainable Community Aut 2 Population 1. China s One Child Policy 2. China s One Child Policy: Success and Failures 3. Population density and distribution of the UK 4. Population density and distribution of the World 5. Population Change 6. What is the Demographic Transition Model? 7. Population Structure (Population Pyramids) 8. Migration: Mexico to USA 9. What are the problems of an ageing population? Aut 2
1. Volcanoes group work lesson 2. Volcanoes group work lesson 3. Causes and effects of a the Icelandic volcanic eruption 4. How can the effects of a volcanic eruption be reduced? 5. Why do people live in earthquake zones and near volcanoes? 6. Causes and effects of tsunamis. 7. Causes and effects of tsunamis 8. How can we respond to tsunamis? on tsunamis Spr 1 Rivers & Floods 1. The journey of a river 2. How do rivers shape the land? 3. Features of the Upper Course of the River 4. Features of the Middle and Lower Course of the River Coasts & Coast Management 5. How does the sea shape the coast? 6. Erosion, Transportation & Deposition 7. What happened to Holbeck Hall? 8. Defending the Coast Spr 1 Tourism 1. Introducing Tourism 2. What Problems does Tourism Cause? 3. Locating a Theme Park I 4. Locating a Theme Park II 5. Sustainable Tourism 6. Tourism at Home 7. Tourist Attractions I 8. Tourist Attractions II Spr 1
Map Skills 1. How do we show Direction? 2. How can we measure distance? 3. How do we use map Symbols? 4. 4 Figure Grid References 5. 6 Figure Grid References 6. How do we show Height? 7. Describing Routes 8. Field sketches (Build your own globe) Spr 2 Weather 1. What is weather? 2. Measuring the weather 3. Clouds and rain 4. Air Pressure and Weather 5. Sudden Changes in weather 6. From weather to climate 7. Factors that influence Climate 8. Climate in Europe Spr 2 Extreme Climate 1. Global Warming 2. Global Warming 3. Acid Rain 4. New York 5. Tornados 6. Tornados 7. China Hail Stones 8. Heat Waves Spr 2
Brazil 1. Where is Brazil? 2. What is Brazil Like? 3. Physical Features of Brazil 4. People in Brazil 5. Sau Paulo Rich and Poor 6. How Developed is Brazil? 7. How developed is Brazil? 8. The Best of Brazil Sum 1 The Geography of Crime 1. Different Types of Crime 2. Crime Story 1 3. Crime Story 2 4. The Criminal s Mental Map 5. Crime Prevention 6. Mapping Crime 7. The Heroin Trail 8. You are the Judge (Role Play of Court Case) Sum 1 Field Work & Skills Corringham & SLH Coursework Booklets Sum 1
Settlement 1. Locating settlements 2. Settlement Hierarchy 3. Why Settlements Grow? 4. What are Settlement Patterns? 5. The CBD 6. The benefits of Settlement Growth 7. The problems of Settlement Growth 8. What Are Land Use Patterns? My Settlement Sum 2 Ghana 1. What life is like in Ghana? 2. What is Development? 3. ICT 1 Measure how developed Ghana is 4. ICT2 Measure development for the UK 5. QoL vs Standard of Living 6. Case Study Comparing LEDC v MEDC 7. What is sustainable development? 8. Why is aid needed? 9. Solutions for the Future Sum 2 Antarctica 1. Antarctica The last Great Wilderness 2. The History of Antarctica 3. Who Owns Antarctica? 4. Antarctica Today 5. Why does the Antarctic need protecting? 6. Why does Antarctica need protection? 7. The Delicate Nature of Antarctica 8. Preparation for Assessment (Case Study) Sum 2 STRIPES Participato r Independen t Enquirer Reflective Learner Effective Team Worker Self Manager Thinking Creatively