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Fantastic Places

Fantastic Places Assessment

Year: 7
Topic: Fantastic Places
Type: Poster
Individual or Group Work: Individual
Levels of Assessments: 4 5 6
Number of Lessons: 4
Number of homeworks: 2

Geography Key Concepts:
Place
Scale
Environmental Interaction
Changing Physical and Human Processes
Diversity

Geography Key Processes:
Planning enquiry
Use of Sources
Drawing conclusions
Communicating

Writing Styles:
Descriptive
Explanative


As The Fantastic Places assessment is likely to be the students' first Key Stage Three assessment it is designed to be compiled gradually. The poster format will enable students to piece together their final sections of writing; emphasis here is on accuracy and neatness of presentation. Students' choice of places is left open; they can use places studies in class or places that they know about from their own visits, television or films.

The assessment is designed for students to complete individually. It is assumed that students have prior experience of how to produce sketches. Their written information can be supported with appropriate writing frames.

The assessment requires students to produce an A2 poster suitable for display in a library about three ‘fantastic places' for an audience of 14 year olds. The assessment is written at three different levels - four, five and six. For levels four and five students follow a plan (Resource Sheet C) and for level six students produce their own plan; it is advisable to check level six student plans before they start their work. A guide to planning would be:

  • Lesson 1: Set up assessment
  • Lesson 2: Students research one ‘fantastic place'
  • Homework: Students research a second ‘fantastic place'
  • Lesson 3: Students research a third ‘fantastic place'
  • Lesson 4: Students produce ‘Code of Respect' and conclusions (latter for levels five and six only.
  • Homework: Compilation of poster*

Presentation of work is of paramount importance. Word processing and digital images would help here but of more importance is care with presentation of writing and cutting out of paper and choice of colour for the backing card; taking such care improves the overall presentation. When there is so much good Geography being produced it is a shame if it does not look good! One solution to this is to only allow students to choose their backing card once their work has been produced to their best standard.

A2 paper is twice the size of A3 paper. Therefore, as a guide students work needs to be over four pieces of A4 paper in total - a page for each ‘Fantastic Place,' ½ A4 for the Code of Respect and ½ A4 for a conclusion. Each will need to be trimmed down so that posters do not have empty half pages. .

Once produced, these pieces of work will make very effective displays over a large area.

Resources available for this assessment are:

Fantastic Places Teacher Guidance

Fantastic Places Levelling Grid

For Level 4

For Level 5

For Level 6

* The final poster compilation could be done in another lesson. This would save posters becoming damaged in transportation.

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