Name ………………………………………………………………………… Key Stage 3 Geography Assessing Pupil Progress

Places Enquiry and Environmental Patterns and Representing Map Skills

Skills Relationships Processes Geographical
Information
3 describe and * Can respond to * know how people * Can describe and can draw a map * accurate at 4
compare physical geographical can improve the compare the and a plan of an figure grid
and human questions environment features of places area and label it. references;
features in the
local area * Can use * Can give some * Can suggest * can recognise
geographical skills views about some reasons for further map
and sources of environmental the way things are symbols such as
evidence issues contour lines

4 know about and * Can suggest * Can describe * Can describe * can annotate a * can use OS
understand some geographical how people human processes photograph and maps, finding
important features questions to improve and and physical maps to describe symbols using grid
of different places investigate damage the processes what it shows. references.
in your local area environment
and beyond * Can use a range * Can see how * can explain * can use scale to
of geographical * Can explain these processes diagrams and estimate distances
skills and evidence different views could change graphs through and plan routes.
to answer the about places and affect annotation
questions environmental people living there
issues
* Can use * notice any
geographical patterns in what
words in their you see
writing
Name ………………………………………………………………………… Key Stage 3 Geography Assessing Pupil Progress

Places Enquiry and Environmental Patterns and Representing Map Skills

Skills Relationships Processes Geographical
Information
5 * know about and * know which * Can explain how * Can describe human can create accurate can describe what a
understand important geographical people affect the and physical scatter graphs and place is like using OS
features of a range of questions they are environment processes choropleth maps, maps
places and going to answer which they can
environments in * Can explain different * Can give reasons for describe.
different parts of the * Have selected the views about any of these
world different skills and environmental issues
evidence to use * Can see how these
* see the links * Can see how people processes could lead
between different * Have reached some try to manage the to things that were
places conclusions environment different and similar
about places
* Have presented their
findings in writing and * Can see any patterns
graphs where they can in what they see

* Can suggest some

reasons for these

6 * know about and * Have chosen their * Can describe and * Can describe and can explain and * can draw a picture
understand important questions and the explain how people try explain different analyse maps and from a map to show
features of a wide steps they are going to to manage the physical and human graphs and suggest what a place is like.
range of places and take to answer them environment processes limitations to their use.
environments * can make decisions
* Have chosen the * Can see that the * Can describe how about locations of
* know about places at different evidence they action people take in these processes places using maps.
different scales: will use and the skills one place can affect create patterns
locally, nationally, they will make use of the environment in
internationally and other places * Can describe how
globally * Have presented physical and human
sensible conclusions processes lead to
* see the many links changes in places
that make places
depend on each other