Coasts

• What shapes the coast?
• Erosion features
• Depositional features
• Living on the coast
• Coastal management
• Hard and soft engineering
• Coral reefs
• Sea levels rising

Africa

• Girls will be learning about the physical features in Africa
• Mapping skills the countries in Africa
• Comparing cities within countries
• Looking at the Sahel desert region
• Population and focus on Nigeria

Development

• What is development?
• What are development indicators?
• How is the World divided?
• Employment around the world
• Challenging perceptions
• Rich and poor
• How can we improve quality of life?

Hazards

• Where are the hazards of the world?
• What are the characteristics of plate boundaries?
• How do plates move?
• What are the processes that cause earthquakes and volcanoes?
• Can we ever prepare for natural hazard?
• Why do people live in the danger zone?
• Are hazards getting worse? Can we increase the risk or frequency?

Global Cities

• What causes people to move to urban areas?
• How do the opportunities and challenges in urban areas vary around the World?
• How can cities be more sustainable?
• What changes have taken place where people live over time?
• Are the urban models appropriate today?
• How are population structures changing today?
• Can we manage and control a population?

Geographical skills

• Where in the World are we?
• Longitude and latitude?
• Grid references and map skills.
• Understanding maps
• How to draw graphs
• How to understand graphs
• How to interpret maps
• How to interpret images