Geography of Crime (Full SOW)

Something a little different but both engaging and foundational for introducing the themes in the GCSE course.

This is a full scheme of work that is ready to go and has been taught. It has a range of different pedagogical strategies throughout the scheme of work. It also builds skills around the describe, explain and evaluate command words needed for GCSE. This is suitable for Year 8 or 9.

Lesson Outlines

1. The geography of crime - exploration of crime and using the ‘explain’ command word
2. Crime and place - 4 mark exam question structure as well as evaluating a policing strategy in a specific place
3. Fear of crime - work on 4 and 6 mark exam question structures
4. Mapping crime - choropleth mapping exercise
5. Designing out crime - drawing exercise will need to be adapted to your location by changing the location)
6. Jack the Ripper - how human geography affected crime
7. Oceanic crime - modern day piracy, exploring development
8. Rainforest crime - group work task with evaluation
9. The heroin trail - atlas tasks as well as exploring development/GDP.
10. Civil war - explores Syria and the resulting migration
11. Assessment - full written assessment pro forma included

If you like this scheme of work, please do give it 5 stars and check out my other schemes of work as I have both KS3, KS4 and KS5 resources.