Geography
Mrs A Mackey (Head of Department)
WEB BASED RESOURCES
- Geographical association
- BBC Bitesize
- Geography all the way
- Ordnance Survey
- World Geography Games
- Internet Geography
- Education Quizzes
KS3: YEARS 7-8
Year 7 – map skills / atlas skills, population and transport are the topics of the study.
Resources:
BBC Bitesize – Geography KS3: excellent information site to aid work being set and revision pages that pupils can attempt to aid further learning and understanding.Year 8 – land use and rivers. Work through booklets and work set by teachers. BBC Bitesize Geography KS3 sections on both topics and clips to watch. Revision exercises can be attempted.
Resources:
Various internet sites – Cool geography, internet geography, etc
GCSE: YEARS 9-11
Year 9 – ecosystems and Rainforest. BBC Bitesize Geography KS4: work carefully through booklets. Use pages selectively to support booklets. Revision pages to dip in and attempt.
Resources:
BBC iPlayer – Planet Earth / The Rainforest
Cool geography and various internet pages on offer
Links in your booklets
Year 10 – Rivers and Savannah and the UK.
Resources:
- BBC Bitesize
- RGS
- FSC
- Cool geography
- Internet geography
- Links provided in your booklets
KS5:
YEAR 12
Year 12 – complete AS level – tectonics, changing places and skills
YEAR 13
Year 13- ecosystems, India , water an carbon, The governance of the ocean and migration.
Resources:
- WJEC site and use the google classroom
- Links in your booklets
For up to date information on KS4 and 5 courses, please see the Options Booklets
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Key Stage 3
Year 7
Term 1
Map and Atlas skills.
Humanities/school project – ‘Our world’.Term 2
‘Our world’.
Population and Transport.Term 3
Mexico – Humanities project.
Year 8
Term 1
India – An emerging superpower.
Hazards – volcanoes and earthquakes.Term 2
Physical geography – Rivers.
Term 3
Land use – Urban patterns and land use enquiry.
Year 9
Term 1
Coasts.
Coastal management local fieldwork.Term 2
Social development.
Ecosystems and The Tropical Rainforest.Term 3
Urban – rural change
Ways in which parents can help:
- Encouraging pupils to complete homework.
- Reading over completed work before it is handed in.
- Support where and when necessary.
- Access to I.T.
- Watching the news, being aware of what is happening locally, in the UK and the World – plastics in the oceans, climate change, renewable energy
Useful websites:
Useful books/magazines/publications:
- WJEC Geography GCSE – Hodder education
- “Wide world” GCSE geography magazine – Hodder education
