For Form 3 students the year is split into two. The Michaelmas Term is spent studying Pangbourne Geography's Global Citizen course. The Spring and Summer Term see students start the AQA GCSE Geography Course. In the spring term students study AQA GCSE Living World and in the Summer Term students study AQA GCSE Resource Management.
Lesson 1
What is Geography?
To make introductions and sought out admin.To introduce the course.To carry out tasks that encourage different approaches to how and why we study geography.SKILLS: critical thinking?
Lesson 2
Cultural Awareness
How important is culture in our society?
Extension reading - University of OntarioLesson 3
Cultural Diversity
To examine the nature of diversity in British society
Extension reading - Guardian newspaper articleLesson 4
Culture and stereotypes
To understand how stereotyping impacts our world view and shapes cultural relations
Extension reading - BBC on the stereotyping of teenagersLesson 5
Bosnia and the Rohingya Crisis
To realise the importance of cultural understanding through a case study of the Bosnian War and Rohingya Crisis
Lesson 6
What is globalisation
To understand what globalisation and interdependence is. To know the factors that have influenced globalisation
Lesson 7
Coca Cola
To describe the global distribution of Coca Cola. To explain why Coca Cola is a multinational company.
Lesson 8
Trade and Trading blocs
To understand the key concepts of world trade. To learn about trade relationships and the growth of trading blocs.
Lesson 9
The rich get rich and the poor get poor - Trade who wins and who loses?
To learn about the unequal relationships between trading partners and how this impacts a country’s wealth.
Lesson 10
Fairtrade. Chocolate the dark truth
To develop empathy with other people’s situation around the world.
To gain an understanding of how trade can have negative impacts on the world's poor.
Lesson 11
Fairtrade lesson continues
To develop empathy with other people’s situation around the world.
To gain an understanding of how trade can have negative impacts on the world's poor.
Lesson 12
Child Labour and Global Trade
To investigate child labour and its link with world trade
Lesson 13
The Big Debate - Child Labour
To debate as to whether all forms of child labour should be banned
Lesson 14
Global Governance
To investigate who the Key Players are in the World’s Economic System
Lesson 15
World Debt
To investigate world debt and if the problem of debt can be solved
Lesson 16
Population growth and Demographic Transition
To learn what factors influence population growth or decline and how these are reflected in real world examples
Lesson 17
Population Pyramids
To learn how population pyramids display demographic data
Lesson 18
Population growth and social, environmental, economic impacts
To explore the impacts of population growth or decline on different countries
Lesson 18
Migration. Push Pull
Students to gather data on in migration into the EU as well as global out migration for various countries. Data should be used to create two proportional circle diagrams using google suite. Once completed it is up to the students to look for the reason for this movement and to catergorise them as push/pull factors.
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