KEY STAGE PLAN FOR KS3

Geography

Aims and Objectives

	AUTUMN TERM	SPRING TERM	SUMMER TERM
YEAR 7	Making connections Exploring England	Exploring England ( cont ) Images of a country Comparing two countries	Shopping, past, present and future Tourism - good or bad
YEAR 8	Brazil Flood disaster	People everywhere Crime and the local community	Coastal environments Can the earth cope ?
YEAR 9	The restless earth What is development ?	What is Development ? ( cont ) Japan	Limestone landscapes Local action, global effects.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

AIMS

To encourage students to develop, explore and enrich their understanding of the human and physical world and to prepare them to participate fully in that understanding with its diversity of constraints, opportunities and values.

To stimulate interest and enthusiasm for the study of geography.

OBJECTIVES

To deliver the national curriculum ( KS3 & 4 and NEAB A Level ) and prepare students for external examinations.

To enable students to explore the geographical background to a variety of political, environmental, economic and social issues.

To provide students with an appropiate link with key stage 2.

To ensure students acquire knowledge of the location of places.

To ensure students acquire knowledge and understanding of geographical terms.

To understand and apply key concepts.

To ensure students develop and master skills and techniques, both geographical and cross curricular.

To contribute towards the personal and social education of the students by developing appropiate values and attitudes.

To meet the individual learning needs of all students and help them achieve their full potential regardless of ability.

To extend the students linguistic, numerical, oral, creative and aesthetic abilities.

To provide opportunities for students to explore and express their feelings about important issues, based on knowledge and understanding.

To be flexible in curriculum planning, to take account of current events.

To provide work/materials to the students that is interesting/stimulating and varied.

To ensure that the work reflects the aims and objectives of the humanites faculty.

To ensure that the work reflects the ethos, aims and policies of the school.

To ensure that the students enjoy the learning of geography.