Geography

Geography Key Stage 4

What can students do to develop their skills in this subject area?

• Attend after Academy revision sessions.
• Do additional research about the case studies provided in the revision guide.
• Create a revision guide for the unit of work that they are studying.
• Create a glossary of new vocabulary that they acquire during Geography lessons.
• Take a lead role in teaching key concepts and ideas to others during lessons.
• Try to make links to between geographical theory and ideas and places that they have studied.
• Ask teachers for access to past exam papers/sample questions and answers.
• Read and use maps when visiting places.
• Watch the news and keep up to date with current events and their link to Geography.
• Enhance maths skills that link to Geography by applying ideas from maths lessons and putting them into a Geographical context.

What wider reading can be completed to support the curriculum?

• Students could read and critically evaluate the presentation of Geography within any national newspapers.
• Students could keep a 'Geography in the news' scrapbook – printing off or cutting out any stories they hear about that are related to Geography.
• Equally, on holiday, they could similar scrapbook about the human and physical environment of the place.

The following texts may be of interest:

• Reading the Horrible Geographies series.
• AQA textbooks and revision guides.
• Atlases
• Encyclopaedias/country fact file books.

What websites could students visit to support the curriculum?

www.nhm.ac.uk
www.rgs.org
www.ready.gov/volcanoes
www.fema.gov
www.usgs.gov
www.metoffice.gov.uk
www.environment-agency.gov.uk
www.100people.org
www.oxfam.org.uk
www.cia.gov
www.nhc.noaa.gov
www.earth.google.co.uk
www.earthfromtheair.com
ww2.defra.gov.uk
www.gapminder.org
www.coolgeography.co.uk
www.aqa.org.uk
www.cia.gov
www.geographypods.com
www.youtube.com - YouTube account for Mr Parr for Geographical songs.

Can television and film assist with supporting the curriculum?

Certain television programmes can be useful:

• Planet Earth (BBC).
• Coast series (BBC2).
• Kevin Mcleod Slumming it (Channel 4).
• Search Dr Iain Stewart in YouTube for tectonics and processes.
• An Inconvenient Truth (Climate Change).
• Various BBC documentaries by Simon Reeve, covering both physical and human geographical themes.
• Watch the news for stories with a geographical connection.
• Countryfile.

Watching films such as:

• The Impossible.
• The Day After Tomorrow.
• 2012.
• San Andreas.
• Slumdog Millionaire.
• Flood.
• Dante's Peak.

How can parents/carers help and what can be done at home?

• Discuss and debate current affairs, particularly issues related directly to Geography, e.g. EU referendum, geopolitical debates.
• Discuss geographical events/festivals that are taking place, e.g. music festivals, carnivals, sporting events.
• Encourage students to explain their own views on a range of geographical issues, but also encourage them to reflect on why others may not share these views.
• Support students with additional knowledge linked to homework (i.e. what you know, your opinion, how things have changed?)
• Encourage students to use road maps when planning a journey rather than a satellite navigation system.
• Visit places of Geographical interest, either locally (e.g. Lincolnshire Wolds, Hubbard's Hills, Rimac Saltmarsh, Hull) or further afield (e.g. Dorset coastline, The Eden Project, Brimham Rocks, London, Leeds, etc.).
• When on holiday, take note of human and physical environments such as coastal processes, cultural behaviour and transport systems).
• Look for evidence of Geography where you might not expect to find it, e.g. sporting rivalries, museums, adverts, music and art.
• Find out about or join a conservation organisation, e.g. WWF, Woodland Trust, Surfers Against Sewage.