Lesson Entry point

Lesson Exit Point

Big idea

Knowledge harvest

Lesson Learning goals

Research and record learning activities

Reflection opportunities

Year 7 Geography Curriculum model @ Abbeyfield School http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com

From September 2012, the Geography curriculum at Abbeyfield School, will adopt the IMYC structure. Teaching and learning in the subject will:

• Follow the IMYC agreed topics and Big Ideas each term, in order to provide students with clear links between the subject and other areas of the school

curriculum in order to give learning meaning.

• Take into account the ‘Abbeyfield Learner’ wordle in lesson planning to ensure that geography students develop into well-rounded learners.

• Follow the ‘Abbeyfield Learning Wheel’ model to give learning in geography lessons structure and meaning as well as ensuring that teaching and

learning provides the opportunity for all students to make outstanding progress.

Abbeyfield Learner: Lesson delivery model:

Year 7 Geography overview – from September 2012

Term IMYC Topic Big Idea Geography Unit Geography ELPs

(Homework) Assessment

1 Risk

Problems, disputes and

contentious issues can

sometimes be satisfactorily

solved or resolved

Where do we live?

Students explore issues surrounding settlement provision

and patterns in the UK and further afield. Culminating in

the design of a new housing area in Chippenham –

considering how current housing issues can be resolved

Where do we

live? test

2 Discovery

Finding out new things is a

human driver and affects things

for better or worse

Our Amazing World

The purpose of this module is to stimulate an interest in

and a sense of wonder about places. The main emphasis

is the key concept of place, developing students’

‘geographical imaginations’ of places at a variety of scales

and understanding the physical and human

characteristics of them.

The Gambia –

Country study

3 Adaptability

Adaptability is demonstrated

by the ability to cope, alter or

change with new

circumstances or environments

Wild Weather

Students investigate how extreme weather events in the

UK and around the world can create challenges for

people. Students will explore how people adapt and cope

with such events

Weather Event

4 Balance

Things are more stable when

different elements are in the

correct or best possible

proportions

Economic change and globalisation

Students will examine how changes in employment

patterns and trade in the UK and around the world

provide challenges for decision makers.

Economic

Change test

5 Creativity

Innovation happens when

existing ideas are brought

together or expressed in a new

way

People Everywhere

Students will explore the challenges that exist when

managing a growing population

Britain in a Box

6 Structures

Formal arrangements and

relationships underpin or give

organisation to complex issues

Mapping Connections

Students will examine how formal arrangements are used

to provide context to the world around us

Mapping

Connections

test

DJD 2012