Year 7:
Year
group
Carlton Bolling College Geography Overview
Term 2
September - December
Term 2
January - April
Term 3
April – July
Continents and Oceans
To know and locate the continents and oceans
on a world map.
To know the difference between GB, the UK
and the British Isles.
To know the names and locations of European
countries.
Settlements and Migration
To identify site factors and functions.
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To compare 19 century Bradford to 21
century Bradford: population, function,
economy, housing etc.
To describe and explain the historical
migration patterns of Bradford.
To understand that Bradford is a diverse, multicultural and multi-faith city.
To understand the different land uses of
Bradford (different zones).
To understand and use 4-6FG references.
To evaluate city life.
Climate
To know the difference between weather and
climate.
To understand and explain the rain and water
cycles.
To identify and explain the use of equipment used
for measuring weather.
To use specialist equipment to record, analyse and
present the weather to peers as project work.
To be able to understand and create climate
graphs.
To know how altitude, latitude and relief affects
climate.
To describe and explain the British Climate.
To investigate and deliver a presentation on Arctic,
Desert and Tropical climates.
Farming
To know that farming is a primary industry.
To know main types of farming in Britain
(Arable, Pastoral & Mixed) and explain the
factors affecting their distribution.
To describe and explain changes in farming and
how government and the EU can influence
some of these changes.
To study the origins of food (e.g. bananas) and
introduce the concept of fair trade. (Bananas in
China)
To compare farming in an MEDC to farming in
a LEDC (Tea - India & Kenya)
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Areas under development – Soils.
SMSC, personal growth and
PLTS opportunities
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Coasts
To identify and become familiar with key
geographical terms for the unit.
To describe and explain the different forms
and weathering and erosion processes.
To describe and explain the formation of
headlands and bays including features found in
these places (e.g. beaches, caves, arches and
stacks).
To understand and use OS maps.
To describe and explain the cause, effects and
response to cliff collapse.
To evaluate the different coastal defence
strategies and understand how these can
cause conflict.
To study coastal issues and responses at Birling
Gap and the Isle of Purbeck.
Population
To identify and become familiar with key
geographical terms for the unit.
To know the distribution of the world population
and demonstrate this on a map.
To know the distribution of the UK population and
demonstrate this on a map.
To identify and explain factors that make an area
dense/sparsely populated.
To describe and explain the historical population
trends.
To identify and explain factors affecting birth rates.
To evaluate overpopulation.
To identify the push and pull factors of migration
and explain its effect.
To evaluate the impact of the migration of
Mexicans to America.
Rivers and Flooding
To identify and become familiar with key
geographical terms for the unit and use these to
label the key features of a river.
To know and locate the major rivers of the world.
To describe and explain the formation of waterfalls
and meanders.
To describe and explain the cause, effects and
response to floods.
To study the UK floods of 2000 and 2007.
To compare floods in an MEDC to floods in a LEDC
(India & Bangladesh).
Areas under development – Glaciation.
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Development & Tourism
To use the Brandt line to identify developing
and developed countries.
To identify different development indicators
and use scatter graphs to show correlations
between development indicators and
development.
To describe and explain the impact of trade
and aid on development.
To identify the different types of tourists and
explain the growth of the tourist industry.
To identify the human and physical attractions
of popular tourist destinations.
To evaluate the importance of the tourist
industry with a particular focus on the
economy, development and conflict.
To undergo a project researching and
delivering a presentation on the Middle-East,
Egypt, Russia, Australia, China and India
(location, climate, population, whether an
MEDC or LEDC, physical/human attractions,
capital & popular cities etc).
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Year 9:
KEY STAGE 4 CURRICULUM
Restless Earth
What are the main plates of the world and
why do they move?
What processes take place at the different
plate margins?
To know the formation and human use of
fold mountains, including case studies: Alps
and Himalayas.
To know the cause, effects and response to
volcanic eruptions in MEDC’s and LEDC’s
including case studies: Mt Pinatubo and Mt St
Helens
To know the cause and likely effects of a
supervolcanic eruption including a case
study: Yellowstone National Park.
To know the social, economic and
environmental reasons for why people live in
danger zones.
To know the cause, effects and response to
earthquakes in MEDC’s and LEDC’s including
case studies: Chile and Haiti.
