Geography will be taught within this term's inquiry topics:

How we organise ourselves

Who we are

Where we are in place and time 

Geography will be taught within this term's inquiry topics:

How the world works

Sharing the planet

How the world works

How we organise ourselves

Geography will be taught within this term's inquiry topics:

How we express ourselves

Sharing the planet

Geography will be taught within this term's inquiry topics.

Where we are in place and time

Map skills: Finding and labeling countries involved in WW2

Finding and labeling major British Cities that were bombed.

Writing and using questionnaires

Drawing simple sketch maps and labeling them appropriately.

How we express ourselves

Global location of countries where the religious stories originate, e.g. India.

Geography will be taught within this term's inquiry topics.

Who we are

Global locations of various places

How the World works

The global location of fossil fuel sources. 

How our use of fossil fuels is having a negative effect on the environment, causing global warming, and how the government and scientists are looking into alternative sources of energy to replace them.  As well as looking at ways in which we can reduce our energy usage to create less demand upon the sources.

Geography will be taught within this term's inquiry topics.

How we organize ourselves

Seasonal climate changes

Global location of the food we eat

Environmental impact of the global market

Sharing the planet

Map skills: Understanding the symbols of  1:50,000 ordnance survey maps including how to take four figure grid references.

Decision making exercise about Surrey’s future landfill sites.

Interpreting aerial photographs for decision making.

The division of the UK; countries, counties and boroughs.

The facilities and components of a landfill site and the strategies to reduce environment impact.

Re-designing of supermarket products that promote reduce and reuse.

Production of a booklet to educate a specific audience about the problems and solutions to waste; independent and small group research.

Collecting of waste and reusing it to make scarecrows for school garden.

Geography will be taught within this term's Humanities topics.

Airports! The World's Your Oyster!

Shocking Shakespear! All The World's A Stage!

Geography will be taught within this term's Humanities topics.

Go Go Go! Joseph the Dream Man!

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get!" 

Geography will be taught within this term's Humanities topics.

Striking Vickings!

Hindusim - Promoting Peace!

Maps and Location Knowledge

*   What is Geography and why do we study it?

*   Maps at different scales

*   European location knowledge

*   World locational knowledge

*   Routes around the world - trade routes 

*   OS map work

*Comparison of a UK/European/World city

 Weather and climate

*   Difference between weather and climate

*   Rainfall and temperature

*   Features of a temperate climate

*   Features of a tropical climate

Brazil:

*   Location of Brazil within South America

*   Key physical/settlement features

*   Climate zones and vegetation

*   Economic Geography of Brazil

*   Physical geography of Brazil

*   Environmental Geography of Brazil

*   Human Geography of Brazil

*   Comparison of Brazil with the UK

Settlement:

*   Meaning of settlement

*   Site and situation

*   Settlement classification by size and population

*   Settlement patterns/changes with time

*   Study of Cranleigh as a settlement (fieldwork project)

 Plate tectonics:

*   Layers of the earth

*   Location of the world's earthquakes and volcanoes

*   Volcano structure

*   Volcano example: Mt Etna

*   Comparing earthquakes: San Francisco and India

*   Model volcano project  

Economic activities:

*   Sectors of employment

*   Physical and human factors that influence farming

*   Farming inquiry

*   Location factors for secondary industries

*   Syllabus case-study; Toyota car manufacturing at Burnaston

*   Hi-tech industry

*   The benefits and problems of tourism: Chamonix example

*   Tourism inquiry  

Environmental issues:

*   Understanding the environment

*   Britain's National Parks

*   Syllabus case-study: The Peak District National Park

*   Protecting wildlife: Elephants in Kenya

*   Renewable and non-renewable energy resources  

Weather and climate:

*   The difference between weather and climate

*   Processes of the water cycle

*   Influences on Britain's temperate climate

*   Microclimate

*   The three types of rainfall that effect Britain

*   Global warming and its consequences   

Mapwork:

*   4 and 6 figure grid references

*   Map symbols

*  Height on maps and relief features

*   Distance and direction

*   Describing routes 

Settlement:

*   Site and situation

*   Settlement patterns

*   Settlement functions

*   Hierarchy

*   Patterns in the city:  Concentric circle model

*   Shops and services

Location Knowledge packs

Settlement:  

*        Site and situation 

 *        Settlement patterns and functions 

*        Settlement hierarchy 

*        Urban land use: The concentric circle model 

*        Migration in LEDCs: Push and pull factors                  

*        Migration in Britain: Rural change           

Landform processes: 

