YEAR 8 LEARNING PLAN
Geography
Year 8
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Subject - Geography
Please Note: the National Geography Curriculum is changing in September 2013 so this scheme of will change
Also: all lessons are available to students on Moodle
Humanities department
Learning Programme
Year 8 Overview
Subject - Geography
Content
Learning Outcome
Curriculum
Fulfilment
Africa a continent of contrasts
To locate places in Africa, key aspects of their changing geography , culture,
diversity and development, and how places link with other places in the world
across a range of environments
Cultural understanding and diversity.
Interaction between people and their
environment. Location of places.
Wild Weather
To understand the difference between weather and climate and how they affect us.
To explore various types of extreme weather and to assess their causes and
consequences on people and the environment.
Physical processes and environmental
interaction
Eurovision
To locate countries within the European Union and explore the reasons why the
European Union was founded and what benefits and negatives countries experience
being part of the Union. To explore Italy’s physical and human features and assess
how the European Union has influenced life in Italy.
Cultural understanding and diversity.
Participate in informed responsible
action . Makes links between
geography and citizenship.
Violent Volcanoes
To explore the structure of the earth and plate tectonic theory, including
understanding how and why volcanoes occur. To analyze the economic, social and
environmental impacts of volcanoes and discover how development affects
response.
Physical and human processes.
Interaction between people and their
environment
Environments and ecosystems
To understand that the physical and human dimensions of the environment are
interrelated and together influence environmental change. To study the interaction
between people and their environment.
Environmental interaction and
sustainable development.
Development of spatial understanding
and location of places
Environments and ecosystems
To understand that the physical and human dimensions of the environment are
interrelated and together influence environmental change. To study the interaction
between people and their environment.
Environmental interaction and
sustainable development.
Development of spatial understanding
and location of places
Humanities department
Learning Programme
Year 8 Half-Term 1
Subject - Geography
Title
Learning objectives
Classroom Activity
CLs suggested homework
Marking/
assessment
What is the continent of
Africa like and where is it?
To understand that Africa is a
continent not a country and to
locate countries that are in the
African continent
Variety of worksheets and map work
using atlases, bingo game
Revise for UK knowledge and location
test
Teacher assessment
Peer and self assessment
Grace in Ghana
To understand the difference
between relative and absolute
poverty. To explore Grace’s
life and understand extreme
poverty
PowerPoint, Video clip and geog,3
textbook. Card sort activity
Revise for UK knowledge and location
test
Keyword test, self
assessment, teacher
assessment
Famine and desertification
To explore the epidemic of
famine, its causes and
consequences and understand
what type of aid is needed
PowerPoint, Video clips and
information stations. Card sort activity
Revise for keyword and definition test
Teacher assessment
Self assessment
South Africa and Apartheid
To understand the inherent
racism in Apartheid South
Africa and how one man
helped a country to overcome
this prejudice and
discrimination
PowerPoint, information stations,
Nelson Mandela worksheets and
Invictus poem. Video clip.
Revise for keyword and definition test
Teacher assessment
Self assessment
Tourism in Kenya and the
Maasai.
To explore the nature of the
Maasai tribe in Kenya and the
impact tourism has on them.
PowerPoint, worksheets on the Maasai
and video clip on Kenya. Presentation.
Revise for end of unit test
Teacher assessment
Self and peer assessment
Zanzibar and the malaria
epidemic
To locate Zanzibar and
understand how malaria is
killing millions of people in
this nation
PowerPoint and worksheets on Malaria
and Zanzibar map. Cut and stick
activity.
Revise for end of unit test
African postcards and end of
unit test
Humanities department
Learning Programme
Year 8 Half-Term 2
Subject - Geography
Title
Learning objectives
Classroom Activity
CLs suggested homework
Marking/
assessment
What is weather and how is it
measured?
To investigate different types
of weather and to explore how
they are measured
Variety of worksheets and map work
using atlases, bingo game
Revise for European knowledge and
location test
Teacher assessment
Peer and self assessment
The four seasons
To discover what the four
seasons are and to produce a
collage of the four seasons
PowerPoint, worksheets and
information around the room. Cut and
stick activity
Revise for European knowledge and
location test
Keyword test, self
assessment, teacher
assessment
Clouds and rainfall
To explore cloud formation
and to investigate the three
types of rainfall
PowerPoint, targeted questioning,
rainfall worksheet. Video clip
Revise for keyword and definition test
Teacher assessment
Self assessment
Drought and famine
To understand what drought is
and to explore what damage it
can do and understand how
we can help to reduce the risk
of drought.
PowerPoint on drought and famine,
video clip on famine and information
stations
Revise for keyword and definition test
Peer assessment
Self assessment
What are tornadoes and where
are they located?
To understand what tornadoes
are, explore how they are
measured and locate where
they occur.
PowerPoint, worksheets and
information stations about what
tornadoes are, maps locating them and
information on how they are measured.
Presentation.
