Welcome to Geography

• The importance of maps

• Physical Geography of the UK

• Human Geography of the UK

• Immigration history of the UK

• Earth’s structure

• Life on Earth

• The importance of water

• Countries, populations and economies

Skills developed:

• Using photos to identify physical and human features

• Using compass directions to describe direction

• Identify relief on topographical maps

Skills developed:

• Using a world map to identify continents and oceans

• Using cross-sectional diagrams to identify layers on the Earth

• Using line graphs and choropleth maps to describe population change

• Describing population pyramids

• The value of resources

• Distribution of resources

• Patterns of global trade

• The UK’s trading relationship

• Distribution of urban and rural population

• Changing distribution of megacities

• Opportunities and challenges in Delhi

• Sustainability in Delhi

• Deindustrialisation and regeneration in Manchester

Skills developed:

• Use a symbols map to identify the locations

• To use a flowchart to show a supply chain

• Annotating photographs

• Using OS maps to identify features using the symbols and key

• Interpreting pie charts to show proportion

• Interpreting line graphs to show changes over time

Skills developed:

• Using map symbols and 4 figure grid reference to understand characteristics of settlements

• Using GIS to examine and urban area

• Annotating photographs to understand environmental challenges

• Distinguishing between weather and climate

• Methods to measure weather

• Hypothesis and analysis

• Water cycle: frontal and relief rainfall

• The UK climate

• Extreme weather in the UK

• Identifying landforms

• Coastal erosion

• Coastal deposition

• Coastal transportation

• Management at the coast

Skills developed:

• Using weather symbols and maps to describe weather

• Data collection using wind speed and temperature

• Presenting data in a bar chart

• Drawing a climate graph of the UK

Skills developed:

• Using OS maps to recognise coastal landforms

• Photo-analysis of coastal landforms

• Appreciating different viewpoints to make a decision

• How a river changes

• The Importance of Rivers

• Challenges of Water Supply

• Management of Water Supply

• Importance of food

• Food surplus and scarcity

• Challenges of Food Supply

• Management of Food Supply

Skills developed:

• Using a calculator to find percentages

• Comparing quantities following a percentage increase or decrease

• Calculating with percentages and ratios

Skills developed:

• Infer human activity from map evidence

• Draw informed conclusions from numerical data.

• Writing descriptively, analytically and critically and draw well evidenced and informed conclusions about geographical questions and issues.

• Use scatter graphs to show correlation

• The importance of energy

• Global demand for energy

• Non-renewable and renewable sources

• The global energy mix

• History of climate change

• Causes of climate change

• Evidence and impacts of climate change

• Managing climate change

Skills developed:

• Using a choropleth to understand changing energy use

• Using a compound line graph to describe regional population change

• Completing flow charts to sequence the process of renewable energy sources

• Using a pie chart to examine fossil fuels use

Skills developed:

• Using latitude to explain location of climate zones

• Using line graphs to understand long term climatic changes

• Using aerial photographs to evidence climate change

• Use heat maps to show variation in temperature change

• Evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies

• Importance of polar environments

• Polar ecosystems

• Russian Arctic

• Life in Yamal Peninsula

• Locational context

• Physical and human geography

• Culture and conflict

• Wealth and resources

Skills developed:

• Locate polar environments using latitude

• Use food web diagrams to show and describe complex connections

• Use diagrams of the Earth’s orbit

• Annotate photos to identify species adaptations

• Use qualitative data to identify and describe viewpoints

Skills developed:

• Comparing historical maps to understand changes in country borders

• Labelling topographical maps to show features of physical geography

• Drawing labelled diagrams of high and low pressure

• Comparing quantitative data of population changes with the UK

• Layers of the ocean

• Importance of oceans for humans and the environment

• The role of oceans in regulating climate

• Oceans as carbon sinks

• Different marine ecosystems

• Coral reefs: Anatomy, importance and threats

• Environmental impacts

• Political tensions

Skills developed:

• Interpreting a cross sectional diagram to understand seafloor elevation

• Use food web diagrams to show and explain complex connections

• Annotating world map with ocean currents

• Interpreting bathymetric maps

Skills developed:

• Labelling the anatomy of a coral polyp

• Using a compound bar graph to distinguish between moderate and severe bleaching events

• Evaluating viewpoints on the controversial issue of fishing in Somali waters

• Economic change in HIC’s

• China’s developing economy

• Globalisation: Benefits and threats

• Transnational Corporations

• Characteristics of underdevelopment

• Development indicators

• Causes of unequal development

• Case study: India

Skills developed:

• Using large number data for comparison

• Using choropleth maps to describe population distribution

• Using a line graph to describe changes over time

• Using flow maps to describe pattern

Skills developed:

