Students : Curriculum : Humanities : Geography

Key Stage 3

The geography topics studied throughout key stage 3 are below:

Year 7 - What is geography?

  • Coasts
  • Settlement
  • Kenya

Year 8 - Tourism

  • Atlas skills
  • Rivers
  • Italy
  • Farming
  • Resources
  • Challenging environments

Year 9 - Tectonic processes

  • Brazil
  • Industry
  • Environmental matters
  • Population
  • Tomorrow’s citizens

The core text used is Think Through Geography, books 1, 2 and 3, published by Longman / Pearson Education.

In each year we spend time looking at geography in the news. The following websites may be useful for this topic:

In addition, the core text we use for Key Stage 3 has a companion website with links to all the topics we do.