Year 7 Schemes of Work Overview
Below is an outline of the topics that students will receive during there time as a year 7 and
year 8 student at Arthur Terry. As Geography is compulsory until the end of year 8 we
try and make the topics that students learn both engaging and stimulating. We hope
to achieve this by teaching very current topics in dynamic ways, rather than resorting
to 'old as time' textbooks. It is great to see that students truly enjoying learning a
subject that we are all so passionate about!
Fantastic Places
1. What is
Geography – Fantastic Places
2. Egypt
3. New Zealand
4. Brazil
5. Baseline
Assessment
Ecosystems
1. What is an ecosystem?
2. What is a tropical rainforest?
3. The structure of the rainforest
4.The disappearing rainforest
5. Bruce Parry Amazon
6. Creative Rainforest Journey
7. Protection and the Future
8. Coral Reef Ecosystems
9. Endangered Coral Ecosystems
10. Hot Deserts Enquiry
11. Hot Deserts Enquiry (Assessment question)
12. Hot Deserts Enquiry
13. Ecosystems Board Game
Desert
Island Survival
1. Plane Crash
– Emotional Thinking Wheel
2. Decision
Making
3. Building a
community
4. Mapping
5. Grid
References
6. Compass
Directions
7. Island
Symbols
8. Field
Sketches
9. Locating a
new Settlement
10 . Scrapyard
Challenge making your own settlement
11. End of
unit test (including Geographical key skills)
Geography
of Sport
1. Why do we
study Sport in Geography
2. Location of
football teams
3. Useful map
symbols (generic not sport related)
4. Directions
5. Scrapyard
challenge – building your own stadium
6. Getting to
the game on time
7. Relocating
the stadium
8. Why is Omar
stitching footballs secretly at home? (Assessment question)
9. Olympic
hosts
10. For or
against hosting the Olympics
11.
Regeneration of the Olympic site
12. What have
you learned? Poster for or against the Olympics
Population
1. Population
growth
2. Population
distribution factors
3. Population
structure
4. Population
change – The Demographic Transition Model
5. Migration
6. Death rates
and birth rates
7. Assessment
Question – Can the Earth Cope?
8. Settlement
Location
9. Design your
own settlement
10. Scrapyard
Challenge – Make your own settlement
Weather
1. How does weather affect me?
2. How do we measure, record
and present the weather?
3. What are clouds are why does
it rain?
4. How does air pressure affect
the weather?
5. What can satellites tell us
about the weather?
6. What is Europe’s climate?
7. What factors affect Europe’s
climate?
8. What have you learned about
weather and climate? (assessment question)
Year 8
Tectonic Hazards
1. What are
tectonic hazards?
2. Formation
of boundaries
3. What
happens during an earthquake
4. Prediction
and Preparation
5. Haiti
6. The Kobe
Earthquake effects and Mrs. Endo (assessment question)
7. Comparing
LEDC and MEDC earthquakes (assessment question)
8.
Introduction to tsunamis
9. Indonesia +
Tsunami homework assessment (assessment question)
10. What
happens during a volcanic eruption
11. What are
the effects of a volcanic eruption
12. Tectonic
board games
13. Tectonic
board games
14. Tectonic
board games
80 – 20 The Spread of Wealth
1. How can we
classify development?
2. Where are the
developed nations?
3. Does the
North/South divide really exist? (assessment question)
4. What causes global poverty? (Global
development homework assessment)
5. Where is
chocolate grown around the world?
6. The
Chocolate Industry sectors
7. Fairtrade
8. How fair is
fairtrade?
9. Chocolate
apprentice lesson – Design your own bar.
Coastal Environments
1. Why is the
coastline constantly changing?
2. How is the
coast eroded by wave action?
3. How does
the sea move and deposit material?
4. What are
the causes and effects of cliff collapse?
5. How can
coastal areas be managed?
6. How do
coastal defences affect people?
7. Should
Happisburgh have sea defences?
8. Lulworth
Heritage Centre display (assessment question)
9. Lulworth
heritage Centre display peer assessment
Think Act
1. What is
global warming
2. Causes of
global warming
3. Effects of
global warming
4. Global
warming project
5. Global
warming project
6. Global
warming project (assessment
question)
7. Cutting
carbon emissions
8. Global
footprint
Tourism
1. What is
tourism
2. Growth of
tourism
3. Changes to
tourism
4. A New Spain
5. Espane
Neuva
6. Are you
ready to catch the waves
7. Surfing in
the UK
8. Surfing
passion or fashion
9. Is tourism
good for everyone
10. Surfing
mystery
11. Wish you
were here mystery
12. Wish you
were here mystery (assessment
question)
13. Tourist
Location Assessment
