Key stage 3 geography lesson plans (national curriculum)

ENG-NC-GE-KS3-001

extend their locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s countries, using maps of the world to focus on Africa, Russia, Asia (including China and India), and the Middle East, focusing on their environmental regions, including polar and hot deserts, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities

ENG-NC-GE-KS3-002

understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of the human and physical geography of a region in Africa and a region in Asia

ENG-NC-GE-KS3-003

understand, through the use of detailed place-based exemplars at a variety of scales, the key processes in:

ENG-NC-GE-KS3-004

understand how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on the effective functioning of natural systems

ENG-NC-GE-KS3-005

build on their knowledge of globes, maps and atlases, and apply and develop this knowledge routinely in the classroom and in the field

ENG-NC-GE-KS3-006

interpret Ordnance Survey maps in the classroom and the field, including using grid references and scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs

ENG-NC-GE-KS3-007

use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data

ENG-NC-GE-KS3-008

use fieldwork in contrasting locations to collect, analyse and draw conclusions from geographical data, using multiple sources of increasingly complex information