Revise for end of unit test
Teacher assessment
Self and peer assessment
Tropical storms
To understand what tropical
storms are and understand
how they form and analyse
the impacts to the economy,
society, politically and
environmentally
PowerPoint, news and video clips
Revise for end of unit test
Weather report and end of
unit test
Humanities department
Learning Programme
Year 8 Half-Term 3
Subject - Geography
Title
Learning objectives
Classroom Activity
CLs suggested homework
Marking/
assessment
The European Union, aims
and member states
To understand what the EU is
and explain why it was
founded.
PowerPoint and variety of worksheets
and map work using atlases, bingo
game
Revise for Asian knowledge and
location test
Teacher assessment
Peer and self assessment
Want to to be in my gang?
To explore the advantages and
disadvantages of being in the
EU and to justify if the UK
should stay in or leave the EU
PowerPoint, should I stay or should
I go discussion worksheet, card sort
Revise for Asian knowledge and
location test
Keyword test, self
assessment, teacher
assessment
Introduction to Italia
To understand where Italy is
located and to explore various
characteristic of Italian life
PowerPoint, differentiated worksheets,
information stations. Letter activity
task
Revise for keyword and definition test
Teacher assessment
Self assessment
Italian climate and physical
features
To analyse climate graphs and
to compare them to the UK.
To explore the physical
features of Italy
PowerPoint and climate graphs for
Palmero and Cumbria. Map of Italy
Revise for keyword and definition test
Teacher assessment
Self assessment
Tourism in Italy
To explore human features in
Italian and look at tourism in
Italy
PowerPoint and Italian map, Cities
hangman. Presentations
Revise for end of unit test
Teacher assessment
Self and peer assessment
Italian stereotypes and
interdependence
To appreciate what a
stereotype is and how we use
them in forming opinions
about a place
PowerPoint, worksheet on Italian
culture and letter template
Revise for end of unit test
Italy brochure and end of unit
test
Humanities department
Learning Programme
Year 8 Half-Term 4
Subject - Geography
Title
Learning objectives
Classroom Activity
CLs suggested homework
Marking/
assessment
Fiery Earth
To understand the 3 main
layers of the earth and explore
the plate tectonic theory
Variety of worksheets and map work
using atlases, bingo game
Revise for African knowledge and
location test
Teacher assessment
Peer and self assessment
Types of plate boundaries
To locate the earths main
plate boundaries and to
understand the characteristics
of the 3 main types of plate
boundaries
Plate boundaries map and worksheet.
PowerPoint. And video clip.
Card sort activity.
Revise for African knowledge and
location test
Keyword test, self
assessment, teacher
assessment
What are volcanoes?
To understand that there are
different types of volcanoes
and to explore the differences
between active, dormant and
extinct volcanoes
PowerPoint, Volcano worksheet,
Interactions textbook. Cut and stick
activity.
Revise for keyword and definition test
Teacher assessment
Self assessment
What damage can volcanoes
do?
To study various case studies
of volcanic eruptions and see
how different places react.
PowerPoint's, video clips, textbook and
news reports. Presentation
Revise for keyword and definition test
Teacher assessment
Self assessment
How can we manage/ predict
volcanic eruptions?
To discover how volcanoes
are monitored, planned for
and predicted at a variety of
scales
PowerPoint's, worksheets and
textbooks. Card sort
Revise for end of unit test
Teacher assessment
Self and peer assessment
Dante’s Peak
To understand how a volcano
can change an area and
review the film
Dante’s peak film
Review worksheet
Revise for end of unit test
Dante’s peak film review and
end of unit test
Humanities department
Learning Programme
Year 8 Half-Term 5
Subject - Geography
Title
Learning objectives
Classroom Activity
CLs suggested homework
Marking/
assessment
What are ecosystems and
where are they?
To understand what
ecosystems are locate where
they are
Group discussions and map work using
atlases, bingo game
Revise for America’s knowledge and
location test
Teacher assessment
Peer and self assessment
Desert ecosystems:
characteristics and location.
To explore the desert
ecosystem and discover what
it is like and where they are
located
Variety of worksheets and map work
using atlases, information stations
around the room
Revise for America’s knowledge and
location test
Keyword test, self
assessment, teacher
assessment
Desert climate and plant and
animal adaptations.
To analyse a climate graph
and investigate how animals
and plants have adapted to a
desert environment
Variety of worksheets and climate
graphs, spot the difference
Revise for keyword and definition test
Teacher assessment
Self assessment
Tropical rainforest
characteristics and location.
To explore the tropical
rainforest ecosystem and
discover what it is like and
where they are located
Video clip and map work using atlases,
information stations around the room
Revise for keyword and definition test
Teacher assessment
Self assessment
Tropical rainforest climate
and plant and animal
adaptations.
To analyse a climate graph
and investigate how animals
and plants have adapted to a
tropical rainforest
environment
Variety of worksheets and climate
graphs, spot the difference. Card sort
activity.
Revise for end of unit test
Self and peer assessment
Tourism in the desert and
tourism in a tropical
rainforest.
To investigate and explore
different tourist places in
desert and tropical rainforest
ecosystems
Variety of worksheets and climate
graphs, maps and information stations.
Video clips
Revise for end of unit test
Ecosystem poster and end of
unit test
Humanities department