A Level Geography

Sixth form Open Evening subject presentation - Geography 2022 entry.mp4

Geog.mov

Geography A level is an exciting and engaging subject that enables you to explore popular and contemporary geographical themes and issues. You will study a range of physical geography topics such as tectonic processes, hazards and management techniques as well as issues such as water and energy insecurity and future water and energy conflicts. You will explore contemporary issues facing human geography and considers social, demographic, cultural and economic changes.

Entry Requirements: GCSE grade 5 across subjects including English and Maths. GCSE grade 6 in geography. Students who have studied other humanities subjects or similar and who can demonstrate suitable abilities and aptitudes may be considered.

Specification: https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-a-levels/geography-2016.html

Edexcel-GCE-A-level-Geography-.pdf

Below are additional resources and a transition task to help prepare you for A Level Geography at Cowes Sixth Form.

A Level Geography Transition work 2024 entry (002).pdf

ROT Synoptic re Haiti 2 (1).pdf

Wider Reading and Research:

Websites for News

Geography in the News from the RGS (Royal Geographical Society – Links to relevant, contemporary geographical issues https://www.rgs.org/geonews/ and additional resources can be found here: https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/.

The Guardian Newspaper has an app and is great for news. The website is divided into section: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/environment

Prospect Magazine (free downloads)

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/topics/climate -

Open Lean

The Open University have a huge number of free online courses that you can study. They tell you how long they take and give an outline of what is included. You also get a free statement of participation on completion. Take a look and see if any take your interest. You can search for free courses here: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue

Some recommended ones linked to the A Level course are listed below:

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/nature-environment/the-environment/environmental-science/managing-coastal-environments/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab - Managing Coastal Environments

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/environmental-science/global-water-resources/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab – Global Water Resources

https://open.spotify.com/show/5SRoXHwp606A64fRBk6ulR - A range of Podcasts on Spotify

Podcasts

These are great to listen to:

https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/ask-the-expert-podcasts/

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/ - especially for the Human Geography topics

Videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/EconomistMagazine/videos for lots of videos about oceans, climate change and global issues from the Economist E.g. ‘Mangroves: How they help the ocean?’ and ’Can you insure against climate change?’

https://www.ted.com/talks?topics%5B%5D=global+issues I think I could link any TED Talk to the enquiry questions we study at A Level (maybe that is a challenge?!?!?!)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06m42d9 A link to a selection of David Attenborough box sets.

Books

http://www.dannydorling.org/books/betterpolitics/ - free PDF download

Or if you want to go old school look at this list created by a Geography Teacher at Okehampton College https://drive.google.com/file/d/16C5TxmPwm4hw1lwFQEpamJVa-1VqrtT_/view

For fun!

Learning how to stop disasters with this game from the UNDRR (United National Disaster Risk Reduction)

https://www.stopdisastersgame.org/

This games help you to consider how best to adapt or mitigate for Climate change https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-climate-change-ocean-game/