Geography

Welcome to the Geography Curriculum Area

What do we study in geography?

Topics in Year 7 include:

• Making and mapping connections
• Exploring Britain
• Settlement
• Geography of sport
• Plates, earthquakes and volcanoes

Topics in Year 8 include:

• Coasts
• Antarctica
• Weather and climate
• Ecosystems
• Our warming planet
• Geography of crime

Topics in Year 9 include:

• Development
• Tourism
• Changing China
• Global fashion
• Dangerous places
• Individual project work

GCSE Geography includes: tectonics, population and migration, coasts, industry, rivers and flooding, resources and tourism, as well as geographical skills.

(Please note that some topics in Key Stage 3 will be altered from September 2007 due to changes in the National Curriculum).

The importance of geography In the Key Stage 3 National Curriculum:

In geography we find out about interesting and wonderful places. Geography helps us make sense of our complex and changing world. It explains how places and landscapes are formed, and how people and environments interact. We find out how different societies, economies and environments are connected.

In geography we learn to investigate our world at different scales, building on what we already know. We investigate issues affecting the world and people’s lives. We ask questions and think critically about the world, today and in the future.

Sometimes we learn through fieldwork. We learn to think spatially, using maps, images and ICT. With them we find, present and analyse information.

Geography helps us to become global citizens. We explore our place in the world, our values and responsibilities to other people, to the environment and the sustainability of the planet.