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Geography Year 7

National Curriculum - Key Stage 3 - Year 7 Themes


Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
Theme – What is Geography?
  1. What is physical, human and environmental geography?
  2. How can places be described?
  3. How can places be located using the atlas and globe
  4. Graphs in geography
  5. Computers in geography
Theme – The UK
  1. Where is the UK?
  2. What is the UK?
  3. What are the UK’s main physical and human features?
  4. Where do people in the UK come from?
  5. What jobs do people in the UK do?
  6. Urban and rural areas
  7. Regional differences
Theme – Environmental concerns
  1. Planning and managing the environment
  2. How can we care for the environment?
  3. Why does wildlife need protecting?
  4. Renewable and non-renewable resources
  5. Oil and the environment
  6. The environment enquiry
  7. Additions / changes to be made here – see KS3 Schedule
Theme – Knowing your world?

New unit – being planned
Theme – Map Skills in Geography
  1. How to show direction using the compass
  2. How to measure distance
  3. How to use map symbols
  4. How to use grid references
  5. How to measure height
  6. How to describe a route
Theme – Settlement
  1. Settlement site, situation, functions
  2. Settlement patterns – local region
  3. Settlement growth and decline –the effects of urbanisation
  4. Land use change within settlements
  5. Settlement hierarchies