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Content

Half-Term 1

Half-Term 2

Aut

Unit Overview

Local Field Study

Enquiry Question: What is our area of study like?

• What are the physical features of an area?
• What are the human features of an area?
• Why do different areas have different features?
• How can we compare different areas?
• How can we use OS maps to locate and describe an area?
• What is the route from one area to another?

Use of OS maps to show 4 and 6-figure grid references, distance and scale, directions, contour lines, and spot heights.

Use of OS maps to describe different routes.

Big Ideas

Physical geography: features, physical processes, interactions between physical and human geography.

Human geography: features, impact of humans, interactions between human and physical geography.

Skills: 4-figure grid references, 6-figure grid references, distance, scale, contour lines, spot heights.

NC Link

• Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time.
• Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom.
• Describe and understand key aspects of physical and human geography.
• Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.
• Use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world.
• Use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.

Spr

Unit Overview

Different Settlements

Enquiry Question: Where do people live and why?

• What are the different types of settlement? (Hamlet, village, town, city)
• What are the different types of land use?
• How is land used in settlements?
• Do settlements have a pattern?
• Do different types of people live in different settlements?
• Do physical factors affect where people live?
• Have settlements changed over time?

Interpretation of OS maps to locate and describe settlements.

Migration

Enquiry Question: Why do people migrate?

• What is migration?
• What are push and pull factors?
• What is the impact of migration on London?
• What are refugees?
• What happens to refugees when they move to a new country?

Interpretation of flow line maps.

Big Ideas

Physical geography: features, weather and climate.

Human geography: features, impacts of humans on areas, land use, interactions between human and physical geography.

Locational knowledge: place knowledge.

Physical geography: features.

Human geography: features, interactions between human and physical geography.

NC Link

• Describe and understand key aspects of physical and human geography.
• Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time
• Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.

• Human geography, including types of settlement and land use.

• Describe and understand key aspects of physical and human geography.
• Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time
• Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.

Sum

Unit Overview

Microclimates

Enquiry Question: Does our school have its own microclimate?

• What is the difference between weather and climate?
• Where are the different climate zones?
• How do humans and animals adapt to different climates?
• What is a microclimate?
• Where should a new school bench be placed?

Use of OS maps

Use of aerial photographs

Constructions and interpretation of graphs

Big Ideas

Physical geography: features, weather and climate, adaptations

Human geography: features, processes, adaptations, interactions between human and physical geography

NC Link

• Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night).
• Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including climate zones.
• Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping
• Use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.