Geography Year 7 term 1 Order of lessons

Theme: - Britain

Week Lesson Title Walt Main Tasks Assessment1 1 Welcome to your new

schoolTo be able to identify key places in the school and describe how to get there.

Tour the school and write directions to help get around it.

Written statements to check. (peer)

2 Welcome to your new school

To be able to identify key places in the school and describe how to get there.

Mark off routes round the school. Explain routes to others

Map to mark, focus on annotations.

2 1 British To enquire about identity and ‘Britishness’.

Focus on features of identity.

Verbal check via plenary game.

2 My World To investigate the elements that make up your world.

Planning sheet after completing Kylie’s world sheet. Cartoon strip of own world.

Mark comments for cartoon strip.Peer mark Kylie’s World.

3 1 Britain To be able to identify key human features of the British Isles.

All students make UK map with borders/ countries/ capitals identified. Worksheet to extend scanning skills task.

UK map (step 3)Peer/self-mark worksheet.

2 Where do we live To identify where most people in the UK Live.

Positives and negatives mind map for urban and rural living. Top 10 cities plotted on UK map.

Self/group assessment of mind maps.Mark UK map for inaccuracies of places placement.

4 1 Jobs To identify the different job sectors people work in.

Job sectors and examples worksheet.Description of graphs.

Peer/self-mark worksheet.Mark descriptions (step 4)

2 UK Physical features To investigate map representation of UK physical features

Make UK map with major Mountains, rivers and seas identified.

Mark students placement of key features (Step 3)

5 1 County divisions To explore the county divisions of England.

English country worksheet. PowerPoint on 3 counties features

Self/peer mark sheet. Peer mark presentations.

as a group.2 Features of Maidstone To explore the key

features of MaidstoneStudents identify key human and physical features of Maidstone. Presentation on Maidstone as a town. Ext- comparisons to London.

Group work for presentations.

6 1 North vs. South To investigate potential socio-economic divisions in the UK

Students analyse a mental map and a data table. Then create own map of data.

Map to mark and student comments.

2 British Culture 1 To investigate key cultural features of Britain.

Group work image sheets and feature comments for England and Northern Ireland.

Peer marked work.

7 1 British Culture 2 To investigate key cultural features of Britain.

Group work image sheets and feature comments for Scotland and Wales.

Peer marked work.

2 Test To be able to recall key facts to answer a test.

After in class revision, students answer a 50 point test on work this term.

Summative assessment at the end of the Unit.

8 1 Map skills To enquire about map skills to find features and directions.

Worksheet on symbols, grid references and compass directions work.

Peer/self-assessed checks on skills.

2 Locations - Europe To improve our knowledge of location of countries and capitals.

Europe map with countries and capitals labelled. (Step 3)

Mark map for placement of places.