Geography learning plan year 7

THREATENED

DIVERSE

CHANGING

SUSTAINABLE

HAZADOUS

EXTREME

FRAGILE

LINKED

10. LAS VEGAS + DUBAI

BRAZIL

CRIME

VOLCANOES + EARTHQUAKES

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE?

GLOBAL FASHION

LONDON(DOCKS / OLYMPICS)

ANTARCTICA

13.EUROPES WEATHER

2. EXTREME WEATHER

9. WHAT IS SUSTAINABLITY?

12. RIVERS AND THE WATER CYCLE

6. CHANGING COASTLINES

11. RAINFORESTS

8.TOURISM

7.FLOODS

4. MY LOCAL AREA

1. WEATHER & CLIMATE

3. WALESMIGRATION IN CARDIFF

5. SPORT

CHINA / JAPAN

FRANCE / ITALY

PASSPORT TO THE WORLD

ENERGY RESOURCES

CURRICULUM PLANNING 2008Other words which could be uses:RISKY PLACESDANGEROUS PLACESFANTASTIC PLACESIMPOSSIBLE PLACESADVENTUROUS PLACES

Plan

DevelopReflect

EXIT

Weather and Climate TASC

Exploring Wales

Year 7 Learning Plan

Studying my Local Area using ICT and GIS

Rivers

Extreme Weather

Term 1

Outline Skills

Learning Across the Curriculum

Year 7

Outline Skills

Learning Across the Curriculum

Term 1

Outline Skills

Learning Across the Curriculum

Term 1

Outline Skills

Learning Across the Curriculum

Term 1

Outline Skills

Learning Across the Curriculum

ICT & Audio/Visual Resources

Question Generator

Weather and ClimateTASC

Topic overview:

This unit focuses on patterns and processes associated with weather and climate. Pupils carry out a range of investigation into local and wider afield weather situations and begin to explore how various factors affect the weather/climate in a place.Pupils are encouraged to work together to produce a weather forecast for a particular location and to choose a suitable holiday destination for a family with particular interests. In carrying out these activities they engage in enquiry-based learning and problem solving, interpret weather maps and satellite images, use ICT skills and learn to draw and interpret climate graphs.Pupils distinguish between weather and climate and identify how human activities may be linked with climate patterns; the more detailed study of air masses is left until key stage 4.

Assessment

Pupils carry out a Microclimate Investigation (enquiry) around the school.

The work build on the basic understanding of weather recording carried out in primary schools as part of our PRIMARY- SECONDARY TRANSITIONAL links Homework

Homework

Thinking Activities

Extreme WeatherTASC

Topic Overview:

This unit looks at the extremes of weather in a global context and explores the interrelationships between people and their environments. The unit allows pupils to compare and contrast their own lives with small communities who live in extreme and often remote parts of the world. A range of key skills and PSE activities are explore as the topic delves into historical reasons why settlements in the remote arctic and desserts of the world exist in the first place.

Assessment:

The main focus for assessment is the completion of a ‘Job Description’ based on tornadoes and the movie TWISTER.

ICT & Audio/Visual Resources

ICT and Audio/visual Resources

Question Generator

Homework

Local Area Study?

Topic Overview:

This unit explore the traditional Geography map skills including Grid reference, scale, direction and orienteering but involves the added dimension of ICT and GIS. The pupils get to grips with Aegis 3 and Google Earth in addition to more general Microsoft applications.

Assessment:

The unit culminates in an Enquiry project based around the local area. Pupils complete 5 set tasks and demonstrate a wide range of ICT and geographical skills

Resources

Question Generator

Homework

The Geography of Wales

Learning Objectives:

Learning Activities:

Resources

Question Generator

Homework

River

Learning Objectives:

Learning Activities:

Resources

Question Generator

Homework

The Island

Learning Objectives:

Learning Activities:

Weather and Climate

Video: What is a Stevenson Screen? You Tube: Effects

of microclimates

PPT

Extreme Weather

Metacognition

Cyclone NargisCyclone Nargis swept into

Burma on Saturday 3 May 2008, killing tens of thousands and causing widespread damage.

PPT

Local Area Studies

Metacognition

PPT

The Geography of Wales

Metacognition

PPT

Rivers

Metacognition

The Island

ApplyingUnderstandingRemembering

Analysing Evaluating Creating

Wales and the World, c.1000

The Norman Invasion

The Medieval Manor

RememberingRemembering

Can you tell me …

when…where… what…

when…?

Could you draw up a

list…bullet point…

brainstorm what you can

remember…?

Could you now tell us, or

show us, what you have

learnt (remember from

today’s lesson)…?

Can you please

describe…

UnderstandingUnderstanding

Which ideas or facts best

show...?Could you briefly

describe what you now

understand by…?

How can you best

summarise what you

have learnt?How do you know that…?

ApplyingApplying

AnalysingAnalysing

Can you now note the

similarities and

differences and describe

the differences

between…?

Can you compare your

ideas with …?Can you now prepare a

report outlining differing

viewpoints and the

reasons for these points

of view…?

What evidence can you

find...?

Can you now compare

what you have found out

with…?Using what you have just

learnt can you now tell

me why…?

How will you now use this

information …? What approach can you

now use to best show...?

EvaluatingEvaluating

CreatingCreating

Why did you choose to

develop this particular

set of ideas? How will/did

they will help you

complete the task in an

effective way?

What information can

you use to support the

view...?What is your opinion of...?

How would you change

or adapt your approach

next time when

approaching a similar

task?

What can you now create

that will best show your

ideas...?

Can you now think of any

other ways of showing

this...?

Can you now devise a

way to...?How will you now

develop...?

Plan

Develop

Reflect

ThinkingUnderstanding places,

environments andprocesses

Locating places, environments and

patterns

Investigating Geography

Communicating

Range

Weather and Climate

Plan

Develop

Reflect

Term 1Understanding places,

environments andprocesses

Locating places, environments and

patterns

Investigating Geography

Communicating

Range

Extreme Weather

Plan

Develop

Reflect

Term 1Understanding places,

environments andprocesses

Locating places, environments and

patterns

Investigating Geography

Communicating

Range

Local Area Studies

Plan

Develop

Reflect

Term 1Understanding places,

environments andprocesses

Locating places, environments and

patterns

Investigating Geography

Communicating

Range

The Geography Of Wales

Plan

Develop

Reflect

Term 1Understanding places,

environments andprocesses

Locating places, environments and

patterns

Investigating Geography

Communicating

Range

Rivers

Year 7

Year 7

Year 7

Weather & Climate Extreme Weather Local Area Wales River

Communication