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A LEVELGeography

EXAM BOARD: AQA

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Geography A-level students complete AQA Geography A-level. This comprises of two exam based papers and one set of coursework. Both examination papers assess students’ knowledge and interpretation of different geographical concepts and processes, whilst the coursework assesses student’s ability to use their geographical skills to conduct a lengthy and noteworthy investigation.

At A-level, Geography students will study a wide range of both physical and human Geography. Physical topics include natural hazards, water and carbon cycles and coastal studies. Human Geography will include urban environments, changing places and global systems and global governance.

Geography is a popular A-Level choice which is highly respected by all universities because it gives you the knowledge and skills necessary for higher education and which are also useful in any career. Students who specialise in Geography can go on to become politicians, economists, environmental managers, town planners and work in public services.

Exams

Paper 1: Physical geography. Paper 2: Human geography. Paper 3: Geography fieldwork investigation.

When

Paper 1: May/ June Paper 2: May / June Paper 3: To be submitted in January 2019.

Knowledge, Skills, Understanding

To develop your own role, values and attributes in relation to themes and issues being studied. To comprehend geographical concepts and processes to understand and interpret our changing world. To learn how to recognise the challenges of sustainability and the implications for our own and others’ lives.

Department overview:

CTL: Miss Mc CarthyA level teachers: Miss Mc Carthy, Mr Williams.Expected trips and visits: Fieldwork trip- 1 week residential.Compulsory texts: Geography Bowen, Day, Parkinson et al.

Assessments Homework

Week 1

Changing places:

Introduction to the topic.Exam skills

My understanding of the course.

My understanding of the assessment objectives.

Notes on student friendly specification

Water and carbon cycles:

Introduction to the topic.Exam skills

Same as above

Week 2

Changing places:

The concept of place and the importance of place.

Research Walmart and how the company has adapted… Key questions: how has Walmart changed our concept of place?

Water and carbon cycles:

Systems concepts and their applications to the water and carbon cycles

Summarise the features of the lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and atmosphere.

Week 3

Changing places:

Factors contributing to the character of place.

Endogenous and exogenous factors.

Exam question:Distinguish between endogenous and exogenous factors. Focus on command word and key terms here.

6 marks

Water and carbon cycles:

Global distribution and size of major stores of water

Search for secondary info on flow data for gauging stations in the UK- this data can be downloaded to help with next weeks homework

Week 4

Changing places:

How we perceive, engage and attach to places.

How are places represented?

look at examples of so-called green or environmental poetry aimed at alerting readers to environmental crises (Alice Oswald, Owen Sheers, Gillian Clarke)

Water and carbon cycles:

Flood hydrographs, what are they?

Compare two flood hydrographs one to be rural and one to be urban.

Week 5

Changing places:

Place representation continued.

Place study research preparation.

Google books:Page 46 onwardsPlace: An IntroductionBy Tim Cresswell

Water and carbon cycles:

What are the changes in the water cycle over time?

Exam question:What are the key aspects of the global carbon system? 9 marks

Assessments Homework

Week 6

Changing places:

What are the impacts and connections between people and places?

Paper 1: Mini assessment on water and carbon cycles

Paper 2: Mini assessment on changing places.

Exam questions to be used:

6 and 4 marks.

Read and take notes on the RGS lecture on gentrification.

Water and carbon cycles:

Global distribution and size of major stores of carbon

Watch and take notes on the TED Ed lecture:‘The carbon cycle’ by Nathan Manning

Week 7

Changing places:

How are the characteristics of places shaped by different types of shifting flows?

Continue local place study

Use local and national newspaper sources to research the different attitudes towards gentrification and regeneration in East London

Water and carbon cycles:

Factors and changes driving the carbon cycle.

Exam question:What is the enhanced greenhouse effect?9 marks

Week 8

Changing places:

What are the characteristics and impacts of external forces operating at different scales?

exam question:How have external forces changed a place you have studied? 9 marks

Water and carbon cycles:

The key role of the carbon and water stores

Write an extended prose exam style answer to explain the role of carbon and water in the greenhouse effect.

Week 9 Changing places: Use the websites :

UK Local Area

How have external agencies influenced a place, their shape and the actions of people?

Check my area.To gather information

about different places and their changes

Water and carbon cycles:

How has land use affected the Brazilian rainforest?

Prepare a presentation exploring the impacts of land use change on the hydrological cycle in the Brazilian Amazon region

Week 10

Changing places:

New place study ( distant place) Place study secondary research

Water and carbon cycles:

How has land use affected the Brazilian rainforest?

Write up a mini-fieldwork enquiry to act as a case study of a local river.

