Subject Content

Geography enables a variety of teaching and learning approaches. Geography is exciting and relevant and gives  a balanced framework of physical and human themes and investigates the link between them. Students will travel the world from their classroom, exploring case studies in the United Kingdom (UK), higher income countries (HICs), newly emerging economies (NEEs) and lower income countries (LICs). Topics of study include climate change, poverty, deprivation, global shifts in economic power and the challenge of sustainable resource use. Students are also encouraged to understand their role in society, by considering different viewpoints, values and attitudes.

Year 10 Topics:

1. Living with the physical environment

This unit is concerned with the dynamic nature of physical processes and systems, and human interaction with them in a variety of places and at a range of scales. The aims of this unit are to develop an understanding of the tectonic, geomorphological, biological and meteorological processes and features in different environments, and the need for management strategies governed by sustainability and consideration of the direct and indirect effects of human interaction with the Earth and the atmosphere.

Section A: The challenge of natural hazards

1. Natural hazards
2. Tectonic hazards
3. Weather hazards
4. Climate change

Section B : The Living World

1. Ecosystems
2. Tropical rainforests
3. Hot deserts

Section C : Physical landscapes in the UK

1. Physical landscapes in the UK
2. Coastal landscapes in the UK (Covered in the summer of Year 9)
3. River landscapes in the UK

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