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KS2 Geography Overview
Yr.3/4 YEAR A
1.The Geography of the UK
Key Questions:
Can we identify and locate our
home county and other counties
within easy reach of our school's
position?
Yr.3/4 YEAR B
1.The Geography of North
America
1.The Geography of South
America
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
Can we list and locate the
countries of the continent of
North America?
What are the major cities of the What are the major cities within
United Kingdom and where are they each of the countries of North
America?
located?
Can we identify and locate TWO
Can we identify and locate TWO or
or THREE geographical regions
THREE geographical regions of the
within North America?
United Kingdom?
What are the main human and
What are the main human and
physical characteristics of the
physical characteristics of the
TWO or THREE geographical
TWO or THREE geographical
regions identified in North
regions of the United Kingdom that America?
we have identified?
Can we identify the major lines of
How have the human and physical latitude that pass through the
continent of North America?
characteristics of the TWO or
THREE geographical regions in the
United Kingdom that we have
identified changed over time?
Yr.5/6 YEAR A
Yr.5/6 YEAR B
1.The Geography of Europe
Key Questions:
Can we list and locate the
Can we list and locate the countries countries of the European
of the continent of South America? Continent?
What are the major cities within
each of the countries of South
America?
What are the major cities within
each of the countries of the
European Continent?
Can we identify and locate TWO or Can we identify and locate TWO or
THREE geographical regions within THREE geographical regions within
South America?
the continent of Europe?
What are the main human and
physical characteristics of the
TWO or THREE geographical
regions identified within South
America?
What are the main human and
physical characteristics of the
TWO or THREE geographical
regions of Europe that we have
identified?
Can we identify the major lines of
latitude that pass through the
continent of South America?
Can we identify the major lines of
latitude and longitude that pass
through the continent of Europe?
2.A region within the UK – The
Lake District
2. A region within North
America – the Rocky Mountains
2.A region within South America – 2.A region within Europe – the
the Amazon Basin
Paris Basin of France
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
Where is the lake district?
Where is the Rocky Mountain
region located?
Where is the Amazon Basin region
located?
Where is the Paris Basin region
located?
What is the physical geography of
the Lake District like?
 Climate
 Vegetation
 Mountains
 Rivers and Lakes
 Volcanic Impact
 Glaciation
What is the human geography of
the Lake District like?
 Settlement Type / Farming
 Mining and Quarrying.
 Tourism
 Energy / Water Supplies
 Transport Links
What do we mean by referring to
the Lake District as a National
Park?
What is the physical geography of What is the physical geography of
the Rocky Mountain region like?
the Amazon basin like?
What is the physical geography of
the Paris Basin region like?
Climate
 Climate and vegetation
 Climate
Plants/ Animals/ Soils (Biome)  Plants/animals/soils/inhabitants  Rock types and landscapes
Mountains/ Volcanoes/
(biome)
 Soils
Earthquakes
 Rivers
 Rivers
 Rivers and Lakes
What is the human geography of
What is the human geography of
What is the human geography of the Amazon basin like?
the Paris Basin region like?
the Rocky Mountain region like?
 Settlement type and character  The capital city of Paris
 Settlement size and character  Farming types
 Other settlements in the
 Farming
 Extractive industries
region
 Extractive Industries
 Transport links
 Farming Types
 Tourism
 Natural resources
 Industrial Development
 Natural Resources
 Environmental impact
 Tourism
 Transport Links and Types
 Transport Links
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How does this region of North
America compare and contrast
How does this region of the United
with regions we have studied in
Kingdom compare and contrast with
the United Kingdom, a European
regions we have studied in a
country and South America?
European country and North and
South America?
How does this region of South
How does this region of Europe
America compare and contrast with compare and contrast with regions
regions we have studied in the
we have studied in the United
United Kingdom, a European country Kingdom, North and South
and North America?
America?
3. Fieldwork in the local area
3. Fieldwork in the local area
3. Fieldwork in the local area
3. Fieldwork in the local area
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
What human features can we
What human features can we
What human features can we
What human features can we
observe, measure and record in the observe, measure and record in
observe, measure and record in the observe, measure and record in the
immediate vicinity of our local
the immediate vicinity of our local immediate vicinity of our local area? immediate vicinity of our local
area?
area?
area?
What physical features can we
What physical features can we
What physical features can we
observe, measure and record in the What physical features can we
observe, measure and record in the observe, measure and record in
immediate vicinity of our local area? observe, measure and record in the
immediate vicinity of our local
the immediate vicinity of our local
immediate vicinity of our local
What human features can we
area?
area?
area?
observe, measure and record in the
What human features can we
What human features can we
wider extent of our local area?
What human features can we
observe, measure and record in the observe, measure and record in
observe, measure and record in the
How have human features been
wider extent of our local area?
the wider extent of our local
wider extent of our local area?
influenced
by
physical
features
in
area?
How have human features been
our local area?
How have human features been
influenced by physical features in How have human features been
influenced by physical features in
How
have
physical
features
been
our local area?
influenced by physical features in
our local area?
influenced by human features in our
our local area?
How have physical features been
local area?
How have physical features been
influenced by human features in
How have physical features been
influenced by human features in
our local area?
influenced by human features in
our local area?
our local area?
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