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The Geography Department at Whitcliffe Mount School helps students to understand the world we live in and the environmental, social and economic pressures we put on it. We attempt to promote sustainable solutions to local, regional, national & international issues. We also raise awareness of global issues such as Fairtrade, Education for all campaign and WaterAid.

• Learning more about the world we live in.
• Developing skills that will help you in other areas, such as IT and research.
• Completing some of your own practical work away from the classroom.
• Working in a team with other students.
• Learning through investigating and doing, as well as listening and reading.
  

Key Stage 3

Year 7

• UK Geography, physical and human features.
• Look at it this way, a unit which considers how you look at changing landscapes?
• Moving Stories, why is the population of the UK changing?
  

Year 8

• Map Skills, how to interpret an Ordnance Survey map.
• British or European?, builds on skills from Year 7 and gets you to consider who you are in a European context?
• Changing my world, looks at what differences we can make to our climate and how we can manage it.
  

Year 9

• Into Africa, how are our lives connected to Africa?

GCSE: Edexcel B syllabus.

• Unit 1: Dynamic Planet
• Restless Earth, study of volcanoes and earthquakes.
• Climate & Change, consider the impact on people at a local/regional and international scale.
  

Key Stage 4

• Water world, global use & abuse of our water supplies.
• Battle for the biosphere, how humans use the biosphere & how to conserve it.
• Oceans on the edge, issues around pollution & overfishing & sustainable approaches.
• Coastal change & conflict, the physical processes that change the coast & managing conflicts.
  

Unit 2: People & the Planet

• Population Dynamics, studying how population is changing & how to manage migration.
• Consuming resources, how consumption varies globally & are the patterns of resource supply & consumption sustainable in the future?
• Living Spaces, what makes a good living space?
• Making a Living, considers the pattern of employment & possible changes in the future.
• Changing Countryside, what are the main rural issues & how can they be managed?
• World at Work, the study of Transnational companies & the ‘new economy’.
  

Unit 3: Making Geographical Decisions: The focus on this unit is on the importance of making decisions to safeguard the future of the planet. The planet is experiencing increasing pressures from the demands of a rising population for resources, food and water, energy and industrialisation.

Unit 4: Researching Geography: For this unit students need to complete a fieldwork investigation and report.

Each Unit is worth 25% of the total GCSE mark.