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Schemes of Work
QCA

Geography at key stage 3


QCA

Useful organisations and resources

Useful organisation

The Geographical Association publishes a journal specifically for secondary teachers (Teaching Geography) and a range of guidance leaflets and resources for teaching geography (tel: 0114 296 0888)

Teachers in Development Education, Birmingham
Gillett Centre
998 Bristol Road
Selly Oak
Birmingham
B29 6LE
Tel: 0121 472 3255
info@tidec.org
www.tidec.org

Useful resources

Building bridges: Guidance and training for teachers of year 6 and year 7 pupils (QCA, 1998)

Exemplification of standards: Geography at key stage 3 (SCAA, 1996)

Expectations in Geography at key stages 1 and 2 (SCAA, 1997)

Geography and the use of language: Key stage 3 (SCAA, 1997)

Geographical enquiry at key stages 1- 3, Discussion paper No. 3 (QCA, 1998)

Geography teacher's handbook, ed Bailey & Fox (Geographical Association, 1996)

Leading geography: National standards for geography teachers in secondary schools (Geographical Association, 1999)

National literacy strategy key stage 3 literacy conferences video (ISBN 0 19 312229 4) includes a video of a good geography lesson that might be a useful resource

Optional tests and tasks for geography (SCAA, 1996)

Secondary geography: A pupil's entitlement to IT (Geographical Association and NCET, 1995)

Periodicals

Inclusive geography fieldwork, Helen Desforges, Teaching Geography: Vol 24, 1 (January 1999)

Assessment working, Hopkin, J, Telfor, S and Butt, G, Geographical Association, 1999


Units

Unit 1. Making connections
Unit 2. The restless earth - earthquakes and volcanoes
Unit 3. People everywhere
Unit 4. Flood disaster - how do people cope?
Unit 5. Exploring England
Unit 6. World sport
Unit 7. Rivers - a fieldwork approach
Unit 8. Coastal environments
Unit 9. Shopping - past, present and future
Unit 10. Weather patterns over Europe
Unit 11. Investigating Brazil
Unit 12. Images of a country
Unit 13. Limestone landscapes of England
Unit 14. Can the earth cope? Ecosystems, population and resources
Unit 15. Crime and the local community
Unit 16. What is development?
Unit 17. The changing economic geography of France
Unit 18. The global fashion industry
Unit 19. Tourism - good or bad?
Unit 20. Comparing countries
Unit 21. Virtual volcanoes and internet earthquakes
Unit 22. Mining on the internet
Unit 23. Local action, global effects
Unit 24. Passport to the world