August/September 2011
Unit:-Rivers As An Agent of Erosion/Floods
Significant Concept:- Earth’s surface is modified by the river processes that result in distinctive landforms.
Content:
1. Types of weathering and erosion
2. Water Cycle
3. How does rain water reach the river
4. Parts of a river
5. Three stages of a river
6. Work of a river
7. Landforms associated with river
8. Uses of river
9. Human impact on rivers
October 2011
Unit:Making and Mapping Connections
Significant Concept:We humans are spread out all over the Earth- but we are connected to each other in many different ways.
We use maps to show where we live on the earth, and what places are like.
Content:
1. The significance of the prime meridian and international dateline as well as the continents these lines intersect, standard time zones, location by longitude and latitude, distance by degrees from the equator, prime meridian.
2. A map’s physical features and its importance in helping or hindering the people of the land, basic principles of geography (the world in spatial terms), mental maps ,scales on a map or plan, Chain survey – Offset (School) , geographical representation of data in thematic maps.
November 2011
Unit: Settlements
Significant Concept: The process of Urbanization is the result of economic development and increase in population in urban centers which in turn can create social, environmental and economic problems affecting everyday life and activities.
Content:
1. Meaning of settlements
2. Origin of settlements
3. Functions of settlements
4. Differences between urban and rural settlements
5. Settlement hierarchy
6. Urban land use models-Burgees and Hoyt's models
7. Problems in an urban area
January/February 2012
Unit: Plate Tectonics
Significant Concept: Endogenetic forces are responsible for creating landforms on the earth surface and modifying the distribution of Continents and Oceans
Content:
1.Pangaea
2. Layers of the Earth
3. Global itribution of tectonic plates, earthquakes and volcanoes
4. Relationship between earthquakes, volcanoes and plate movements
5. Causes and effects of crustal movement
March 2012
Unit: Coping with natural disasters
Content:
• Understand the differences in the impacts of tectonic events between LEDC and MEDC.
• Describe the way people and communities try to prepare for and cope with the impacts of earthquakes and volcanoes.
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April 2012
Unit: Changing the way we shop
Content:
Understand different kinds of goods and shops, how and why the provision of goods and services in settlements varies, explore the concept of progress/development in terms of sustainable development in urban environment.
Unit:-Rivers As An Agent of Erosion/Floods
Significant Concept:- Earth’s surface is modified by the river processes that result in distinctive landforms.
Content:
1. Types of weathering and erosion
2. Water Cycle
3. How does rain water reach the river
4. Parts of a river
5. Three stages of a river
6. Work of a river
7. Landforms associated with river
8. Uses of river
9. Human impact on rivers
October 2011
Unit:Making and Mapping Connections
Significant Concept:We humans are spread out all over the Earth- but we are connected to each other in many different ways.
We use maps to show where we live on the earth, and what places are like.
Content:
1. The significance of the prime meridian and international dateline as well as the continents these lines intersect, standard time zones, location by longitude and latitude, distance by degrees from the equator, prime meridian.
2. A map’s physical features and its importance in helping or hindering the people of the land, basic principles of geography (the world in spatial terms), mental maps ,scales on a map or plan, Chain survey – Offset (School) , geographical representation of data in thematic maps.
November 2011
Unit: Settlements
Significant Concept: The process of Urbanization is the result of economic development and increase in population in urban centers which in turn can create social, environmental and economic problems affecting everyday life and activities.
Content:
1. Meaning of settlements
2. Origin of settlements
3. Functions of settlements
4. Differences between urban and rural settlements
5. Settlement hierarchy
6. Urban land use models-Burgees and Hoyt's models
7. Problems in an urban area
January/February 2012
Unit: Plate Tectonics
Significant Concept: Endogenetic forces are responsible for creating landforms on the earth surface and modifying the distribution of Continents and Oceans
Content:
1.Pangaea
2. Layers of the Earth
3. Global itribution of tectonic plates, earthquakes and volcanoes
4. Relationship between earthquakes, volcanoes and plate movements
5. Causes and effects of crustal movement
March 2012
Unit: Coping with natural disasters
Content:
• Understand the differences in the impacts of tectonic events between LEDC and MEDC.
• Describe the way people and communities try to prepare for and cope with the impacts of earthquakes and volcanoes.
.
April 2012
Unit: Changing the way we shop
Content:
Understand different kinds of goods and shops, how and why the provision of goods and services in settlements varies, explore the concept of progress/development in terms of sustainable development in urban environment.