GCSE Weather and Microclimate – IGCSE
Visit a weather station and take standard readings including temperature, rainfall, cloud cover and wind direction and speed. Compare microclimates in contrasting habitats using random sampling.
GCSE Urban Inequality
Investigate and compare environmental quality and deprivation in two contrasting areas. Undertake quantitative and qualitative fieldwork including land use surveys and environmental quality assessments.
GCSE Counter Urbanisation
Investigate the impact of counter-urbanisation in two contrasting settlements. Carry out quantitative and qualitative fieldwork to investigate the effects, including environmental quality surveys, questionnaires, service provision and observations.
GCSE Quality of Life
Investigating how and why quality of life varies within urban areas. Students will have an opportunity to develop an understanding of the kinds of questions capable of being investigated through fieldwork in urban environments. Students will have an opportunity to develop a question(s) based on their location and the task.
GCSE Changing City Environments
Students will have an opportunity to develop an understanding of questions that can be investigated through fieldwork in an urban environment. Students will carry out fieldwork to investigate at least: A qualitative and a quantitative fieldwork method. Students will use and / or design a subjective scale to measure environmental…
GCSE Ecosystems
A comparison of the two different areas will be used to observe the contrasting abundance of plants associated with varying management regimes. How human activity affects biodiversity, local flows, cycles and processes. Students will investigate the interdependence of abiotic and biotic components.
GCSE Rivers
Students will carry out fieldwork to investigate changes in river channel characteristics along the course of the river including a quantitative measure of discharge and qualitative fieldwork methods to consider landforms such as meanders. Students will have an opportunity to develop understanding of the kinds of questions that can be…
KS3 Geographical Skills for the 21st Century (Map/Weather/Contrasting Places)
The day is designed to allow students to gain practical experience in geographical skills and techniques. Including map skills, weather and fieldwork on contrasting places.
KS3 Woodland Ecosystems
An investigation of how physical and human processes influence vegetation in one or two woodland areas, including the relationship with climate, soil and human activity. Past management and current practices are discussed. Fieldwork consists of random sampling measuring biotic and abiotic factors including plant frequency, canopy cover and microclimate.
KS3 Urban Geography
Students will follow the route of enquiry to investigate urbanisation. They will consider background information, data collection methods that can be used when investigating an urban area. Fieldwork techniques will include investigating land use in different areas, pedestrian counts, traffic counts, environmental quality assessment, questionnaires.