Tracking 1, S3, Geography (Social Subjects & RMPS)
Glaciation
Level 4 Progress 4
Your young person explains glacial and coastal landforms in detail and applies knowledge to unfamiliar examples.
Your young person uses maps confidently and supports conclusions with precise map evidence.
Your young person assesses land-use conflicts and judges how effective management solutions may be.
Level 4 Progress 3
Your young person clearly explains how a range of glacial and coastal landforms are formed.
Your young person uses maps accurately, including grid references, contours and symbols.
Your young person explains land-use conflicts and gives a supported conclusion about management.
Level 4 Progress 2
Your young person describes how several landforms are formed, with some correct links between processes.
Your young person uses basic map evidence, although some answers need more precision.
Your young person describes land-use conflicts and suggests suitable management solutions.
Level 4 Progress 1
Your young person identifies some processes and describes parts of landform formation with support.
Your young person finds simple information on maps when prompted.
Your young person recognises human uses and conflicts but needs support to explain causes and solutions.
Urban
Level 4 Progress 4
Your young person explains in detail how and why cities develop and change, using the places studied.
Your young person assesses social, economic and environmental impacts and weighs different viewpoints.
Your young person uses OS maps confidently to justify planning and site-selection decisions.
Level 4 Progress 3
Your young person clearly explains urban areas and important changes such as regeneration and urbanisation.
Your young person explains positive and negative impacts and reaches supported planning conclusions.
Your young person uses OS maps and grid references accurately to support answers.
Level 4 Progress 2
Your young person describes urban areas and explains some reasons for change and effects on people.
Your young person describes impacts and suggests reasonable planning or transport responses.
Your young person uses map evidence, although some explanations or conclusions need more detail.
Level 4 Progress 1
Your young person recognises urban zones and examples of change with support.
Your young person identifies some impacts but needs help to explain different viewpoints or reach a judgement.
Your young person finds simple information on OS maps when prompted.
Climate Change
Level 4 Progress 4
Your young person explains climate-change evidence and interacting physical and human causes in detail.
Your young person analyses impacts on different people and places and considers possible future outcomes.
Your young person uses geographical evidence independently to assess impacts and judge possible responses.
Level 4 Progress 3
Your young person clearly explains physical and human causes using evidence such as graphs and data.
Your young person explains several impacts on people and environments in named places.
Your young person uses evidence from a selected region to reach a supported conclusion and explain responses.
Level 4 Progress 2
Your young person describes evidence for climate change and explains some causes.
Your young person describes several impacts and makes some cause-and-effect links.
Your young person uses maps, graphs or other sources and suggests suitable responses, but conclusions need more support.
Level 4 Progress 1
Your young person identifies some evidence and causes of climate change with support.
Your young person identifies some effects and places affected but needs help to explain cause and effect.
Your young person finds simple information from maps or graphs and identifies a possible response when prompted.