Year 4 - Key Progression

Year 4

Location Knowledge

• Name and locate volcanoes and earth quakes around the world.
•  What is unique about the location of the world’s volcanoes and earth quakes e.g.  position and significance of latitude, longitude, equator and northern/ southern hemispheres
• What impact have volcanoes and earth quakes had on land use patterns over time.
• Name and locate Scandinavian countries and major cities.

Place Knowledge

• Understand the human and physical characteristic of Sweden.
• Locate the major ports in Europe and compare Copenhagen Port of Malmo to The Port of Liverpool.

Human and Physical Geography

• Climate zones, rivers, mountains, biomes and vegetation belts in the Scandinavian countries.
• Volcanoes and Earthquakes
• Economic activity including trade links

Geographical Skills and Fieldwork (Cammel Lairds and the growth of Birkenhead and Liverpool)

• To use maps, atlases, globes, aerial photographs to locate key features in Wirral.
• Focus study of Birkenhead Docks, Cammel Lairds and the River Mersey.

Use ordinance survey maps and four figure grid references.