This document contains a curriculum plan for geography topics in Year 7. It outlines 5 topics to be covered in Term 1: Weather and Climate, Extreme Weather, Local Area Studies, The Geography of Wales, and Rivers. For each topic, it lists learning objectives, activities, resources, and assessment. It also includes sections on skills development, homework, and applying different levels of understanding.

1. CURRICULUM PLANNING 2008 Other words which could be uses: RISKY PLACES DANGEROUS PLACES FANTASTIC PLACES IMPOSSIBLE PLACES ADVENTUROUS PLACES THREATENED DIVERSE CHANGING SUSTAINABLE HAZADOUS EXTREME FRAGILE LINKED 10. LAS VEGAS + DUBAI BRAZIL CRIME VOLCANOES + EARTHQUAKES GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE? GLOBAL FASHION LONDON (DOCKS / OLYMPICS) ANTARCTICA 13.EUROPES WEATHER 2. EXTREME WEATHER 9. WHAT IS SUSTAINABLITY? 12. RIVERS AND THE WATER CYCLE 6. CHANGING COASTLINES 11. RAINFORESTS 8.TOURISM 7.FLOODS 4. MY LOCAL AREA 1. WEATHER & CLIMATE 3. WALES MIGRATION IN CARDIFF 5. SPORT CHINA / JAPAN FRANCE / ITALY PASSPORT TO THE WORLD ENERGY RESOURCES

2. Plan Develop Reflect EXIT Weather and Climate T A S C Exploring Wales Year 7 Learning Plan Studying my Local Area using ICT and GIS Rivers Extreme Weather

3. Term 1 Outline Skills Weather and Climate Learning Across the Curriculum

4. Year 7 Outline Skills Extreme Weather Learning Across the Curriculum

5. Term 1 Outline Skills Local Area Studies using ICT & GIS Learning Across the Curriculum

6. Term 1 Outline Skills Exploring Wales Learning Across the Curriculum

7. Term 1 Outline Skills Rivers: A Fieldwork Approach Learning Across the Curriculum

8. ICT & Audio/Visual Resources Question Generator Weather and Climate T A S C Topic overview: This unit focuses on patterns and processes associated with weather and climate. Pupils carry out a range of investigation into local and wider afield weather situations and begin to explore how various factors affect the weather/climate in a place. Pupils are encouraged to work together to produce a weather forecast for a particular location and to choose a suitable holiday destination for a family with particular interests. In carrying out these activities they engage in enquiry-based learning and problem solving, interpret weather maps and satellite images, use ICT skills and learn to draw and interpret climate graphs. Pupils distinguish between weather and climate and identify how human activities may be linked with climate patterns; the more detailed study of air masses is left until key stage 4. Assessment Pupils carry out a Microclimate Investigation (enquiry) around the school. The work build on the basic understanding of weather recording carried out in primary schools as part of our PRIMARY- SECONDARY TRANSITIONAL links Homework Plan Develop Reflect

9. Homework Thinking Activities Extreme Weather T A S C Topic Overview: This unit looks at the extremes of weather in a global context and explores the interrelationships between people and their environments. The unit allows pupils to compare and contrast their own lives with small communities who live in extreme and often remote parts of the world. A range of key skills and PSE activities are explore as the topic delves into historical reasons why settlements in the remote arctic and desserts of the world exist in the first place. Assessment: The main focus for assessment is the completion of a ‘Job Description’ based on tornadoes and the movie TWISTER. ICT & Audio/Visual Resources Plan Develop Reflect

10. ICT and Audio/visual Resources Question Generator Homework Local Area Study? Topic Overview: This unit explore the traditional Geography map skills including Grid reference, scale, direction and orienteering but involves the added dimension of ICT and GIS. The pupils get to grips with Aegis 3 and Google Earth in addition to more general Microsoft applications. Assessment: The unit culminates in an Enquiry project based around the local area. Pupils complete 5 set tasks and demonstrate a wide range of ICT and geographical skills Plan Develop Reflect

11. Resources Question Generator Homework The Geography of Wales Learning Objectives: Learning Activities: Plan Develop Reflect

12. Resources Question Generator Homework River Learning Objectives: Learning Activities: Plan Develop Reflect

13. Resources Question Generator Homework The Island Learning Objectives: Learning Activities: Plan Develop Reflect

14. Weather and Climate Video: What is a Stevenson Screen? You Tube: Effects of microclimates

15. PPT Extreme Weather Metacognition

16. PPT Local Area Studies Metacognition

17. PPT The Geography of Wales Metacognition

18. PPT Rivers Metacognition

19. The Island

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22. Local Area Studies

23. The Geography of Wales

24. Rivers .

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26. Plan Develop Reflect Applying Understanding Remembering Analysing Evaluating Creating Lower Order Higher Order Wales and the World, c.1000 The Norman Invasion The Medieval Manor

27. Remembering Can you tell me …when…where… what…when…? Could you draw up a list…bullet point…brainstorm what you can remember…? Could you now tell us, or show us, what you have learnt (remember from today’s lesson)…? Reflection Reflection Reflection Reflection Can you please describe… Lower Order Understanding Lower Order Which ideas or facts best show...? Could you briefly describe what you now understand by…? How can you best summarise what you have learnt? Reflection Reflection Reflection Reflection How do you know that…?

28. Applying Lower Order Analysing Higher Order Reflection Reflection Reflection Reflection Can you now note the similarities and differences and describe the differences between…? Can you compare your ideas with …? Can you now prepare a report outlining differing viewpoints and the reasons for these points of view…? What evidence can you find...? Can you now compare what you have found out with…? Reflection Reflection Reflection Reflection Using what you have just learnt can you now tell me why…? How will you now use this information …? What approach can you now use to best show...?

29. Evaluating Creating Higher Order Reflection Reflection Reflection Reflection Higher Order Why did you choose to develop this particular set of ideas? How will/did they will help you complete the task in an effective way? What information can you use to support the view...? Reflection Reflection Reflection Reflection What is your opinion of...? How would you change or adapt your approach next time when approaching a similar task? What can you now create that will best show your ideas...? Can you now think of any other ways of showing this...? Can you now devise a way to...? How will you now develop...?

36. Weather and Climate Plan Develop Reflect Thinking Understanding places, environments and processes Locating places, environments and patterns Investigating Geography Communicating Range

37. Extreme Weather Plan Develop Reflect Term 1 Understanding places, environments and processes Locating places, environments and patterns Investigating Geography Communicating Range

38. Local Area Studies Plan Develop Reflect Term 1 Understanding places, environments and processes Locating places, environments and patterns Investigating Geography Communicating Range

39. The Geography Of Wales Plan Develop Reflect Term 1 Understanding places, environments and processes Locating places, environments and patterns Investigating Geography Communicating Range

40. Rivers Plan Develop Reflect Term 1 Understanding places, environments and processes Locating places, environments and patterns Investigating Geography Communicating Range

41. Year 7

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45. Weather & Climate Extreme Weather Local Area Wales River

46. Communication