Physical geography – KS3 sample lessons

Key Stage

KS3

Age

Years 7-9

Subjects

This sample resource pack from This is Geography includes two lessons on physical geography.

Tsunami
What is a fragile environment

Each comes as a PowerPoint presentation and with accompanying Word docs. There are also separate resources for DIRT (Directed Improvement and Reflection Time), self assessment and peer assessment.

What is a fragile environment?

Learning objectives for this lesson include:

to know: why fragile environments are changing
to understand: the Antarctica
to be able to: draw food chains.

Tsunami

Learning objectives for this lesson include:

to know: what a tsunami is
to understand: why they happen
to be able to: describe why they happen and how they impact places with reference to a case study.

Physical geography in the KS3 curriculum

The national curriculum for geography aims to ensure that all pupils:

develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes
understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time.

The curriculum also requires that learners are competent in the geographical skills needed to:

collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes
interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

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