Topic 2 Year 7 Geography
| Geography | |||
| Topic | Geography of my stuff | ||
| No of lessons | 12 | ||
| When is it happening | Term 1/half term | ||
| What will students learn | What can we do to mitigate the impacts of climate change. | ||
| Key Knowledge that students should know at the end of 'Topic' | This is the knowledge that students will meet for the first time in this topic | Study of globalisation by recognising how much imports are relied on in everyday lives, considering how and why this has changed overtime in the UK (economic activity and technological advances). Both the positive and negative impacts of globalisation will be investigated with a focus on TNCs, child labour and environmental impacts. | |
| This is knowledge that students may have met before but will need to deepen their understanding |
Students already have knowledge of some countries and continents. Students have knowledge of the idea of economic activity and trade links. Students have knowledge of the term impacts on people and the environment (particularly climate change). |
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| Key Skills that students should be able to demonstrate at the end of 'Topic' | This is the skills that students will meet for the first time in this topic | Students will be able to describe choropleth and topography maps. Students will learn to use symbols on maps. Students will be able to classify information. | |
| This is skills that students may have met before but will need to develop | Students will be able to use a variety of maps to locate places; along with Atlas' and use a range of map skills including directions. | ||
| Key vocabulary that students should know and understand |
Specific, exception, trend, distribution, pattern, primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary, jobs, pictograph, consumption, globalisation, transnational corporations, revenue, cost, LIC, MIC, NEE, HIC, labour , industrialisation, mining, quarrying, human activity, groundwater, scarcity, plantation, manure, virtual, sustainability, strategy. |
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| The Big Question | How does globalisation impact our lives and the natural world? | ||
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Key questions that students should be able to answer at the end of the 'Topic' |
How am I connected to the world? | ||
| How many connections do I have - where? | |||
| Why do we own more products from different countries ? | |||
| Why do we own more products from different countries ? | |||
| What role do TNCs have in globalisation? | |||
| Why do some children need to work? | |||
| What are the impacts of child labour? | |||
| What are the environmental impacts of globalisation? | |||
| What about my virtual stuff? | |||
| Is globalisation good or bad? | |||
| How can globalisation be more sustainable? | |||