 *       Weathering                  

*        Processes of erosion / transportation                  

*        Upland river features: V shaped valley + Waterfall 

*        Lowland river features:    Meanders and ox-bow lakes 

*        Coastal landform features created by erosion 

*        Coastal landform features created by deposition                  

*        Landslides and flooding 

*        Syllabus case-study: The Mississippi flood 1993

Location knowledge: 

*        The world’s major physical features 

*        The British Isles

*        Countries and capitals

*        Other features of the globe and world cities

Weather and climate:

*        Airmasses which affect Britain's weather

*        Processes of the water cycle

*        Microclimate

*        Influences on Britain's temperate climate

*        The types of rainfall

*        Syllabus case-study: Hurricane Frances 2004

*        Anticyclones and depressions

Environmental issues:

*        Tourism and the environment

*        National Parks

*        Syllabus case-study: The Peak District National Park

*        Renewable / Non-renewable resources

*        The impact of tourism in Kenya

*        Industrial Pollution

*        Environmental mapwork questions

Plate tectonics:

*        The four types of plate boundary

*        Syllabus case: Asian Tsunami - Boxing Day 2004

Mapwork: 

*        4 and 6 figure grid references 

*        Map symbols 

*        Height on maps and relief features 

*        Distance and direction on maps 

*        Describing routes 

Economic Activities: 

*        Sectors of employment 

*        Syllabus case-study: Nike textile manufacturing in SE Asia 

*        Advantages and disadvantages of tourism 

Settlement:

*        Weathering

*        Processes of erosion / transportation

*        Upland river features: V shaped valley + Waterfall

*        Lowland river features:  Meanders and ox-bow lakes

*        Coastal landform features created by erosion

*        Coastal landform features created by deposition

*        Landslides and flooding

*        Syllabus case-study: The Mississippi flood 1993

Mapwork:

*        Four and six figure grid references

*        Using direction and measuring distances / area on OS maps

*        Height on maps / relief features

*        Human and physical features on OS maps

*        How OS maps can be used to study other topics

Location knowledge:

*        The world's major physical features

*        The British Isles

Weather and climate:

*        Airmasses which affect Britain's weather

*        Processes of the water cycle

*        Microclimate

*        Influences on Britain's temperate climate

*        The types of rainfall

*        Syllabus case-study: Hurricane Frances 2004

*        Anticyclones and depressions

Environmental issues:

*        Tourism and the environment

*        National Parks

*        Syllabus case-study: The Peak District National Park

*        Renewable / Non-renewable resources

*        The impact of tourism in Kenya

*        Industrial Pollution

*        Environmental mapwork questions

Plate tectonics:

*        The four types of plate boundary

*        Syllabus case: Asian Tsunami - Boxing Day 2004

*        How humans have responded to the threat of tsunamis

Economic Activities:

*        Sectors of employment

*        Syllabus case-study: Nike textile manufacturing in SE Asia

*        Advantages and disadvantages of tourism

Revision of Common Entrance:

Travel guides project:

Landform processes:

*          Rock types and processes of weathering

*          Variables in the drainage basin that effect lagtime

*         The four processes of erosion and transportation 

*          Limestone landscapes 

*          Highland river features: V shaped valley 

*          Highland river features: waterfalls and their gorges 

*          Lowland river features: meanders and ox-bow lakes 

*          Lowland river features: Floodplains, levees and deltas 

*          Syllabus case-study review: Mississippi Flood, 1993 

*          Syllabus case-study extra: Bangladesh flood, 1998 

*          Coastal features and defence 

*          Landslides

Settlement:

*        Site and situation

*        Settlement patterns and function

*        Land use patterns and urban change

*        The London Docklands an example of urban renewal

*        Migration in LEDCs

*        Indicators of development 

Weather and climate:

*         The Hydrological cycle

*          Influence s of Britain’s weather

*          Influence s of Britain’s temperate climate including the three types of rainfall

*          Singapore’s equatorial climate

*          Weather systems (anticyclones and depressions)

*          Climate change leading to natural hazards (Hurricane Frances case-study)

*          Microclimate

Economic activities:

*        Sectors of employment

*        Globalization

*        Hi-tech manufacturing industry

*        Syllabus case-study: Toyota as a transnational company

*        Syllabus case-study: Nike clothing manufacture in SE Asia 

Environmental issues:

*         Environmental definitions

*          National parks

*          Syllabus case-study: The Peak District National Park

*          Syllabus case-study: Tsavo National Park, Kenya

*          European tourism 

Plate tectonics:

*          Four types of plate boundary

*          Volcano Structure

*          Syllabus case study: Asian Tsunami – Boxing Day 2004

*          Syllabus case study: Mt Etna eruption 2001

*          How humans have responded to tectonic threats

Revision of human and physical topics 

Travel guides project