During key stage 2, pupils investigate a variety of people, places and environments at different scales in the United Kingdom and abroad, and learn about the links between their lives and the environment around them. They carry out geographical enquiry inside and outside the classroom and learn how to use geographical skills and resources such as maps, atlases, aerial photographs and computers.
Children are taught:
- to use geographical skills to find out about different places, physical and human features in the environment
- about changing environments
- how people and the environment affect each other
- how water affects landscapes and people
- how settlements are different from each other, and how they change
- how and why environments change and how we try to manage them
- where important places and environments are in the world
At the end of Key Stage 2 (age 11), most children are able to:
- explain human and natural features of places
- explain how places are similar and different
- know where important places and environments are in the UK, Europe and the wider world
- explain patterns of human features (such as the layout of roads in a town) and natural features (for example, how seasons change)
- explain how human and natural processes change places and environments
- describe how people can damage and improve environments
- describe how and why people protect environments
- find out about environments and places by observing them, asking different people's views and by using other resources, such as photographs and maps
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