PAFG Geography Department curriculum overviews
Year 11 (2-year KS4) 2015-2016 only
Term
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Fertile
Question
Controlled Assessment catch up and Tourism
How can countries cope with and benefit from
tourism?
Changing Urban Environments
How do people benefit from, yet cope with living in
cities?
The Coastal Zone
How do people and the coast threaten each other?
The Coastal Zone then
Ice on the Land
How do people and the coast threaten each other?
How does ice alter the land and impact people?
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13. Why are the cliffs at Barton-on-Sea eroding so
quickly? Case study: Barton, Hampshire
14. How will sea-level rise affect coasts?
15. How can the coast be protected by hard
engineering and soft engineering?
16. How is the coast at Barton being protected?
Case study: Barton, Hampshire
17. End of unit test
Key
content
Controlled Assessment catch up for 2 weeks
Tourism
1. What is tourism? What places attract tourists
(cities, coasts and mountains)?
2. Must learn facts test
3. Why is tourism growing and why do LDRs and
MDRs want tourism?
4. What affects tourist numbers?
5. How do tourist resorts change and what does
the Butler Model show?
6. Does Southsea fit the Butler Model?
7. What is mass tourism? What impact does it
have? Case study: Kenya or Jamaica
8. What impact does tourism have in
Kenya/Jamaica and how can it be managed?
9. What is ecotourism and how does it benefit
the environment and people? Case study:
Kenya
10. What is extreme tourism?
11. Why do people want to visit Antarctica? Case
study: Antarctica
12. End of unit test
Changing Urban Environments
1. What is urbanisation?
2. Must learn facts test. What are push and pull
factors?
How do land use and function vary in an urban
area?
4. What is the location, function and land use of
the CBD?
5. What is the location, function and land use of
the inner city?
6. What is the location, function and land use of
the suburbs?
7. How can enough homes be provided and
where should they go?
8. How was London’s Docklands transformed?
Case study: London Docklands
9. How was New Islington, transformed? Case
study: New Islington, Manchester
10. Mid-unit test
11. How is Commercial Road changing? Case study:
Portsmouth’s CBD
12. Why might the multicultural mix be a problem?
How is multiculturalism encouraged? Case
study: Portsmouth
13. What problems does rapid urbanisation cause in
LDRs? What are the problems of squatter
settlements?
14. How can a squatter settlement be improved?
Case study: Rocinha, Rio
15. How can pollution be reduced in cities in LDRs?
Case study: Shanghai
16. How can urban living be sustainable? Case
study: Tipner, Portsmouth
17. How can waste be dealt with?
18. How can historic townscapes be preserved?
Case study: Portsmouth’s historic dockyard and
Gunwharf Quays
19. End of unit test
How do waves form and what types are there?
Must learn facts test. What is the fetch?
What coastal processes operate on the land?
What coastal processes operate in the sea?
How do cliffs and wave-cut platforms form?
How do arches, stacks and stumps form?
How do beaches form and what is longshore
drift and how does it operate?
8. How do spits form?
9. What are salt marshes and what is their
vegetation succession?
10. What threatens salt marshes?
11. How are coastal features shown on an OS map?
12. Mid-unit test
Ice on the Land
1. How has the amount of ice cover changed in
the past?
2. What are glaciers and how do they change?
3. What processes occur in glacial environments?
4. How do corries, aretes and pyramidal peaks
form?
5. How do glacial valley landforms form?
6. How do moraines and drumlins form?
7. How are glacial features shown on an OS map?
8. Mid-unit test
Term 5
Revision
What do you need to know and how can you
remember it?
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What opportunities do glacial areas offer for
tourism? Case Study: Chamonix
10. What is an avalanche? Case Study: Nepal, 2015
11. What is the impact of climate change on Alpine
communities? Case Study: Abondance
12. End of unit test
Revision (including after-school and holiday
sessions)
EXAM QUESTION PRACTICE
Command words, Cross-sections, OS maps, Case
Studies
1. Restless Earth: volcanoes and case studies
2. Restless Earth: Fold mountains and case study
3. Restless earth: earthquakes and tsunamis and
case studies
4. Changing urban environments: urban zones
5. Changing urban environments: problems in
cities in LDRs
6. Changing urban environments: problems in
cities in LDRs
7. Coastal Zone: Processes
8. Coastal Zone: Landforms
9. Coastal Zone: Management
10. Population Change: Population change,
pyramids and the DTM
11. Population Change: Population control and
case studies
12. Population Change: Migration and case studies
13. Tourism: Types and reasons and the Butler
Model
14. Tourism: Case studies
15. Ice on the land: processes
16. Ice on the land: landforms
17. Ice on the land: tourism. Management and
change
Term 6
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