- Name familiar features in my local area, state where I live and
name the country in which I live.
- Show an awareness of the world beyond my local area and recognize
physical and human features of different places.
- Use resources and my own observations to ask and
answer questions about places and environments.
Skills
- Follow directions and observe and talk about a
familiar place.
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Level 2
- Describe uses of land and buildings
in my local area and can name the countries of the United Kingdom.
- Express my view on the environments
of different places and recognize that people affect the environment.
- Use resources and my own observations
to describe similarities and differences between my local area and
other places.
- Select information using resources and
my own observations to ask and answer questions about places and
environments.
Skills
- Use geographical vocabulary to
talk about places and draw a pictorial map of a place.
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Level 3
I can
- Identify landscape features,
buildings and facilities in my local area and locate Stockton
on Tees on a map of the British Isles.
- Name some of the countries,
cities, mountains, rivers and seas within the United Kingdom
and Europe.
- Compare features of my local area
with other localities and am aware that different places may
have both similar and different characteristics
- Recognize how people seek to improve
and sustain environments.
Skills
- Use letter / number co-ordinates to locate features
on a map and make a map showing a short route showing features
in the correct order.
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Level 4
I can
- Describe the geographical
features of my home region and name a range of countries, cities,
mountains, rivers and seas within the United Kingdom, Europe and
the World.
- Understand that PHYSICAL and
HUMAN processes can change the features of places and can effect
the lives and activities of the people living there.
- Explain my own opinions
and the views that other people hold about environmental change
e.g. the development of a new housing estate, the destruction of
the tropical rainforest or the flooding of land caused by the construction
of a dam.
- Suggest suitable geographical questions
and use a range of geographical skills to help investigate places
and environments.
Skills
- Use 4 figure co-ordinates (grid
references) to locate features on a map and measure the straight-line
distance between places. I can also use the index and contents
page to find information in an atlas and draw sketch maps using
symbols and a key.
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Level 5
I can
- Describe how the characteristic
features of my home region (North-East England) are interrelated
- Name a range of countries, cities,
mountains, rivers and seas within the United Kingdom, Europe and
in different parts of the world.
- Describe and explain geographical
patterns and PHYSICAL and HUMAN processes and understand that places
are dependent on each
other.
- Suggest explanations for the ways
in which human activities cause changes to the environment and
the different views people hold about them.
- Recognise how people try to manage environments
SUSTAINABLY.
- Suggest plausible conclusions to investigations
and present my findings using graphs and writing.
Skills
- Use 6 figure grid references to locate features
on Ordnance Survey maps and interpret relief maps. I can also follow
routes on a 1:50,000 or 1:25,000 scale Ordnance Survey map and
describe the features, which would be seen.
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Level 6
I can
- Explain the effects of recent
environmental, technological, economic or social changes on land-use
and the lives of local people in my home region (North-East England).
- Describe the general features
of another European Community country and identify its main regions.
- Explain the distinct characteristics
of an economically developing country.
- Describe and explain a range of
PHYSICAL and HUMAN processes
PHYSICAL |
HUMAN |
| Rainfall and weather features |
Distribution of population |
| Rivers, glacial and coastal
landforms. |
Patterns of land-use |
| Vegetation type |
Location of economic activities |
Natural Hazards e.g.(Flooding/earthquakes)
|
Compare levels of economic development |
and recognise that these processes interact
to produce the distinct characteristics of places.
- Compare different approaches to managing
environments
- Reach conclusions to investigations,
which are consistent with the evidence and present my findings in
a coherent way.
Skills
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Level 7
I can
- Explain the processes that have
contributed to the change or stability in my home region (North-east
England).
- Explain geographical patterns
and identify characteristics of development of the European Community
and a country in the economically developing world.
- Describe interactions within and between
PHYSICAL and HUMAN processes and show, how these create geographical
patterns which help to change places and environments.
- Understand that the environment
of a place and the lives of the people who live there are affected
by actions and events in other places.
- Understand that considerations of SUSTAINABLE
development affect the planning and management of environment and
resources.
- Draw on my knowledge and understanding
and select a wide range of skills to evaluate sources of evidence
and present well-argued summaries to investigations and begin to
reach substantiated conclusions.
Skills
- Draw an annotated field sketch
from a 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map to show the relationship
between PHYSICAL and HUMAN features
- Use satellite images to identify PHYSICAL
and HUMAN features and interpret topological maps.
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Level 8
I can
- Identify geographical patterns,
relationships and processes in my home region (North-East England)
- Analyze factors that have affected
the economic growth of an economically developing country.
- Explain the effects of international
trade on countries and on levels of interdependence between countries.
- Explain the changes in the characteristics
of places over time in terms of location, PHYSICAL and HUMAN processes,
and interactions with other places.
- Account for the disparities in development
and understand the range ad complexity of factors that contribute
to the quality of life in different places.
- Recognize the causes and consequences
of environmental issues ad understand a range of views about them
and different approaches to tackling them.
- Understand how consideration of SUSTAINABLE
development affect my own life.
- Evaluate critically sources of evidence
before using them in Investigations and present full and coherently
argued summaries and reach substantiated conclusions.
Skills
- Interpret relief, land-use, settlement, and transport
patterns from topological maps.
- Use indicators to identify variations
in quality of life between places.
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Level 8 Exceptional Performance
I can
- Synthesize patterns, relationships
and processes in my home region.
- Analyze the influence of inward
investment on the economic development of an economically developing
country.
- Evaluate alternative government policies
and strategies, which influence agriculture, industry, transport,
population movement and the environment.
- Explain the significance of foreign investment,
loans and development assistance programmes in the economic development
of an economically
developing country.
- Analyze recent trends in the patterns
of international trade and suggest likely future trends.
- Refer
to a wide range of geographical factors to explain and predict
change in the characteristics of places over time.
- Understand
alternative approaches to development and the implications of
these for the quality of life in different places.
- Assess the relative
merits of different ways of tackling environmental issues and
can justify MY VIEWS about different approaches.
- Recognize the
causes and consequences of environmental issues and understand
a range of views about them and different
approaches to tackling them. Understand how considerations of SUSTAINABLE
development affect my own life and the planning and management
of the environment
and resources.
- Draw selectively on geographical
ideas and theories and use accurately a wide range of appropriate
skills and sources
of evidence to carry out geographical investigations independently and can
also reach
accurate conclusions arid evaluate my work by
suggesting improvements and further lines of enquiry.
Skills
- Synthesize information from different
map sources to produce a sketch map, which identifies important
geographical features and
reveals spatial patterns arid associations within an area.
-
Evaluate
the effectiveness of a composite thematic map as a geographical
information system, e.g. show information about relief, geology,
soils, land use, settlement and road systems to select the location
of a new local authority rubbish dump.
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