Geography
Head of Department: Ms Hannah Kelly
Key Stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Year 7:
- Map Skills
- Settlements & Fieldwork
- Weather and Climate
Year 8:
- Ecosystems and Biomes
- Economy and Industry
- China – The emerging Superpower
Year 9:
- Rivers and Coasts
- Energy and Climate Change
- GCSE Topic 1 – Development Dynamics
Key Stage 4 (Year 10-11)
Year 10: Hazardous Earth, Climatology, Development Dynamics, Challenges of an Urbanising World, UKs Evolving Physical Landscape
Year 11: UKs Evolving Human Landscape, Geographical Investigations, People and the Biosphere, Forests Under Threat, Consuming Energy Resources
Key Stage 5 (Year 12-13)
Year 12:
Topic 1: World at Risk – Tectonic Hazards and Management
Topic 2: Going Global – Globalisation and International Economy
Topic 3: Crowded Coasts – how increasing development is testing our ability to manage these valued environments
Topic 4: Regenerating Places – focuses on how we need to re-image and regenerate rural and urban places, using appropriate strategies.
Year 13:
Topic 5: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity
Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security
Topic 7: Superpowers
Topic 8: Health, Human Rights and Intervention
Independent Learning Resources
Key Stage 3
There are videos and assessments that students can test themselves on and get a grade.
- https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/zrw76sg
- BBC Bitesize provides a range of revision and inquiry materials for
- Y7, Coasts, Rivers Geology, Settlement and Places
- Y8 Ecosystems, Development, Population,
- Y9 Natural Hazards and Weather and Climate, Crime
- Geographical Magazine
- National Geographic Magazine
Key Stage 4
Pearson Edexcel B
- New Grade 9-1 GCSE Geography Edexcel B: Investigating Geographical Issues – Revision Guide
- New Grade 9-1 GCSE Geography Edexcel B: Investigating Geographical Issues – Exam Practice Workbook
- GCSE Geography Edexcel B Student Book by Oxford Uni Press
- https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/zrw76sg
- Revision material and multiple choice tests with marks given for all GCSE topics.
- http://coolgeography.co.uk/
- Revision material, videos and mock assessments for all GCSE topics.