To compare the Richter scale to the Mercalli
scale and understand their use.
To know the cause, effects and response to
Tsunamis including case studies: Indian
Ocean and Japan.
Restless Earth
What are the main plates of the world and
why do they move?
What processes take place at the different
plate margins?
To know the formation and human use of
fold mountains, including case studies: Alps
and Himalayas.
To know the cause, effects and response to
volcanic eruptions in MEDC’s and LEDC’s
including case studies: Mt Pinatubo and Mt St
Helens
To know the cause and likely effects of a
supervolcanic eruption including a case
study: Yellowstone National Park.
To know the social, economic and
10:
Critical Thinking
Year 10:
KEY STAGE 4 CURRICULUM
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The Coastal Zone
What causes waves including destructive and
constructive?
How do different forms of weathering, erosion and
mass movement shape our coastline?
How do sediments in the sea transport from one
location to another?
Why do we get headlands and bays?
What are the different features and attractions
found at a headland?
What are the case, effects and response to cliff
collapse? Case study: Holderness.
What are the different features and attractions
found at a bay? E.g. beaches, spits and bars.
What are the cause, effects and response to rising
sea levels? Case study: the Maldives.
How do we manage the coast? Hard engineering v
soft engineering. Case studies: Swanage area and
Alkborough Flats.
How do salt marshes form and what is their use?
Case study: Keyhaven.
The Coastal Zone
What causes waves including destructive and
constructive?
How do different forms of weathering, erosion and
mass movement shape our coastline?
How do sediments in the sea transport from one
location to another?
Why do we get headlands and bays?
What are the different features and attractions
found at a headland?
What are the case, effects and response to cliff
collapse? Case study: Holderness.
What are the different features and attractions
found at a bay? E.g. beaches, spits and bars.
What are the cause, effects and response to rising
sea levels? Case study: the Maldives.
How do we manage the coast? Hard engineering v
Tourism
Why is there are global increase in tourism?
To study the potential of cities, mountains and
coastal areas for developing tourism.
To compare the economic importance of
tourism to countries in LEDC’s and MEDC’s.
To analyse the contribution of tourism to the
UK economy.
To study tourism at a UK Coastal resort.
To study the Butler tourist resort life cycle
model using Kenya as a case study.
To study the impact of mass tourism using
Blackpool as a case study.
To study Jamaica as a tropical tourist area.
What are the strategies for maintaining
tourism in Mombassa?
Why is there an increased demand for
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environmental reasons for why people live in
danger zones.
To know the cause, effects and response to
earthquakes in MEDC’s and LEDC’s including
case studies: Chile and Haiti.
To compare the Richter scale to the Mercalli
scale and understand their use.
To know the cause, effects and response to
Tsunamis including case studies: Indian
Ocean and Japan.
soft engineering. Case studies: Swanage area and
Alkborough Flats.
How do salt marshes form and what is their use?
Case study: Keyhaven.
adventure holidays?
Case study on an extreme environment:
Antarctica.
How can we sustain tourism in locations like
Machu Pichu?
Tourism
Continued from Year 10
The Development Gap
What is development and what are the
development indicators?
What is the relationship between quality of life
and standard of living?
To look at global environmental inequality using
Hurricane Mitch as a case study.
To look at global economic inequality with specific
reference to trade.
To look at global social inequality with specific
reference to the quality and quantity of water
available to people.
To look at global political inequality with specific
reference to unstable governments.
How can we reduce inequality through trade
especially Fair Trade?
How can we reduce debt repayments?
What are the pros and cons of aid for donor and
recipient countries?
What are the conditions leading to contrasting
levels of development in two EU countries?
How has the EU attempted to reduce the
development gap within the EU?
Population Change
Why is the world population growing at such a
rapid rate?
To analyse the demographic transition model.
To analyse the population pyramids.
How can we achieve sustainable populations?
China as a case study.
What are the cause, effects and response to an
ageing population?
What are the push and pull factors of
migration?
To analyse the economic and refugee
movement within the EU and the impact of
this movement.
Year 11:
Controlled Assessment
Includes a visit to Robin Hood’s Bay.
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Revision
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Year 12:
Not currently being studied
Year 13:
Not currently being studied
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