Geography
104 free lessons in The School on Ai Quran, from Early Years to GCSE.
Early Years
- My street and my school
- Weather and what we wear
- Land and water
- Hot places and cold places
- Following a simple map
- The seaside and the countryside
- Journeys — how we get to places
- Looking down from above
- Hills and flat land
- Types of homes near me
- Signs we see every day
- Learning our address
- Our country and its flag
- Mountains, valleys and forests
- Shops and where we buy things
- Islands — land with water all around
Key Stage 1
- The United Kingdom
- Continents and oceans
- Town and country
- Maps, symbols and directions
- Seasons and weather where we live
- A place far away
- Where is the UK in the world?
- Hot and cold places on Earth
- Our local area
- The seaside
- Jobs people do in different places
- Looking after our environment
- Using a simple map to find your way
- Aerial photographs: a bird's-eye view
- Going on a fieldwork walk
- Comparing two photographs of the same place
Key Stage 2
- Rivers from source to sea
- Mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes
- Climate zones and biomes
- Settlements, trade and resources
- Using maps, atlases and globes
- Counties, cities and regions of the UK
- Grid references and Ordnance Survey maps
- Europe: countries, capitals and regions
- Latitude, longitude and time zones
- North and South America
- Comparing two regions
- Fieldwork in your local area
- Coasts: erosion, deposition and coastal landforms
- Weathering: how rock breaks down without moving
- Map symbols: reading an OS map without words
- National parks and protected land in the UK
- Aerial photographs and satellite images compared with maps
- Contour lines and reading the shape of the land
- Migration: why people move from one place to another
- Tourism: why people travel and what it changes
- Measuring distance on a map using its scale
- The Greenwich Meridian and why it was chosen
- Glaciers and how ice shapes the land
- Population: why some places are crowded and some are empty
- Types of fieldwork data: counting, measuring, asking
- Why the seasons are opposite in the two hemispheres
- Digital mapping: what a GPS actually does
- Economic activity: primary, secondary and tertiary jobs
- Drawing a sketch map of a real place
- How a UK city has changed over 200 years
- Case study: a UK city compared with a capital city overseas
- Case study: a UK region compared with a region in a lower-income country
Key Stage 3
- Map skills: scale, direction and distance
- Economic activity and global trade
- Plate tectonics explained
- Coasts and coastal management
- Population and urbanisation
- Development and inequality
- Africa, Asia, Russia and the Middle East
- Weather, climate and the atmosphere
- Rivers and their landforms
- Comparing two regions: Egypt and the Ganges basin
- Glaciation and ice landscapes
- Using GIS and geographical data
- Tourism: costs and benefits
- Greenfield, brownfield and urban sprawl
- Reading Ordnance Survey map symbols
- Reading a cross-section from contour lines
- Graphs and data presentation in geography
- Russia: scale, climate zones and resources
- The Middle East: oil, water and physical geography
- Southeast Asia: monsoons, islands and mega-cities
- Ethiopia: highlands, rift valley and rapid change
- Kenya and tourism: balancing wildlife and people
- Japan: a developed, disaster-prone nation
- China's Three Gorges Dam: a region transformed
GCSE
- Tectonic hazards and how they are managed
- Urban issues and challenges
- Coastal landscapes and management
- Geographical skills
- Climate change: causes and responses
- Resource management: water, food and energy
- Fieldwork and the geographical enquiry
- UK physical and human landscapes
- Ecosystems and tropical rainforests
- River flood management and hydrographs
- Hot deserts: ecosystems and adaptation
- UK food security and food miles
- Tropical storms: formation and hazard management
- Monitoring, predicting and protecting against tectonic hazards
- A newly emerging economy: case study
- The UK's changing economic world
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