Download Geography – Medium Term Plan

Medium Term Plan – Geography
Phase – Years 1 and 2
Autumn 2
Autumn 1
Year 1
Year 2
Spatial Sense
Spatial Sense
1. Aerial views and the local area
2. Mapping the classroom
3. Directions
1. Directions and distance
2. Maps and globes
3. Using symbols and a key
The School Setting and Local Area
1. Our school – site and situation
2. Navigation – routes using compass
directions
3. Local land use and aerial maps
Spring 2
Spring 1
Globes and World Maps
The Seven Continents
1. Globes and maps
2. Location of the North Pole, South Pole
and seven continents
3. Direction – north, south, east and west
1. Major oceans and seven continents
2. The equator, the northern hemisphere,
the southern hemisphere, the North Pole
and the South Pole
3. Identify the UK as one of many countries
in Europe
Northern Europe
1. Countries – Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
Finland and Iceland
2. Climate, vegetation and landscape of
Northern Europe
3. Living in a snowy climate – people, travel,
jobs and hazards
Summer 2
Summer 1
Regions of the UK
UK Geography
1. Maps of the UK, including countries and
counties
2. Name and locate England, Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland
3. The Union Flag and the component parts
1. Locate the continent, country and
county within which we live
2. Physical and human features of the UK –
rivers, mountains, lakes and capital cities
3. Regional differences within the UK
Climate and Weather
1. The difference between weather and
climate
2. How the weather varies from day to day
and why
3. Climate variations across the UK and the
impact upon landscape and farming
Medium Term Plan – Geography
Phase – Years 3 and 4
Autumn 2
Autumn 1
Year 3
Spatial Sense and Local Geography
1. Aerial photographs - settlements,
physical features, land use
2. Using simple co-ordinate grids
3. Features of the natural environment
Western Europe
Year 4
Spatial Sense (Local Area and Globes)
1. Draw maps of the local area
2. Scale
3. Changes to a chosen locality over time
Eastern Europe
1. Countries of Western Europe - landscape,
climate, ecosystems
1. Russia
2. People, places and culture - famous
2. The Baltic and the Balkan countries
musicians, famous artists
3. Landscape, people and culture,
3. The European Union - origins, members,
including the Cyrillic alphabet
trade, European Parliament in Brussels
Spring 1
Settlements and Population
1. Types of settlement found in the UK hamlets, villages, towns, cities,
conurbations
2. Local settlements and reasons why they
developed e.g. in a valley, on a hill, near
a river etc.
3. Population – population density,
distinguishing between areas where
people are dispersed (rural) and
crowded (towns and cities), terms urban,
sub-urban and rural
Mediterranean Europe (including
Geography of Ancient Rome)
1. Climate of the Mediterranean
2. Landscapes - Alpine Mountain system,
coastline, islands, beaches
3. Major settlements - Lisbon, Madrid, Rome,
Milan, Venice, Athens
NB – link to Ancient Rome ready for Spring 2
history topic.
UK Geography (London and South East
England)
Spring 2
Rivers
1. The water cycle
2. Features of river basins - springs,
mountain streams, channels, lakes,
estuaries, coastline
3. Major UK and world rivers
1. Counties - Greater London, Surrey, East
Sussex, West Sussex, Kent, Berkshire,
Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire,
Oxfordshire, Isle of Wight
2. London transport, River Thames, Houses
of Parliament, Tower Bridge, St Paul’s
Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Thames
Barrier
3. Dover, Channel Tunnel, Battle of Hastings,
Brighton, Southampton and Portsmouth,
Titanic
Summer 1
UK Geography (South West England)
Asia (China, India and Japan)
Summer 2
1. Asia - the largest continent with the most
populous countries in the world
2. The Himalayan Mountains including
Mount Everest
3. Countries - China, India and Japan
1. Dorset, Wiltshire, Cornwall, Devon,
Somerset - South Downs, Exmoor, Bodmin
Moor, Dartmouth National Park, Lands
End, dairy/sheep/arable farming,
thatched cottages, Stonehenge
2. Rural areas, coastline, wave erosion,
tides, limestone/granite/chalk, caves
(e.g. Cheddar Gorge), holiday resorts,
Durdle Door
3. Monuments: Stonehenge, Tintagel
Castle, Glastonbury Tor
UK Geography (Northern Ireland)
1. Part of the UK, separate from the
Republic of Ireland
2. Lough Neagh, Lough Erne, Sperrin Hills,
Mourne Mountains, limestone (Marble
Arch caves), basalt, (Ring of Gullion),
peat bogs, Giant’s Causeway, Glens,
Belfast, Londonderry, Gaelic
3. Ship building, farmland, dairy
Medium Term Plan – Geography
Phase – Years 5 and 6
Year 5
Year 6
Autumn 2
Autumn 1
Spatial Sense
Spatial Sense
1. Relief maps – elevated areas, depressions
and river basins
2. Maps and globes – latitude, longitude,
coordinates, degrees
3. Scale – measure distances using map scale
1. Time Zones - Prime Meridian (0 degrees),
Greenwich, 180° Line (International Date
Line)
2. Arctic and Antarctic Circle (imaginary lines
and boundaries)
3. Map projection - how we move from a round
globe to a flat map
British Geography (Scotland and Wales)
Mountains
1.