Assessments Homework

Week 11

Changing places:

Place study 2 completion Place study secondary research

Water and carbon cycles:

Local scale river catchments Revision preparation

Week 12

Changing places:

Assessment-

Review of content so far

Paper 1: Water and carbon cycles

1 hr paper.

Paper 2: Changing places.

1 hr paper

Revision for assessments

Water and carbon cycles

Assessment

Review of content so far

Revision evidence presentation

Week 13 Global systems and gov:

What are the dimensions of globalisation: flows of capital, labour, products, services and information?

Re-draft assessment

Hazards:

The concept of hazard in a geographical context Re-draft assessment

Week 14

Global systems and gov:

What are the patterns of production, distribution and consumption?

Factors in globalisation.

Dicken, P. (2007) Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy

Read selected sections and prepare notes

Hazards:

Plate tectonics, structure and driving force.

Produce a short report to include information, notes and diagrams covering the structure of the Earth.

Week 15

Global systems and gov:

Form and nature of economic, political, social and environmental interdependence in the contemporary world.

What are the issues associated with unequal flows?

Read through websites and make notes preparing to discuss in class.

World Trade Organisation

World Bank

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

BBC profile on the IMF and World Bank

Hazards:

Plate tectonics- Plate boundaries and plumes

Build a case study on Hawaii and the formation of its hotpot

Week 16

Global systems and gov:

What are the global features and trends in the volume and pattern of international trade?

The trading relationships and patterns between HICS, NEEs and LICs.

Revision for assessment

Hazards:

What is Vulcanicity? Revision for assessment

Assessments Homework

Week 17

Global systems and gov:

Differential access to markets associated with levels of economic development.

Case study- world trade : food

Paper 1: short questions on hazards.

Paper 2: Assessment on globalisation and global

systems

Exam style question:To what extent, can data

represent patterns of global trade? 9 marks

Hazards:

The nature of Vulcanicity and its impacts

Exam question:Specimen paper 1:Q5.5Using Figure 14 and Figure 15, assess the scale of the eruption. [6 marks]

Week 18

Global systems and gov:

What is the role and nature of a TNC?

What are the geographical consequences of global systems?

Exam question: x 2 weeksHow far do you agree with this statement? TNCs create a lot of

opportunities for their home countries but these benefits are not felt by their host countries.

20 marks

Hazards:

Management of a volcanic event

Exam question:

Discuss factors affecting the nature of a volcano including type of plate boundary, and nature of plate movement .

9 marks

Week 19

Global systems and gov:

Global governance and the global commons

Exam question: x 2 weeksHow far do you agree with this statement? TNCs create a lot of

opportunities for their home countries but these benefits are not felt by their host countries.

20 marksHazards:

The nature of seismicity and its relation to plate tectonics

Exam question:Assess the importance of factors in globalisation in supporting the

response to major seismic hazards. [9 marks]

Week 20 Global systems and gov:

Antarctica as a global common

Secondary note taking and quote building from :

UN: Global Commons

UN: An early perspective - Our Common Future: managing the commons (1987)

Hazards:

Seismicity impacts and responses

Research the different scales used to measure the magnitude

or scale of seismic events including Richter Scale, Mercalli Scale and Moment Magnitude

Scale.

Week 21

Global systems and gov:

Antarctica as a global commonAssessment preparations

Revision evidence

Hazards:

The nature of tropical storms and their underlying causes

Assessment preparationsRevision evidence

Week 22

Global systems and gov:

Review and assessment

Paper 1: Hazards to date: 4/6/9 markers

Paper 2: All global systems and gov: 9 and 20 markers

Re-draft of assessment answers

Hazards:

Impacts and responses to tropical storms

Re-draft of assessment answers

Assessments Homework

Week 23

Urban:

What are the global patterns of urbanisation since 1945?

The economic, social, technological, political and demographic processes associated with urbanisation.

Exam question:What are the different categories of city and what is their global influence?9 marks

Hazards:

Nature of wildfires and their implications.

Detailed mind-mapping activity. discuss the following terms in relation to managing wildfire hazards and to suggest examples of each:

preparation mitigation prevention adaptation

Week 24 Urban:

What is suburbanisation, counter-urbanisation, and urban resurgence?

Compile mini case studies on evidence of suburbanisation,

counter urbanisation and resurgence.

Urban change: deindustrialisation, decentralisation, rise of service economy.

Urban policy and regeneration in Britain since 1979.

Hazards:

Impacts and responses to wildfires

Case study build up task on responses and management of a

selected hazard

Week 25

Urban:

Urban characteristics in contrasting settings.

Physical and human factors in urban forms.

Land use and the idea of the post modern city.

