For geography, you will be working through a series of books. In year 7 You will complete book 1. The book is called Living Geography Book 1 by James Dobson.
You can purchase the book or borrow it from an online library. Try the Open Library, you will need to sign up for a free account and can only borrow the book for an hour at a time, but if you want a free option this should work well.
You will need a lined journal in which you can answer questions. If you complete any worksheets please stick them into your book.
Each page needs a title and each piece of work needs to be dated.
Introduction
Objectives
build knowledge of globes, maps and atlases.
interpret Ordnance Survey maps
Use grid references and scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs
Week 1 - Basic Mapping
Which map?
Watch Choosing the Right Map by Ordnance Survey.
Read Pages 4-5 of Living Geography and answer the questions in your journal.
Watch Understanding Map Symbols by Ordnance Survey.
Map Symbols
Time to do a bit of investigating! Complete this OS worksheet on symbols you may see on an OS map by researching map symbols. Try visiting this OS page.
Go to OS Mapzone and complete the map quiz on symbols.
Grid References
Watch Grid References by Simon King Wildlife.
Visit Map Zone, Map Skills and complete the Grid References lesson.
Week 2 - Scale and Grid References
Re-cap
Go to OS Mapzone and complete the map quiz on Grid References.
Read Pages 8-9 of Living Geography and answer the questions in your journal.
Watch Measuring Straight Line Distance by Rob Humphreys to see how we can use a map to measure real distances.
Read Pages 6-7 of Living Geography and answer the questions in your journal.
Go to OS Mapzone and complete the map quiz on Scale.
Go to the BBC Bitesize page Cartographic Skills.
Read and complete pages 10-11 of Living Geography.
Task 3 - Contours and Sketch Maps
Watch Understanding Contour Lines by OS.
Go to Map Zone and complete the lessons about Reliefs and Contours.
Have some fun playing Map Dash, I was terrible at it!
Read and complete pages 12-15 of Living Geography.
Task 4 - Map Problems
Watch Why Every World Map is Wrong by TedEd.
Complete your reading for this work block by reading and completing pages 16-19 in Living Geography.
Task 5 - Recap
The skills you should know for this unit of work are:-
The points of a compass – N, E, S and W but also SE etc (and perhaps even SSE etc)
4 Figure grid references
OS Map Symbols
6 Figure grid references
Scale and Measuring Distance
Relief and Contours
Consider which of these skills you think you need to work on most. Then head over to Simon King's Video list and watch the relevant video or videos.
Complete the extension activities on page 20 of Living Geography.
Task 6 - Round-up
This is where you get to show off your skills.
Complete the workbook by Lord Derby Academy.
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