August/September/October 2011
Unit: Weather and Climate
Significant Concept: Climatic patterns affect the social and cultural environment of a place.
Content:
1. Elements of weather
2. Factors affecting weather of a place
3. Use of Meteorological Instruments to record different elements of weather
4. Climographs- Reading, analyzing and construction
October/November 2011
Unit: Ecosystems
Significant Concept: The interrelationships and interactions between the abiotic and biotic components of our ecosphere help sustain life in the biosphere.
Concepts:
1.The working of ecosystems
2. The global distribution of the major ecosystems/ biomes
3. The vegetation of tropical rainforests , the appearance and adaptations of the major vegetation types to climate and soils, changes to, and exploitations of, the major vegetation types by human activity/mismanagement.
4. The vegetation of tropical grasslands , the appearance and adaptations of the major vegetation types to climate and soils, changes to, and exploitations of, the major vegetation types by human activity/mismanagement.
January/February 2012
Unit: Energy Resources
Significant Concept:There is a growing need to manage and protect the Earth's resources due to the combined effects of population growth, economic development, increasing wealth and technological advances.
Concepts:
1.Importance of natural resources
2. Difference between renewable and non-renewable resources
3. Reasons for the increasing use of, and demand for, resources,
4. Social, economic and environmental advantages and disadvantages in the use of Non-renewable/ renewable energy resources
5. Ways to sustainably use the energy resource
6. How development of energy resource in one place affect people and environment in other places.
March 2012
Unit: Global Warming
Content:
• Meaning of Greenhouse Effect
• Meaning of Global Warming
• Causes of global warming
• Effects of global warming
April 2012
Unit: Crime
Content:
Identify attitudes towards and values attached to different types of crime, identify physical and human features of areas where crime is most prevalent, describe and explain patterns of crime in the local area and suggest ways in which it might be reduced, crime has a national dimension and that offending rates vary from region to region, explain the importance of planning in crime reduction.
Unit: Weather and Climate
Significant Concept: Climatic patterns affect the social and cultural environment of a place.
Content:
1. Elements of weather
2. Factors affecting weather of a place
3. Use of Meteorological Instruments to record different elements of weather
4. Climographs- Reading, analyzing and construction
October/November 2011
Unit: Ecosystems
Significant Concept: The interrelationships and interactions between the abiotic and biotic components of our ecosphere help sustain life in the biosphere.
Concepts:
1.The working of ecosystems
2. The global distribution of the major ecosystems/ biomes
3. The vegetation of tropical rainforests , the appearance and adaptations of the major vegetation types to climate and soils, changes to, and exploitations of, the major vegetation types by human activity/mismanagement.
4. The vegetation of tropical grasslands , the appearance and adaptations of the major vegetation types to climate and soils, changes to, and exploitations of, the major vegetation types by human activity/mismanagement.
January/February 2012
Unit: Energy Resources
Significant Concept:There is a growing need to manage and protect the Earth's resources due to the combined effects of population growth, economic development, increasing wealth and technological advances.
Concepts:
1.Importance of natural resources
2. Difference between renewable and non-renewable resources
3. Reasons for the increasing use of, and demand for, resources,
4. Social, economic and environmental advantages and disadvantages in the use of Non-renewable/ renewable energy resources
5. Ways to sustainably use the energy resource
6. How development of energy resource in one place affect people and environment in other places.
March 2012
Unit: Global Warming
Content:
• Meaning of Greenhouse Effect
• Meaning of Global Warming
• Causes of global warming
• Effects of global warming
April 2012
Unit: Crime
Content:
Identify attitudes towards and values attached to different types of crime, identify physical and human features of areas where crime is most prevalent, describe and explain patterns of crime in the local area and suggest ways in which it might be reduced, crime has a national dimension and that offending rates vary from region to region, explain the importance of planning in crime reduction.