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should inspire in pupils a curiosity Geography and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. We all know that the minute you walk out of your front door, you re looking at


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Geography

“We all know that the minute you walk out of your front door, you’re looking at geography. We’re all living in a geographical world” Nicholas Crane (President RGS-IBG)

should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.

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A LEVEL GEOGRAPHY 2017/19

At Hardenhuish we study the EDEXCEL

GEOGRAPHY Specification

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Paper 1:

Assessing the physical geography content 2 hours 15 minutes 105 marks

30%

Paper 2:

Assessing the human geography content 2 hours 15 minutes 105 marks

30%

Paper 3

Synoptic investigation

  • f a

geographical issue 2 hours 15 minutes (including 30 minutes of reading time) 70 marks

20%

Coursework :

Independent Investigation 70 marks Internally assessed & externally moderated. 3000–4000 words

20%

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THE BIG PICTURE A LEVEL

Dynamic Landscapes Dynamic Places

  • Tectonic Processes and

Hazards

  • Landscape Systems, Processes

and Change – Coasts

  • Globalisation
  • Regenerating Places

Physical Systems & sustainability Global development & connections

  • The Water Cycle and Water

Insecurity

  • The Carbon Cycle and Energy

Security

  • Superpowers
  • Global Development and

Connections – Health, human rights & intervention.

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Dynamic Landscapes

Topic 1: Tectonic processes and hazards – What causes tectonic hazards, the impact of tectonic activity on people, and responses to tectonic hazards

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Dynamic Landscapes

Topic 2: Landscape Systems, Processes and Change – What processes are occurring at our coastlines? What risk do these pose to people? How can these risks be managed?

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Dynamic Places

Topic 3: Globalisation – a study of globalisation, its causes & consequences for different people & places.

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Dynamic Places

Topic 4: Shaping places – a study of how & why places are shaped & changed, the meanings & identities attached to different places & the consequences for different people. Regenerating Places.

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3 DAYS FIELDWORK

November Year 12 : Trip to Bristol to look at areas of multiple deprivation and rebranding strategies March visit to the Dorset coast to look at coastal features and management Summer Term of year 12 a further day fieldwork to practice a range of data collection strategies linked to carbon cycling

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Physical Systems & Sustainability

 Topic 5: Water Cycle & Water Insecurity – water cycle, human

& natural factors that impact on water cycling, consequences for water security & future water conflicts.

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Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle & Energy Security – Carbon Cycle, human & natural factors impacting on the carbon cycling, the consequences for ecosystems & management strategies.

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Human systems & Geopolitics

 Topic 8: Superpowers – Superpowers, the reasons for shifting

economic and political power, the impacts of superpowers, influences of superpowers in governing global commons.

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Topic 9: Global Development & Connections – Health, human rights & intervention. How do human rights vary from place to place? What political and military interventions take place and how successful are they?

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INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION

Students complete independent fieldwork followed by a 3-4,000 word write-up.

  • You decide on an area of the

course that interests you

  • You decide on the title you wish to

investigate

  • You then complete a data

collection programme

  • You write up your findings
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS

If you have studied Geography at GCSE a Grade

5 is preferred

Students who have not taken GCSE Geography

are welcome.

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EXTRA CURRICULAR

The bi- annual A Level/GCSE trip abroad is

scheduled to take place in October of 2019. The location is likely to be Sicily.

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GEOGRAPHERS SKILLS...

The UK’s official careers page states:

‘Geographers look at issues from a wide

perspective and develop a range of skills which are attractive to a very broad range of future employers’

‘No other subject can offer you such an

extensive array of skills as Geography can’.

Important in the ‘new’ working world

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Care about the planet? Estate Manager Forestry Ranger Environmental Consultant Pollution Analyst Conservation Officer

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