Year 7
Summer 2
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Keep Calm and Ask a Geographer
Fieldwork
n/a
Research
GIS
Using Google Earth to use satellite images of different
regions
Homework Project
Do geographers ever get lost?
Maybe it’s because I’m a…Londoner. Is Hounslow London?
Change
Fieldwork
Off site: Hounslow High Street Questionnaire
Research
Using ONS Neighbourhood statistics to compare
different parts of the UK
GIS
Using AEGIS to plot data from questionnaires;
Homework Project
Would I fit in somewhere else?
Why are rivers important? interaction
Fieldwork
On site: Infiltration rates
Virtual: Investigating changes along a river
Research
Using World Book online to investigate world rivers
GIS
Using Google Earth to investigate different river
regimes looking at links with population distribution
Homework Project
Which is the most important river in the world?
What does geography have to do with crime?
Diversity
Fieldwork
On site: Choosing a site for a new CCTV camera
Research
Using http://www.police.uk/ to compare type and
number of crime in areas
GIS
Using AEGIS to plot data from onsite fieldwork to aid
decision making
Homework Project
How safe is my street?
How do humans affect the coastline?
Interaction
Fieldwork
Off site: Littlehampton Investigation
Virtual: Field trip to southern Spain
Research
Using Google to investigate coastal management –
guided with key words
GIS
Use Google Earth to investigate the visible impacts of
humans on coastlines – Dubai, Gold Coast, Gulf of
Mexico
Homework Project
Wish you were here?
Year 8
Summer 2
Autumn 1
What makes places dangerous?
Diversity
Fieldwork
Virtual: Field work visit to active volcano
Research
Use simulation Stop Disasters
http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/home.html to
help prepare and plan for natural disasters
GIS
Use Google Earth to create a tour of the most
dangerous places to live
Homework Project
Why would you live in a dangerous place?
How many people are too many?
Perception & representation
Fieldwork
Homework: Questionnaires about population change
and migration
GIS
Use Google Earth to design maps and posters to
show differences in population size and structure
Autumn 2
How does your city grow?
Interaction
Fieldwork
Virtual: Site observations of spontaneous
settlements in Rio, Cape Town, Nairobi, Jakarta and
Mumbai
Off site: Land use mapping in Hounslow
GIS
Use AEGIS 3 to investigate differences in land use in
Hounslow.
Spring 1
Is it me or is it hot in here?
Homework Project
What will cities be like in the future?
Interaction
Research
Compare different forest biomes
Homework Project
Will there be any rainforest left?
Change
Fieldwork
Homework: Questionnaires about attitudes towards
climate change
GIS
Using Google Earth to predict changes
Using Environment Agency maps to investigate
impact of climate change on local area
Summer 1
Research
Use UN Cyber school bus
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/habitat/index.asp
to investigate changes in cities around the world
Why does the UK not have a rainforest?
Fieldwork
Off site: Epping Forest FSC
GIS
Using Google Earth to estimate current rates of
deforestation
Spring 2
Research
Use BBC news and other news sites to investigate
China’s One Child Policy
Homework Project
Is the grass greener?
Research
Human and natural causes of climate change;
Homework Project
Climate Change Games
Unhealthy people or unhealthy places?
Change, Interaction
Fieldwork
Investigating access to open space and the impact of
exercise and play on the sense of well-being
GIS
Using csv data sets to produce maps to investigate
the relationships between socio-economic data and
health in the UK
Research
.
Homework Project
Investigating access to open space and the impact of
exercise and play on the sense of well-being
Year 9
Summer 2
Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud
Change, Interaction
Fieldwork
Off-site: Soil Catena of Box Hill, Surrey
GIS
Use DigiMaps for schools to plot data fieldwork data
Use ARCGIS to plot live data
Autumn 1
Storm Chasing: Changing Weather
Change, Interaction
Fieldwork
On-site: Gathering micro climate data
GIS
Use ARC GIS to create maps of micro climate data
around shool
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Globalisation and Me
Fieldwork
Offsite: Glocal or Global Hounslow.
Research
Webquest: Does IT work?
GIS
Use night view of Google Earth to identify ‘switched
on’ and ‘switched off’ places
Homework Project
Global spread: Mapping the spread of technology and
ideas
Arrested Development: Impact of Conflict
GIS
Use AEGIS3 to investigate the impact of a local
conflict
Summer 1
Research
Use of cultural artefacts in the tracking changing
weather patterns
Homework Project
Extreme Weather Report
Diversity, Interaction
Fieldwork
Homework: Photographic essay on local conflicts
Spring 2
Research
Issues related to quality of soil and the importance for
farming in the UK.
Homework Project
Who cares about soil?
Water, water everywhere
Perception/representation, Change
Research
UN Cyber school bus Web quest on child soldiers
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/childsoldiers/webquest/
Homework Project
The Geography of Peace: how effective is the Global
Peace Index
Interaction, Change
Fieldwork
On-site, Experiential: Personal response to carrying
5l bucket of water for 15 minutes
Fieldwork
On-site, Experiential: Personal response to carrying 5l
bucket of water for 15 minutes
GIS
Use Google Earth images to track evidence of water
use and abuse
GIS
Use Google Earth images to track evidence of water
use and abuse
Going to Extremes: Super Eruptions, Mega Tsunamis & Twisters
Diversity
Fieldwork
Virtual: Yellowstone, Japan & Tornado Alley
GIS
Select an appropriate tool to develop hazard map of
the school and its hazard preparedness plan (Linked
to homework project.
Research
Using www.worldmapper.org investigate levels of risk
in different parts of the world.
Homework Project
Design a hazard plan for Lampton School
Reserve Units
Spring 2
Is the World Fair? Tackling Global Poverty Perception/representation, Interaction
Year 9
Fieldwork
Research
N/A
Using www.gapminder.org investigate the
relationships between development indicators00
GIS
Homework Project
Use Google Earth or AEGIS 3 to devise mapping
techniques to examine differences in
development
Collaborative development campaign – MDG
rating