Year 7
WA1
Title of assessment: ‘There’s no place like home’
Skills assessed:
Map skills, annotation, numeracy, literacy, analysis, graphing data, and evaluative skills.
Key learning:
Ability to map routes.
Ability to identify places.
To Distinguish between Human, Physical and Environmental Geography.
Independent enquiry skills.
Asking Geographical questions.
Ability to present data accurately in a range of ways.
To describe Geographical patterns.
To explain reasons for Geographical patterns.
Awareness of place at a range of scales.
WA2
Title of assessment: Urban Changes and Issues
Skills assessed:
Extended writing, photograph interpretation, geographical models, identifying changes, patterns and map skills, writing a balanced argument.
Key learning:
Ability to identify housing type.
Knowledge of key terms.
Understanding of geographical changes and the impacts these have on populations.
Reasons for settlement sites.
Megacity growth in LICS and NEES.
Settlement Hierarchy.
Urban Regeneration projects and social deprivation.
WA3
Title of assessment: Tropical Storms
Skills assessed:
Extended Writing case study, making connections, sequencing events, Climate Graphs, map skills, numeracy, describing and explaining impacts at a range of scales, sketching and annotation. Numeracy – range, mode, median, mean with climate data.
Key learning:
Causes of Tropical Storms.
Areas of formation.
Primary and Secondary Effects.
Factors affecting the severity of storms.
Responses to the disasters – short-term or long-term.
Weather features.
Climatic Zones.
Saffir-Simpson Scale.
Factors affecting climates.
Instruments for forecasting the weather.
Year 8
WA1
Title of assessment: Climate Change and Sustainability
Skills assessed:
Map skills, Average temperature deviation graphs, Systems thinking,
Key learning:
Be able to describe the greenhouse effect
Be able to explain the greenhouse effect
To identify sources of greenhouse gasses
To analyse how global warming is affecting people
Assess strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
To understand the concept of conservation
To assess ways in which conservation benefits the environment
To interpret sources of data effectively
To be able to describe a food chain
WA2
Title of assessment: National Parks and Tourism
Skills assessed:
Comprehension, data interpretation, decision-making, evaluation of sources, empathising with differing viewpoints, communicating opinions, extended writing, presentation skills, describing locations.
Key learning:
Positive multiplier effect
Tertiary sector
Conflict within National Parks
Sustainability
Environmental Impact Assessment
Management of tourism activities
Eco-tourism
WA3
Title of assessment: Global Economy
Skills assessed:
Compound Bar charts, Thematic Maps, Numeracy, extended writing, flow charts, infographics, data interpretation, communication of ideas, making judgments.
Key learning:
The role of TNCs
Industrial processes
Employment types
Trade balance
Fair trade
Informal Economy
Case study of a TNC
Sweatshops
Year 9
WA1
Title of assessment: Global Development
Skills assessed:
Pie charts, Choropleth Maps, Scatter graphs, data interpretation, extended writing, multiple choice questions,
Key learning:
To interpret sources of information effectively
To explain reasons for global economic disparity
To describe a range of development indicators
To make links effectively between data sets.
To explain why quality and quantity of water is important
To be able to compare and contrast between countries at differing stages of development.
Employment Structures
Informal jobs
Poverty Cycle
WA2
Title of assessment: Tectonic Hazards
Skills assessed:
Cartographic Skills, photographs: use and interpret ground, aerial and satellite photographs, literacy, atlas maps, ordnance survey maps, numerical skills.
Key learning:
Structure of the earth.
Plate boundaries.
Distribution of tectonic hazards.
Types of volcanic eruption.
Causes of earthquakes.
Case studies of tectonic hazards.
Japanese tsunami.
Super volcanoes.
WA3
Title of assessment: Coasts
Skills assessed:
Mapping coastal management features
Making decisions how best to protect the coast
Communicating findings, graph skills, numeracy – cost calculations,
Key learning:
Types of wave
Erosional Landforms
Depositional landforms
Coastal Environments – Sand dunes, salt marshes and coral reefs.
Coastal Management – Hard and soft engineering
Threats to coral reefs
Coastal ecosystems