Planning Your Key Stage 3 Curriculum - Extra Resources
You are now expected to take on the new Key Stage 3 Programme of Study in your school. But what does this mean for your curriculum plans? How should you interpret the new requirements? Will you need to plan and resource a completely new set of courses and schemes of work for Years 7, 8 and 9? Or can you just amend your existing plans and continue much as before?
Could you be really creative and design a very different-looking KS3?
How can you ensure that the geography curriculum is stimulating, up-to-date and absolutely right for your pupils, while still, of course, meeting national requirements?
Help is at hand! Planning Your KS3 Geography Curriculum is designed to help you answer these questions and so involve you in curriculum development.
Available to buy from the GeographyShop now priced £14.99 or £9.99 for GA members.
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The documents below accompany Planning Your Key Stage 3 Geography Curriculum, and include a free sample page, an example concept page (Figure 15) a copy of Figure 8 for your own use, a blank planning template of Figures 18-20, a blank planning template of Figures 27 and 28, a revised Figure 19 and a replacement for Figure 31 (pp. 52-55) which was printed incorrectly.
Sample page
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Figure 8 - A ready-to-use version of the key stage 3 PoS
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Figure 18-20 - Building geographical confidence planning template
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Figure 27 and 28 - Exploring links between key questions and key concepts planning template
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Figure 31 - Replacement for pp. 52-55
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Figure 15 - an example concept page
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Amended Figure 19
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Comments
'Your "Planning" book is brilliant. I read it on train journeys to and from London this week after I had attended the south-east regional training event for KS3 planning last Tuesday, run by CfBT. I'm no longer in a position where I will have to write a new geography scheme of work, but I will find your book enormously helpful in explaining the new curriculum to my PGCE students, who will be contributing to the new curriculum.
Thanks for a very, very helpful publication.'
Melanie Norman, PGCE (Secondary) Course Leader
School of Education, University of Brighton
