Year 3

Geography is a subject that is current and changing. Students should appreciate the concepts and ideas being taught without becoming too focused on memorizing too many details about every single page in a book. Geographical understanding of the world today is developed over time. Geography is also a skills based subject. Students should develop the skills of reading and interpreting graphs, maps, and articles. A good geographer is someone who asks the question why the world is the way it is and be able to come up with ideas of why it might be that way. In other words geographers can postulate, think, about our ever changing world.

TOPIC1 Tourism & Coastal Studies

Units	Core Content	Resources	Example
1	What is tertiary industry? How fast is tourism growing? What are the effects of tourist development? How can we protect the countryside?	P 48 - 51
2	What are the most common coastal features? Headland, bays, cliffs, wavecut platforms, caves, arches, stacks, How are they formed? Erosion, deposition, longshore drift, swash, backwash How have people changed the coastline? Limmassol case study groynes, wave breakers	Handouts on coastal processes & landforms	Limmasol
3	What are the patterns of tourism What are the benefits and problems of tourism for Majorca or Cyprus	P56-57 P58-59	Europe Majorca Cyprus
4	Where is EuroDisney? What factors affected the location of EuroDisney? Why are the Alps a popular skiing destination? How has tourism changed the landscape of the Alps?	P 60-63 P81TRG	EuroDisney Paris French Alps

Optional /Additional learning activities:

Fieldtrip to Limassol Coastline, Coastal Landforms video, Ecotourism video, projects on a theme park

TOPIC 2 Natural Hazards

Units	Core Content	Resources	Example
1	What happens in an earthquake? Where do volcanoes and earthquakes happen?	P 26 - 29
2	Why are volcanoes and earthquakes found on the Earth's plate boundaries?	P 30-31
3	How do volcanoes erupt? What are the main features of a volcano?	P 32-35	Mt. Etna
4	How is San Francisco affected by earthquakes? What happened in the Indian Earthquake? What may be done to reduce the damage?	P 36-43	San Francisco Gajarat

Optional /Additional learning activities:

Computer activity on volcanoes, Video Plate Tectonics, Hazards Inquiry

TOPIC 3 World Development

Units	Key Questions	Resources	Example
1	Where are the world's main oceans, rivers and mountains? How does the growth and distribution of population affect people? What is overpopulation?	P 124-129	Europe China India
2	How do employment structures vary between countries over time? What is the pattern of trade between countries?	P130-133	Worldwide
3	How can the "rich" north help the "poor" south? Should rich countries give aid?	P 136-139

Optional /Additional learning activities computer project on stadiums and sweatshops
World Development Enquiry, computer projects.

TOPIC 4 Japan

Units	Key Questions	Resources	Example
1	Where is Japan? What are Japan's main physical features	P108-113	Japan
2	What are the differences between modern and traditional Japan? What are the main features of Japan? What are Japan's sources of energy?	P114-115	Japan
3	Where is Japan's industry located? What are the advantages of coastal sites for industry? What is the land use distribution in Japan? What is Japanese farming like?	P116-117	Japan Hiroshima
4	How has the development of industry in Japan created environmental problems? How Interdependent is Japan	P118-121	Minimata Tokyo

Optional /Additional learning activities:

Poster project or computer projects Japanese Culture, Video Against
All Odds, The Japan Enquiry p108-109.

TOPIC 5 Natural Environments

Units	Key Questions	Resources	Examples
1	What are the main factors which affect climate? What are the three types of rainfall?	P4-7
2	What is the climate of equatorial areas like? Where do we find equatorial areas?	P10-11
3	What is vegetation and wildlife like in the tropical rainforest? What are the threats to a rainforest? What views do different groups have of development in a rainforest?	P14-15 Deforestation notes or handout	Amazon
4	What is soil erosion?	P20-23	Nepal
5	What is the climate of Mediterranean regions? Where do we find Mediterranean regions? How does vegetation adapt to Mediterranean regions?	P16-19

Optional /Additional learning activities Video Weather Basic, Video Tropical
Rainforest, deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest, soil erosion in Nepal, The natural environment enquiry.
All pages refer to Key Geography Interactions by David Waugh.