Geography Department
Curriculum Overview
Year 4
• Introduction to maps
• What are maps
• Map pojections
• Exploring the UK
• Map symbols
• Compass work
• Distance
• Four figure grid references
• Latitude & Longitude
• The European Union
• Countries & Capitols
• What is the E.U
• Case Studies
• Spain
• France
• Sweden
• Poland
• Kenya
• Where is Kenya
• Climate & Relief
• The Savanna & Vegetation
• Kenya as an LEDC
• Population growth & structure
• Population migration
Year 5
• Mapwork-recap four figure grid references
• Six figure grid references
• Photos & maps
• Sketch mappingInterpreting maps
• Maps & pictures
• Relief on maps
• Rainforests
• What is a biome
• Animal adaptations
• Location of the Rainforests
• Where is the Amazon-sketch mapping
• Climate of the Amazon
• Cross section of the Rainforest
• Indigenous tribes
• Rainforest Development
• Why is the Amazon being destroyed
• The Tucurui Dam
• Role play
• Sustainable Cities
• Traffic problems in London & Mexico
• Waste management in cities
• How can buildings be made sustainable
• Building on Greenfield & Brownfield sites
Year 6
• The Drainage Basin System
• The Water Cycle
Rivers of the UK & the World
• Features of a drainage basin
• Landforms & processes in the Upper course
• Landforms & processes in the Middle & Lower course
• Flooding & river management
• Case Study- Boscastle
• National Parks
Where are the NP's
• What are NP's
• Ownership of the NP's
• Case Study- The Lake District
• Tourism & management of the NP's
• Plate Tectonics Part I
• Age of Earth & cross section
• What is Tectonics
• What happens at Plate margins
• Measurement of Earth movement
• Eartquake damage & limitation
• Case Study- Kobe
• Tsunamis- causes & effects
Year 7
• Plate Tectonics Part II
• Location of volcanoes
• What is a volcano
• Classification of volcanoes
• Case Study- Mt St Helens
• Consequences of eruptions
• Rock types
• Weathering & Erosion
• Weather & Climate-differences
• Weather & Climate graphs
• What is the water cycle
• Different types of rainfall
• Weather in the UK
• Factors affecting climate
• Depressions & Anticyclones
• Weather diary
• Measuring the weather
• Locating a weather station
• Microclimates
• Weather hazards
• Case Study- Hurricane Katrina
• Causes & effects
• Settlement Part I
• Settlement location
• Situation of a settlement
• Classification of settlement
• Function of a settlement
• Settlement Part II
• Settlement hierarchy
• Services & functions of settlements
• Hierarchy of shops & services
• Sphere of influence
• Land use models
• CBD problems & solutions
• Inner city problems & solutions
Year 8
• Settlement Part II
• LEDC cities
• Study- Kenya
• Problems & solutions of city dwellers
• Coasts
• Processes & features created by erosion & deposition
• Coastal defence
• Economic Activity
• Classification of Industry
• Industry as a system
• Location of Industry
• High Tech industry
• UK high Tech industry
• Problems of High Tech industry
• Globalisation
• Effects on LEDC's
• Case Studies- Union Carbide,Shell,Coca Cola
• Fieldtrip to I.O.W.Data collection and write up of fieldwork study
• Revision of syllabus in preparation for Scholarship & CE Exams