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Year Group:
8
Subject:
GEOGRAPHY
Term:
AUTUMN
Overview:
In Year 8 geography, students will develop a wide range of key GCSE skills during each of the topics below.
Globalisation
Key Content
Key Skills
Location of manufacturing in the past and now.
What is primary, secondary & tertiary industry?
Reasons for manufacturing occurring in NEEs.
Reasons globalisation is unfair.
Advantages and disadvantages of TNCs to NEEs.
How fair trade works & is important to NEE farmers.
Globalisation of knowledge / info due to media.
Describing changes in a graph.
Making detailed links in longer answers.
Using a wide range of key terms in answers.
Using specific facts/figures as evidence.
Clearly explain & support 2 sides to an argument.
Inferring messages from a cartoon.
Revising effectively to remember key content.
The Yorkshire Coast
Key Content
Key Skills
Identify physical coastal landforms (features).
How stacks form.
Social effects (impacts) of coastal erosion.
Reasons the Holbeck Hall Hotel collapsed.
How longshore drift works.
Advantages and disadvantages of sea defences.
Describing key features in a photo.
Explain a sequence of events clearly and logically.
Making detailed links in longer answers.
Using a wide range of key terms in answers.
Using specific facts/figures as evidence.
Effectively use an OS map as evidence (grid refs etc)
Clearly explain & support 2 sides to an argument.
Revising effectively to remember key content.
Assessment:
End of topic tests assessing the key content and skills covered during the topic (see above).
Length: 1 hour
Formative assessments during lessons helping students to develop the key content and skills covered in the end of topic test. These could be in the form of quizzes, group work, practice exam questions, presentations.
Feedback:
Regular verbal feedback to help improve quality of work and understanding of topics during the lesson.
Peer and self-assessment using clear success criteria and WAGOLLs (examples). Peer/self improvements will be made in books using a green pen.
Written teacher feedback will be given for key pieces of work focusing on strengths (green highlighter) and areas to develop (yellow highlighter).
Homework: (1 per fortnight)
Homework will involve one of the following tasks:
Working on written work to ensure depth of understanding is communicated.
Providing time for students to respond to feedback and improve work.
Researching content to prepare for future lessons.
Revision tasks to prepare students for an end of topic test.
In Year 8 geography, students will develop a wide range of key GCSE skills during each of the topics below.
The Yorkshire Coast: Finish topic and assessment
Kenya
Key Content
Relationship between development indicators.
Reasons HDI is the most reliable indicator.
What is the development gap?
Physical & human factors affecting Kenya’s development (water crisis / conflict etc).
Tourist attractions in Kenya.
Environmental / social benefits of ecotourism.
How can Kenya effectively develop / improve?
Key Skills
Describing relationship in a scatter graph.
Drawing a line of best fit.
Making detailed links in longer answers.
Using a wide range of key terms in answers.
Using specific facts/figures as evidence.
Inferring using sources.
Clearly justifying a decision you have made.
Revising effectively to remember key content.
Assessment:
End of topic tests assessing the key content and skills covered during the topic (see above).
Formative assessments during lessons helping students to develop the key content and skills covered in the end of topic test. These could be in the form of quizzes, group work, practice exam questions, presentations.
Feedback:
Regular verbal feedback to help improve quality of work and understanding of topics during the lesson.
Peer and self-assessment using clear success criteria and WAGOLLs (examples). Peer/self improvements will be made in books using a different coloured pen.
Written teacher feedback will be given for key pieces of work focusing on strengths (green highlighter) and areas to develop (yellow highlighter).
Homework: (1 per fortnight)
Homework will involve one of the following tasks:
Providing more time to finish key pieces of work to a high standard.
Providing time for students to respond to feedback and improve work.
Researching content to prepare for future lessons.
Revision tasks to prepare students for an end of topic test.
In Year 8 geography, students will develop a wide range of key GCSE skills during each of the topics below.
Finish current topic: Kenya
End of year exam: Covering Year 8 topics
Globalisation
Yorkshire Coast
Kenya
Revision lessons to prepare students for the exam and develop their independent revision skills.
Fieldwork: Tourism in Helmsley
Key content
Key skills
Social, economic and environmental benefits of tourism in Helmsley.
Social, economic and environmental problems of tourism in Helmsley.
Primary vs secondary data
Risk assessing a field trip
Formulating an appropriate hypothesis
Describing and justifying data collection methods
Using appropriate presentation techniques to present primary data.
Using graphs and manipulating data to explain results.
Evaluating the overall success of the fieldwork.
Assessment:
End of year test assessing the key content and skills covered this year.
Formative assessments during lessons helping students to develop the key content and skills covered in the end of topic test. These could be in the form of quizzes, group work, practice exam questions, presentations.
Feedback:
Regular verbal feedback to help improve quality of work and understanding of topics during the lesson.
Peer and self-assessment using clear success criteria and WAGOLLs (examples). Peer/self improvements will be made in books using a different coloured pen.
Written teacher feedback will be given for key pieces of work focusing on strengths (green highlighter) and areas to develop (yellow highlighter).
Homework: (1 per fortnight)
Homework will involve one of the following tasks:
Providing more time to finish key pieces of work to a high standard.
Providing time for students to respond to feedback and improve work.
Researching content to prepare for future lessons.
Revision tasks to prepare students for an end of topic test.
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