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Geography
Curriculum Details - 2024/2025 (Current)
| Year | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 | Term 5 | Term 6 |
| 7 | Think like a geographer: What is Geography? Where do places begin? OS map skills; 4 and 6 figure grid references, distance, direction, and height | Place Studies: The place I go to school The place I live Places in the UK Latitude and longitude Places in Europe and worldwide | The World of Work: Employment Sectors Globalisation The Geography of Football Careers: Types of jobs and how jobs are influenced by globalisation | Tourism: Tourism in Europe Impacts of Tourism Seaside Resorts Sustainable Tourism Careers: Tourism and Hospitality (Unifrog) | Coastal Landscapes: Weathering and Erosion Erosional Landforms Longshore drift and depositional landforms Cause and effect of cliff collapse Coastal management Issue evaluation: The defence dilemma | Exploring Russia & The Middle East: Locations Physical Features Climate Zones and Biomes The People |
| 8 | Changing weather and climate: Introduction to weather and climate, how we measure, record and present the weather, climate of the UK, climate graphs, extreme weather in the UK. Careers: Jobs in weather and climate industries | Natural Hazards: The Great Storm, hurricanes, volcanoes and earthquakes; evidence, cause, effect and response. | People in the UK - challenges and opportunities: Measuring population, use of the census, UK ageing population, population pyramids, international migration, internal migration, ethnic and cultural diversity. Poverty and homelessness. Careers: Energy Engineer (unifrog) | Global challenges and opportunities: Global development and how we measure development, inequality, food inequality - famine and obesity, health inequality, comparing healthcare in a HIC and a LIC. | Global challenges and opportunities: Squatter settlements, life in Dharavi, economic opportunity - the geography of chocolate (fairtrade), social challenge - cholera, environmental challenge - plastic in the ocean, political challenge - the geography of conflict zones, sustainable tourism. | Africa is not a country: What is Africa like, African populations, The Sahara, The Horn of Africa, Nigeria a Newly Emerging Economy and Opportunities in Nigeria. |
| 9 | Ecosystems: Components, balance between components, impact of changing a component. Global ecosystems - distribution and characteristics. Tropical rainforests: physical characteristics, plant and animal adaptations, changing rates of deforestation, causes of deforestation. | Tropical rainforests: Impacts of deforestation, value of the rainforest, strategies to manage sustainably, palm oil plantations. Cold Environments: UK physical landscapes. River landscapes in the UK - Long and cross profile | The changing economic world: Development indicators, quality of life, demographic transition model, population pyramids, causes and consequences of uneven development, strategies to reduce the development gap, tourism in Jamaica. | Nigeria, an NEE: Importance regionally and globally, geographical context of Nigeria, the countries global trading relationships, the changing industrial sector, the role of TNCs, international aid, the environmental impact of economic development, the effects of development on quality of life. | River landscapes in the UK: Long and cross profile, characteristics and formation of landforms, physical and human factors affecting flooding, hydrographs, hard engineering and soft engineering strategies and an example of a flood management scheme. | River Landscapes and Fieldwork: Horncastle Flood Management Scheme, river fieldwork study, fieldwork write up and skills. Careers: Hydrographic Surveyor (Unifrog) |
| 10 | The changing economic world: Economic futures in the UK , causes of economic change, a post-industrial economy, science and business parks, environmental impacts of industry, social and economic changes in the rural landscape. Careers: Town Planner (Unifrog) | The changing economic world: Transport infrastructure (airports), the north-south divide, Lancashire LEP, UK in the wider world. Coastal Landscapes - Wave type and characteristics. Coastal Processes (weathering, mass movement, erosion, transportation and deposition) | Coastal Landscapes: Wave type and characteristics, coastal Processes, coastal landforms, formation of erosion landforms, characteristics and formation of depositional landforms, management strategies (Skegness) and hard and soft engineering strategies. | Urban issues and challenges: Urbanisation, megacities, Rio de Janeiro: importance, growth, challenges (social, economic and environmental), squatter settlements, management of favelas and Favela Bairro project. | Urban issues and challenges: Bristol: importance, opportunities and challenges (social, economic, environmental), Temple Quarter regeneration project. | Urban issues and challenges: Sustainable urban living, Friberg. Fieldwork: Coastal fieldtrip (Skegness), and write up. |
| 11 | Natural hazards: Types and factors affecting Tectonic hazards: Plate tectonic theory, plate margins, earthquakes; cause, effect, response and management. | Weather hazards: Atmospheric circulation model, tropical storms; characteristics, cause, effect, response and management. Extreme weather; causes, impacts and management strategies. Fieldwork - Human Fieldwork Trip to Lincoln. Careers: Urban Planning Skills | Climate change: Evidence for climate change, cause; natural and human, effects and managing climate change. Careers: Climate related jobs (unifrog) | Resource management: Global distribution of resources. Provision of food, water and energy in the UK Chosen Module: Energy - areas of surplus and deficit, factors affecting energy availability, impacts of energy insecurity, strategies to increase energy supply, renewable energy supplies. | GCSE Pre-Release Material Revision | Pre-reading for A level Changing Places: Using 3 locations you visit over the summer, describe the sense of place and place perception in that area. |
| 12 | Physical: Water and carbon cycles Human: Changing Places (The nature and importance of places 3.2.2.2 Changing places - relationships, connections, meaning and representation) Fieldwork: North Yorkshire Skills Trip | Physical: Water and carbon cycles Human: Changing Places | Physical: Water and carbon cycles Human: Changing Places Y12: Exams | Physical: Seismic Hazards and Volcanic Hazards Human: Contemporary Urban Environments (Urbanisation, urban form and issues associated with urbanisation) Non-Examined Assessment: Proposals | Physical: Tropical Storms (Hazards) Human: Contemporary Urban Environments (Urban Climate, Urban Drainage, Urban Waste and Environmental Issues) | Physical: Wildfires (Hazards) Human: Contemporary Urban Environments (Case Studies: London, Rio and Mumbai) Non-Examined Assessment: Methodology and graphs Careers: GIS Skills |
| 13 | Physical: Hot Deserts Human: Global Systems and Global Governance Non-Examined Assessment: Results, Conclusion and Bibliography Careers: Hot Desert Conservation | Physical: Hot Deserts Human: Global Systems and Global Governance Non-Examined Assessment: Completed Careers: Jobs in Antarctica | Physical: Hot Deserts Human: Global Systems and Global Governance | Quantitative and qualitative skills Revision |