Year 4 & 5

Books used:

The New Wider World
Cut Past and Surf
Revision exercises in Physical Geography

The basic teaching textbook is wider world referred to as WW.All other textbooks are used for support and exercise purposes. Note that not all the case studies are covered.

Autumn Term:

1. Population	ww	ch 1	pp 4-21
2. Migration	ww	ch 2	pp 22-33
3. Settlement and urban growth	ww	ch 3	pp 34-57
4. Urban change	ww	ch 4	pp 58-77
5. Urbanisation in the developing countries	ww	ch 5	pp 78-92

Spring Term:

1. Resources - Energy	ww	ch 8	pp 118-135
2. Tourism	ww	ch 10	pp 160-179
3. Plate tectonics	ww	ch 16	pp 262-277
4. Glaciation	ww	ch 19	pp 316-323

Summer term:

1. Drainage basins and rivers

ch 17

pp 278-299

TESTS: All chapters are tested.

HOMEWORK: Homework is given ever week.

FIELDWORK: Fieldwork on population, urban, traffic/pedestrian flows, questionnaire design. These may be residential or, full day or half day. The three teaching sets go at different times of the year.

SWITZERLAND FIELD TRIP: An 8 day optional trip to Switzerland-through Italy looking at tourism, river management ,energy resources ,HEP,urban studies Glaciation and alpine ecosystems and farming systems will be last days of June and first days of July.

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