Geography KS3 National Curriculum outline 2014-15
Half term
Baseline
Year 7- Africa
Year 8- Asia
Map work/ map skills.
Natural Hazards.
NC focus: extend their locational knowledge and
deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s
countries.
NC focus: physical geography relating to: geological
timescales and plate tectonics.
Weather and climate.
Natural Hazards.
Assessment
Data input
NC focus: physical geography relating to weather and
climate.
Development.
NC focus: physical geography relating to: geological
timescales and plate tectonics.
Population.
Assessment
Data input
NC focus: human geography relating international
development.
NC focus: understand geographical similarities and
differences through the study of human and physical
geography of a region within Asia.
Globalisation.
Assessment
Data input
Ecosystems.
Assessment
Data input
Assessment
Data input
Assessment
Data input
NC focus: 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.
Kenya.
NC focus: how human activity relies on effective
functioning of natural systems, urbanisation.
NC focus: understand geographical similarities and
differences through the study of human and physical
geography of a region within Africa.
NC focus: human geography relating to economic
activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and
quaternary sectors; and the use of natural resources
Africa.
Water on the land.
NC focus: understand geographical similarities and
differences through the study of human and physical
geography of a region within Africa.
NC focus: physical geography relating to hydrology
and coasts.
Industry and the environment.