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

In the Autumn term students will learn about development, how we can measure it and why it is that some countries are more developed than others. Then we will explore sustainable development and how Jersey are helping to close the global development gap. Then in the Spring term we discover the world’s megacities and our growing global population. We look at why the world’s population is growing and why so many people are moving to live in cities. We look at the challenges of some of the world’s largest cities like New York, Mumbai and Tokyo and how they are attempting to solve them. Finally in the Summer term we dive into the world’s major rivers and coastlines. We look at the processes that occur in and around them and discover how our iconic rivers and coasts shape the landscape.