Geography Super Curriculum Year 7
Map Skills Extreme China Ecosystems Rivers Environments
School library section 551, School library section 551 School library section 951 School library section School library section 912 Extreme Earth, Visual Travel Through China, 574.5/581 Planet Habitats, 551.48 Mapping Britain’s Mapping Britain’s Explorers 551.2 Come on a journey of Louise & Richard Spilsbury Landscapes, Rivers, by Landscapes, Coasts, by Geography Fact Files, discovery by Lynn Huggins- (581) Horrible Geography: Barbara Taylor (551.48) Barbara Taylor (551.4) Deserts by Anna Cooper (951) Chinese Bloomin’ Rainforest Geography Fact Files, Mapping Britain’s Claybourne (551.41) Focus, Changing China, by Rivers by Mandy Ross Landscapes, Rivers, by Horrible Geography - Marta Block (551.48) Horrible Barbara Taylor (551.48) Bloomin' Rainforests Geography - Raging Rivers Children’s Atlas (912) Harry (2001) (2000) Potter, (Marauder's Map) JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (map of Middle Earth)
Master and commander Plant Earth – Deserts, Supersized Earth – Episode Ecosystems class clips, BBC BBC Human PlanetFriend (2003) Mountains, From Pole to 2 Bridge Building Mulan http://www.bbc.co.uk/ or foe? Lord of the rings (2001) Pole. (1998) education/ topics/ Supersized Earth, episode BBC Human Planet: Arctic ztgw2hv/ resources/1 3, Food, Fire and Water – Life in the deep freeze. BBC Human Planet – Jungles. (Water) Deserts – Life in the Planet Earth, Jungles Avatar Into the wild (2007) Planet furnace (2009) Madagascar (2005) Earth, Fresh Water Mountains – life in the air
The history of maps. When, How to plants adapt to Choose one animal that is Research and create fact files Research about the past, why and how did the OS map living in threatened by China’s for 5 of the world’s main present and future plans begin? When and why did deserts/rainforests/pol ar development. Create a biomes for the Thames Barrier lines of latitude and regions. What features do poster to support a London. Find out when longitude begin? they have to ensure their campaign to protect it. You was it built, how much did success? Name the plants, could include how it is it cost, how does it work, label and annotate their threatened, where (location how has the usage features using a diagram map) & what you want changed since it was built, people and the government what the future plans to to do to help. protect London? Research areas at risk of flooding using
Write an adventurous story Imagine you are travelling Create a leaflet aimed at First watch this link: Imagine you live near a using OS map symbols (to through an extreme tourists visiting China. It http://www.bbc.co.uk/ river that has just flooded replace words) environment of your could include basic education/clips/ your home. Write a story choice. Write a diary entry information about currency, zpmb4wx about your experience or of a particularly difficult language, transport. You Now imagine you are a write a letter to the local day. How did you feel, could recommend two member of The Korowai tribe council persuading them how did you survive? places to visit in China & live in a remote region of the to do more to help explain why they are hot and humid West Papuan manage the river in the interesting sites to see rainforest. Write about a day in future. your life.
General Geography Songs: BBC Four, Food in extreme Chinese pop music (CPop). BBC Four, Costing The Earth, BBC Four, A Tale of Two Oceans, Continents, and places: Antarctica Look up on YouTube e.g. Heroines of the Rainforest Rivers: Kuala Lumpur Reading the Map http://www.bbc.co.uk/p https://www.youtube.com/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/program http://www.bbc.co.uk/pr http://www.songsforteaching rogrammes/b075mhgr watch?v=KotIoTRNMqY mes/b08hnly0 ogrammes/p0574s8w .com/geographysongs.htm Compare to traditional Chinese Music
Greenwich Meridian, The British Museum, China Town, Epping Forest River Lea Pokemon Go, London – The Amazon, Local Chinese restaurant Kew Gardens River Thames Geocashing, Brazil Natural History V&A South Asia, China Heartswood Forest River Ver London Transport Museum, Museum, London ZSL Chiltern AONB River Stort London Zoo ZSL Lee Valley Regional Park Thames Museum, Whipsnade Epping Forest London ZSL London Zoo ZSL Whipsnade Rainham Marshes
Geography Super Curriculum Year 8
Earthquakes Urban Coasts Weather Population Antarctica and Tsunamis
School library section KS3 Geography School library section Horrible Geography – The Lightless Sky: An School library section 551.2 Sweeping Complete Study & 551 Coasts, by Barbara Stormy Weather A Afghan Refugee Boy’s 998 Antarctica (New Tsunami’s, Louise & Practice Taylor (551.4) Coral Bear Grylls Adventure Journey of Escape to A True Books: Richard Spilsbury reefs, Go Fact (551.42) 1: The Blizzard New Life in Britain by Geography) by Mel (551.2) Our Earth In Notes from a small Challenge: by Bear Gulwali Passarlay and Friedman Horrible Action, Earthquakes by island by Bill Bryson Grylls Nadene Ghouri If the Geography Perishing Chris Oxlade (551.2) Horrible Geography - World Were a Village: Poles (2002) Glaciers Running Wild, by Cracking Coasts (22 A Book about the and Glaciation, 2nd Michael Morpurgo May 2006) World's People Edition by Douglas Horrible Geography - (CitizenKid) by David Benn Extracts of Earth-Shattering Smith Captain Scott’s Diary Earthquakes (17 entries November 2000)
