Year 7 · Geography · beta

Geography: what makes a geographer?

Pupils will use atlases, maps and globes to develop their locational knowledge of the world. Pupils will focus in on specific places to develop an awareness of how geographers examine place. OS maps and GIS will be used alongside fieldwork to build pupils' procedural knowledge.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

This Oak index uses an earlier export and lists 5 source lessons. DASKEREL has 12 original lessons for this unit, including 7 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • Pupils should know where the UK is in the world.
  • Pupils know that there are seven continents and five oceans.
  • Pupils know that maps and atlases can be used to locate places.
  • Pupils know that geography is the study of the world.
  • Pupils know that fieldwork is used by geographers to find out about the world.

Source curriculum references

  • Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world.
  • Build on knowledge of globes, maps and atlases.
  • Interpret Ordnance Survey maps in the classroom and the field, including using grid references and scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs.
  • Use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data.
  • Use fieldwork in contrasting locations to collect, analyse and draw conclusions from geographical data, using multiple sources of increasingly complex information.
  • Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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