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Passport to Geography
The purpose of this module is to stimulate pupil’s interest in Geography.
Pupils are introduced to the subject and have the opportunity to complete
out of classroom learning experiences. A baseline assessment is completed
so that an appreciation of their current ability identified.
China and culture
This module focuses on: trade e.g. increases in exports, with China already
the world's third-largest trading entity; consumption e.g. difficulties over
the sustainability of China's resource-intensive path of development and
growing numbers of affluent consumers; migration e.g. a rapidly urbanising
nation to have a much bigger ecological footprint; population - e.g. is
China's changing population as a resource or a curse.
Natural hazards
This module aims to stimulate an interest in and a sense of wonder about
places’, in particular about tectonics, Ice and tropical storms. To help
young people make sense of a complex and dynamically changing world’ by
exploring the theory of plate tectonics and the physical processes that
tectonically shape our planet. We will explain where places are (tectonic
activity and volcanoes – past and present), how places and landscapes are
formed and how people and their environment interact.
Geographical enquiry encourages questioning, investigation and critical
Assessment
Geography passport/Baseline assessment
One-Child Policy geographical argument
Weather report
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Adventure landscapes
This module should appeal to students' sense of wonder and adventure,
virtually dropping them into dramatic places above and below ground and
allowing them to explore the physical processes that formed them and
continue to shape them. The module includes some ICT based work, lots of
creativity as well as map skills.
Fantastic and Impossible places
The purpose of this module is to stimulate an interest in, and a sense of
wonder about, places. Most of the places featured in this module are in
extreme environments, places where human impact has been limited so far.
The module begins in the Arctic. Svalbard is a place with an awesome
landscape and unique geography that includes issues and themes of global,
regional and local importance. The module ends with a gratuitous ‘awe and
wonder’ lesson to show that places can be fantastic when viewed at other
scales, particularly from space.
Assessment
Newspaper report
India
The purpose of this module is to explore what is often referred to in the
media as ‘New India’. The module focus is on how changing human
processes are influencing the transformation of India as a place and how
it is representing itself and being represented in the wider world.
Importantly the module focuses on how the changes to India’s society and
economy are often influenced by values and attitudes, similar or different
to the students’ own, reflecting the diversity of the world in which we live
and helping to foster cultural understanding in examining geographical
issues. The module encourages students to explore India’s diverse and
multicultural population and how this diversity is linked to inequality in
wealth and quality of life.
Group News report
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Paradise Lost*
This module is about tourism in contemporary Thailand. It focuses on the
physical and human processes that make Thailand an increasingly popular
place for tourists to visit; how tourism affects environmental interaction
and sustainable development and the interdependent nature of an industry
that increasingly relies on other countries, near and far, to supply its
workforce and to widen its markets. One consequence of this
interdependence may be an effect on cultural understanding and diversity
both positive and negative.
Tropical ecosystems*
The purpose of this module is to inspire interest in and a sense of wonder
Who wants to live forever?*
This module of work explores important demographic themes. It focuses
on the trend of rising life expectancy and the geographical patterns this
produces at both global and local levels. Reasons for longer life are
explored, as are the issues raised by society having an ever-increasing
proportion of older people. Possible futures - if current trends continue are also looked at. In addition to the challenges that society faces, the
contribution that older people make is recognised - including celebrity
pensioners!
thinking about issues affecting the world and people’s lives.
*The Year 9
schemes of
work cover
units and
elements of
the IGCSE
Syllabus:
Tourism,
Population and
Climate and
ecosystems.
At the end of
Year 9,
Students will
also be given
an end of Key
Stage level.
Assessment
IGCSE link:
Describe and account for the growth of leisure facilities and
tourism in relation to the main attractions of the physical and
human landscape.
• Assess the benefits and disadvantages of tourism to receiving
areas.
Tourism booklet
IGCSE exam question
about places – to develop an interest in natural ecosystems and to create a
sense of awe and wonder about Tropical Rainforest (TRF) environments.
To explain where TRFs are located and how indigenous people interact with
their environment. Encourage pupils to question, investigate and critically
think about the global issue of Deforestation, and how it affects people’s
lives now and in the future.
Inspires pupils to become global citizens – by exploring their values and
responsibilities to other people, the environment and to the sustainability
of the planet.
IGCSE link:
Describe and explain the characteristics of the climate and
natural vegetation of two ecosystems:
• tropical rainforest;
• tropical desert.
• Describe and explain the relationship between the climate and
natural vegetation in these two ecosystems.
Diary extract
IGCSE exam question
Information poster
IGCSE link:
Describe the growth of the world’s population and associated
problems and show an understanding of the causes and
consequences of over-population and under-population.
• Identify and suggest reasons for contrasting patterns of
population growth (or decline) as influenced by migration, birth
rate and death rate, especially the impact of HIV/AIDS.
• Describe the consequences (benefits and problems) of
different patterns of population growth.
• Identify and suggest reasons for different types of population
structure as shown by age/sex pyramids.
• Describe the factors influencing the density and distribution of
population and population migration.
Geographical argument: Who should look after Granny?
IGCSE exam question