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Year 7 Geography
Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year. The two map units come first because everything after them assumes both: a mental map of the world, and the ability to read a real map of a real place. The physical processes then follow in the order that lets each explain the last.

£4.99The Year 7 scheme: 6 half-termly units, 65 pages

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The whole key stage: KS3 Geography scheme of work

Everything else this site has for Geography: Geography teaching resources

  1. 1aThinking Like a Geographer: The World, and Where Things Are
  2. 1bOrdnance Survey: Reading the Ground
  3. 2aRestless Earth: Geological Time and Plate Tectonics
  4. 2bRocks, Weathering and Soils: What the Ground Is Made Of
  5. 3aWeather and Climate: Why It Is Like That Here
  6. 3bFieldwork One: The Ground You Stand On
Cover of Year 7 Geography Scheme of Work

Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. One row per lesson, so a unit can be read at a glance. Six units: two that build the map, three that build the physical processes, and one that takes the class outside to use them.

Every unit carries a structured case study, an end-of-unit assessment, a knowledge organiser, named map, GIS and data tasks, and the geographical concepts it is built on. Every statistic is given with its source and the year it refers to.

Written to
The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 geography (DfE, 2013)
Intended for
heads of geography, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
Extent
65 pages · 19 sections

The sequence

What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit

The 6 units of the Year 7 Geography Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.

  1. 1a

    Thinking Like a Geographer: The World, and Where Things Are

    Year 7 · Autumn 1 · 6 lessons · September – October

    Where is anything, and how would you know?

  2. 1b

    Ordnance Survey: Reading the Ground

    Year 7 · Autumn 2 · 6 lessons · November – December

    Can you find a place you have never been, and know what it looks like before you get there?

  3. 2a

    Restless Earth: Geological Time and Plate Tectonics

    Year 7 · Spring 1 · 6 lessons · January – February

    Why does the ground move in some places and never in others?

  4. 2b

    Rocks, Weathering and Soils: What the Ground Is Made Of

    Year 7 · Spring 2 · 6 lessons · February – March

    Why is the soil in one field deep and dark, and thin and pale in the next?

  5. 3a

    Weather and Climate: Why It Is Like That Here

    Year 7 · Summer 1 · 6 lessons · April – May

    Weather is what you got this morning. What is climate?

  6. 3b

    Fieldwork One: The Ground You Stand On

    Year 7 · Summer 2 · 6 lessons · June – July

    Can you answer a question about a real place using data you collected yourself?

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01National curriculum coveragep4
021A · Thinking Like a Geographer: The World, and Where Things Arep6
031B · Ordnance Survey: Reading the Groundp14
042A · Restless Earth: Geological Time and Plate Tectonicsp22
052B · Rocks, Weathering and Soils: What the Ground Is Made Ofp30
063A · Weather and Climate: Why It Is Like That Herep38
073B · Fieldwork One: The Ground You Stand Onp46
08Marking loadp54
09Retrieval and spacingp55
10The programme of study across key stage 3p56
11Ordnance Survey and map skills, introduced once and then usedp57
12Fieldwork in contrasting locationsp58
13Geographical Information Systems without a budgetp59
14Misconceptions that survive to GCSEp60
15Off-site visits, and what this document is notp61
16Curriculum coverage, and the evidence for itp62
17Teaching this outside Englandp63
18Sources, and the date of every figurep64
19How we know it workedp65
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