Curriculum Relevance

England - Geography in the National Curriculum

Key Stage 3

Thematic Studies

• 8. Geomorphological Processes - their effects and landscapes on people

The Northern Ireland Curriculum

NI Geography Programme of Study Key Stage 3

• Relates to the two key geographical themes Physical Environment and Human Environment. Also relevant to Places/Locational Knowledge and Issues.

Curriculum and Assessment in Scotland

Environmental Studies 5–14: Social Subjects: Understanding People and Place: Level E.

Aspects of the physical and built environment:

• Some of the causes of climate patterns in Britain and the wider world and the interaction of ways of life with climates.
• Action of running water, wind, waves, ice, earthquakes and volcanoes in landforming, and how such forms may be used.

Ways in which places have affected people and people have used and affected places:

• How extremes of weather, climate and physical events can disastrously affect places and people.

Standard Grade Geography

May provide exemplars for Study Theme: The Physical Environment.

Wales

National Curriculum Key Stage 3

The programmes support the study of the following themes:

Weather and Climate

• the differences between weather and climate
• the components and links in the water cycle
• how and why aspects of weather and climate vary from place to place

Rivers or Coasts

• the processes responsible for the development of rivers and the role of rock type in their development
• the causes and effects of one or more geomorphological hazards, and human responses to it/them