The Impossible, 2012, SuperSized Earth BBC Coasts Series The Perfect Storm Lion 2016 Ice Age Steve Naomi Watts/Ewan Episode:1 A Place to (2000) Backshall's BBC Earth McGregor Live (1 of 3) PT.2 series, “Deadly 60 Pole to Pole”. ‘Happy Feet’
USGS – GIS Find out How is New York Investigate what it is Use the storymap to Use the Guardian Use the BBC what live earthquakes adapting their like to live with erosion investigate Typhoon website to research ‘Antarctica Wildlife’ to are happening using transport system to at the Holderness Haiyan and make notes the latest issues understand how real-time data and cope with the growing Coast. on the terrible around the rising animals are adapted to their magnitude. Is urban population https://esriukeducati disaster. global population: such extreme there a correlation? on.maps.arcgis.com/ https://notredameco https://www.theguar conditions and the apps/MapSeries/ind bham.maps.arcgis.c dian.com/world/popu threats which face ex.html?appid=760a om/apps/Cascade/in lation them in the modern f30c37a245acbd546 dex.html?appid=bba world. cf42c7ec0cb 35e41b8da423498a http://www.bbc.co.uk/ e3bf461e161c8 nature/places/Antarcti ca
Write an instruction Imagine you have just Write a letter to A depression system is Imagine you are a Imagine you are an manual for somebody moved from the Holderness Council coming in from the migrant fleeing your explorer like Captain in an earthquake zone countryside to an recommending what Atlantic and moving homeland and heading Scott. Create a dairy detailing what to do in urban area in an LIC. types of defences they East over the British for the UK. Write a entry of your own. the event of a quake. Write a postcard home should put in place at Isles. Write a weather diary entry for a day in What advice would outlining your Holderness. forecast for the next your life outlining your you give? experiences. 24 hours outlining perilous journey and what the weather will what you hope to find be like. when you arrive.
Listen to the sound of an Stories by the City BBC Four, Holding Back the Sea Listen to Vivaldi’s Four BBC 4 Programme ‘Migration BBC Four, Antarctica earthquake and match it to the http://www.storiesof http://www.bbc.co.uk Seasons. How does the music for Whom’? http://www.bbc.co.uk/ event that created it. ourcity. /programmes/b04pb mk1 conjure up weather http://www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/b00ss2th https://www.usgs.gov/ org/home/stori es-by-map experienced in each season? programmes/b03nb sgd media/videos/ listenearthqus
Visit the earthquake Visit any urban area, Any coastline! See if Visit London’s Science Visit the ‘Crossing Visit the ‘Scott Polar simulator at the such as London. Take you can see how Museum to find out Borders’ exhibition at Research Institute’ at Natural History time to observe how people have used the more about how the British Museum in the University of Museum in London. cities manage land along the coast. Is weather is monitored London to find out Cambridge to find out The earthquake transport to cope with it completely natural? and the science behind about European more about the simulation is themed large numbers e.g. Are there facilities to our weather. Migration throughout continent. on a Japanese segregated lanes, attract tourists? Are history. supermarket and was schemes to encourage there management installed a long time use of public transport, strategies to protect before the destructive methods to stop the coast from Japanese earthquake people using cars. Plan erosion? in March 2011 your transport e.g. use a tube map to plan your route
Geography Super Curriculum Year 9
Conflict Tectonics and Volcanoes Development Environmental Concerns
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini School library section 551.2 Our Why the Whales came, by Michael School library section 551.6 Issues Shadow, by Michael Morpurgo Earth In Action, Volcanoes by Chris Morpurgo Today, Issue 11, Climate Change by Oxlade (551.2) Kids National The Hunger Games series by Claire Owen (551.6) World at Risk, Geographic – NG Kids Junior Suzanne Collins Climate Change by Andrew Solway Adventures Blogs (551.6) www.natgeokids.com
Blood Diamond (2007), Ted Talk - Pompeii (2014) Dante's Peak (1997) The Hunger Games Slumdog Erin Brockovich (2000), Finding Migration as a universal human 2012 Ice Age, Watch Professor Iain Millionaire Make Poverty History Dory, Avatar, Steve Backshall's BBC right, Alvaro Huerta Stewart’s documentary ‘How the TED: Lisa Kristine Modern Slavery Earth series, “Deadly 60 Pole to Earth Made Us, Fire (2010)’. https://www.youtube.com Pole”. /watch ?v=vLzj8Oqx7ow
Research a recent conflict, e.g. Syria. Use BBC Bitesize to find out more Watch Hans Rosling’s video on the Compile a fact file on the impacts of Research the 5 w’s (where, why, about Tectonics relationship between life expectancy climate change. What do you when, who, what). http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/g and income. consider the worst 3 to be? Justify http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes csebitesize/science/aqa_pre_2 http://www.bing.com/videos/sear your opinion. /p039w06x 011/oils/changesrev2.shtml ch?q=development+gap+minder http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ +hans+rosling&&view=detail&mi climate- d=6D516A060C791B543DA56D guide/climatechange/impacts 516A060C791B543DA5&FORM =VRDGAR Then use the Gap Minder website to research your own development indicators. http://www.gapminder.org
