Felpham Community College – Key Stage 3 S of W
Subject: Geography
Year: 8
Leader: Mrs G Sloggett
Autumn Term 1
Sample Activities
Homework
Topic: Population
Activities
Extended project: Research into the issues of an ageing
What is happening to the World’s population?
Draw population pyramids
population in the UK
What is migration and immigration?
Annotating graphs of population expansion
Thoughts and feelings towards the China 1 child policy
What are the effects of a youthful population?
Analysing photographic evidence
Spelling test of key terminology
What are the effects of an ageing population?
Suggesting potential future scenarios using evidence
Assessment Plans
How is population growth managed?
Using ‘mystery’ stories to explore different attitudes
A story of ‘Crossing the Border’ Illegal migration from
towards population issues
Mexico to USA
Fieldwork – N/A
Literacy – extended writing, creative writing and language for exams
ICT – Using the internet to research population populations of different countries throughout time.
Autumn Term 2
Sample Activities
Homework
Topic: Development and Economic Activity
Decision making activities such as development
Homework
What is meant by ‘poor’ and ‘rich’?
diamond 9
Extended project: Research into an aid project carried
How do you measure development?
Group presentations on coffee production around
out in an LEDC.
What is the development gap?
the world
Spellings of key terminology
What work do we do?
Development top trumps!
How is coffee produced?
The trading game
How can coffee improve lives?
Assessment Plans
Presentation of the aid project in an LEDC to the class
What is fair trade and can it help?
Fieldwork – N/A
Literacy – Use of data sets in the Atlas, writing for purpose, key terminology
ICT – Worldmapper.com
Spring Term 1
Sample Activities
Homework
Topic: Africa
Africa- yes or no; photographic analysis
Extended project: Research into one chosen African
What are the misconceptions of Africa?
Challenging our stereotypes – Africa through the
country
What is Africa like today?
Simpsons’ eyes
how are we connected to Africa?
Interpretation of graphs
What has been the impact of tourism on
Role play tasks on those affected by AIDs in Africa
Assessment Plans
Matmata?
Decision making activities
Connections to Africa through football
What is the impact of mobile phones in Africa?
silent debate
Presentation of homework
How has AIDs affected countries in Africa?
How can the issue of AIDs be tackled?
What is the future for countries with AIDs?
Fieldwork – N/A
Literacy – Use of data sets in the Atlas, report writing, key terminology
ICT – N/A
Spring Term 2
Sample Activities
Homework
Topic: The changing world
Data analysis through graphs and tables
literacy- spellings
What is climate change?
Using a web programme to calculate carbon
Where has your food travelled from?
How does the greenhouse effect work?
footprint
How do I contribute to climate change?
Card sort
Assessment Plans
How will climate change affect different places?
Mystery activities
Group presentations
How is climate change portrayed in films?
Map from memory
extended piece of writing
What will the future look like?
Role plays
Timeline prediction
Fieldwork – N/A
Literacy – extended writing, key terminology
ICT – carbon footprint calculations
Summer Term 1
Sample Activities
Homework
Topic: Russia, region and roles
carousel activities
Investigate and research one extreme weather event
How big?
map from memory
How did the Urals form?
paired memory drawing
Biomes of Russia
map skills
Soil science
graph and data analysis
a powerful place
decision making tasks
Assessment Plans
group presentation
Russian Resources
How developed is Russia?
The impact of Chernobyl
Fieldwork – Survey of the most suitable location for a new picnic bench around the school site. Observation and categorisation of cloud types
Literacy – key terms, writing for purpose
ICT – satellite and GIS maps
Summer Term 2
Sample Activities
Homework
Topic: Weather and Climate
Using equipment to conduct fieldwork
Investigate and research one extreme weather event
What is weather
Analysing photographs
Evaluation of fieldwork methods
What factors influence the weather
Decision making tasks
The Hydrological Cycle
Reading and analysing climatic graphs -‘living graphs’
Clouds, and types of rainfall
Weather reporting
How to measure weather
Assessment Plans
End of year 8 exam
Air masses
Storms and depressions
British Weather
Extreme Weather
Climate Graphs
Fieldwork – Survey of the most suitable location for a new picnic bench around the school site. Observation and categorisation of cloud types
Literacy – 5 stage investigation
ICT – use of archived data and forecasting
Website / Resources
http://www.populationmatters.org/
http://www.undp.org
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/india
http://www.amnesty.org
http://www.au.int/en/
http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk
http://www.geoknow.net/pages/climategraphs.html
http://www.worldmapper.org/
Extension
Contrast a region in Asia (Thailand was covered in year 7) with a region in Africa. How are they different? how are they similar?> Can you explain these differences
using geographical ideas?