Geography Overview
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
| Year 1 | Name, locate, and identify the four countries and capitals of UK & surrounding seas.
Identify places using maps, atlases, globes, aerial images and plan perspectives, make maps, devise basic symbols, Fieldwork, geographical vocabulary. |
Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features; devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key
Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment. |
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| Year 2 | Local Area and visit to the local park to look for different features. | Name and locate the continents and oceans.
Locate hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the North and South poles. |
Castles – land formation | |||
| Year 3 | · | Anglo-Saxon settlement | Mapwork -locate the world’s countries,
· - use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, |
UK – using atlas, identifying rivers, mountains and counties.
Local Area – mapwork Debate regarding land use and growth of Harborough. · |
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| Year 4 | Prehistoric settlements | Mountains and Volcanoes | ||||
| Year 5 | Mapwork - latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night) |
Ge2/1.3a describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle |
Where did the Aztecs live?
- Locating Mexico on a world map - Identifying the continents of North and South America - Exploring a map of Mexico to find Mexico City and what was Tenochtitlan |
Map Leicestershire – locate MH, Bosworth and Leicester – grid references
Locating Mecca on map |
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| Year 6 | · World continents, oceans, etc. Outcome: Explorers’ world map
· The Arctic – physical geography · The Antarctic – physical geography |
Geographical Enquiry
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied |
Where in the world did Darwin travel? What did he find? | Use maps, atlases and globes – to focus on South America
Environment, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities Use four and six figure grid references, symbols and key Describe and understand key aspects of human and physical geography relating to South America |