Read some poems about conflict Write a short story about your Write a diary entry for somebody Image it is the Year 2050 and and then have a go at writing your journey to the centre of the earth. your age in a LIC. Think about how attempts by governments to reduce own. https://www.poetrysoup.co Try to include all of the different their life would differ to yours and carbon emissions have been m/poems/conflict layers and characteristics OR write try to consider how they might feel unsuccessful. Write a diary entry an acrostic poem about a Volcano. about their life. about a day in your life. Think how Try to include as many features and life might be different (e.g. rising sea characteristics as you can i.e. lava levels). bombs.
BBC Radio 4; Listen to ‘Conflict over BBC Four, How A Volcano Shaped Comic relief Podcasts Cutting Cow Farts to Combat Syria’ to learn about the conflict. The World. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programm Climate Change http://www.bbc.co.uk/prog http://www.bbc.co.uk/programm es/p00545ld BBC 4, Africa http://www.bbc.co.uk/progra rammes/b01gcrhj es/p033k7qh Layers of the Earth http://www.migrationmuseum.org/ mmes/p058bypc https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=Q9j1xGaxYzY
Visit London’s Imperial War Visit the Volcanoes exhibition at Learn about the Port of London and Visit the Thames Barrier. Find out Museum where you can learn about London’s Science museum where its role as a major trading port how it protects London from conflict and modern warfare. you can see the heat suits and field during the British Empire at the flooding. Will it be able to cope with equipment used by volcanologists London Docklands Museum. rising sea levels. and casts of victims from the Mount Vesuvius eruption in AD 79.
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Geography Super Curriculum KS4
Challenge of Natural Hazards The Living World Physical Landscapes in the UK
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Rainforests by Rhett Butler Notes from a small island by Bill Junger Bryson
Before the flood (2016) – Climate Plant Earth BBC Coasts Series change and solutions. Human Planet Earth’s Greatest Migrations
Use the United States Geological Investigate commercial oil palm Find an example of a coastline Survey (USGS) website farming in Malaysia. with headlands and bays. Search (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earth 1. What is oil palm used for? for a map or satellite photo and qu akes/map/) to find a map of 2. How is rainforest cleared to make add labels to describe the main recent earthquakes. Copy and paste way for this type of farming? features. Find out about the the map and describe where the 3. What damage is done to habitats different geology. recent earthquakes have occurred. and the natural environment?
A second powerful earthquake Imagine you are a conservationist Hard engineering is one category struck Nepal on 12 May 2015 under working in a tropical rainforest. Write of coastal management. a month after the first earthquake. a two minute presentation on the Summarise the advantages and Write a one sided sheet explaining importance of soil in the tropical disadvantages of using hard how this might affect the country’s rainforest biome. engineering. recovery?
BBC Four, In Our Time, Plate BBC Four, Costing The Earth, Heroines BBC Four, Holding Back the Sea Tectonics of the Rainforest http://www.bbc.co.uk/programm http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b es/ b04pbmk1 /b 008q0sp 08 hnly0
Natural History Museum Heartswood Forest Swanage Bay Science Museum Chiltern AONB Studland Peninsula Lee Valley Regional Park River Colne Epping Forest River Ver ZSL London Zoo Walton-on-the-naze ZSL Whipsnade Kew Gardens Rainham Marshes
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Geography Super Curriculum KS4
Urban Issues and Challenges Changing Economic World Challenge of Resource Management
Trash by Andy Mulligan The bottom billion by Paul Collier? The Burning Question: We Can't Burn (YES!) Dead Aid: Why aid is not Half the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So working and how there is another How Do We Quit? By Berners-Lee way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
The war to live in London: ‘A Syrian Refugee’s story’- TedEd Gasland (2010) Regeneration Game (2015) Documentary Catching the Sun (2016)
‘Is Bristol a worthy Green Capital ‘Why are many of the most polluted ‘Natural Gas is the future , not coal’ of Europe- or is it all for show?’ cities in the world in Nigeria?’ http://www.cbsnews.com The Guardian Online Research the http://edition.cnn.com/2016/ /news/natur al-gas-coal-future/ above. Do you agree? 05/31/afric a/nigeria-cities- Do you agree? Are there alternatives? pollution/index.html
‘Is Bristol a worthy Green Capital ‘Can Nigeria develop whilst ‘Natural Gas is the future of Energy. of Europe- or is it all for show?’ reducing dangerous pollution Do you agree?’ Answer in no more Answer in no more than 500 levels?’ Answer in no more than than 500 words. words. 500 words.
