To support teachers’ understanding of key topics and concepts in the Primary Geography National Curriculum, we have created these handy subject knowledge guides with enough information for teachers to learn about the topics that they are teaching. The units covered in these Geography Subject Knowledge Guides are: Africa Asia Capital Cities of the UK Climate Change and Resources Continents of the World Egypt Europe Extreme Earth Globalisation Greece India Italy Mexico North America Seasonal Change Settlements and Skara Brae South America The Poles - North and South Weathering and Erosion Each .PDF can be used by class teachers to support their understanding of some of the topics that may be selected for teaching in a Primary Geography school curriculum.

Geography vocabulary flashcards are double-sided flashcards with a geographic word from the geography national curriculum on one side, and the definition on the other. Children can use these cards to test themselves on the meaning of geographic vocabulary at the primary age range. Teachers can also use these to test children. These vocabulary cards cover all of the necessary vocabulary (59 words in all) from the national curriculum for geography. An example of some of the words and their definitions are as follows: continent ocean river mountain desert island volcano earthquake climate map These cards will need to be printed, cut, folded and laminated to ensure longevity. When made up, the size of these cards is A5. There are two cards per A4 piece of paper to reduce paper wastage. Any questions, please email us at we.can.school.resources@gmail.com - we are always happy to receive feedback and recommendations as to how we can improve our resources for you. You might also like: Science Vocabulary Cards https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/science-vocabulary-flashcards-12949569

12 Fact Files for countries of the world, including England, Scotland, Wales, France, China, Australia, and North America, plus a few others. Also includes a vocabulary list at the end containing appropriate language for human and physical geography. You can also use the template at the beginning for children to make notes on the different countries in their own words. This will support internalising learning.

Our fully revised Geography Skills Progression Document is a useful planning document for class teachers and subject leaders in supporting their planning and mapping of geography through school. This means that class teachers and subject leaders have a very clear progression for ensuring that each geographical-enquiry skill and geography concept are increasingly challenging throughout each year group. This document also contains progression in fieldwork skills. Our geography skills progression document maps out skills for the following geographical-enquiry skills: Describing Analysing, Comparing and Contrasting Researching Questioning Explaining and Understanding Knowing Remembering It also takes into account the following geographical concepts, ensuring that these are progressive from Foundation Stage to Key Stage 2: Location and Place Scale and Space Human Geography Physical Geography Sustainability Interdependence People, Cultures, and Communities The key skills are then mapped progressively from the Foundation Stage to Upper Key Stage 2, meaning that geographical-enquiry skills and geographical concepts becoming increasingly challenging throughout the respective keys stages. Each of these progressions can be used as part of a learning objective or success criteria in geography lessons. This is also a useful tool to support any conversation with OFSTED to show progression of geographical-enquiry skills. You might also like our visual fieldwork progression document that shows what maps completed by children - and the expected level of content - at different year groups should like progressively through each year group. History Skills Progression Document https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12953203

For children in Reception /Year 1 / Year 2 allowing them to identify and label the correct human and physical features in geography. There are also the correct scaffolding labels for children to cut and stick if they are unable to write the correct names in the boxes.

These geography quiz cards are a great resource for children to test each other on their geography subject knowledge throughout the primary National Curriculum. They cover all of the geography primary curriculum, as well as asking questions about multiple different countries in the world, such as: India Australia France Brazil Mexico United States of America Italy Spain Russia Of course, school’s geography curriculums are usually very personalised, and as a result, there’s a significant change that a country or location in your curriculum hasn’t been included. That’s why this is a free resource rather than a paid one. There is a little bit of work to do when you’ve printed these: including cutting, folding, and laminating for longevity. Any questions, please email us at we.can.school.resources@gmail.com - we are always happy to receive feedback and recommendations as to how we can improve our resources for you. You might also like: History Quiz Cards https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/history-quiz-cards-12951324 Science Quiz Cards https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/science-quiz-cards-12952196

Our map progression document for geography is a clear and visual way of ensuring visual progression for mapwork across the curriculum. With this document, teachers can clearly see the expectation when completing maps of locations and places around the world. The first page of this document shows a visual representation of maps around the world. The second page of the document is a bullet-pointed, written version of the document. This resources is great for subject leaders of geography, and would be great if used alongside our geography skills progression document, which can be found at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12953540