In year 7, we moved on from our mental maps to look at photo annotation, we’ll be following this up with some field sketching.

In year 8 will continued to produce our river poems and then began to map the the World’s longest rivers. I use a video someone produced as a starter, I think it  shows a NASA animation constructed from satellite images of the River Nile, I ask students to guess the river after viewing a couple of seconds of the video.

In year 9, we began to consider the different factors that influence the temperature across the British Isles. Resource under weather and climate.

I have a bit of an issue with place knowledge, so each year run an inter-form quiz between my teaching groups, we have a group stage, a semi-final and a final each half term. We start by using the IQ Traveller Challenge World Game, then move around the continents, using various other games, I purchase a small prize for the winning group in each round and then a grand prize for the overall winners. Well, it wastes some time…

Another survey showing which bemoans how knowledge about the World, have a go at the Guardian quiz associated with the article, the questions are much more difficult than the original ones asked…