‘Ghost town’ by the Specials ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’ (1984) BBC Radio 4 Podcast – The Bottom (1981) ‘Ill manors’ by Plan B (2012) by Band Aid Line http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b 06z56m9
Bristol- Bristol Harbourside, London Docklands Science Museum Temple Quarter, Cabot Circus, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park The Green Britain Centre Bristol Arena, Bristol’s Brunel’s Engine Shed
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Geography Super Curriculum KS5
Tectonic Processes and Coastal Landscapes Globalisation Regenerating Places Hazards
‘Richter 10’ by Arthur C. ‘Coast: the journey ‘No logo’ By Naomi Klein ‘Remaking London: Clark and Mike McQuay continues’ By Christopher (1999) Decline and regeneration (1996) Somerville (2006) ‘Fugitive Denim’ By Rachel in urban culture’ By Ben ‘The day the island ‘The Beach book: Science of Louise Snyder (2008) Campkin (2013) exploded’ by Alexandra the shore’ by Carl Hobbs ’Glbalisation and the ‘London’ By Edward Pratt (2009) (2012) environment: Capatalism, Rutherford (1997) ‘City ‘Volcano’ by James ‘Coastal flooding impacts Ecology and Power’ By rebranding: Theory and Hamilton and adaptation measures Peter Newell (2012) Cases’ By Keith Dinnie for Bangladesh’ By Saquib (2010) Ahmed Khan and Ali Hossain (2012)
Pompeii (2014) San Global Flooding over the The way home (2002) The war to live in London: Andreas (2015) The next 100 years by National Capitalism: A love story Regeneration Game Impossible (2012) Geographic Flood (2007) (2009) (2015) Extreme Engineering: Bombay calling (2006) My Brooklyn (2015) Venice Flood Gates (2004)
What makes some How far does geology and What have been the main How far do the processes locations at greater risk lithology help to create drivers and players of regeneration need to from tectonics than unique coastal landscapes? leading to the expansion be different in rural others? of the globalised world? compared to urban areas?
Answer the following: How Answer the following Answer the following: Is Answer the following: successful is the question: How far has there evidence to suggest Why is regeneration such management of tectonic management of coastal that anti-globalisation a contested issue? hazards and disasters? landscapes created movements are unintended consequences? threatening globalisation processes?
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Geography Super Curriculum KS5
The Water Cycle and The Carbon Cycle and Superpowers Migration, Identity and Water Insecurity Energy Security Sovereignty
’Flood’ By Richard Doyle ‘The Quest: Energy, security ‘Superpower: Three ‘Zebra Crossing’ By Meg (2002) and the remaking of the choices for America’s role Vandermerwe (2013) ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ By Modern World’ By Daniel in the world’ By Ian ‘Sovereignty: An John Steinbeck Yergin (2011) ‘Powerdown: Bremmer (2015) evolution of an idea’ By ‘The water wars’ By Options and actions for a ‘China Inc.’ By Ted C. Robert Jackson (2007) Cameron Stracher (2011) post carbon world’ By Fisherman (2006) ‘The no-nonsense Guide Richard Heinberg (2004) ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ to international ‘Energy security: By John Le Carre migration’ By Peter Economics, politics, ‘Prisoners of Geography’ Stalker (2008) strategies and implications’ Tim Marshall By Carlos Pascual and Jonathan Elkind (2009)
Flood (2007) Switch (2012) The New Rulers of the Goal! (2005) More than a river (2005) Syriana (2005) World (2001) Terraferma (2011) Winter Blue Gold: World Water There will be blood (2007) Superpower (2008) on fire: Ukraine’s fight for Wars (2008) Bitter Lake (2015) Deutschland 83 (2016) freedom (2015)
Research how and why How does the carbon cycle What are the What are the impacts of different people have operate to maintain superpowers and how globalisation on different attitudes towards planetary health? have they changed over international migration? water supply. time?
Answer the following Answer the following Answer the following Answer the following question: Was the Thames question: What are the question: What are the question: What are the Barrier worth the cost? consequences for people impacts of superpowers threats to national and what environment of on the global economy, sovereignty in a more our increasing demand for political systems and the globalised world? energy? physical environment?
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