PAFG Geography Department curriculum overviews
Year 10 (3-year KS4) 2015-2016 only
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Term 1
Tourism
How can countries cope with and benefit from
tourism?
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What is tourism? What places attract tourists
(cities, coasts and mountains)?
2. Why is tourism growing and why do LDRs and
MDRs want tourism?
3. Must learn facts test. What affects tourist
numbers?
4. How do tourist resorts change and what does
the Butler Model show?
5. Does Southsea fit the Butler Model?
6. What is mass tourism? What impact does it
have? Case study: Kenya or Jamaica
7. What impact does tourism have in
Kenya/Jamaica and how can it be managed?
8. What is ecotourism and how does it benefit the
environment and people? Case study: Kenya
9. What is extreme tourism?
10. Why do people want to visit Antarctica? Case
study: Antarctica
11. End of unit test
Term 2
Changing Urban Environments
How do people benefit from, yet cope with living in
cities?
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Changing Urban Environments
12. What is urbanisation?
13. Must learn facts test. What are push and pull
factors?
14. How do land use and function vary in an urban
area?
15. What is the location, function and land use of
the CBD?
16. What is the location, function and land use of
the inner city?
17. What is the location, function and land use of
the suburbs?
18. How can enough homes be provided and
where should they go?
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What problems does the inner city have?
Case study: what problems did London’s
Docklands have? Case study: London
Docklands
Case study: How was London’s Docklands
transformed? Case study:
How was New Islington, transformed? Case
study: New Islington, Manchester
What problems does traffic cause?
How does London cope with its traffic? Case
study: Transport for London
Mid-unit test
What problems does the CBD have?
How is Commercial Road changing? Case
study: Portsmouth’s CBD
Why might the multicultural mix be a
problem?
How is multiculturalism encouraged? Case
study: Portsmouth
What problems does rapid urbanisation cause
in LDRs?
What are the problems of squatter
settlements?
How can a squatter settlement be improved?
Case study: Rocinha, Rio
How can pollution be reduced in cities in LDRs?
Case study: Shanghai
How can urban living be sustainable? Case
study: Tipner, Portsmouth
How can waste be dealt with?
How can historic townscapes be preserved?
Case study: Portsmouth’s historic dockyard
and Gunwharf Quays
End of unit test
Term 3
Controlled Assessment
How does the enquiry process work?
Controlled assessment
1. What is the Controlled Assessment about?
What needs to go in the introduction?
2. Where is the area of focus? What processes
and keywords are involved?
3. How should the introduction be written?
4. What research needs to be carried out?
- Trip to collect data 5. How should methodology 1 be written up?
6. How should the methodology 2 be written up?
7. How should the methodology 3 be written up?
8. How should the methodology 4 be written up?
9. How should data 1 be presented?
10. How should data 2 be presented?
11. How should data 3be presented?
12. How should data 4be presented?
Term 4
Controlled Assessment
How does the enquiry process work?
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How is data analysis carried out?
What is the data suggesting? (1)
What is the data suggesting? (2)
What is the data suggesting? (3)
What is the data suggesting? (4)
How is the evaluation carried out?
How could the research be improved? (1)
How could the research be improved? (2)
How could the research be improved? (3)
How can the coursework be rounded off?
(checking , page numbering, highlighting)
Deadline Easter
Term 5
The Coastal Zone
How do people and the coast threaten each other?
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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?
How do spits form?
What are salt marshes and what is their
vegetation succession?
What threatens salt marshes?
How are coastal features shown on an OS
map?
Mid-unit test.
Why are the cliffs at Barton-on-Sea eroding so
quickly? Case study: Barton, Hampshire
How will sea-level rise affect coasts?
How can the coast be protected by hard
engineering?
How can the coast be protected by soft
engineering?
How is the coast at Barton being protected?
Case study: Barton, Hampshire
End of unit test
Term 6
Ice on the land then
Revision of Restless Earth and Population Change
What do you need to know and how can you
remember it?
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
9. 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
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Restless Earth: volcanoes and case studies
Restless Earth: fold mountains and case study
Restless earth: earthquakes, tsunamis and case
studies
Population Change: Population change,
pyramids and the DTM
Population Change: control and case studies
Population Change: Migration and case studies