Focus / Areas to cover / Resources
Autumn One / Spatial Sense / Relief maps: identify elevated areas, depressions and river basins.
Compare aerial photographs and maps. Identify the ways in which maps represent and simplify the real world.
Read maps and globes using latitude, longitude, coordinates and degrees.
Scale: measure distances using map scales.
Identify the Prime Meridian, the 180° line (International Date Line) and the Eastern and Western Hemispheres / Marta Segal Block, Reading Maps (First Guide to Maps), Heinemann Library, 2009
http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
What Your Year 5 Child Needs to Know page 71-79.
Autumn Two / Mountains / Peaks and Ranges from around the world including:
·  The Alps
·  The Himalayas
·  The Andes
·  The Appalachian Mountains
·  The Rocky Mountains
·  The Atlas Mountains
·  Mount Kilimanjaro / What Your Year 5 Child Needs to Know page 79-83 - Mountains of the World
Focus / Areas to cover / Resources
Spring One / British Geography
(East Anglia, The Midlands, Yorkshire & Humberside) / British Geography (East Anglia, The Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber)
East Anglia
·  The Angles from northern Germany
·  Weather in East Anglia: colder eastern winds, little rain, warm summers
·  Straight, man-made rivers built to drain marshland connect with lakes called ‘broads’
·  City of Cambridge and Port of Felixstowe
·  Sutton Hoo
The Midlands
·  Birmingham, Solihull and Bourneville
·  The Grand Union Canal
·  Mining and farming
·  The Peak District
Yorkshire and the Humber
·  The Yorkshire Dales
·  Sheffield- famous for producing steel
·  The City of York
·  Leeds and Bradford
·  Ribblehead Viaduct
·  The Humber Bridge / What Your Year 5 Child Needs to Know page 84-94 British Geography
Various children’s atlases and maps
Focus / Areas to cover / Resources
Spring Two / Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific / Australia
·  Location- below the Equator
·  Major cities including Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Cairns, Darwin and Brisbane.
·  The Outback
·  Uluru, or Ayers Rock
·  Aboriginal People
·  Transportation and the Gold Rush
·  Australian Animals
New Zealand
·  North and South Islands
·  Volcanoes and Geysers
·  Maori People
·  Animals including the kiwi, the national symbol of New Zealand
The South Pacific
·  Melanesia
·  Micronesia
·  Polynesia / What Your Year 5 Child Needs to Know page 95-102
John Woodward, Geography: A Visual Encyclopaedia, Dorling Kindersley, 2013
Miroslav Sasek, This is Australia, Universe Publishing, 2009
Focus / Areas to cover / Resources
Summer One / Explorers / James Cook
·  A sailor and scientist
·  Making maps more accurate
·  Round-the-world voyage began in 1768
·  Went to Tahiti to watch Venus journey across the sun
·  Explored further and reached New Zealand, made a map of the coast line
·  Landed on the East coast of Australia naming the land ‘New Wales’
·  Travelled with the botanist Joseph Banks who wrote about his first encounter with a kangaroo
·  Further discoveries include New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean and South Georgia in the Southern Atlantic / What Your Year 5 Child Needs to Know, page 103-106
Rebecca Levene, Captain Cook, Usbourne Publishing Ltd, 2005
Summer Two / Local Study / Content of this term to be set according to the needs of the children and the areas within which they live.
·  Use fieldwork to observe, measure and record human and physical features in the local area. In doing so, use a range of geographical methods, including sketch maps, plans, graphs and digital technology to gain understanding. / Relevant local resources