Key stage 3 geography teachers toolkit for the new curriculum (2014)

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A Toolkit contains a complete unit of work; ten fully-worked lesson plans, all the resources needed for each lesson plan including information, images and activity sheets available to download; an introduction to the topic, a medium-term plan, glossary, links to further ideas and resources and an assessment framework.

KS3 Geography Teachers’ Toolkit / Description / Links to the national curriculum
Locational and place knowledge
Extend their locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness with a focus on Africa and Asia (including China and India). Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of the human and physical geography of a region within Africa and a region within Asia
Rise and rise of China: Where does China go from here? / This unit examines China at the local, regional and national scale and explores the interaction between the human and physical aspects of China’s geography / Economic activity, resources, population, development, human and physical characteristics of a region within Asia, uses maps, images and statistical data
Into Africa: How are our lives connected to Africa? / This unit is about the continent of Africa with a focus on selected countries. It explores differences and similarities and links between the UK and Africa / International development, use of natural resources, economic activity, uses atlases and maps.
A Thorny issue: Should I buy a valentine’s rose? / With a focus on Kenya’s flower industry this unit examines how trade links and affect the lives of people and impacts on the landscape and environment. / Primary economic activity, the human and physical characteristics of a region within Africa, Kenya’s climate, links between places, uses atlases and maps
British or European: Who do you think you are? / This unit develops locational knowledge of human and physical features of the UK and Europe and their population and economic activity. / Students draw and interpret maps they locate places on maps, economic activity, population
Physical geography
Understand through the use of detailed place based exemplars the key processes in physical geography. Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems.
Changing my world: What difference can we make to climate? / Uses maps, images and statistical data to develop students’ knowledge and understanding of climate change and the impacts it may have on different places and strategies for responding to this at different scales. / Change in climate from the ice age to the present, using maps and climate graphs
Future Floods: Can geography make a difference? / How physical and human factors interact to cause flooding and the consequences and management of flooding. / Hydrology, impact of change in climate, uses maps and GIS. Develops locational and place knowledge of Bangladesh and York, International development
Look at it this way: What are your views on landscapes? / Focusing on the landscape of the UK this unit examines how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes. / Connects physical and human processes. Uses images, OS maps, atlases and Google Earth. Primary economic activity, coastal erosion
Human geography
Understand through the use of detailed place based exemplars the key processes in human geography. Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems.
Moving Stories: Why is the population of the UK changing? / Focusing on the UK this unit explain the processes that lead to population change. / Explores the connections between places, explain the processes that lead to population change (natural increase and migration) Uses atlases, maps photos and simple GIS
Water Works: Do we have equal rights to resources? / With a focus on the Middle East, this unit shows the uneven patterns of water supply and demand across the world and develops an understanding of the complexity of resource use / Use of natural resources, physical and human characteristics of the Middle East, uses maps climate data, atlases GIS and maps
Faster, Higher Stronger: Is the Olympics the best way to regenerate London? / This unit with a focus on East London develops an understanding of the changing characteristics of real places and the process of urban regeneration. / How a human landscape can change over time, uses maps and graphs