Geography
Mrs A Mackey (Head of Department)
Important Information: COVID-19
Web based resources
Geographical association
BBC Bitesize
Geography all the way
Ordnance Survey
World Geography Games
S-cool
Internet Geography
Education Quizzes
KS3: Years 7-8
Year 7 - map skills / atlas skills, population and transport are the topics of the study.
Resources:
BBC Bitesize - Geography KS3: excellent information site to aid work being set and revision pages that pupils can attempt to aid further learning and understanding.
Year 8 - land use and rivers. Work through booklets and work set by teachers. BBC Bitesize Geography KS3 sections on both topics and clips to watch. Revision exercises can be attempted.
Resources:
Various internet sites - Cool geography, internet geography, etc
GCSE: Years 9-10
Year 9 - ecosystems and Rainforest. BBC Bitesize Geography KS4: work carefully through booklets. Use pages selectively to support booklets. Revision pages to dip in and attempt.
Resources:
BBC iPlayer - Planet Earth / The Rainforest
Cool geography and various internet pages on offer
Links in your booklets
Year 10 - Rivers and Savannah and the UK.
Resources:
BBC Bitesize
RGS
FSC
Cool geography
Internet geography
Links provided in your booklets
KS5: Year 12
Year 12 - complete AS level - tectonics, changing places and skills
Resources:
WJEC site and use the google classroom
Links in your booklets
Key Stage 3
Year 7
Term 1
Map and Atlas skills.
Humanities/school project - 'Our world'.
Term 2
'Our world'.
Population and Transport.
Term 3
Mexico - Humanities project.
Year 8
Term 1
India – An emerging superpower.
Hazards – volcanoes and earthquakes.
Term 2
Physical geography - Rivers.
Term 3
Land use – Urban patterns and land use enquiry.
Year 9
Term 1
Coasts.
Coastal management local fieldwork.
Term 2
Social development.
Ecosystems and The Tropical Rainforest.
Term 3
Urban – rural change
Ways in which parents can help:
- Encouraging pupils to complete homework.
- Reading over completed work before it is handed in.
- Support where and when necessary.
- Access to I.T.
- Watching the news, being aware of what is happening locally, in the UK and the World - plastics in the oceans, climate change, renewable energy
Useful websites:
- coolgeography.co.uk
- internetgeography.net
- YouTube
- BBC
Useful books/magazines/publications:
- WJEC Geography GCSE - Hodder education
- "Wide world" GCSE geography magazine – Hodder education
