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GEOGRAPHY Super Curriculum Booklet The Super Curriculum Geography The Super Curriculum Super curricular activities are those that take your regular curriculum further. They take the subjects you study in the classroom beyond that which your teacher has taught you or what you’ve done for home learning. For example, you may go into more depth on something you picked up in the classroom, or learn about a new topic altogether. These activities are normally in the form of extra reading but they can take many other forms, like watching videos online, downloading podcasts, attending lectures, visiting museums or entering academic competitions. Engaging in super curricular activities will help you develop a love for your favourite subject or subjects. In this booklet, there are a range of activities, suggested by your teachers. They are by no means exhaustive lists but should get you started. I would encourage you to share ideas and opportunities you come across with your teachers so that, over time, the recommended activities in this booklet can grow. In the future, employers or universities will be interested to hear about what super curricular activities you have engaged in; they will be interested in what you have learnt and impressed by your efforts. I wish you well in your pursuit of super curricular activities! Dr Caroline Creaby Deputy Headteacher: Curriculum Super Curriculum – Year 7 Subject: GEOGRAPHY Extreme Map Skills China Ecosystems Rivers Environments School library section 551, School library section School library section 951 School library section School library section 912 551 Travel Through China, 574.5/581 551.48 Mapping Britain’s Extreme Earth, Visual Come on a journey of Planet Habitats, Louise & Mapping Britain’s Landscapes, Coasts, by Explorers 551.2 discovery by Lynn Richard Spilsbury (581) Landscapes, Rivers, Barbara Taylor (551.4) Geography Fact Files, Huggins-Cooper (951) Horrible Geography: Bloomin’ by Barbara Taylor Mapping Britain’s Deserts by Anna Chinese Focus, Changing Rainforest (551.48) Landscapes, Rivers, by Claybourne (551.41) China, by Marta Block Geography Fact Files, Barbara Taylor (551.48) Horrible Geography - Rivers by Mandy Ross Children’s Atlas (912) Bloomin' Rainforests (551.48) Harry Potter, (Marauder's (2001) Horrible Geography - Map) Raging Rivers (2000) JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (map of Middle Earth) Master and commander Plant Earth – Deserts, Supersized Earth – Ecosystems class clips, BBC BBC Human Planet- (2003) Mountains, From Pole Episode 2 Bridge Building http://www.bbc.co.uk/educatio Friend or foe? Lord of the rings (2001) to Pole. Mulan (1998) n/topics/ztgw2hv/resources/1 Supersized Earth, BBC Human Planet: BBC Human Planet – Jungles. episode 3, Food, Fire Arctic – Life in the Planet Earth, Jungles and Water (Water) deep freeze. Deserts – Avatar (2009) Into the wild (2007) Life in the furnace Madagascar (2005) Planet Earth, Fresh Mountains – life in the Water air The history of maps. When, How to plants adapt to Choose one animal that Research and create fact files Research about the why and how did the OS living in is threatened by China’s for 5 of the world’s main past, present and map begin? deserts/rainforests/pol development. Create a biomes future plans for the When and why did lines of ar regions. What poster to support a Thames Barrier latitude and longitude features do they have campaign to protect it. London. Find out when begin? to ensure their You could include how it was it built, how much success? Name the is threatened, where did it cost, how does it plants, label and (location map) & what work, how has the annotate their features you want people and the usage changed since it using a diagram government to do to help. was built, what the future plans to protect London? Research areas at risk of flooding using ArcGIS Write an adventurous story Imagine you are Create a leaflet aimed at First watch this link: Imagine you live near a using OS map symbols (to travelling through an tourists visiting China. It http://www.bbc.co.uk/educatio river that has just replace words) extreme environment could include basic n/clips/zpmb4wx flooded your home. of your choice. Write a information about Now imagine you are a Write a story about diary entry of a currency, language, member of The Korowai tribe your experience or particularly difficult transport. You could live in a remote region of the write a letter to the day. How did you feel, recommend two places to hot and humid West Papuan local council how did you survive? visit in China & explain rainforest. Write about