Key Stage 4
Year 10
Intent
Through Year 10, students will learn about the world’s diversity of environments and cultures. They will gain a greater understanding of the complexity of both human and physical processes. They will also learn about the impact of humans on the planet and how we can live more sustainably.
Learning Journey
Unit Title
Cold Environments
Core Knowledge
- Location and climate
- Adaptations
- Opportunities and challenges for development
- Management
- Sustainability
Enriched Knowledge
- Cold environments are an important ecosystem with distinct characteristics and adaptations. They provide opportunities for development, but are put at risk by the exploitation of resources.
Key Vocabulary
- Polar
- Tundra
- Climate
- Permafrost
- Adaptations
- Value
- Wilderness
- Opportunity
- Challenge
- Infrastructure
- Development
- Management
- Sustainability
Unit Title
Tropical Rainforests and Ecosystems Overview
Core Knowledge
- Location and climate
- Adaptations
- Opportunities and challenges for development
- Management
- Sustainability
Enriched Knowledge
- Tropical rainforests are an important ecosystem with distinct characteristics and adaptations. Tropical rainforests face threats which need to be managed to ensure their survival.
Key Vocabulary
- Soil
- Adaptations
- Value
- Opportunity
- Challenge
- Development
- Deforestation
- Logging
- Biodiversity
- Management
- Afforestation
- Ecotourism
- Sustainability
- Nutrient cycle
- Food web
Unit Title
Urban Issues and Challenges – Overview and London (HIC)
Core Knowledge
- World city
- Population density
- Diversity
- Opportunities and challenges
- Urban regeneration
- Urban sustainability
Enriched Knowledge
- Urban areas in the UK have experienced significant change and face many opportunities and challenges, including regeneration and urban sustainability.
Key Vocabulary
- Population density
- Characteristics
- Diversity
- Social
- Economic
- Environmental
- Challenges
- Dereliction
- Regeneration
- Urban greening
- Greenbelt
- Sustainability
Unit Title
Urban Issues and Challenges – Lagos (NEE)
Core Knowledge
- Megacity
- Urban growth
- Rural-urban migration
- Push and pull factors
- Opportunities and challenges
- Squatter settlements
Enriched Knowledge
- Urban areas are growing rapidly. They can cause a range of opportunities and challenges. Urban planning is important to ensure that the opportunities are maximised and the challenges are minimised.
Key Vocabulary
- Urban growth
- Migration
- Natural increase
- Economic development
- Social
- Economic
- Environmental
- Push factors
- Pull factors
- Squatter settlements
Unit Title
Physical Landscapes in the UK – Coasts and Fieldwork
Core Knowledge
- UK landscapes
- Coastal processes
- Coastal landforms
- Hard engineering
- Soft engineering
Enriched Knowledge
- Coasts as dynamic landscapes
- Coastal processes shape the coastline
- Coastal landforms
- Coastal management
Key Vocabulary
- Littoral zone
- Erosion
- Transportation
- Deposition
- Landforms
- Management
- Climate change
- Sea levels
- Hard engineering
- Soft engineering
Unit Title
Physical Landscapes in the UK – River Landscapes
Core Knowledge
- River processes
- River profiles
- Erosional landforms
- Depositional landforms
- Flooding
- Hydrographs
- Flood management
Enriched Knowledge
- Rivers are dynamic; changing the landscape in visible and dramatic ways. While only a fraction of the world’s fresh water is visible in lakes and rivers, river systems can have a fundamental impact on peoples’ lives.
Key Vocabulary
- River Profile
- Erosion
- Transportation
- Deposition
- Landforms
- Levee
- Floodplain
- Estuary
- Hydrograph
- Management
- Climate change
Year 11
Intent
Through Year 11, students will learn about the world’s diversity of environments and cultures. They will gain a greater understanding of the complexity of both human and physical processes. They will also learn about the impact of humans on the planet and how we can live more sustainably.
Learning Journey
Unit Title
The Challenge of Natural Hazards: Tectonic Hazards
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Different types of hazard
- Tectonic hazards and their causes, impacts and management
- How to reduce the level of risk to mitigate tectonic hazards
Enriched Knowledge
- Understanding when, where, why and how natural hazards occur can help us to understand how to minimise their impact on our lives.
Key Vocabulary
- Natural Hazard
- Distribution
- Constructive
- Destructive
- Conservative
- Collison
- Plate Margin
- Earthquake
- Hazard Risk
- Protection
- Planning
- Prediction
Unit Title
Weather Hazards and Resource Management
Core Knowledge
- Global Atmospheric Circulation and how it impacts climates and biomes around the world
- Tropical storm formation, impacts and management
- How far extreme weather in the UK is increasing
Enriched Knowledge
- Human activities can influence how often certain natural hazards occur and how severe they are. Understanding when, where, why and how natural hazards occur can help us to understand how to minimise their impact on our lives.
Key Vocabulary
- Global Atmospheric Circulation
- Hadley Cell
- Ferrel Cell
- Polar Cell
- Tropical storms
- Extreme Weather
Unit Title
The Challenge of Resource Management
Core Knowledge
- Global distribution of resources
- Supply and Demand of food, water and energy
- Benefits and costs of food production
- Sustainable food
Enriched Knowledge
- Food, water and energy are resources that help maintain social and economic wellbeing. Their production/consumption isn't equally spread between countries. The UK has reserves of each resource type.
Key Vocabulary
- Resource
- Food
- Water
- Energy
- Economic wellbeing
- Social wellbeing
- Supply
- Consumption
- Inequality
- Food security
- Agricultural development
- Sustainable
Unit Title
Changing Economic World
Core Knowledge
- Development
- Development Gap and measures to close it
- Factors affecting development, and the consequences of this
- Nigeria’s changing economy
- UK’s changing economy
Enriched Knowledge
- There are global variations in economic development and quality of life. Various strategies exist categorizing countries and for reducing the global development gap.
Key Vocabulary
- Economic development
- Development
- Brandt line
- Development indicators
- Social
- Economic
Unit Title
Pre-release and Revision
Core Knowledge
- Students will develop a critical perspective on the issue(s) studied, consider the points of view of the stakeholders involved, make an appraisal of the advantages and disadvantages, and evaluate the alternatives.
Enriched Knowledge
- Students will apply knowledge and understanding to interpret, analyse and evaluate the information and issue(s) in the pre-release resources booklet and the question paper. They will also use geographical skills to set the issue(s) in context and to examine conflicting viewpoints about the issue(s).
Key Vocabulary
- Keywords based on pre-release