Geography · Key Stage 3 · £4.99
Year 9 Geography
Scheme of Work
Six half-termly units across one academic year. Glaciation and the climate record come first, so that the interaction unit later in the year can ask about rate rather than about whether the climate changes. The year ends with the student’s own enquiry.
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- 1aIce and Time: Glaciation and the Climate Since the Ice Age
- 1bDevelopment and the Global Economy
- 2aThe Middle East: Resources, Water and Power
- 2bExtremes: Polar Regions and Hot Deserts
- 3aInteracting Systems: Where People and Nature Meet
- 3bFieldwork Three: Your Own Question, and the Tools to Answer It
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. One row per lesson. Six units: glaciation and the climate record, development and the four sectors, the Middle East, the polar and desert extremes, the interaction statement argued in full, and an independent enquiry.
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
- 62 pages · 19 sections
The sequence
What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit
The 6 units of the Year 9 Geography Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.
1a
Ice and Time: Glaciation and the Climate Since the Ice Age
Year 9 · Autumn 1 · 6 lessons · September – October
Britain was under ice. What put it there, what took it away, and what does that tell us about now?
1b
Development and the Global Economy
Year 9 · Autumn 2 · 6 lessons · November – December
What does it mean to say one country is more developed than another, and who decided?
2a
The Middle East: Resources, Water and Power
Year 9 · Spring 1 · 6 lessons · January – February
What happens to a region when it has a great deal of one resource and very little of another?
2b
Extremes: Polar Regions and Hot Deserts
Year 9 · Spring 2 · 6 lessons · February – March
Two places almost nothing lives in, for opposite reasons. Or are they opposite?
3a
Interacting Systems: Where People and Nature Meet
Year 9 · Summer 1 · 6 lessons · April – May
What does human activity actually depend on, and what happens when it changes the thing it depends on?
3b
Fieldwork Three: Your Own Question, and the Tools to Answer It
Year 9 · Summer 2 · 6 lessons · June – July
Can you frame a geographical question worth answering, and then answer it?
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