| 7 | Think like a geographer:
What is Geography?
Where do places begin?
OS map skills; 4 and 6 figure grid references,
GIS skills
Distance, direction, and height | Place Studies:
The place I go to school
The place I live
Places in the UK
Latitude and longitude
Places in Europe and worldwide
Mapping Skills | The World of Work:
Employment Sectors
Globalisation
The Geography of Football
Careers: Types of jobs and how jobs are influenced by globalisation
| Tourism:
Tourism in Europe
Impacts of Tourism
Seaside Resorts
Sustainable Tourism
Careers: Tourism and Hospitality (Unifrog) | Coastal Landscapes:
Weathering and Erosion
Erosional Landforms
Longshore drift and depositional landforms
Cause and effect of cliff collapse
Coastal management
Issue evaluation: The defence dilemma | Exploring Russia & The Middle East:
Locations
Physical Features (Mountains, Rivers, Glaciers)
Climate Zones and Biomes
The People
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| 8 | Changing weather and climate:
Introduction to weather and climate, how we measure, record and present the weather, climate of the UK, climate graphs, extreme weather in the UK, the water cycle, managing flooding, urban heat island effect, school microclimate fieldwork task and write up.
Careers: Jobs in weather and climate industries | Natural Hazards:
The Great Storm, geological timescales, rock types, hurricanes, volcanoes and earthquakes; evidence, cause, effect and response.
| People in the UK - challenges and opportunities:
Measuring population, use of the census, UK ageing population, population pyramids, international migration, internal migration, ethnic and cultural diversity. Poverty and homelessness.
Careers: Energy Engineer (unifrog) | Global challenges and opportunities:
Global development and how we measure development, inequality, food and water inequality - famine and obesity, health inequality, comparing healthcare in a HIC and a LIC.
Human Fieldwork Trip: Lincoln study and write up | Global challenges and opportunities:
Urbanisation, Squatter settlements, life in Dharavi, economic opportunity - the geography of chocolate (fairtrade), social challenge - cholera, environmental challenge - plastic in the ocean, political challenge - the geography of conflict zones, sustainable tourism. | Africa is not a country:
What is Africa like, African populations, The Sahara, Hot Deserts, Savanna and Tropical Rainforest Biomes, The Horn of Africa, Nigeria a Newly Emerging Economy and Opportunities in Nigeria. |
| 9 | Ecosystems:
Components, balance between components, impact of changing a component. Global ecosystems - distribution and characteristics.
Tropical rainforests:
physical characteristics, plant and animal adaptations, changing rates of deforestation, causes of deforestation, impacts of deforestation, value of the rainforest, strategies to manage sustainably, palm oil plantations. | Cold Environments: physical characteristics, plant and animal adaptations, Svalbard case study, challenges and opportunities, managing cold environments.
| The changing economic world:
Development indicators, quality of life, demographic transition model, population pyramids, causes and consequences of uneven development, strategies to reduce the development gap, tourism in Jamaica. | Nigeria, an NEE:
Importance regionally and globally, geographical context of Nigeria, the countries global trading relationships, the changing industrial sector, the role of TNCs, international aid, the environmental impact of economic development, the effects of development on quality of life. | River landscapes in the UK:
Long and cross profile, characteristics and formation of landforms, physical and human factors affecting flooding, hydrographs, hard engineering and soft engineering strategies and an example of a flood management scheme. | River Landscapes and Fieldwork:
Horncastle Flood Management Scheme, river fieldwork study, fieldwork write up and skills.
Careers: Hydrographic Surveyor (Unifrog) |
| 10 | The changing economic world:
Economic futures in the UK , causes of economic change, a post-industrial economy, science and business parks, environmental impacts of industry, social and economic changes in the rural landscape, transport infrastructure (airports), the north-south divide, Lancashire LEP, UK in the wider world.
Careers: Town Planner (Unifrog) | Coastal Landscapes - Wave type and characteristics. Coastal Processes (weathering, mass movement, erosion, transportation and deposition)
| Coastal Landscapes:
Coastal landforms, formation of erosion landforms, characteristics and formation of depositional landforms, management strategies (Skegness) and hard and soft engineering strategies. | Urban issues and challenges:
Urbanisation, megacities, Rio de Janeiro: importance, growth, challenges (social, economic and environmental), squatter settlements, management of favelas and Favela Bairro project. | Urban issues and challenges:
Bristol: importance, opportunities and challenges (social, economic, environmental), Temple Quarter regeneration project. | Urban issues and challenges:
Sustainable urban living, Friberg.
Fieldwork:
Coastal fieldtrip: Skegness, and write up (including, data presentation, graphs, maps, GIS and statistics).. |
| 11 | Natural hazards:
Types and factors affecting
Tectonic hazards:
Plate tectonic theory, plate margins, case study earthquakes (HIC: Chile and Nepal 2015), earthquakes; cause, effect, response and management.
| Weather hazards:
Atmospheric circulation model, tropical storms; characteristics, cause, effect, response and management. Weather hazards in the UK, Somerset Levels Flooding, 2014, extreme weather; causes, impacts and management strategies.
Fieldwork - Human Fieldwork Trip to Lincoln.
Careers: Urban Planning Skills
| Climate change:
Evidence for climate change, cause; natural and human, effects and managing climate change.
Careers: Climate related jobs (unifrog) | Resource management:
Global distribution of resources. Provision of food, water and energy in the UK
Chosen Module: Energy - areas of surplus and deficit, factors affecting energy availability, impacts of energy insecurity, strategies to increase energy supply, renewable energy supplies. | GCSE Pre-Release Material
Revision | Pre-reading for A level
Changing Places: Using 3 locations you visit over the summer, describe the sense of place and place perception in that area.
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| 12 | Physical: Water and carbon cycles
Human: Changing Places (The nature and importance of places, relationships, connections, meaning and representation)
| Physical: Water and carbon cycles
Human: Changing Places
| Physical: Water and carbon cycles
Human: Changing Places
Y12: Exams
Fieldwork: North Yorkshire Skills Trip | Physical: Seismic Hazards and Volcanic Hazards
Human: Contemporary Urban Environments (Urbanisation, urban form and issues associated with urbanisation)
Non-Examined Assessment: Proposals | Physical: Tropical Storms (Hazards)
Human: Contemporary Urban Environments (Urban Climate, Urban Drainage, Urban Waste and Environmental Issues) | Physical: Wildfires (Hazards)
Human: Contemporary Urban Environments (Case Studies: London, Rio and Mumbai)
Non-Examined Assessment: Methodology and graphs
Careers: GIS Skills |
| 13 | Physical: Hot Deserts
Human: Global Systems and Global Governance
Non-Examined Assessment: Results, Conclusion and Bibliography
Careers: Hot Desert Conservation | Physical: Hot Deserts
Human: Global Systems and Global Governance
Non-Examined Assessment: Completed
Careers: Jobs in Antarctica | Physical: Hot Deserts
Human: Global Systems and Global Governance
| Quantitative and qualitative skills
Revision | | |