Geography Key Stage 3

This a break down of some of the topics and field trips that we go on in Geography through year 7, 8 and 9.

Year Topic Assessment Fieldtrip YEAR 7 Geography- Your

Passport to the World

Baseline Test Theme Park Guide

Field sketching

October Half Term A Fairview of

England ICT Functional skills- Fairview Leaflet

Christmas Holidays Our Blue Planet Summative

Assessment Bangladesh Investigation (GCSE Preparation)

Infiltration Investigation

February Half Term Settling Down

Rocking Around the World

Village site presentation York DME

Gravestone field sketching

Easter Holidays Geography in the

News

May Half Term Geography in the

News Year 7 Assessment

York (Investigation of tourism and pedestrian density)

TRAVEL THEME WEEKS YEAR 8 Weather and

Climate Microclimate Investigations

Microclimate Investigations

October Half Term Peopling the

Planet

Malaria Presentations

Christmas Holidays Exotic

Ecosystems

Public Information

System for The Deep

The Deep (Ocean ecosystems)

February Half Term Ola Brazil! Report on

deforestation in the Amazon (GCSE Preparation)

Easter Half Term Cracking Coasts Swanage Bay

leaflet Mappleton Sands and Hornsea

May Half Term Terrific and

Terrible Tourism Summative Assessment

GA Ambassador visit

YEAR 9 Sustainable Regeneration

Leeds Investigation (GCSE Preparation)

Leeds Waterfront visit

October Half Term The Power of the

Planet

Kobe Assessment

Christmas Holidays The Future of

the Planet- Global Warming and Antarctica

Antarctica Assessments (GCSE Preparation)

February Half Term The Future of

the Planet- Globalisation

Summative Assessment

Easter Half Term Who has the

Power to shape the Planet? USA and China

China Assessment

London (Gifted and Talented)

May Half Term Sporting

Geography Group Presentations