Middlemarch Junior School

Geography - Knowledge And Skills Through Geography

Year Group	Climate & Weather	Locations	Economic & Human Geography	Maps	Geographical Features
Year 3	Correct geographical words to describe a place.	Knowledge of UK.	Communication, roads, motorways and transports in Britain.	Planning a journey to a place in England. British Isles.	Understanding volcanoes.
Year 4	A climate zone. Measuring weather, temperature, rainfall, windspeed etc.	European Union and capitals. Northern and Southern hemisphere countries and tropics.	Comparing life in cities, towns and the countryside.	Planning a journey to another place in the world.	Fertile and non-fertile growing areas. Earthquakes.
Year 5	Measuring weather. Keeping daily, weekly, termly records. World weather.	Continents; major countries, mountain ranges, rivers, capital cities. Oceans and seas.	Geographical position of towns and cities next to rivers. Human and economic locations of towns.	Using maps. Simple OS symbols and grid references.	Deserts and desert regions of the world. Hot and cold deserts. The world's largest desert. World kitchen.
Year 6	Major climate zones of the world. Global warming. Climatic extremes. Jet stream. Ocean currents. Gulf stream El Nino.	The Tropics. The Arctic, Antarctic circle. One continent in depth. The Earth and Solar System.	Sustainability. Global warming. Geographical features using aerial photos, plans and electronic resources. Human and physical features on maps.	Using OS maps; understanding symbols and 6-figure coordinates. Using a map to answer questions on world time zones.	Rivers and mountains. The course of a river. Famous rivers and their locations on an atlas.

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