Key Stage 3
Curriculum Overview
Please click on the links below for further information:
GCSE skills:
- To be able to apply geographical concepts
- To recall and understand key terms, features, processes and locational case studies
- Interpretation and analysis of graphs, data and photos
- To be able to describe and explain patterns or geographical concepts
- To explain and assess how physical processes and human activities influence the human and physical world
- To explain and assess social, economic, environmental and political (SEEP) impacts in the developing and developed world
- To assess, evaluate and justify geographical concepts, themes and events
By the end of year 9, students should be able to:
- Explain how concepts can be applied at regional and global level
- Further develop techniques to understand and recall key terms, features, processes and locational case studies
- Analyse and start to interpret graphs, data and photos
- Describe and begin to explain patterns and geographical themes
- Explain how processes and activities influence how the geographical worlds interact
- Explain and compare how SEEP differs in the developing and developed world
- Weigh up and justify geographical decisions and regional conflicts
By the end of year 8, students should be able to:
- Investigate how concepts can be applied at regional and global level
- Develop techniques to understand and recall key terms, features, processes and locational case studies
- Describe and start to explain information in graphs, data sets and photos
- Describe geographical patters and themes
- Describe how processes and activities influence how the geographical worlds interact
- Explain how social, economic and environmental impacts differ in either an MEDC or LEDC
By the end of year 7, students should be able to:
- Describe concepts on a regional and global level
- Investigate methods of organising information to assist in recall
- Create and describe graphs and understand data and photos
- Introduce and identify geographical patterns
- Identify the three geographical worlds
- Identify SEE impacts
- Explain what is a region and identify issues
- Accurately complete at least one PEEL paragraph and come to a conclusion