Year 3 - Key Progression

Year 3

Location Knowledge

• Name and locate counties and cities of the UK identifying human and physical characteristics including hills, mountains, coasts rivers, land use patterns over time and the use of natural resources.
• Egypt is located in northern Africa, and is in both the eastern and northern hemispheres. The Tropic of Cancer runs through the bottom half of the country.

Place Knowledge

• The Wirral Peninsula with a focus on Parkgate, Thurstaston and the rive Dee
• Egypt, North Africa and the River Nile.

Human and Physical Geography

• Climate zones, rivers, mountains, biomes and vegetation belts in the UK and Egypt
• Types of settlement and land use, economic activity and distribution of natural resources in the United Kingdom.

Geographical Skills and Fieldwork (Wirral Peninsula)

• To use maps, atlases, globes, aerial photographs to locate key features in Wirral.
• Focus study on the Wirral Peninsular and the River Dee.
• Use ordinance survey maps and four figure grid references.