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Don't forget to visit our Video Tasters and Try It Out pages to sample content and activities in our topic areas.
Don't forget to visit our Video Tasters and Try It Out pages to sample content and activities in our topic areas.
Coastal Environments
Coastal Environments
Contemporary Urban Environments
Contemporary Urban Environments
Changing Places
Changing Places
Fieldwork and Coursework Preparation
Fieldwork and Coursework Preparation
Your class may be taught by one teacher or shared between two. Either way, you'll study two different units each week to increase variety and interest in learning.
Your class may be taught by one teacher or shared between two. Either way, you'll study two different units each week to increase variety and interest in learning.
Coasts Workbook 1.pdfCoastal Systems
Coastal Systems
We study this landform unit as our first physical geography topic. Processes such as weathering, erosion and mass movement happen in a variety of landscapes, so even if you haven't studied Coasts before, you'll have some underpinning knowledge to help you settle in. We teach it alongside the Urban topic.
We focus on:
Processes and landforms on high and low energy coastlines
The effects of change over time and sea level rise
Coastal management and defences, supported by various case studies
In all units, we use a series of workbooks produced by your teachers at QE as the main framework for learning. Feel free to have a browse through the first one, which we've posted for all of our units.
Contemporary Urban Environments
Contemporary Urban Environments
This is another topic of geography that we think many of you will have some familiarity with it, which is why it's our first human geography unit that we teach alongside Coasts.
The particular areas we study are:
Processes associated with urbanisation and areas found within cities
Socio-economic inequalities and environmental issues in urban areas
Urban microclimates and hydrology and sustainability
Urban Workbook 1 2021.pdfThese first two units take until January to teach, when we then shift our focus.
Place Workbook 1 Intro 2021.pdfChanging Places
Changing Places
This unit uses two case studies of different places as a vehicle for learning. One place - Darlington - is the familiar place we study and Wasdale, in the western Lake District - is our unfamiliar place.
The areas of interest are:
Theories and characteristics of place
Continuity and change within the two locations
Meaning of place - lived experience for the inhabitants
Representation of place - how do others see it through media sources?
Your first year residential trip to Wasdale supports your unfamiliar place case study and gives you ideas to help you decide on a topic to base your coursework investigation on.
Independent Investigation (Coursework)
Independent Investigation (Coursework)
Your coursework accounts for 20% of your A Level grade and is a 4,000 word investigation based on a topic of your choice. That means that you can earn one-fifth of your A Level marks by choosing to work on a topic that interests you, whether that be human or physical geography.
During the Wasdale field trip we will introduce you to numerous data collection techniques and help you experience the use of equipment for data collection, which you may then loan from the department to go out to collect your own primary data.
Skills Workbook.pdfThe coursework is a significant undertaking but you will succeed if you are organised and committed. Needless to say, you will be well-supported in completing this work. You will need to want to:
Identify a topic area that interests you, a location for investigation, and devise specific questions to test
Research theory about the topic that you can then test your findings against
Collect your own primary and secondary data, present it and use various analytical techniques
Draw conclusions from your findings, relate them back to the original theory and evaluate your entire project
The A Level course that we teach follows the AQA specification. Click the button below if you'd like to know more.
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