1. Physical features of a mountain including the
peak
2. Mountain ranges – The Alps, The Himalayas,
The Andes, The Appalachians and The Atlas
Mountains
3. Great Explorers e.g. Sir Edmund Hillary
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3.
Location of both areas on maps, including
features below
Scotland - lowlands, uplands, peninsulas,
lochs, glens, estuaries, National Parks, islands,
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Motherwell
Wales – Snowdonia National Park, Cambrian
Mountains, Black Mountains, Brecon
Beacons, Isle of Anglesey, Welsh valleys,
Cardiff, Swansea, Pembrokeshire National
Park, peninsulas, Welsh language
British Geography (North East and North West)
Spring 1
British Geography (East Anglia, The Midlands,
Yorkshire and the Humberside)
1. East Anglia - flat or rolling land, vegetable
farming, Norfolk Broads, port of Felixstowe
2. The Midlands - Sheffield, industry (including
the decline of the mining industry), Grand
Union Canal, Peak District, Sherwood Forest,
farming
3. Yorkshire and Humberside - Yorkshire Moors,
Dales, River Humber, coal, iron, steel, City of
York
1. Location of both areas on maps – North East
(Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham),
North West (Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater
Manchester, Merseyside)
2. North East - Northumberland National Park,
Cheviot Hills, Hadrian’s Wall, former ship
building (Sunderland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
3. North West - Lancashire Moors, Lake District,
Scafell Pike (largest peak in England), William
Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter, Sellafield nuclear
power station, textile industry, Liverpool,
Manchester
Spring 2
Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific
1. Australia - Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide,
Melbourne, Ayres Rock, Great Barrier Reef,
Aboriginal people and their traditions,
aboriginal art, unique animals such as the
koala, kangaroo, kookaburra
2. New Zealand - Auckland, Christchurch,
geysers, geographic isolation, unique plants
and animals, Maori people and their culture
3. South Pacific Islands - Fiji, The Solomon
Islands, Vanuatu, The Marshall Islands,
Hawaiian Islands, Easter Islands
South and Central America
1. South American countries including
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile
2. Central American countries including Mexico,
Honduras, Belize and Panama
3. Important geographical features including;
The Panama Canal (very important for
trade), The Amazon River, Amazon Rainforest,
Galapagos Islands
North America and Canada (Physical
Geography)
Summer 1
Explorers
1. Captain James Cook - British explorer the first
to circumnavigate New Zealand
2. Cook’s round-the-world voyage which
began in 1768
3. The botanist, Joseph Banks, who
accompanied Cook on his voyage to the
eastern coast of Australia
Summer 2
Local Study
1. Use fieldwork to observe, measure and
record the human and physical features in
the local area using a range of methods,
including sketch maps, plans and graphs,
and digital technologies (National
Curriculum)
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Climates - Arid, humid temperate, humid
cold, tundra, Mediterranean
Mountains, landscape and rivers - Rocky
Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, plains,
prairies, Great Lakes (Michigan, Erie, Ontario),
Mississippi River and its major tributaries,
Colorado River
The United States - 48 continuous states, plus
Alaska and Hawaii and Canada - French
and British heritage, French-speaking
Quebec, divided into provinces
North America and Canada (Human
Geography)
People and culture - Indigenous Native
American communities, European settlers,
Latino settlers, Asian settlers, The USA as a
nation of immigrants, melting pot of cultures
Settlements - New York City, Washington
D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Boston, Houston, Miami, Seattle, Montreal,
Toronto, Vancouver
Economic activity - The USA as the largest
economy in the world, American
consumption (houses, cars, energy), Migrant
labour from Latin American countries