• Using photographs to describe differences

• Extracting data from line graphs and choropleth maps to describe trends

• Using relief maps to describe physical geography

• Cross reference maps and numerical data to draw conclusions

• Locational context

• The power of ice

• Accumulation, ablation and mass balance

• Erosional and depositional landforms

• Peri-glacial environments

• Fluvial, glacial and geological processes

• The UK as a deciduous biome

• Economic trends and change

• Personal investigation

Skills developed:

• Using lines of latitude to explain differences in temperature

• Using photographs and OS maps in tandem and Digimap to identify glacial features

• Comparing photographs to describe glacial changes

• Draw and label diagrams to describe sea level change

Skills developed:

• Awaiting mastery curriculum

• Natural hazards pose major risks to people and property

• Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are the result of physical processes

• The effects of, and responses to, a tectonic hazard vary between areas of contrasting levels of wealth

• Global atmospheric circulation helps to determine patterns of weather and climate • Tropical storms develop as a result of particular physical conditions

• Tropical storms and their effects on the people and environment

• The UK is affected by a number of weather hazards

• Extreme weather in the UK

• Climate change is the result of natural and human factors

• Managing climate change

Skills developed:

• Describe and explain dot distribution maps of tectonic hazards

• Create and explain cross sectional diagrams of plate margins

• Manipulate data from a logarithmic scale including magnitude and frequency

• Sequencing physical processes to explain natural hazards and link to the effect on people

• Use photographs to describe effects and risks of natural hazards from photographs

Skills developed:

• Use satellite images to predict the path of tropical storms

• Use satellite images and cross-sectional diagrams to describe the structure of tropical storms

• Sequencing processes to explain the formation of tropical storms

• Use written sources to understand the chronology of extreme weather in the UK

• Develop an extended written argument, drawing well-evidenced and informed conclusions about climate change

• Ecosystems exist at a range of scales

• Tropical rainforests have distinctive characteristics

• Deforestation has economic and environmental impacts

• Sustainable management of tropical rainforests

• Hot deserts have distinctive characteristics

• Development of hot deserts creates opportunities and challenges

• Areas on the fringe of hot desert are at risk of desertification

• A growing % of the world’s population lives in urban areas

• Urban growth creates opportunities and challenges for cities in LICs and NEEs

Skills developed:

• Use latitude and longitude to explain the location of biomes

• Use photographs to describe and explain the characteristics of biomes

• Use aerial photographs to recognise deforestation

• Interpreting and constructing climate graphs of different biomes

• Use case study evidence to make informed decisions about opportunities and challenges

• Understand different viewpoints to make a judgement on the sustainable management of desertification

Skills developed:

• Using map symbols, scale and 6 figure grid references to describe urban change

• Explaining urban change using a range of maps, photographs and quotations

• Evidence trends of urbanisation on different scales using line graphs

• Understand the physical and human geography of a city in an LIC or NEE

• Use a case study (above) to discuss and evaluate opportunities and challenges

• Urban change in cities in the UK leads to a variety of social, economic and environmental opportunities and challenges

• Urban sustainability requires management of resources and transport

• The coast is shaped by a number of physical processes

• Coastal landforms

• Management of coastal landforms

• The shape of river valleys change downstream

• River landforms

• Management of river landscapes

Skills developed:

• Explaining the connections between human populations at a local and national level, and the opportunities and inequalities that arise as a result

• Decision-making to select sustainable management strategies for cities, commenting on the future

Skills developed:

• Using OS maps, photographs and sketch maps to identify coastal and fluvial landforms

• Explaining a sequence of processes that cause geographical coastal and fluvial landforms

• Using qualitative evidence, explain how human activities can influence coastal retreat and river flooding

• Assess the effectiveness of coastal and river management strategies

• Developing a geographical enquiry

• Measuring and recording data

• Data presentation

• Data analysis

• Conclusion and evaluation of fieldwork

• Food, water and energy are fundamental to human development

• The changing demand and provision of resources in the UK create opportunities and challenges

• Demand for food resources is rising globally but supply can insecure, which may lead to conflict

• Different strategies can be used to increase food supply

Skills developed:

• Select relevant aims and hypotheses to answer a geographical enquiry

• Identify and apply appropriate methods of data collection to investigate these aims and hypotheses

• Present data collected through relevant forms of data presentation

• Interpret and evaluate the data presented and methods used to answer the enquiry question

• Reaching conclusions based on evidence

Skills developed:

• Understand the relationship between significance of resources and economic and social wellbeing

• Use a variety of maps to analyse global inequalities of supply and consumption of resources

• Recognise and explain trends in UK food, water and energy supply and demand using statistics

• Applying an understanding of surplus and deficit to global maps to describe and explain spatial and temporal patterns

• Evaluating the effectiveness of strategies used to increase food supply

• Discussing the future of resource management and methods used to make food supply more sustainable, now and in the future

• Global variations in economic development & quality of life

• Various strategies exist for reducing the global development gap

• Some LICs and NEEs are experiencing rapid economic development which leads to significant social, environmental and cultural change

• Major changes in the economic of the UK have affected, and will continue to affect employment patters and regional growth

Skills developed:

• Interpret and extract information from graphs and charts, including population pyramids and the Demographic Transition Model (DTM).

