Geography

Geography Key Stage 3

Curriculum aims... for all young people to become....
Responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society
Importance of Geography:
  • It explains where places are, ...how a diverse range of economies, societies and environments are interconnected
  • It builds on pupils own experiences to investigate places at all scales, from the personal to the global
  • It encourages questioning, investigation and critical thinking about issues affecting the world and people’s lives
  • Geography inspires pupils to become global citizens by exploring their own place in the world, their values and their responsibilities to other people...
1. Key Concepts
1.1
 Place

Activity 1: Exploring Kenya
a: Understanding the physical and human characteristics of real places.
b: Developing ‘geographical imaginations’ of places.
1.2 Space
a: understanding the interactions between places and the networks created by flows of information, people and goods
b: Knowing where places and landscapes are located, how they are changing... and the implications for people
1.3 Scale
Activity 2: MDGs and Me
a: Appreciating different scales – from personal and local to national, international and global.
b: Making links between scales to develop understanding of geographical ideas.
1.4 Interdependence

Activity 2: MDGs and Me

Activity 18: Energy and Global Warming
a: exploring the social, economic, environmental and political connections between places
1.5 Physical and human processes
Activity 18: Energy and Global Warming
a: Understanding how sequences of events and activities in the physical and human worlds lead to change in places, landscapes and societies.
1.6 Environmental interaction and sustainable development

Activity 2: MDGs and Me

Activity 6: Grow your Own!

Activity 18: Energy and Global Warming
a: Understanding that the physical and human dimensions of the environment are interrelated  and together influence environmental change.
b: Exploring sustainable development and its impact on environmental interaction and climate change.
1.7 Cultural understanding and diversity

Activity 1: Exploring Kenya

Activity 3: Structure of a Soap

Activity 5: Malaria Matters

Activity 10: Soaps and Stereotypes

Activity 17: Tourism and Sustainability

Activity 15: Democracy for all?
a: appreciating the differences and similarities between people, places, environments and cultures to inform their understanding of societies and economies
b: understanding how people’s values and attitudes differ and may influence social, environmental and political issues, and developing their own values and attitudes about such issues
2. Key Processes
2.4 Geographical communication
Activity 17: Tourism and Sustainability

Pupils should be able to:

a: Communicate their knowledge and understanding using geographical vocabulary and conventions in both speech and writing.
3. Range and Content
d: key aspects of the UK, including its changing human geography, current issues and its place in the world today
4. Curriculum opportunities
a: Build on and expand their personal experiences of geography
b: Explore real and relevant contemporary contexts
i: make links between geography and other subjects, including citizenship , and areas of the curriculum including ... the global dimension