Geography
| Subject: | Geography |
| Contact: | Miss Z Oliver |
Overview
A brand new A-Level for 2016 has seen massive and exciting changes to the new A-Level content studied via AQA (7037). Students will look at 6 topics in great detail to challenge their perceptions and stimulate their investigative and analytical skills.
Whilst new units have been added to reflect the world today, such as global governance, the topics found popular with students have been kept such as hazards and population. Students have eight lessons a fortnight and are co-taught by two teachers who share responsibility preparing students for their individual project and examinations over the two year course.
Curriculum content
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Term 1 |
Term 2 |
Term 3 |
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Year 12 |
Glacial systems & landscapes
Population & the environment |
Hazards
Population & the environment |
Hazards
Global Governance |
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Year 13 |
Global Governance
Changing Places |
Water & Carbon Cycles
Individual Project |
Changing places |
Assessment components
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Component One: Physical Geography |
Component Two: Human Geography |
Component Three: Geography Fieldwork Investigation |
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What is assessed? Section A: Water and carbon cycles Section B: either Hot desert systems and landscapes or Coastal systems and landscapes or Glacial systems and landscapes Section C: either Hazards or Ecosystems under stress |
What is assessed? Section A: Global systems and global governance Section B: Changing places Section C: either Contemporary urban environments or Population and the environment or Resource security |
What is assessed? Students complete an individual investigation which must include data collected in the field. The investigation must be based on a question or issue defined and developed by the student relating to any part of the specification content. |
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How is it assessed? Written exam:
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How is it assessed? Written exam:
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How is it assessed? Written exam:
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Questions Section A: answer all questions (36 marks) Section B: answer either question 2 or question 3 or question 4 (36 marks) Section C: answer either question 5 or question 6 (48 marks) Question types: multiple-choice, short answer, levels of response, extended prose. |
Questions Section A: answer all questions (36 marks) Section B: answer all questions (36 marks) Section C: answer either question 3 or question 4 or question 5 (48 marks) Question types: multiple-choice, short answer, levels of response, extended prose |
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Enrichment opportunities:
KS4 & KS5 students go on fieldwork residential and day trips.
Useful websites to support learning
| BBC Bitesize | website |
