KS3 Curriculum Booklet 2017 -18

Curriculum Overview KS3

Subject: Geography Overview effective from[date ]: September 2017

Geography medium term plan 

YEAR 7 

YEAR 8 

YEAR 9  

CHINA  FIELDWORK : HOW POLLUTED IS THE SCHOOL  AIR?  Content: Continents, population, development,  tectonics, economics, pollution, glaciation.   AFRICA  Content: Ecosystems, development,  economics, weather and climate, tectonics.  

POLE TO POLE 

GEOGRAPHICAL SKILLS  FIELDWORK: WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE  FOR SIGNAL?  Content: Continents, descriptions, maps  skills our country.    AMERICAS  Content: Population, development,  tectonics, weather, ecosystems,  tectonics, coasts.  

Term 1 & 2 

Content: Development, spearman’s rank,  ecosystems, energy, tectonics, biome,  climate change.  

OCEANIA AND SOUTH EASTERN ASIA 

Term 3 & 4 

Content: Climate change, ecosystems,  urbanisation, population, tectonics,  weather, development.   THE UK (Getting ready for GCSE  geography).   Content: Coasts, rivers, weather and  climate, population, urbanisation.

TRIP: CADBURY WORLD (COCOA) 

MIDDLE EAST  FIELDWORK: WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE FOR A  SOLAR PANEL?  

INDIA/BANGLADESH  Content: Weather, tectonics,  development, economies, ecosystems.  

Term 5 & 6 

Content: Ecosystems, development, resources,  population, weather and climate.   

TRIP : RIVER STUDY