KS3 Geography · Year 9 · ages 13–14
Six half-term units, in the order we teach them: glaciation and the climate since the Ice Age; development and the global economy; the Middle East, its resources and water; polar regions and hot deserts; how people and natural systems interact; and an independent fieldwork enquiry. Below is what each unit asks pupils to produce, the places it uses and the skills it teaches, taken from our Year 9 Geography scheme of work.
Six units. Glaciation and the natural climate cycle come first because unit 3a is not honest without them.
Year 9, ages 13–14.
Unit 1a · 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?
Unit 1b · Autumn 2 · 6 lessons · November – December
What does it mean to say one country is more developed than another, and who decided?
Unit 2a · 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?
Unit 2b · Spring 2 · 6 lessons · February – March
Two places almost nothing lives in, for opposite reasons. Or are they opposite?
Unit 3a · Summer 1 · 6 lessons · April – May
What does human activity actually depend on, and what happens when it changes the thing it depends on?
Unit 3b · Summer 2 · 6 lessons · June – July
Can you frame a geographical question worth answering, and then answer it?
The scheme maps each requirement of the statutory programme of study for key stage 3 (Department for Education, 2013) to the unit that teaches it. Pupils should be taught to…
This year does not restudy the African and Asian regions taught in Year 8. They return in unit 3a as evidence in an argument rather than as topics, which is the intended use of a region study once it is secure. Everything else in the programme of study has been met by the end of this book; the key stage map at the back shows each statement against the year that carries it.
Two PDFs sit behind this page, and they are meant to be used together: the scheme of work to plan the year, the knowledge organisers to put in front of pupils.
Geography · Key Stage 3£4.99
Full description on the Year 9 Geography scheme of work page.
The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 geography (DfE, 2013)·62 pages, 19 sections·For heads of geography, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
KS3 Geography · Year 9 · six A4 sheets£3.99
Full description on the Year 9 Geography knowledge organisers page.
Written to Empower Educators Year 9 Geography scheme of work·6 pages, 6 sections·For geography teachers and heads of department. Printed one per pupil
Six half-term units, in the order they are taught: Ice and Time: Glaciation and the Climate Since the Ice Age, Development and the Global Economy, The Middle East: Resources, Water and Power, Extremes: Polar Regions and Hot Deserts, Interacting Systems: Where People and Nature Meet and Fieldwork Three: Your Own Question, and the Tools to Answer It.
An explanation of a named glaciated landscape that uses the landforms as evidence for the climate that made them; A judgement on whether a single development indicator can be trusted, argued from two countries where the indicators disagree; An explanation of how one resource has shaped a country's development, and what happens when the resource is finite; A comparison of the two environments that explains their similarity — both are deserts — from entirely different causes; An argued answer on one interaction, using evidence drawn from at least two earlier units of the key stage; An independent enquiry: the student's own question, their own method, their own data mapped in a GIS, and a conclusion with a stated confidence.
It maps each requirement of the statutory programme of study for key stage 3 (Department for Education, 2013) to the unit that teaches it, and on this year the scheme is plain: “This year does not restudy the African and Asian regions taught in Year 8.”
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