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Geography Year 8

National Curriculum - Key Stage 3 - Year 7 Themes


Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
Theme – Weather & Climate
  1. What is weather & climate?
  2. Factors that affect climate
  3. Climate of the B. Isles
  4. Climate of other regions
  5. Measuring and recording weather features
  6. Forecasting the weather
  7. Microclimate
 Theme – Into Africa

New topic – being planned. 		Theme – The European Union

New topic – being planned.
Theme – Population
  1. Population distribution
  2. What factors affect where people live?
  3. Population change
  4. What is migration?
  5. Migration into America
  6. The effects of migration
 Theme – Weathering , rivers and Coasts
  1. Weathering and erosion
  2. How is material eroded, transported and deposited?
  3. Features of river valleys
  4. River pollution
  5. Coastal features and how they develop
  6. The Naze Field work activities
 Theme – Italy
  1. What is the EU
  2. What are Italy’s main physical features?
  3. What gives Italy its sense of identity?
  4. How does the environment affect people?
  5. What are Italy’s main regions?
  6. How does the climate and landscape differ between two regions in Italy?
  7. Contrast the way of life in some regions
  8. Italy enquiry