Geography                                                                                                       Year 7

Term 1             Geographical    extremes

• What are the hottest, coldest, wettest and driest places on Earth?
• How do people survive in these environments?
• Where are the highest mountains, deepest deepest depressions, largest lakes and biggest islands?
• Everything extreme about Geography

http://www.extremescience.com/earthsciport.htm (A website about geographical record holders)

http://www.solarnavigator.net/geography/geography_world_records.htm (More records)

Term 2             Mapskills

• Get your free Ordnance Survey map.
• Learn about grid references, contour lines, symbols, scale and direction.
• Never get lost again.

www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/ (activities for students)

www.multimap.com (mapping site)

http://maps.google.co.uk/ (mapping site)

http://maps.live.com/ (mapping site)

Term 3             Coasts

• How are coastal features formed?
• Build your own model showing coastal features like arches, stacks and stumps
• Coastal erosion and people, can we ever protect somewhere from the sea?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/

Term 4             The Home Region and Tourism

• People travel from all over the world to visit The Cotswolds. Why?
• Get to know Gloucestershire
• How does the region cope with the influx of tourists

http://www.cotswold.gov.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=256&tt=cotswold (Cotswold District Council)

http://www.the-cotswolds.org/ (A tourism website)

http://www.cotswolds.info/ (A tourism website)

Term 5             Farming

• Why do different parts of the UK have different types of farm?
• Where does your food really come from?
• Intensive farming, is it worth it?

http://www.ciwf.org/ (Compassion in World Farming)

http://www.nfuonline.com/ (The National Farmers Union)

http://www.defra.gov.uk/ (DEFRA are the government department that deals with farming)

Term 6             Kenya and Tourism

• What is life like for ordinary Kenyans and for that matter what is an ordinary Kenyan?
• Why do people visit Kenya?
• Is tourism in Kenya sustainable?
• Can wild elephants, lions and giraffes survive in a country with a rising population and standard of living? Should we worry if they don’t?

Kenya

www.magicalkenya.com (a tourist website with great images and some useful information)

www.kenyaweb.com (general information on Kenya)

www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ke.html   (basic information on the country)

www.go2africa.com/kenya/map.asp  (an interactive map of Kenya)