January - February course plan:
In January, you will continue to work on your Geographical Study, worth 40% of your final grade, with weekly deadlines. Miss Gauld and Miss Cowan will mark your Study each week and email you detailed feedback, focusing on how you can improve your Study to reach your target grade.
Miss Cowan will also lead the teaching of the Essay, worth 30% of your final grade. This will be done via live class calls (Mondays at 12pm) and video Powerpoints to take you through each aspect of the Essay. There will be weekly/bi-weekly deadlines for this, with the aim of a full first draft being submitted by the week after the February long weekend.
It is essential that all deadlines are met to ensure that you are on track to achieving your target grade and so that we can give you detailed feedback in a timely fashion.
Work to be completed:
Work will be uploaded weekly by Miss Gauld and Miss Cowan to the Advanced Higher class Teams page. Anyone who has not already been added to this Teams page should add themselves using the following code: uj85etw
Please contact Miss Gauld at laura.gauld@aberdeenshire.gov.uk and Miss Cowan at nadine.cowan@aberdeenshire.gov.uk if you have any questions.
Course overview/assessment:
The Advanced Higher Geography course has 3 sections:
Geographical Study – this is worth 40% of the overall course.
Geographical Issues – this is worth 30% of the overall course.
Exam – this is worth 30% of the overall course. This comprises of map skills, fieldwork skills and gathering/processing skills.
Advanced Higher Geography is a culmination of the previous 5 years of Geographical knowledge. More information on each component of the course is available on the Advanced Higher Geography Teams page.
Useful websites:
Advanced Higher coursework document:
https://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/AHCATGeography.pdf
Advanced Higher Geography course specification:
https://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/AHCourseSpecGeography.pdf
The general SQA page for Advanced Higher Geography. Here, you can find past papers and their marking schemes plus a specimen paper.
https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/48465.html