Geography: what makes a geographer?
Why this, why now
Pupils will use atlases, maps and globes to develop their locational knowledge of the world. Pupils will focus in on specific places to develop an awareness of how geographers examine place. OS maps and GIS will be used alongside fieldwork to build pupils' procedural knowledge.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
- Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
Unit 1 / 7
Geography: what makes a geographer?
Pupils will use atlases, maps and globes to develop their locational knowledge of the world. Pupils will focus in on specific places to develop an awareness of how geographers examine place. OS maps and GIS will be used alongside fieldwork to build pupils' procedural knowledge.
12 lessons- Locational knowledge of the world
- Showing height and relief on OS maps
- Geography in secondary school
- Features of an OS map
- Different map projections
- Using a GIS to locate and analyse places around the world
- Fieldwork: Planning and collecting survey data
- Scale and distance on OS maps
- Fieldwork: Presenting survey data
- Latitude and longitude
- Four and Six Figure Grid References
- Fieldwork: Analysing, concluding and evaluating survey data