a day in persuading them to do why they are interesting your life. more to help manage sites to see the river in the future. General Geography Songs: BBC Four, Food in Chinese pop music (C- BBC Four, Costing The Earth, BBC Four, A Tale of Oceans, Continents, and extreme places: Pop). Look up on Heroines of the Rainforest Two Rivers: Kuala Reading the Map Antarctica YouTube e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/program Lumpur http://www.songsforteaching http://www.bbc.co.uk/p https://www.youtube.com/ mes/b08hnly0 http://www.bbc.co.uk/pr .com/geographysongs.htm rogrammes/b075mhgr watch?v=KotIoTRNMqY ogrammes/p0574s8w Compare to traditional Chinese Music Greenwich Meridian The British Museum, China Town, Epping Forest River Lea Pokemon Go London – The Local Chinese restaurant Kew Gardens River Thames Geocashing Amazon, Brazil V&A South Asia, China Heartswood Forest River Ver London Transport Museum Natural History Chiltern AONB River Stort Museum, London Lee Valley Regional Park Thames Museum, ZSL London Zoo Epping Forest London ZSL Whipsnade ZSL London Zoo ZSL Whipsnade Rainham Marshes Super Curriculum – Year 8 Subject: GEOGRAPHY Earthquakes and Antarctica Urban Coasts Weather Population tsunamis School library section KS3 Geography School library Horrible Geography The Lightless Sky: School library section 551.2 Complete Study & section 551 – Stormy Weather An Afghan Refugee 998 Sweeping Tsunami’s, Practice Coasts, by Barbara A Bear Grylls Boy’s Journey of Antarctica (New True Louise & Richard Taylor (551.4) Adventure 1: The Escape to A New Books: Geography) by Spilsbury (551.2) Coral reefs, Go Fact Blizzard Challenge: Life in Britain by Mel Friedman Our Earth In Action, (551.42) by Bear Grylls Gulwali Passarlay Horrible Geography Earthquakes by Chris Notes from a small and Nadene Ghouri Perishing Poles Oxlade (551.2) island by Bill Bryson (2002) Running Wild, by Horrible Geography If the World Were a Glaciers and Michael Morpurgo - Cracking Coasts Village: A Book Glaciation, 2nd Horrible Geography - (22 May 2006) about the World's Edition by Douglas Earth-Shattering People (CitizenKid) Benn Earthquakes (17 by David Smith Extracts of Captain November 2000) Scott’s Diary entries o o BBC Coasts Series The Perfect Storm Lion 2016 Ice Age o The Impossible, 2012,o SuperSized Earth (2000) Steve Backshall's Naomi Watts/Ewan Episode:1 A Place BBC Earth series, McGregor to Live (1 of 3) PT.2 “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 investigate Typhoon website to research ‘Antarctica Wildlife’ to are happening using transport system to erosion at the Haiyan and make the latest issues understand how real-time data and cope with the Holderness Coast. notes on the terrible around the rising animals are adapted their magnitude. Is growing urban https://esriukeducati disaster. global population: to such extreme there a correlation? population 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 Write a letter to A depression Imagine you are a Imagine you are an manual for somebody just moved from the Holderness Council system is coming in migrant fleeing your explorer like Captain in an earthquake zone countryside to an recommending what from the Atlantic and homeland and Scott. Create a dairy detailing what to do in urban area in an types of defences moving East over heading for the UK. entry of your own. the event of a quake. LIC. Write a they should put in the British Isles. Write a diary entry What advice would postcard home place at Holderness. Write a weather for a day in your life you give? outlining your forecast for the next outlining your experiences. 24 hours outlining perilous journey and what the weather what you hope to will be like. find when you arrive. Listen to Vivaldi’s Listen to the sound of Stories by the City BBC Four, Holding Four Seasons. How BBC 4 Programme BBC Four, Antarctica an earthquake and http://www.storiesofo Back the Sea does the music ‘Migration for http://www.bbc.co.uk/ match it to the event urcity.org/home/stori http://www.bbc.co.uk conjure up weather Whom’? programmes/b00ss2th that created it. es-by-map /programmes/b04pb experienced in each http://www.bbc.co.uk https://www.usgs.gov/ mk1 season? /programmes/b03nb media/videos/listen- sgd earthquakes Visit the earthquake Visit any urban area, Any coastline! See if Visit London’s Visit the ‘Crossing Visit the ‘Scott Polar simulator at the such as London. you can see how Science Museum to Borders’ exhibition Research Institute’ at Natural History Take time to people have used find out more about at the British the University of Museum in London.
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