Exam question:Are all urban environments post-

modern?Assess the extent to which this is

true. 9 marks

Hazards:

Exam question:

Discuss factors affecting the nature of hazards posed by

wildfires.

9 marks

Week 26

Urban:

Spatial patterns of economic inequality, social segregation and cultural diversity .

Issues associated with these processes and strategies to manage them.

Data analysis charts- Greenwich, demographics and education

Hazards:

Distant area case studyCase study external research

and note taking.

Week 27 Urban:

The impact of urban forms and processes on local climate and weather.

Urban temperatures, precipitation, fog and wind.

Assessment preparations

Hazards:

Distant area case study Assessment preparations

Assessments Homework

Week 28

Urban:

Urban precipitation, surfaces and catchment characteristics.

Issues associated with catchment management in urban areas.

River restoration and conservation

Assessment:

Paper 1: 20 marker on hazards.

Paper 2: Urban short mark questions.

Exam question:How can a UHI be managed in

urban environments?Are all UHIs the same?

Hazards:

Local scale case study

Exam question:What is meant by the term

‘multi-hazardous environment’? Can students identify possible

natural hazards?

Week 29

Urban:

Urban physical waste generation personal consumption.

The environmental impacts of alternative approaches to waste disposal.

Comparison of incineration and landfill approaches.

Re-draft assessment

Coasts:

What is a coastal system? Re-draft assessment

Week 30

Urban:

Air quality and pollution reduction policies.

Strategies to manage these problems and impact of urban areas on local and global environments.

Research urban air quality management schemes in the UK.

20 lines with quotations

Coasts:

What are the different processes

What is a coastal system?10 lines and annotated diagram

occurring in the coastal system?

Week 31

Urban:

Ecological footprint of major urban areas.

Dimensions of sustainability: natural, physical, social and economic.

Exam question:Can cities truly be sustainable?

20 marks

Coasts:

What are transfers and stores?

Coastal inputs:Write a breakdown of the

different inputs with examples.

Week 32

Urban:

Case study development Case study- secondary research

Coasts:

What are the impacts of differing tides?

Create detailed diagrams of tide variations.

Assessments Homework

Week 33

Urban:

Case study developmentCase study fact file completion

with 20 mark exam answer

Coasts:

What is a coastal system?Detailed table and diagram explaining coastal systems

Week 34

Urban:

Round up of the topic.

20 mark exam question:‘Addressing socio-economic

issues is more important than dealing with environmental

challenges in the management of urban areas.’ How far do you

agree with this view?Coasts:

What are the different processes occurring in a coastal system?

Diagrams explaining the different stores, flows and

transfers.

Week 35

Urban:

Exam skills week Assessment preparations

Coasts:

How do tides affect the coast?Assessment preparations

Week 36

Fieldwork skills:

What is a NEA?

Assessment:

Paper 1: hazards and some water and carbon.

Paper 2:

Urban and global systems and gov.

Annotations of sample NEAs

Coasts:

What are the different geomorphologic processes?

Complete notes on mass movement in preparation to

explain to the class.

Week 37

Fieldwork skills:

Stats Stats calculation practice

Coasts:

What is coastal erosion?

Exam question:Explain the different erosional

processes and discuss how they shape our coastline.

9 marks

Assessments Homework

Week 38

Fieldwork skills:

Stats part 2

Stats calculation practice.

Coasts:

Coastal landscape development

Complete maths activity on page 79

Complete research task page 82

Week 39

Fieldwork skills:

Practice skills

Fact file in preparation for the fieldwork

Coasts:

Review of learning.

Revision evidence in prep for September

List of suggested wider reading and websites:

Geographical magazine Frost, L. (2012) ‘Greening the city’ GeoActive 481 Rawlings Smith, E. (2012) ‘Abu Dhabi goes green?’ in Geography Review. Evans, L. (Jan 2006) ‘Sustainable cities’ GeoFile 515 Nagle, G. (Jan 2009) ‘Ecotowns’ GeoFile 581

IPCC reports on water and carbon cycles. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ British Geological Survey Cultural Geography: Places and Traces, (2015) Anderson. Space, Place and Gender, (1994), Massey

IAG links:

University Rankings for 2018

1) Cambridge 7) Exeter2) Durham 8) Lancaster 3) Oxford 9) Leeds 4) St Andrews 10) Newcastle 5) University of Glasgow6) University of Bristol

https://www.ukuni.net/uk-ranking/subject/geography-and-environmental-science

Careers:

Most common career links include…

- Geologist- Archaeologist- Research scientist- Cartographer- Government research officer- Journalist- Environmental consultant- Planning and development surveyor- Town planner- Environmental planner- Conservation management- Teacher- Sustainability consultant