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Geography Homework

 

 

 

GEOGRAPHY AT MILLTHORPE SCHOOL

Key Stage 3
At  KS3 in Geography our students build on their knowledge of a range of places and their understanding of the world, by studying a variety of up to date units. These have been designed to equip them with essential knowledge, understanding and skills to deal with life in the changing world around them. These include:

Year 7

Fantastic places – studies a range of amazing places at a variety of scales from local to global.
People everywhere – examines cultural differences between places ( such as India & Italy) and how these may affect birth rates and total population numbers.
Moving Stories – motivations for migrating between places and issues/viewpoints that arise from migration.
Rivers  - Issues arising from flooding and possibilities for managing floods in the future.
Olympics – The impacts of the Olympics on the regeneration of London.

Year 8              

Changing Environments – A look at how we use energy sources to fuel our modern lifestyles, the impacts of this on the environment and our potential use of renewables  to live more sustainably.
Inequality – Using skills of photo analysis, discussion and empathy to compare lifestyles and levels of deprivation around the world.
Industry and Fair Trade – Our examination of types of industries extends into chocolate manufacturing and the links between people and places through Fair Trade.
Coastal Environments – Through a visit to the East Coast we look at the problems created by coastal erosion and ways of managing it.

Year 9               

Tectonics – What are earthquakes and volcanoes? Through studying examples we examine their causes, impacts and the best way to prepare for these hazards.
Traffic – How we get around and issues of traffic management in and around York.
Antarctica – The climate, ecosystem and issues relating to the sustainable use of this amazing environment. How can we preserve it?
The Global Supply Chain   - Examines how people and places around the world are interdependent, by focussing on the supply of roses for Valentines Day and sportswear.

 

Key Stage Four
Our KS4 GCSE curriculum follows AQA specification A. It takes a thematic approach studying  units relating to physical processes and the environment and others relating to human processes. Our chosen GCSE is appropriate to students of all ability levels and interests. The content is relevant and engaging and is delivered using teaching techniques and strategies which allow all students to reach their full potential. The teaching of these units allows students to develop and enhance their geographical skills such as the use of maps and graphs. They will also develop their communication and interpersonal skills through debate and discussion.
Topics include:

Water on the Land

• The distinctive landforms of the river and how they are created.
• The causes, impacts and responses to floods and how these may vary depending on the wealth of the area.                                                                
• Issues of Water supply.

The Restless Earth  

• The causes of and the characteristics of the unique features that occur along plate boundaries, such as volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis.
• Consideration of how the effects of these events and responses to them may differ due to differences in wealth.

Ice on the Land 

• Landforms of the glacial landscape and the processes that create them. Human uses of the glacial landscape including consideration of how we could use it more sustainably.
• The extent of glacial retreat and how its impacts are threatening some societies.

Changing Urban Environments

• Through learning about the pace of urbanisation, we highlight examples of issues that arise. These include housing shortage and ethnic segregation in MEDCs and the problems of living in squatters settlements in LEDCs.
• We learn about how we can ensure that living in cities is sustainable.

Globalisation

• We study the relocation of manufacturing industries in the Far East and the rise the TNCs that have facilitated this.
• We examine the increasing global demand for energy and food resources, the repercussions of this and attempts to find sustainable solutions to this problem of demand.

Tourism

• The problems caused by the global rise in tourism.
• Using case studies of locations that are the focus of mass tourism and adventure holidays we examine the issues created and strategies (such as eco tourism) that will manage developments into the future contributing to sustainable development.

 

Scheme of Assessment
Students gain 37% of their final mark from a PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY exam completed at the end of year ten and another 37 % from the HUMAN GEOGRAPHY exam completed at the end of year eleven.
The final 25% is derived from a LOCAL FIELDWORK INVESTIGATION completed as a controlled assessment during the course.