Kingsbridge Community College Geography Curriculum Map Place , landform , process , interaction , skill Year Autumn1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 7 What is Geography? Our Restless Planet Maps and Mapping Climate Change People Everywhere Russia: A Force Awakens 1. Define the concepts of human and physical 1. Structure of the Earth 1. Using a key and symbols 1. Causes of climate change 1. Global growth distribution, density 1. Location and physical features of Russia geography 2. Explain why plates move 2. 4 and 6 figure grid reference 2. Impacts of climate change 2. Contrasting growth rates in HIC and LIC 2. Russia: a brief history of human political 2. locate the continents, oceans and countries 3. Explain process of Earthquakes including 3. Interpreting relief 3. Contrasting impacts in HIC and LIC 3. Population Pyramids geographical boarders 3. Explore levels if development across the world focus, epicentre, seismic waves and Richter 4. Measuring distance and scale 4. Mitigation and Adaption Strategies 4. Demographic Transition Model 3. Russia influences in geopolitics introduce HIC/LIC scale 5. Interpreting Land use 5. Local actions: global affects 5. Ageing Population 4. Resources: Gas 4. Explain the global connections 4. Explain how volcanoes form 6. Using GIS to identify landforms and plot 6. Assessment 6. Population control 5. Social tensions 5. Explain how local coastal and human processes 5. Evaluate the cause impact and response to data 7. Introduction to Migration push and pull 6. Moving forward interact volcanic hazards 7. Assessment SMSC: Climate awareness and taking factors 7. Assessment 6. Fieldwork: South Milton Sands Litter survey, 6. Tsunami: cause impact and response responsibility for local actions 8. Assessment Footpath Survey, Landform Survey 7. Assessment Gatsby: GIS/ Military applications/ planning Gatsby: Climate scientist British Values: Attitudes to migration British Values: International relations 7. Assessment GCSE Link: OS Map skills GCSE Link: Challenge of natural hazards SMSC: global awareness of development SMSC: Attitudes towards equality, tolerance GATSBY: Beach Clean/ Attitudes toward inequality SMSC: Attitudes towards development issues and acceptance GCSE Link: UK Landscapes Gatsby: Disaster relief and volcanology GCSE Link: Urban issues and changing GCSE Link: IGOs and Resource Management GCSE Link: Challenge of natural hazards economic world 8 Weather Hazards Amazing Ecosystems of Asia and the rest of Europe: Who? Flood Disaster Industry An Urban World 1. Factors affecting weather (Introduce GAC) the world 1. Defining Europe’s boarders 1. Water cycle 1. Types of industry 1. Why do settlements grow 2. Low Pressure 1. Physical features link to tectonics 2. Physical features 2. Features of the drainage basin 2. Economies of the world 2. Patterns of urbanisation: Comparing HIC 3. High Pressure 2. Biomes of the world 3. What is the EU? 3. Bradshaw Model 3. UKs changing industry and LIC 4. Introduction to climate graphs 3. Global Atmospheric Circulation 4. Should we stay or leave? 4. Factors affecting flooding 4. Location of industries 3. Issues in LICs: Nairobi 5. Introduction to tropical storms 4. Contrasting climate graphs 5. European migrant crisis 5. Flooding in the UK 5. Rise of china 4. Issues in HICs: Decentralisation and 6. Drought 5. Plant adaptation and animal adaptations 6. Solutions 6. Flooding in LICs 6. Case Study: iPhone inequality 7. Assessment 6. Fieldwork to Eden Project to explore plant 7. Assessment 7. Mitigation and adaption 7. What are TNCS 5. Sustainable cities: Curitiba adaptions 8. Assessment 8. Assessment 6. Assessment Gatsby: Climate science and meteorology 7. Industry growth Gatsby: International Decision Making and relief GCSE Link: Challenge Natural Hazards 8. Assessment agencies/ military British Values/ Gatsby: Aid to developing Gatsby: Industrial sector and job Gatsby: Town planning and architecture British Values toward migration and tolerance countries GCSE Link: UK Economic World GCSE Link: Urban Issues and Challenges Gatsby: Conservation GCSE Link: Impact of development on GCSE Link: UK Landscapes and UK weather GCSE Link: Living World globalisation hazards 9 Superpowers and Globalisation Resources AQA GCSE specification: UK Landscapes 1. The costs and benefits of the following 1. Characteristics and formation of landforms Paper 3 1. Define globalisation and types 1. Global distribution of resources Coasts management strategies: • hard resulting from erosion and deposition – Physical Fieldwork 2. Evaluate the technological causes 2. Uneven distribution of resources 1. Wave types and characteristics. engineering – sea walls, rock armour, meanders and ox-bow lakes. How does the channel vary between a 3. Evaluate the role