You might find these report card comments useful for writing your geography report cards.
- He can understand the variety of features that form part of his local area;
- He can understand the part people play in developing and changing the area.
- He can carry out a small local survey and draw some specific conclusions from the evidence his find;
- He can recognise a reasonable number of places on a map or big atlas and understand some of the human and physical features connected to these places.
- He can realise that a variety of types of transport can be used to visit places and that some types are more suitable than others.
- He can recall information about his local area and use this to help him study a contrasting area, eg the seaside
- He can recognise how each environment is different and changing.
- He can use a variety of resources to find out information.
- He can recognise a reasonable number of places on a map or big atlas and understand some of the human and physical features connected to these places.
- He can reaslise that a variety of types of transport can be used to visit places and that some types are more suitable than others.
- He is familiar with a contrasting environment in the UK.
- He can recognise the main similarities and differences between his local area and a contrasting place.
- He can extract information from secondary sources
- He can describe a range of physical and human features of his locality; use appropriate geographical terms.
- He can offer appropriate observations about locations and patterns in the area.
- He can use a range of secondary sources and first-hand enquiry.
- He can identify how people affect the environment and recognise ways people try to manage it for the better.
- He can respond to questions about where places are, beginning to offer observations about locations and patterns eg areas of the world where there are particular types of climate.
- He can respond to geographical questions about places and begin to suggest his own geographical questions.
- He can undertake simple investigations using maps and secondary sources mainly provided by the teacher.
- He can begin to account for his own views about the environment, recognising that other people may have reasons for thinking differently.
- He can identify how people affect the environment and recognise ways in which people try to manage it for the better.
- He can ask and respond to geographical questions while undertaking tasks set by the teacher, offering his own ideas appropriate to the situation.
- He can use a range of simple equipment, maps and resources to carry out tasks supported by the teacher.
- He can identify early settlement patterns and the links between older established settlements and the present landscape.
- He can understand that places are connected to one another.
- He can draw fairly logically constructed maps of his own.
- He can describe a range of physical and human features of places using appropriate geographical terms.
- He can make geographical comparisons between localities studied.
- He can ask and respond to geographical questions.
- He can describe the physical and human features of the place studied and understand how the mix of these features helps to explain its character.
- He can draw out similarities and differences between places and begin to understand links between him.
- He can offer appropriate observations about locations and the patterns made by physical and human features.
- He can recognise human processes and begin to understand how his can change the character of a place.
- He can recognise and describe how people can improve or damage the environment.
- He can use confidently a full range of skills and different kinds of maps and resources to undertake some independent investigations and some planned by the teacher.
- He can recognise selected physical processes relating to rivers and begin to appreciate how these can change the character of places.
- He can draw on his own observations and secondary sources and use his awareness of river events to suggest geographical questions and raise issues that might be studied, eg floods, drought, pollution.