Geography
A Level Geography
Geography A level is designed to challenge student perceptions and to encourage them to develop investigative and critical thinking skills. The units taught in Year 12 include changing places, coasts and hazards.
Hazards - This topic focuses on the lithosphere and the atmosphere, which intermittently but regularly present natural hazards to human populations, often in dramatic and sometimes catastrophic fashion.
Coasts -This section of our specification focuses on coastal zones, which are dynamic environments in which landscapes develop by the interaction of winds, waves, currents and terrestrial and marine sediments. The operation and outcomes of fundamental geomorphological processes and their association with distinctive landscapes.
Changing places - Designed to explore the relationships between key aspects of physical geography and population numbers, population health and well-being, levels of economic development and the role and impact of the natural environment.
In the second year of the course, students will study population and environment, globalisation and water and carbon units.
Water and carbon - Focuses on the major stores of water and carbon at or near the Earth’s surface and the dynamic cyclical relationships associated with them. These are major elements in the natural environment and understanding them is fundamental to many aspects of physical geography
Globalisation and global system - Looks at the economic, political and social changes associated with technological and other driving forces which have been a key feature of global economy and society in recent decades.
Population and the environment - Designed to explore the relationships between key aspects of physical geography and population numbers, population health and well-being, levels of economic development and the role and impact of the natural environment.
A Level Geography Specification:
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/geography/as-and-a-level/geography-7037
Enrichment
Fieldwork is viewed by the department as an essential part of the geography course. Therefore, fieldwork is integrated into the curriculum for every year group. Year 12 visit coastal environments and Year 13 enjoy a residential field trip to the Lake District.
We also regularly enter competitions run by the Royal Geographical Association.
Useful links:
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/
https://www.geography.org.uk/Visual-Geography-Useful-Websites
Video
Mrs Pye, Head of Geography, goes into detail about the A-Level Geography course and discusses the content and their experiences with a couple of our Y13 students.