and impact of TNCS example 3. Importance of water 2. Coastal processes: gabions and groynes • soft engineering – 2. Characteristics and formation of landforms Meander and a straight section? Rana Plaza 4. Importance of soil 3. weathering processes – mechanical, beach nourishment and reprofiling, dune resulting from deposition – levées, flood 1. Plan 4. Evaluate the international organisations that 5. Desertification an: Causes and impacts chemical regeneration • managed retreat – coastal plains and estuaries. An example of a river 2. Create methodology have accelerated it 6. Energy security 4. mass movement – sliding, slumping and realignment. valley in the UK to identify its major 3. Fieldtrip to Plymouth 5. Evaluate impacts on population 7. Impacts of energy insecurity rock falls 2. An example of a coastal management landforms of erosion and deposition. 4. Present results 6. Evaluate impacts n LICs 8. Alternative energies 5. erosion – hydraulic power, abrasion and scheme in the UK to show: • the reasons 3. How physical and human factors affect the 5. Analyse and Conclude 7. Evaluate the impacts on the environment attrition for management • the management flood risk – precipitation, geology, relief and 6. Evaluate 8. Evaluate the sustainable strategies GCSE Link: Living world deforestation and 6. transportation – longshore drift • strategy • the resulting effects and land use. 7. Assessment resource management deposition – why sediment is deposited in conflicts 4. The use of hydrographs to show the GCSE Link: UK Economic World and Urban Issues coastal areas. Rivers relationship between precipitation and and Challenges 7. How geological structure and rock type 3. The long profile and changing cross discharge. influence coastal forms. Characteristics profile of a river and its valley. 5. The costs and benefits of the following and formation of landforms resulting from 4. Fluvial processes: • erosion – hydraulic management strategies: • hard engineering erosion – headlands and bays, action, abrasion, attrition, solution, – dams and reservoirs, straightening, 8. Cliffs and wave cut platforms, caves, vertical and lateral erosion • embankments, flood relief channels • soft arches and stacks. transportation – traction, saltation, engineering – flood warnings and 9. Characteristics and formation of suspension and solution • deposition – preparation, flood plain zoning, planting landforms resulting from deposition – why rivers deposit sediment. trees and river restoration. beaches, sand dunes, spits and bars. An 5. Characteristics and formation of 6. An example of a flood management scheme example of a section of coastline in the UK landforms resulting from erosion – in the UK to show: • why the scheme was to identify its major landforms of erosion interlocking spurs required • the management strategy • the and deposition. 6. waterfalls and gorges. social, economic and environmental issues. Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 10 Urban Issues and Challenges Living World 20. The value of cold environments as wilderness areas and why Resource Management Challenge of Natural Hazards Challenge of Natural Hazards 1. The global pattern of urban change. Urban trends in different 1. The impact of urban sprawl on the rural–urban fringe, and the these fragile environments should be protected. Strategies used 1. Energy: The changing energy mix – reliance on fossil fuels, 1. Definition of a natural hazard. Types of natural hazard. Factors 1. Evidence that weather is becoming more extreme in the UK. parts of the world including HICs and LICs. growth of commuter settlements. to balance the needs of economic development and conservation growing significance of renewables affecting hazard risk. 2. Evidence for climate change from the beginning of the Quaternary 2. Factors affecting the rate of urbanisation – migration (push– 2. An example of an urban regeneration project (Newham) to show: in cold environments – use of technology, role of governments, 2. Reduced domestic supplies of coal, gas and oil. Economic and 2. Plate tectonics theory. Global distribution of earthquakes and period to the present day. pull theory), natural increase. reasons why the area needed regeneration, the main features of international agreements and conservation groups. environmental issues associated with exploitation of energy volcanic eruptions and their relationship to plate margins. 3. Possible causes of climate change: • natural factors – orbital 3. The emergence of megacities. the project. 21. Revise sources. 3. Physical processes taking place at different types of plate margin changes, volcanic activity and solar output • human factors – use of 4. A case study of a Mumbia (NEE): The location and importance 3. Features of sustainable urban