5 Year Curriculum - Geography

Geography 5 Year Curriculum 2020-21

Year 7	HT1	HT2	HT3	HT4	HT5	HT6
Year 7	What is Geography and Settlement	Extreme environments – Polar	Beautiful Brazil, South America	Awakening Africa	Raging Rivers & Geographical Skills / Fwk
Knowledge	Local and global connections - Identifying human and physical geography – Impacts of climate change – Plastics -Deforestation (palm oil) - UK’s identity Settlement- Hierarchy -patterns -relief –land use models -counter-urbanisation	Biomes - Polar climates Characteristics - challenges - opportunities - animal and human adaptations – exploration - resource sustainability, protection (Antarctica Treaty)	Location of major biomes -characteristics of the tropical rainforest - animal adaptations - surviving the rainforest - Brazil’s importance nationally and globally - deforestation causes and impacts - Sustainability of the rainforest – Cameroon, Africa example	Physical geography of Africa -urbanisation – migration - Kenya- rural vs urban – distribution of resources - Kiberia slum improvements to squatter settlements - strategies for improvements - Tourism (Masi Mara) tourism - sustainability	Hydrology - Water cycle - rock type and soils -onsite infiltration investigation fieldwork - how rivers shape the land through erosion and deposition - flooding in a HIC (UK) and LIC (Mozambique) -flood management Fieldtrip to York – including practise fieldwork skills
Skills	Map – locations – lines of latitude – compass direction – interpreting photographs – figures – graphical skills; pictogram – bar chart. DME – OS Maps – scale – relief – distance Human and Physical maps / choropleth maps to show distribution-contour lines – relief – spot height	Map – locations – lines of latitude – compass direction – interpreting photographs – 4 figure grid references – graphical skills; climate graphs. DME	Map – locations – lines of latitude – compass direction – interpreting photographs – figures – graphical skills; pie charts. DME	Map – locations – lines of latitude – compass direction – interpreting photographs – climate graphs – population pyramids - land use models - graphical skills; pie charts -numerical; measures of central tendency	OS maps – 4 and 6 figure grid references – map symbols – cross references – interpreting maps and photographs – graphical skills; hydrographs. DME Sequence of investigation – methods of data collection - data presentation – analysis – conclusion - evaluation
Careers/ Trips / Enrichment		Yorkshire wildlife Park trip Scientists, wildlife conservationists		Town Planning - Slum Improvement Scheme	York trip, Local flooding trip, Infiltration off and on site
Year 8	HT1	HT2	HT3	HT4	HT5	HT6
Year 8	Hurricane Havoc	Climate Crisis & Glaciation	Impossible Places	Who wants to be a billionaire?	Collapsing Coasts	Geographical Skills
Knowledge	Extreme Weather Events (Hurricanes, Depressions, Anticyclones – causes, impacts, LIC case study and management)	Climate over time – glaciation – climate change - causes – impacts – management – forest fires - micro climates –fieldwork investigation	Hot deserts - global locations - Las Vegas – Dubai – The Skywalk – sustainable buildings – climate change vs base camp at Everest – Forbidden places e.g. Chernobyl	Site and settlement - trade game – distribution of wealth – Africa – Asia – Middle East – types of industry - measures of development – DTM - strategies to close the development gap	Wave types - coastal processes (erosion, weathering, transportation & deposition) - rock type - landforms - holistic management - Local case study	All about maps – map symbols, 4 figure grid references –direction – scale & distance – relief – 4 & 6 figure grid references
Skills	Location – maps - atlas – latitude - Interpretation of satellite images photographs and maps	Maps – locations – interpreting photographs and satellite images – climate graphs – sequence of fieldwork investigation	Map – locations – lines of latitude – compass direction – interpretation of photographs and satellite images - graphical skills; compound bar chart. DME	Maps – locations – interpreting photographs - graphical skills; population pyramids, demographic transition model – measures of central tendency	Map – locations – compass directions – interpreting photos – OS maps - DME	Map – locations – compass directions – grid references – relief – map symbols
Careers/ Trips / Enrichment	Meteorology, hazard prevention, architecture, engineering.		Architecture / engineering -Sustainable building design in hot deserts.	Entrepreneur guest speaker	Environment Agency - Model making / play-doh coastal features. Coastal fieldtrip	Coastal Fieldtrip
Year 9	HT1	HT2	HT3	HT4	HT5	HT6
Year 9	Bridging the Gap & COVID	Advancing Asia & COVID	Hazards	Urban 1	Urban 2		Amazon Pre-Release
Knowledge	Indicators of Development – Demographic Transition Model- population pyramids - sectors of industry (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary)-uneven development-migration-health & wealth-TNC example Demographics of COVID- response - impacts globalisation / economy	Physical geography of Asia - population – comparison between Africa and Asia – manufacturing – tourism – ecotourism. The impacts of COVID on Tourism, Pollution & Climate Change.	Natural Hazards plate tectonics (Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Tsunamis) – geological timescales - hazards causes - impacts - management. HIC / LIC comparison	Megacities - urban growth creates opportunities and challenges for cities in LICs and NEEs - Mumbai & London Challenges including: squatter settlements – sanitation – crime – unemployment - urban sprawl. Urban change in cities in the UK - sustainability of cities.	Human fieldwork preparation ‘Does housing quality increase as you move away from the centre of ……..		The climate of the TRF and how this links to its distribution - structure of the TRF - reasons for the biodiverse adaptations of plants and animals - Opportunities of the rainforest – sustainability - threats and development of the TRF - stakeholders of the TRF Route to fieldwork enquiry independent fieldwork
Skills	Map skills – distribution – graphical skills – population pyramids,DME, analysing data	Locating countries – map skills – interpreting photographs – population pyramids- interpreting photos	Describing distributions - hazard mapping –latitude – countries – theories – interpreting photographs	Maps – locations – interpreting photographs - satellite images – line graph – bar chart- proportional symbols – population pyramids – DME -	Fieldwork - analysing; photos, graphs, maps; statistical:mean,mode, range, median, line of best fit; data interpretation, data presentation, GIS		Maps – location - Interpreting photographs – graphical skills; climate graph - sources of information – statistical analysis - synoptic links - DME
Careers/ Trips / Enrichment			Architecture, engineering, geology, hazard prevention - Design an earthquake proof building.		Urban fieldwork – local area		Police, data analyst, town planning. Fieldwork in local area.