Purpose

The KS3 Geography curriculum for Years 7-9 aims to equip students with essential geographical skills and knowledge, fostering a comprehensive understanding of our world and its challenges. Year 7 helps students develop skills in weather investigation, understanding ecosystems, and analysing climate change impacts, with a focus on local responses in Jersey. Year 8 enhances their ability to measure development, explore sustainable practices, and understand urbanisation and population growth. Year 9 deepens their knowledge of physical geography, cold environments, and tectonic processes, highlighting the importance of predicting and preparing for natural hazards. This curriculum prepares students to think critically about global issues such as climate change, sustainable development, and natural disasters, encouraging them to develop solutions for a sustainable future.

Content

Students being Year 9 by learning about “Prisoners of Geography”. This unit explores the countries and regions of the world that are most impacted by their physical geography. We explore what makes a country a superpower and how the physical features of our planet can dictate a country’s power and development. Our next topic explores the world’s cold environments, looking at the processes that create glacial landforms and the uncertain futures for our world’s most fragile environments. Our final unit is all about tectonics. Students learn about the structure of the earth and how that causes earthquakes and volcanoes. We look at the impacts of these natural hazards and how we can predict and prepare for them.