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Curriculum Yearbook

 


Geography

Aims for the Year
  • develop an understanding of world issues such as poverty
  • develop skills and knowledge necessary for GCSE coursework
  • link together places and processes within Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas
What we will do
  • finding your way around the world
  • extreme weather and world climates
  • earthquakes and volcanoes
  • Globalisation
  • global population and world cities
  • Bangladesh – or Brazil
Assessment
  • continuous classroom observation
  • marking of bhomework
  • extended assignments, including:
    • an extreme weather report
  • end of unit tests
  • ICT will be used throughout the course
Ways you can help
  • use atlas, CD-Rom or textbook to help pupil to check knowledge of capital cities and countries around the world
  • use pupil’s textbook when he/she is completing homework
Keywords
over-population migration exploitation
refugees
tectonics sustainable
global poverty environment
culture