Year 1 Geography Curriculum
Children will be taught three key strands of geographical knowledge, consider the subject's relevance to our chosen Modern Foreign Language (Spanish) and a selection of necessary skills to become geographers. Pupils will be encouraged to interpret and navigate a variety of maps, in physical and digital forms, as well as drawing many of their own with suitable symbols and scale. They will be taught…
An Area of Human Geography: Where I Live
- To explain the route that they take to get to school.
- To make comparisons between features of different places.
- To explain the order an address is written in on a letter.
- To use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human features.
- To devise a simple map, using a basic symbols key.
Two areas of Physical Geography: Looking at the World & Farming
- To name the world’s seven continents and the five oceans.
- How travel through these different areas is different.
- To locate hot and cold areas of the world, by focusing on the equator.
- To identify different weather types and how they are useful or hinder the growing of crops.
- Geographical similarities and differences between different locations.
- To consider where food could grow.
- To look at the weather of Britain and Spain and consider the crops that could grow.
- About British and Spanish local cultures, including food and local produce.
A range of Geographical skills: Map Reading, Map Making & Fieldwork
- To use world maps, atlases, globes and digital maps to locate key continents, countries and oceans.
- To use simple compass directions (N, E, S, W)
- To devise a simple map of an imaginary place and construct a key with basic symbols.
- Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and surrounding area.
- To walk around the school and local area, trying to describe the noticeable human and physical features.