Appendix 2
Geography Curriculum map
Year 9
Pathway: Booster – Apprentice level literacy
Term
Topic
Skills addressed
Term 1
China
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Term 2
Glaciation
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Supported use of geographical terms to locate
key areas.
Describing and comparing population
distribution with rainfall maps.
Development of economic geography.
Research skills linked to work around the One
Child Policy.
Sorting information as social, economic, and
environmental and using this to make a
decision.
Development of evaluation skills in relation to
the One Child Policy.
Supported use of evidence to support key ideas
and use of PEE.
Presentation skills.
Use of geographical terms to explain processes
of glaciation.
Able to use geographical diagrams to aid the
explanation of formation of glacial landforms.
Describing and explaining distribution on maps
– use of locational detail here.
Research skills and developing reference skills.
Use of evidence to support key ideas.
Supported application of ideas to exam.
questions.
Literacy skills addressed
Key assessment tasks
LS2, LS5, LK3
Mid unit assessment: 6 mark
PEE question
RS3, RS5, RS6, RK6
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End of unit assessment:
Presentation on one child
policy
SK2, SK4
LS2, LS5, LK3
Mid unit assessment: 6 mark
PEE question
RS3, RS5, RS6, RK6
W
SK2, SK4
End of unit assessment: GCSE
style test
Term 3
Watery world
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Term 4
Tourism –
paradise
lost?
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Term 5
Peterborough
– cities and
change
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Term 6
Peterborough
– cities and
change
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Use of geographical terms throughout to
discuss water and the pattern of access to it
around the world.
Describing and explaining the link between
population distribution maps with rainfall
maps.
Research skills developed.
Presentation skills.
Application and starting to explain the conflict
matrix.
Creating and analysing climate graphs –
supported structures provided.
Confident application of case study to written
work.
Construction, application and explanation of
conflict matrix.
Able to decide if sustainable tourism is good
for an area and a viable alternative.
Examining alternative viewpoints – using these
to form own opinion.
Confident in use of key map skills – 4 figure
grid references, measurement of distance on
maps interpretation of map symbols.
Interpretation of graphs on migration.
Development of fieldwork skills on changing
life in the city.
Application of case study material to exam
questions.
Development of exam skills.
Fieldwork around change – development of
these skills.
Confident in use of key map skills – 4 figure
grid references, measurement of distance on
maps interpretation of map symbols.
Interpretation of graphs on migration.
Development of fieldwork skills on changing
LS2, LS5, LK3
Mid unit assessment:
Presentation on LEDC issues
RS3, RS5, RS6, RK6
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End of unit assessment: GCSE
style test
SK2, SK4
LS2, LS5, LK3
Mid unit assessment:
Newspaper article.
RS3, RS5, RS6, RK6
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End of unit assessment: GCSE
style test
SK2, SK4
LS2, LS5, LK3
Mid unit assessment.
RS3, RS5, RS6, RK6
End of unit assessment.
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SK2, SK4
Mid unit assessment.
LS2, LS5, LK3
End of unit assessment.
RS3, RS5, RS6, RK6
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life in the city.
Application of case study material to exam
questions.
Development of exam skills.
Fieldwork around change – development of
these skills.
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SK2, SK4