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Industry

Learning Intentions

  1. Understand the difference between the three types of industry
  2. Identify and explain location factors
  3. Use a map to describe the distribution of industry
  4. Understand the features of an 'old' industrial landscape
  5. Understand the effect of industrial decline on a town
  6. Undertsand the features of a 'new' industrial landscape
  7. List the funding available for industry from government.

Success Criteria

  1. Give written examples of primary,secondary,tertiary industries
  2. Complete worksheet on location factors
  3. Explain to a partner the distribution of industry shown on a map
  4. Have a discussion on old and new industrial landscape
  5. Complete worksheet on old and new industrial landscapes
  6. Have a discussion or debate on the effects of an industry closing
  7. Pass test

Enquiry Skills

Learning Intentions

  1. Extract Information from a map
  2. Draw a field sketch
  3. Collect and record geographical information
  4. Complete a questionnaire or interview
  5. Understand different types of graph and when to use them
  6. Describe patterns and relationships shown on maps & graphs

Success Criteria

  1. Write down information from a given map
  2. Complete a field sketch of an area near the school
  3. Explain to a group how to use river measuring equipment
  4. Complete geography fieldwork in Saltcoats
  5. Complete worksheets on types of graphs
  6. Explain to a partner the pattern /relationship shown on a map/graph
  7. Pass the test on Enquiry Skills

Map Skills

Learning Intentions

  1. To use the grid reference system
  2. Know how to measure distances on a map using the scale
  3. To describe relief and drainage patterns using a map
  4. Recognise common OS map symbols

Success Criteria

  1. Complete exercises on grid references correctly
  2. Describe to the group the relief and drainage of an area of the map
  3. Have used the website 'Mapzone'
  4. Complete worksheets on map scale correctly

Settlement

Learning Intentions

  1. Recognize a good site to build a settlemen
  2. Understand how population affects services
  3. Identify,from an OS map,the function of a town
  4. Recognise & describe the zones of a city
  5. Describe & explain Urban Regeneration
  6. Understand the features of a New Town
  7. Understand the arguments for & against a new bypass

Success Criteria

  1. Use background information to select a site to build a settlement
  2. Carry out a shopping survey around the school
  3. Complete ,successfully, worksheets on zones of a city and urban regeneratio
  4. Take part in a debate or discussion about a new bypass
  5. Pass test (grade 1/2/3) on settlement

Farming

Learning Intentions

  1. Understand the differences between farm inputs,processes and outputs
  2. Identify and explain the factors affecting farmers choice of crops and animals
  3. Understand the main features of sheep farming,dairy farming and arable farming
  4. List the grants available to farmers from the European Union

Success Criteria

  1. Sort out a list of words into farm inputs processes and outputs.
  2. Write a series of questions for a visiting farmer about their farm,then ask these questions.
  3. Write a profile of two using appropriate web sites
  4. Complete correctly worksheets on farm grants

Natural Regions

Learning Intentions

  1. Recognise the climate graphs for three natural regions and describe each climate
  2. Understand how natural vegetation is adapted to survive in different regions
  3. Describe the reasons for and against cutting the rainforest
  4. Explain the reasons for desertification and how to prevent it
  5. Explain the changes in the Mediterranean landscapes the last 50years

Success Criteria

  1. Draw climate graphs for Rainforest,Desert,Mediterranean and Tundra
  2. Draw and label a diagram to show natural vegetation in a given natural region
  3. Label a diagram showing changes in the Mediterranean landscape 1955 to 2005
  4. Write a reports a Natural Region using the website 'Evergreen Project' and read the report to the class