• Draw informed conclusions from numerical data - specifically demographic indicators

• Linking qualitative and quantitative sources to explain development

Skills developed:

• Developing an in depth understanding of the economy, culture, politics and environment of Nigeria as a case study of an LIC/NEE.

• Explaining and evaluating major changes in the UK economy that will continue to affect employment patterns and regional growth

• Nature, forms and potential impacts of natural hazards
• Earth structure and internal energy sources
• Destructive, constructive and conservative plate margins
• Magma plumes
• The nature of vulcanicity and its relation to plate tectonics
• Impacts of human responses to a recent volcanic event 

• The nature of seismicity and its relation to plate tectonics
• Impacts of human responses to a seismic event
• The nature of tropical storms
• Impacts and human responses to 2 contrasting tropical storms
• Nature of wildfires
• Impacts and human responses to a recent wildfire event 

• Coasts as natural systems
• Sources of energy in coastal environments
• Sediment sources, cells and budgets
• Geomorphological processes
• Distinctively coastal processes
• Origin and development of landscape and landscape of coastal erosion and deposition

• Eustatic, isostatic and tectonic sea level change
• Coastlines of emergence and submergence
• Climatic change and impact on coasts
• Coastal management
• Case study: local scale coastline in the UK
• Case study: contrasting coastal landscape 

• What is a geographical enquiry?
• Existing research and literature review
• Research questions, aims and hypothesis
• Data collection
• Data presentation and analysis
• Conclusion and evaluation
• Referencing
• Appendices

• Global population change, patterns and trends
• Key elements in the physical environment
• Key population parameters
• The role of development in population
• Global and regional patterns of food consumption and production
• Agricultural systems and productivity and its links with environmental variables
• Case study of 2 major climate types
• The impact of climate change on agriculture
• Case study of 2 zonal soils
• Soil problems and management and its links with agriculture

• Strategies to ensure food security
• Global patterns of health, mortality and morbidity
• Linking health and development through the epidemiological transition model (ETM)
• The relationship between environment and disease (air and water quality)
• Case study of malaria
• Case study of asthma
• Role of international agencies and NGOs in managing health globally
• Explaining natural population change using the DTM
• Population pyramids and the concept of the demographic dividend
• Causes, processes and impacts of migration 

• Population growth dynamics and the balance between population and resources
• Models and perspectives of population growth- past, present and future
• Health impacts of global environmental change
• Global population futures
• Case study of Japan as a country experiencing population change
• Case study of a local area linking place and health 

• The concept of place and its importance, different perspectives and categories
• Factors contributing the character of place - endogenous and exogenous
• Meaning and representation of places
• The impact of relationships and connections on people and place
• The role external agencies in shaping place
• Social and economic characteristics of places
• The role identity perspectives and experience 

• Local place study to explore the developing character of Wandsworth
• Contrasting study to explore the developing character of Spitalfields and Banglatown
• Lived experience, changing demographics, cultural characteristics and economic changes of the case studies 

• Qualitative sources to research place e.g. photographs, paintings, interviews and songs
• Quantitative data to research place e.g. census data, geo-spatial data, GIS

• The water cycle as a system
• Global distribution of major stores of water
• Processes driving changes in the magnitude of these stores of water
• Drainage basin as an open system
• Runoff variation and flood hydrograph
• Changes in the water cycle over time 

• Global distribution of major stores of carbon  
• Processes driving changes in the magnitude of these stores of carbon
• Changes in the carbon cycle over time
• The carbon budget
• Water, carbon, climate and life on Earth
• Case study: tropical rainforest
• Case study: river catchment

• Dimensions of globalisation
• Factors in globalisation
• Forms and nature of economic, political, social and environmental interdependence in the contemporary world
• Issues associated with interdependence
• Global features and trends in the volume and pattern of international trade
• Trading relationships
• Differential access to markets
• The nature and role of TNCs
• World trade in one food commodity 

• The emergence and developing role of norms, laws and institutions in regulation global systems
• Global variations in economic development & quality of life
• Reducing the development gap 

• The global commons
• Antarctica as a global common
• Globalisation critique